AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
consummate: carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.-to bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
consummation: the act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).
consumption: the act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.-the state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.-a progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.
consumptive: of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.-affected with, or inclined to, consumption.-one affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
contact: a close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.-the property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.-the plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
contagion: the transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.-that which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.-the act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm.-venom; poison.
contagionist: one who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
contagious: communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.-conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air.-spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.
contain: to hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.-to have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.-to put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.-to restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
contaminate: to soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.-contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
contamination: the act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
contango: the premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day.-the postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. see backwardation.
contemn: to view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.
contemper: to modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften.
contemplate: to look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.-to consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.-to consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
contemplation: the act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.-holy meditation.-the act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
contemplative: pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative.-having the power of contemplation; as, contemplative faculties.-a religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.
contemporary: living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.-of the same age; coeval.-one who lives at the same time with another; as, petrarch and chaucer were contemporaries.
contempt: the act of contemning or despising; the feeling with which one regards that which is esteemed mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.-the state of being despised; disgrace; shame.-an act or expression denoting contempt.-disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.
contemptible: worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.-despised; scorned; neglected; abject.-insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
contemptibleness: the state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
contemptuous: manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
contemptuously: in a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully.
contemptuousness: disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
contend: to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.-to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.-to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.-to struggle for; to contest.
contenement: that which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenement, or thing holden, as a certain quantity of land adjacent to a dwelling, and necessary to the reputable enjoyment of the dwelling; appurtenance.
content: contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.-that which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.-power of containing; capacity; extent; size.-area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.-to satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.-to satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.-rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.-acquiescence without examination.-that which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.-an expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "content.".
contention: a violent effort or struggle to obtain, or to resist, something; contest; strife.-strife in words; controversy; altercation; quarrel; dispute; as, a bone of contention.-vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal.-a point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position taken or contended for.
contentious: fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.-relating to contention or strife; involving or characterized by contention.-contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy.
contentment: the state of being contented or satisfied; content.-the act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.-gratification; pleasure; satisfaction.
conterminable: having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous.
conterminant: having the same limits; ending at the same time; conterminous.
contest: to make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.-to strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend; as, the troops contested every inch of ground.-to make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist; as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.-to engage in contention, or emulation; to contend; to strive; to vie; to emulate; -- followed usually by with.-earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.-earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter.
contestant: one who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.
contestation: the act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.-proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
context: knit or woven together; close; firm.-the part or parts of something written or printed, as of scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning.-to knit or bind together; to unite closely.
contextural: pertaining to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.
contexture: the arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture.
contignation: the act or process of framing together, or uniting, as beams in a fabric.-a framework or fabric, as of beams.
continency: self-restraint; self-command.-the restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence.-uninterrupted course; continuity.
continent: serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.-exercising restraint as to the indulgence of desires or passions; temperate; moderate.-abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste.-not interrupted; connected; continuous; as, a continent fever.-that which contains anything; a receptacle.-one of the grand divisions of land on the globe; the main land; specifically (phys. geog.), a large body of land differing from an island, not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of north america.
continental: of or pertaining to a continent.-of or pertaining to the main land of europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially england; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition.-of or pertaining to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the revolutionary war; as, continental money.-a soldier in the continental army, or a piece of the continental currency. see continental, a., 3.
contingency: union or connection; the state of touching or contact.-the quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.-an event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.-an adjunct or accessory.-a certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
contingent: possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.-dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.-dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.-an event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.-that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.
continual: proceeding without interruption or cesstaion; continuous; unceasing; lasting; abiding.-occuring in steady and rapid succession; very frequent; often repeated.
continually: without cessation; unceasingly; continuously; as, the current flows continually.-in regular or repeated succession; very often.
continuance: a holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.-uninterrupted succession; continuation; constant renewal; perpetuation; propagation.-a holding together; continuity.-the adjournment of the proceedings in a cause from one day, or from one stated term of a court, to another.-the entry of such adjournment and the grounds thereof on the record.
continuant: continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.-a continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.
continuate: immediately united together; intimately connected.-uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; continued.
continuation: that act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.-that which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on; as, the continuation of a story.
continuative: a term or expression denoting continuance.-a word that continues the connection of sentences or subjects; a connective; a conjunction.
continuator: one who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a series or a work; a continuer.
continue: to remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.-to be permanent or durable; to endure; to last.-to be steadfast or constant in any course; to persevere; to abide; to endure; to persist; to keep up or maintain a particular condition, course, or series of actions; as, the army continued to advance.-to unite; to connect.-to protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.-to carry onward or extend; to prolong or produce; to add to or draw out in length.-to retain; to suffer or cause to remain; as, the trustees were continued; also, to suffer to live.
continued: of continue-having extension of time, space, order of events, exertion of energy, etc.; extended; protracted; uninterrupted; also, resumed after interruption; extending through a succession of issues, session, etc.; as, a continued story.
continuity: the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.
continuous: without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.-not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
contline: the space between the strands on the outside of a rope.-the space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.
contorniate: alt. of contorniate-a species of medal or medallion of bronze, having a deep furrow on the contour or edge; -- supposed to have been struck in the days of constantine and his successors.
contort: to twist, or twist together; to turn awry; to bend; to distort; to wrest.
contorted: twisted, or twisted together.-twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.-arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation.
contortion: a twisting; a writhing; wry motion; a twist; as, the contortion of the muscles of the face.
contortuplicate: plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.
contour: the outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.-the outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification.
contourne': turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like.
contra: a latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many english words. cf. counter, adv. & pref.
contraband: illegal or prohibited traffic.-goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.-a negro slave, during the civil war, escaped to, or was brought within, the union lines. such slave was considered contraband of war.-prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.-to import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.-to declare prohibited; to forbid.
contrabass: double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
contract: to draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.-to draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.-to bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.-to enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.-to betroth; to affiance.-to shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.-to be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.-to make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.-contracted; as, a contract verb.-contracted; affianced; betrothed.-the agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.-a formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.-the act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
contracted: of contract-drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.-narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.-bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
contractibility: capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
contractile: tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
contractility: the quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.-the power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
contraction: the act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.-the process of shortening an operation.-the act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.-something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.-the shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.-a marriage contract.
contractor: one who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
contracture: a state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
contradict: to assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.-to be contrary to; to oppose; to resist.-to oppose in words; to gainsay; to deny, or assert the contrary of, something.
contradiction: an assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.-direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
contradictory: affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.-opposing or opposed; repugnant.-a proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.-propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.
contrafissure: a fissure or fracture on the side opposite to that which received the blow, or at some distance from it.
contraindicant: something, as a symptom, indicating that the usual mode of treatment is not to be followed.
contraindicate: to indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require.
contraindication: an indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.
contralto: the part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.-the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.-of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.
contraposition: a placing over against; opposite position.-a so-called immediate inference which consists in denying the original subject of the contradictory predicate; e.g.: every s is p; therefore, no not-p is s.
contraries: propositions which directly and destructively contradict each other, but of which the falsehood of one does not establish the truth of the other.-of contrary
contrariety: the state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.-something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency.
contrariness: state or quality of being contrary; opposition; inconsistency; contrariety; perverseness; obstinacy.
contrariwise: on the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand.-in a contrary order; conversely.
contrary: opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.-opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.-given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.-affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.-a thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.-an opponent; an enemy.-the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. see converse, n., 1.-see contraries.
contrast: to stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.-to set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.-to give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.-the act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.-opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.-the opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.
contrastimulant: counteracting the effects of stimulants; relating to a course of medical treatment based on a theory of contrastimulants.-an agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.
contrate: having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.
contravallation: a trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.
contravene: to meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.-to violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.
contravention: the act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
contrayerva: a species of dorstenia (d. contrayerva), a south american plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.
contrecoup: a concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.