AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
depolarization: the act of depriving of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition.
depolarize: to deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.-to free from polarization, as the negative plate of the voltaic battery.
depolarizer: a substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery.
depolishing: the process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain.
depone: to lay, as a stake; to wager.-to lay down.-to assert under oath; to depose.-to testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness.
deponent: one who deposes or testifies under oath; one who gives evidence; usually, one who testifies in writing.-a deponent verb.-having a passive form with an active meaning, as certain latin and greek verbs.
depopulate: to deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople.-to become dispeopled.
depopulation: the act of depopulating, or condition of being depopulated; destruction or explusion of inhabitants.
deport: to transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.-to carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.-behavior; carriage; demeanor; deportment.
deportation: the act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.
deportment: manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
depose: to lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.-to let fall; to deposit.-to remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office.-to testify under oath; to bear testimony to; -- now usually said of bearing testimony which is officially written down for future use.-to put under oath.-to bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
deposer: one who deposes or degrades from office.-one who testifies or deposes; a deponent.
deposit: to lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium.-to lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.-to lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order.-to lay aside; to rid one's self of.-that which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river).-a natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation.-that which is placed anywhere, or in any one's hands, for safe keeping; something intrusted to the care of another; esp., money lodged with a bank or banker, subject to order; anything given as pledge or security.-a bailment of money or goods to be kept gratuitously for the bailor.-money lodged with a party as earnest or security for the performance of a duty assumed by the person depositing.-a place of deposit; a depository.
depositary: one with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor.-a storehouse; a depository.-one to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense.
deposition: the act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.-the act of bringing before the mind; presentation.-the act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.-that which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.-an opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.-the act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.
depositor: one who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository.
depository: a place where anything is deposited for sale or keeping; as, warehouse is a depository for goods; a clerk's office is a depository for records.-one with whom something is deposited; a depositary.
depot: a place of deposit for the storing of goods; a warehouse; a storehouse.-a military station where stores and provisions are kept, or where recruits are assembled and drilled.-the headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for.-a railway station; a building for the accommodation and protection of railway passengers or freight.
depravation: detraction; depreciation.-the act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting.-the state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity.-change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.
deprave: to speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.-to make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.
depravity: the state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
deprecate: to pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
deprecation: the act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.-entreaty for pardon; petitioning.-an imprecation or curse.
deprecatory: serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
depreciate: to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.-to fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.
depreciation: the act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.-the falling of value; reduction of worth.-the state of being depreciated.
depreciative: tending, or intended, to depreciate; expressing depreciation; undervaluing.
depredate: to subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.-to take plunder or prey; to commit waste; as, the troops depredated on the country.
depredation: the act of depredating, or the state of being depredated; the act of despoiling or making inroads; as, the sea often makes depredation on the land.
depredator: one who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
depredatory: tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
deprehend: to take unwares or by surprise; to seize, as a person commiting an unlawful act; to catch; to apprehend.-to detect; to discover; to find out.
depress: to press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.-to bring down or humble; to abase, as pride.-to cast a gloom upon; to sadden; as, his spirits were depressed.-to lessen the activity of; to make dull; embarrass, as trade, commerce, etc.-to lessen in price; to cause to decline in value; to cheapen; to depreciate.-to reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.-having the middle lower than the border; concave.
depressed: of depress-pressed or forced down; lowed; sunk; dejected; dispirited; sad; humbled.-concave on the upper side; -- said of a leaf whose disk is lower than the border.-lying flat; -- said of a stem or leaf which lies close to the ground.-having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies.
depression: the act of depressing.-the state of being depressed; a sinking.-a falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.-humiliation; abasement, as of pride.-dejection; despondency; lowness.-diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.-the angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.-the operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.-a method of operating for cataract; couching. see couch, v. t., 8.
depressomotor: depressing or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity.-any agent that depresses the activity of the motor centers, as bromides, etc.
depressor: one who, or that which, presses down; an oppressor.-a muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part.
deprivable: capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.
deprivation: the act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.-the state of being deprived; privation; loss; want; bereavement.-the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity.
deprive: to take away; to put an end; to destroy.-to dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of.-to divest of office; to depose; to dispossess of dignity, especially ecclesiastical.
depth: the quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.-profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.-lowness; as, depth of sound.-that which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.-the number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.-a pair of toothed wheels which work together.
depurate: depurated; cleansed; freed from impurities.-to free from impurities, heterogeneous matter, or feculence; to purify; to cleanse.
depuration: the act or process of depurating or freeing from foreign or impure matter, as a liquid or wound.
depurative: purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.-a depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.
depuratory: depurating; tending to depurate or cleanse; depurative.
deputation: the act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.-the person or persons deputed or commissioned by another person, party, or public body to act in his or its behalf; delegation; as, the general sent a deputation to the enemy to propose a truce.
depute: to appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.-to appoint; to assign; to choose.-a person deputed; a deputy.
deputize: to appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.
deputy: one appointed as the substitute of another, and empowered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc.-a member of the chamber of deputies.
derailment: the act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
derainment: the act of deraigning.-the renunciation of religious or monastic vows.
derange: to put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.-to disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism.-to disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
deranged: of derange-disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane.
derangement: the act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
derby: a race for three-old horses, run annually at epsom (near london), for the derby stakes. it was instituted by the 12th earl of derby, in 1780.-a stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
derbyshire spar: a massive variety of fluor spar, found in derbyshire, england, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.
derelict: given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.-lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.-a thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.-a tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.
dereliction: the act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.-a neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.-the state of being left or abandoned.-a retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.
deride: to laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.
derider: one who derides, or laughs at, another in contempt; a mocker; a scoffer.
derision: the act of deriding, or the state of being derided; mockery; scornful or contemptuous treatment which holds one up to ridicule.-an object of derision or scorn; a laughing-stock.
derivable: that can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.
derivation: a leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.-the act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.-the act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an aryan root.-the state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.-that from which a thing is derived.-that which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.-the operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.-a drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
derivative: obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word.-that which is derived; anything obtained or deduced from another.-a word formed from another word, by a prefix or suffix, an internal modification, or some other change; a word which takes its origin from a root.-a chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an actual chord.-an agent which is adapted to produce a derivation (in the medical sense).-a derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.-a substance so related to another substance by modification or partial substitution as to be regarded as derived from it; thus, the amido compounds are derivatives of ammonia, and the hydrocarbons are derivatives of methane, benzene, etc.
derive: to turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.-to receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.-to trace the origin, descent, or derivation of; to recognize transmission of; as, he derives this word from the anglo-saxon.-to obtain one substance from another by actual or theoretical substitution; as, to derive an organic acid from its corresponding hydrocarbon.-to flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.
dermal: pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.-pertaining to the dermis or true skin.
dermatogen: nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.-nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.
dermatologist: one who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.
dermestes: a genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which feed animal substances. they are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. the most common species is d. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.
dermic: relating to the derm or skin.-pertaining to the dermis; dermal.
dermis: the deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. see skin, and illust. in appendix.
dermobranchiata: a group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.
dermohaemal: pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and haemal structures; as, the dermohaemal spines or ventral fin rays of fishes.
dermoneural: pertaining to, or in relation with, both dermal and neural structures; as, the dermoneural spines or dorsal fin rays of fishes.
dermoptera: the division of insects which includes the earwigs (forticulidae).-a group of lemuroid mammals having a parachutelike web of skin between the fore and hind legs, of which the colugo (galeopithecus) is the type. see colugo.-an order of mammalia; the cheiroptera.
dermopteran: an insect which has the anterior pair of wings coriaceous, and does not use them in flight, as the earwig.
dermopterygii: a group of fishlike animals including the marsipobranchiata and leptocardia.
dern: a gatepost or doorpost.-hidden; concealed; secret.-solitary; sad.
derogate: to annul in part; to repeal partly; to restrict; to limit the action of; -- said of a law.-to lessen; to detract from; to disparage; to depreciate; -- said of a person or thing.-to take away; to detract; to withdraw; -- usually with from.-to act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate.-diminished in value; dishonored; degraded.
derogation: the act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.-an alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.
derogatory: tending to derogate, or lessen in value; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious; -- with from to, or unto.
derotremata: the tribe of aquatic amphibia which includes amphiuma, menopoma, etc. they have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also cryptobranchiata.
derrick: a mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.
derringer: a kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.
dervis: a turkish or persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.
descant: originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.-the upper voice in part music.-the canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.-a discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.-to sing a variation or accomplishment.-to comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
descend: to pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.-to enter mentally; to retire.-to make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.-to come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate.-to pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.-to come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir.-to move toward the south, or to the southward.-to fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.-to go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder.
descendant: descendent.-one who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
descendibility: the quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
descendible: admitting descent; capable of being descended.-that may descend from an ancestor to an heir.
descension: the act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.
descent: the act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.-incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.-progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.-derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.-transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.-inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.-that which is descended; descendants; issue.-a step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.-lowest place; extreme downward place.-a passing from a higher to a lower tone.
describe: to represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle.-to represent by words written or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.-to distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.-to use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
description: the act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.-a sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.-a class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
descriptive: tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
descry: to spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.-to discover; to disclose; to reveal.-discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance.
desecrate: to divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
desecration: the act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
desegmentation: the loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.