AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
deck: to cover; to overspread.-to dress, as the person; to clothe; especially, to clothe with more than ordinary elegance; to array; to adorn; to embellish.-to furnish with a deck, as a vessel.-the floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship. small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.-the upper part or top of a mansard roof or curb roof when made nearly flat.-the roof of a passenger car.-a pack or set of playing cards.-a heap or store.
decker: one who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer; as, a table decker.-a vessel which has a deck or decks; -- used esp. in composition; as, a single-decker; a three-decker.
deckle: a separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of india rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper.
declaim: to speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.-to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.-to utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.-to defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
declamation: the act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students.-a set or harangue; declamatory discourse.-pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense; as, mere declamation.
declamatory: pertaining to declamation; treated in the manner of a rhetorician; as, a declamatory theme.-characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.
declaration: the act of declaring, or publicly announcing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.-that which is declared or proclaimed; announcement; distinct statement; formal expression; avowal.-the document or instrument containing such statement or proclamation; as, the declaration of independence (now preserved in washington).-that part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. see count, n., 3.
declarative: making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory.
declarator: a form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.
declaratory: making declaration, explanation, or exhibition; making clear or manifest; affirmative; expressive; as, a clause declaratory of the will of the legislature.
declare: to make clear; to free from obscurity.-to make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce.-to make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false.-to make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc.-to make a declaration, or an open and explicit avowal; to proclaim one's self; -- often with for or against; as, victory declares against the allies.-to state the plaintiff's cause of action at law in a legal form; as, the plaintiff declares in trespass.
declension: the act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.-a falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency; deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc.-act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.-inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to the grammatical cases.-the form of the inflection of a word declined by cases; as, the first or the second declension of nouns, adjectives, etc. -rehearsing a word as declined.
declinable: capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.
declinate: bent downward or aside; (bot.) bending downward in a curve; declined.
declination: the act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.-the act or state of falling off or declining from excellence or perfection; deterioration; decay; decline.-the act of deviating or turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal.-the act or state of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness.-the angular distance of any object from the celestial equator, either northward or southward.-the arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.-the act of inflecting a word; declension. see decline, v. t., 4.
declinator: an instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.-a dissentient.
declinatory: containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
declinature: the act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of an office.
decline: to bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.-to tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.-to turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw; as, a line that declines from straightness; conduct that declines from sound morals.-to turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent; as, he declined, upon principle.-to bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.-to cause to decrease or diminish.-to put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid; as, to decline an offer; to decline a contest; he declined any participation with them.-to inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.-to run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.-a falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion.-that period of a disorder or paroxysm when the symptoms begin to abate in violence; as, the decline of a fever.-a gradual sinking and wasting away of the physical faculties; any wasting disease, esp. pulmonary consumption; as, to die of a decline.
declivity: deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.-a descending surface; a sloping place.
decoct: to prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.-to prepare by the heat of the stomach for assimilation; to digest; to concoct.-to warm, strengthen, or invigorate, as if by boiling.
decoction: the act or process of boiling anything in a watery fluid to extract its virtues.-an extract got from a body by boiling it in water.
decollated: of decollate-decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells.
decollation: the act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of st. john the baptist.-a painting representing the beheading of a saint or martyr, esp. of st. john the baptist.
decollete: leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
decompose: to separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.-to become resolved or returned from existing combinations; to undergo dissolution; to decay; to rot.
decomposed: of decompose-separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
decomposite: compounded more than once; compounded with things already composite.-see decompound, a., 2.-anything decompounded.
decomposition: the act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.-the state of being reduced into original elements.-repeated composition; a combination of compounds.
decompound: to compound or mix with that is already compound; to compound a second time.-to reduce to constituent parts; to decompose.-compound of what is already compounded; compounded a second time.-several times compounded or divided, as a leaf or stem; decomposite.-a decomposite.
decorate: to deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero with honors.
decoration: the act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.-that which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.-specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
decorator: one who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, an artisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. their interior decoration.
decorous: suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.
decorticate: to divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
decortication: the act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.
decorticator: a machine for decorticating wood, hulling grain, etc.; also, an instrument for removing surplus bark or moss from fruit trees.
decorum: propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.
decoy: to lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.-anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.-a fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.-a place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.-a person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.
decoy-duck: a duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger.
decrease: to grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from june to december.-to cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.-a becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.-the wane of the moon.
decree: an order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be done or to take place; edict, law; authoritative ru// decision.-a decision, order, or sentence, given in a cause by a court of equity or admiralty.-a determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him.-an edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils.-to determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property.-to ordain by fate.-to make decrees; -- used absolutely.
decreet: the final judgment of the court of session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
decrement: the state of becoming gradually less; decrease; diminution; waste; loss.-the quantity lost by gradual diminution or waste; -- opposed to increment.-a name given by hauy to the successive diminution of the layers of molecules, applied to the faces of the primitive form, by which he supposed the secondary forms to be produced.-the quantity by which a variable is diminished.
decrepit: broken down with age; wasted and enfeebled by the infirmities of old age; feeble; worn out.
decrepitate: to roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.-to crackle, as salt in roasting.
decrepitation: the act of decrepitating; a crackling noise, such as salt makes when roasting.
decrepitude: the broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
decrescendo: with decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated dec., or decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
decrescent: becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.-a crescent with the horns directed towards the sinister.
decretal: appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.-an authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. the decretals form the second part of the canon law.-the collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of gregory ix., in 1234, by st. raymond of pennafort.
decrial: a crying down; a clamorous censure; condemnation by censure.
decry: to cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.
decuman: large; chief; -- applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in order. [r.] also used substantively.
decumbent: lying down; prostrate; recumbent.-reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.
decumbiture: confinement to a sick bed, or time of taking to one's bed from sickness.-aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made.
decuple: tenfold.-a number ten times repeated.-to make tenfold; to multiply by ten.
decurion: a head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers.
decurrent: extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.
decussate: to cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of x; to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light, nerves, etc.-alt. of decussated
decussated: of decussate-crossed; intersected.-growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.-consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other; as, a decussated period.
decussation: act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an x; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc.
decyl: a hydrocarbon radical, c10h21, never existing alone, but regarded as the characteristic constituent of a number of compounds of the paraffin series.
dedicate: dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated.-to set apart and consecrate, as to a divinity, or for sacred uses; to devote formally and solemnly; as, to dedicate vessels, treasures, a temple, or a church, to a religious use.-to devote, set apart, or give up, as one's self, to a duty or service.-to inscribe or address, as to a patron.
dedication: the act of setting apart or consecrating to a divine being, or to a sacred use, often with religious solemnities; solemn appropriation; as, the dedication of solomon's temple.-a devoting or setting aside for any particular purpose; as, a dedication of lands to public use.-an address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.
dedicator: one who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.
dedimus: a writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.
deduce: to lead forth.-to take away; to deduct; to subtract; as, to deduce a part from the whole.-to derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of.
deducible: capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence.-capable of being brought down.
deduct: to lead forth or out.-to take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.-to reduce; to diminish.
deductible: capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.-deducible; consequential.
deduction: act or process of deducing or inferring.-act of deducting or taking away; subtraction; as, the deduction of the subtrahend from the minuend.-that which is deduced or drawn from premises by a process of reasoning; an inference; a conclusion.-that which is deducted; the part taken away; abatement; as, a deduction from the yearly rent.
deductive: of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
deduplication: the division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
deed: dead.-that which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.-illustrious act; achievement; exploit.-power of action; agency; efficiency.-fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.-a sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.-performance; -- followed by of.-to convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
deed poll: a deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented.
deem: to decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.-to account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.-to be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.-to pass judgment.-opinion; judgment.
deep: extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea.-extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep.-low in situation; lying far below the general surface; as, a deep valley.-hard to penetrate or comprehend; profound; -- opposed to shallow or superficial; intricate; mysterious; not obvious; obscure; as, a deep subject or plot.-of penetrating or far-reaching intellect; not superficial; thoroughly skilled; sagacious; cunning.-profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror.-strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.-of low tone; full-toned; not high or sharp; grave; heavy.-muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads.-to a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.-that which is deep, especially deep water, as the sea or ocean; an abyss; a great depth.-that which is profound, not easily fathomed, or incomprehensible; a moral or spiritual depth or abyss.
deep-laid: laid deeply; formed with cunning and sagacity; as, deep-laid plans.
deep-sea: of or pertaining to the deeper parts of the sea; as, a deep-sea line (i. e., a line to take soundings at a great depth); deep-sea lead; deep-sea soundings, explorations, etc.
deep-waisted: having a deep waist, as when, in a ship, the poop and forecastle are much elevated above the deck.
deepen: to make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.-to make darker or more intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom.-to make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree; as, to deepen grief or sorrow.-to make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ.-to become deeper; as, the water deepens at every cast of the lead; the plot deepens.
deeply: at or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.-profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.-very; with a tendency to darkness of color.-gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.-with profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.
deepness: the state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.-craft; insidiousness.
deer: any animal; especially, a wild animal.-a ruminant of the genus cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family cervidae. the males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.
deer's-tongue: a plant (liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.
deer-neck: a deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.
deerberry: a shrub of the blueberry group (vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.
deergrass: an american genus (rhexia) of perennial herbs, with opposite leaves, and showy flowers (usually bright purple), with four petals and eight stamens, -- the only genus of the order melastomaceae inhabiting a temperate clime.
deerhound: one of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.
deface: to destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.-to destroy; to make null.
defacement: the act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.-that which mars or disfigures.
defalcate: to cut off; to take away or deduct a part of; -- used chiefly of money, accounts, rents, income, etc.-to commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust.
defalcation: a lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. specifically: reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.-that which is lopped off, diminished, or abated.-an abstraction of money, etc., by an officer or agent having it in trust; an embezzlement.
defamation: act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.
defamatory: containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.