AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
diminish: to make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.-to lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken.-to make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.-to take away; to subtract.-to become or appear less or smaller; to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it.
diminuendo: in a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by dim., or dimin., or the sign.
diminution: the act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.-the act of lessening dignity or consideration, or the state of being deprived of dignity; a lowering in estimation; degradation; abasement.-omission, inaccuracy, or defect in a record.-in counterpoint, the imitation of, or reply to, a subject, in notes of half the length or value of those the subject itself.
diminutive: below the average size; very small; little.-expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.-tending to diminish.-something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.-a derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
diminutiveness: the quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
dimity: a cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. it is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.
dimly: in a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
dimness: the state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.-dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.
dimorph: either one of the two forms of a dimorphous substance; as, calcite and aragonite are dimorphs.
dimorphism: difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly.-crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
dimorphous: characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.-crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition.
dimple: a slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.-a slight indentation on any surface.-to form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities.-to mark with dimples or dimplelike depressions.
dimply: full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool.
dimyaria: an order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. see bivalve.
din: loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.-to strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.-to utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.-to sound with a din; a ding.-of do
dinaphthyl: a colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, c20h14, obtained from naphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.
dinar: a petty money of accounts of persia.-an ancient gold coin of the east.
dine: to eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.-to give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed; as, to dine a hundred men.-to dine upon; to have to eat.
ding: to dash; to throw violently.-to cause to sound or ring.-to strike; to thump; to pound.-to sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.-to talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster.-a thump or stroke, especially of a bell.
dingdong: the sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.-an attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
dingle: a narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.
dingo: a wild dog found in australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. it has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color.
dingy: alt. of dinghy-soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.
dinichthys: a genus of large extinct devonian ganoid fishes. in some parts of ohio remains of the dinichthys are abundant, indicating animals twenty feet in length.
dinner: the principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.-an entertainment; a feast.
dinoceras: a genus of large extinct eocene mammals from wyoming; -- called also uintatherium. see illustration in appendix.
dinornis: a genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited new zealand. see moa.
dinosauria: an order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. see illust. of compsognathus, also illustration of dinosaur in appendix.
dinotherium: a large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of europe and asia. it is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
dint: a blow; a stroke.-the mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.-force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of.-to make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent.
diocesan: of or pertaining to a diocese; as, diocesan missions.-a bishop, viewed in relation to his diocese; as, the diocesan of new york.-the clergy or the people of a diocese.
diocese: the circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
diodon: a genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. they are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.-a genus of whales.
diodont: like or pertaining to the genus diodon.-a fish of the genus diodon, or an allied genus.
dioecia: a linnaean class of plants having the stamens and pistils on different plants.-a subclass of gastropod mollusks in which the sexes are separate. it includes most of the large marine species, like the conchs, cones, and cowries.
dioecious: having the sexes in two separate individuals; -- applied to plants in which the female flowers occur on one individual and the male flowers on another of the same species, and to animals in which the ovum is produced by one individual and the sperm cell by another; -- opposed to monoecious.
diogenes: a greek cynic philosopher (412?-323 b. c.) who lived much in athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.
diomedea: a genus of large sea birds, including the albatross. see albatross.
dionysian: relating to dionysius, a monk of the 6th century; as, the dionysian, or christian, era.
diopside: a crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.
dioptase: a hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.
dioptra: an optical instrument, invented by hipparchus, for taking altitudes, leveling, etc.
dioptre: a unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.
dioptric: of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.-a dioptre. see dioptre.-alt. of dioptrical
dioptrical: of or pertaining to dioptrics; assisting vision by means of the refraction of light; refractive; as, the dioptric system; a dioptric glass or telescope.
dioptrics: the science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing from one medium into another, or through different mediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses; -- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.
diorama: a mode of scenic representation, invented by daguerre and bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. by a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced.-a building used for such an exhibition.
diorite: an igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. it includes part of what was called greenstone.
dioxide: an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in each molecule; binoxide.-an oxide containing but one atom or equivalent of oxygen to two of a metal; a suboxide.
dioxindol: a white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. it is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.
dip: to plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.-to immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion.-to wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.-to plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.-to take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.-to engage as a pledge; to mortgage.-to immerse one's self; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.-to perform the action of plunging some receptacle, as a dipper, ladle. etc.; into a liquid or a soft substance and removing a part.-to pierce; to penetrate; -- followed by in or into.-to enter slightly or cursorily; to engage one's self desultorily or by the way; to partake limitedly; -- followed by in or into.-to incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.-to dip snuff.-the action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.-inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.-a liquid, as a sauce or gravy, served at table with a ladle or spoon.-a dipped candle.
diphenyl: a white crystalline substance, c6h5.c6h5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. it consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
diphtheria: a very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation.  cf. group.
diphtheritic: pertaining to, or connected with, diphtheria.-having characteristics resembling those of diphtheria; as, diphtheritic inflammation of the bladder.
diphthong: a coalition or union of two vowel sounds pronounced in one syllable; as, ou in out, oi in noise; -- called a proper diphthong.-a vowel digraph; a union of two vowels in the same syllable, only one of them being sounded; as, ai in rain, eo in people; -- called an improper diphthong.-to form or pronounce as a diphthong; diphthongize.
diphthongal: relating or belonging to a diphthong; having the nature of a diphthong.
diphthongalize: to make into a diphthong; to pronounce as a diphthong.
diphthongic: of the nature of diphthong; diphthongal.
diphthongize: to change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.
diphycercal: having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. see protocercal.
diphyodont: having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; -- opposed to monophyodont.-an animal having two successive sets of teeth.
diphyozooid: one of the free-swimming sexual zooids of siphonophora.
dipleidoscope: an instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. it consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.
diplocardiac: having the heart completely divided or double, one side systemic, the other pulmonary.
diplococcus: a form of micrococcus in which cocci are united in a binary manner. see micrococcus.
diploe: the soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.
diploid: a solid bounded by twenty-four similar quadrilateral faces. it is a hemihedral form of the hexoctahedron.
diploma: a letter or writing, usually under seal, conferring some privilege, honor, or power; a document bearing record of a degree conferred by a literary society or educational institution.
diplomacy: the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.-dexterity or skill in securing advantages; tact.-the body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body.
diplomatic: alt. of diplomatical-a minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.-the science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
diplomatical: pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.-characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management.-pertaining to diplomatics; paleographic.
diplomatically: according to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.
diplopoda: an order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the chilognatha.
diplostemonous: having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium.
dipnoi: a group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera ceratodus and lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the amphibia. the air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. see ceratodus, and illustration in appendix.
dipper: one who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.-a small grebe; the dabchick.-the buffel duck.-the water ouzel (cinolus aquaticus) of europe.-the american dipper or ouzel (cinclus mexicanus).
dipping: of dip-the act or process of immersing.-the act of inclining downward.-the act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.-the process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.-the practice of taking snuff by rubbing the teeth or gums with a stick or brush dipped in snuff.
dipropargyl: a pungent, mobile, volatile liquid, c6h6, produced artificially from certain allyl derivatives. though isomeric with benzine, it is very different in its chemical relations. called also dipropinyl.
dipropyl: one of the hexane paraffins, found in petroleum, consisting of two propyl radicals. see hexane.
diprotodon: an extinct quaternary marsupial from australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. see illustration in appendix.
dipsas: a serpent whose bite was fabled to produce intense thirst.-a genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
dipsomania: a morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.
diptera: an extensive order of insects having only two functional wings and two balancers, as the house fly, mosquito, etc. they have a suctorial proboscis, often including two pairs of sharp organs (mandibles and maxillae) with which they pierce the skin of animals. they undergo a complete metamorphosis, their larvae (called maggots) being usually without feet.
dipteral: having two wings only; belonging to the order diptera.-having a double row of columns on each on the flanks, as well as in front and rear; -- said of a temple.
dipterocarpus: a genus of trees found in the east indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. the fruit has two long wings.
dipterous: having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the order diptera.-having two wings; two-winged.
diptych: anything consisting of two leaves.-a writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.-a picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. see triptych.-a double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.
dipyre: a mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and   rendering it phosphorescent.
dipyridil: a crystalline nitrogenous base, c10h8n2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.
dipyridine: a polymeric form of pyridine, c10h10n2, obtained as a colorless oil by the action of sodium on pyridine.
dire: ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.-evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
direct: straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.-straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.-immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.-in the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.-in the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.-to arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark, or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.-to point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.-to determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.-to point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.-to put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.-to give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.-a character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
direct-acting: acting directly, as one part upon another, without the intervention of other working parts.
direction: the act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.-that which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.-the name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter.-the line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction.-the body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.-the pointing of a piece with reference to an imaginary vertical axis; -- distinguished from elevation. the direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object.
directive: having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.-able to be directed; manageable.
directly: in a direct manner; in a straight line or course.-in a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.-without circumlocution or ambiguity; absolutely; in express terms.-exactly; just.-straightforwardly; honestly.-manifestly; openly.-straightway; next in order; without delay; immediately.-immediately after; as soon as.
directness: the quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
director: one who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.-one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.-a part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.-a slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.
directorial: having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.-pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the directory of france under the first republic. see directory, 3.
directory: containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.-a collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the directory used by the nonconformists instead of the prayer book.-a book containing the names and residences of the inhabitants of any place, or of classes of them; an address book; as, a business directory.-a body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in france under the first republic.-direction; guide.
directrix: a directress.-a line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.-a straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.
direful: dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
dirge: a piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
dirige: a service for the dead, in the roman catholic church, being the first antiphon of matins for the dead, of which dirige is the first word; a dirge.
dirigent: directing.-the line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.
dirk: a kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the scottish highlander.-to stab with a dirk.-dark.-to darken.
dirt: any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.-meanness; sordidness.-in placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.-to make foul of filthy; to dirty.
dirtily: in a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily; meanly; sordidly.
dirtiness: the state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
dirty: defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.-sullied; clouded; -- applied to color.-sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow.-sleety; gusty; stormy; as, dirty weather.-to foul; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands.-to tarnish; to sully; to scandalize; -- said of reputation, character, etc.
dis-: .-a prefix from the latin, whence f. des, or sometimes de-, dis-. the latin dis-appears as di-before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, v, becomes dif-before f, and either dis-or di- before j. it is from the same root as bis twice, and duo, e. two. see two, and cf. bi-, di-, dia-. dis-denotes separation, a parting from, as in distribute, disconnect; hence it often has the force of a privative and negative, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. also intensive, as in dissever.-a prefix from gr. di`s- twice. see di-.