AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
elevation: the act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.-condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.-that which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.-the distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.-the angle which the style makes with the substylar line.-the movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/  sight; -- distinguished from direction.-a geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography.
elevator: one who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything-a mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage.-a cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in england a lift; the cage or platform itself.-a building for elevating, storing, and discharging, grain.-a muscle which serves to raise a part of the body, as the leg or the eye.-an instrument for raising a depressed portion of a bone.
elevatory: tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces.-see elevator, n. (e).
eleven: ten and one added; as, eleven men.-the sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.-a symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.-the eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-england eleven.
eleventh: next after the tenth; as, the eleventh chapter.-constituting one of eleven parts into which a thing is divided; as, the eleventh part of a thing.-of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.-the quotient of a unit divided by eleven; one of eleven equal parts.-the interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.
elf: an imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks.-a very diminutive person; a dwarf.-to entangle mischievously, as an elf might do.-of elves
elfish: of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcely human; mischievous, as though caused by elves.
elgin marbles: greek sculptures in the british museum. they were obtained at athens, about 1811, by lord elgin.
elicit: elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.-to draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by discussion.
elide: to break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.-to cut off, as a vowel or a syllable, usually the final one; to subject to elision.
eligibility: the quality of being eligible; eligibleness; as, the eligibility of a candidate; the eligibility of an offer of marriage.
eligible: that may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.-worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house.
eligibleness: the quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.
eliminant: the result of eliminating n variables between n homogeneous equations of any degree; -- called also resultant.
eliminate: to put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.-to cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.-to set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.-to obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.-to separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
elimination: the act of expelling or throwing off-the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.-act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.-the act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction. [see eliminate, 4.]
eliquation: the process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation.
elison: division; separation.-the cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.
elisor: an elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.
elixate: to boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
elixir: a tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.-an imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.-the refined spirit; the quintessence.-any cordial or substance which invigorates.
elizabethan: pertaining to queen elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the elizabethan writers, drama, literature.-one who lived in england in the time of queen elizabeth.
elk: a large deer, of several species. the european elk (alces machlis or cervus alces) is closely allied to the american moose. the american elk, or wapiti (cervus canadensis), is closely related to the european stag. see moose, and wapiti.-alt. of elke
elkwood: the soft, spongy wood of a species of magnolia (m. umbrella).
ell: a measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. it is of different lengths in different countries; the english ell being 45 inches, the dutch or flemish ell 27, the scotch about 37.-see l.
ellachick: a fresh-water tortoise (chelopus marmoratus) of california; -- used as food.
ellagic: pertaining to, or derived from, gallnuts or gallic acid; as, ellagic acid.
ellipse: an oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. the greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. see conic section, under conic, and cf. focus.-omission. see ellipsis.-the elliptical orbit of a planet.
ellipsis: omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues i admire, for, the virtues which i admire.-an ellipse.
ellipsoid: a solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. see conoid, n., 2 (a).-alt. of ellipsoidal
ellipsoidal: pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.
elliptic-lanceolate: having a form intermediate between elliptic and lanceolate.
elliptical: of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.-having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
elliptically: in the form of an ellipse.-with a part omitted; as, elliptically expressed.
ellipticity: deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the difference between the equatorial and polar semidiameters, divided by the equatorial; thus, the ellipticity of the earth is /.
elm: a tree of the genus ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in america. the english elm is ulmus campestris; the common american or white elm is u. americana; the slippery or red elm, u. fulva.
elocation: a removal from the usual place of residence.-departure from the usual state; an ecstasy.
elocular: having but one cell, or cavity; not divided by a septum or partition.
elocution: utterance by speech.-oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.-suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction.
elocutionist: one who is versed in elocution; a teacher of elocution.
elodian: one of a tribe of tortoises, including the terrapins, etc., in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.
elohist: the writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the old testament, notably those of elohim instead of jehovah, as the name of the supreme being; -- distinguished from jehovist.
elohistic: relating to elohim as a name of god; -- said of passages in the old testament.
eloign: to remove afar off; to withdraw.-to convey to a distance, or beyond the jurisdiction, or to conceal, as goods liable to distress.
elong: to lengthen out; to prolong.-to put away; to separate; to keep off.
elongate: to lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.-to remove further off.-to depart to, or be at, a distance; esp., to recede apparently from the sun, as a planet in its orbit.-drawn out at length; elongated; as, an elongate leaf.
elongation: the act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension.-that which lengthens out; continuation.-removal to a distance; withdrawal; a being at a distance; distance.-the angular distance of a planet from the sun; as, the elongation of venus or mercury.
elope: to run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart.
elopement: the act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.
eloquence: fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion.-fig.: whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech.-that which is eloquently uttered or written.
eloquent: having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.-adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.
else: other; one or something beside; as, who else is coming? what else shall i give? do you expect anything else?-besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else.-otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different.
elsewhere: in any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere.-in some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.
elsewhither: to some, or any, other place; as, you will have to go elsewhither for it.
elucidate: to make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
elucidation: a making clear; the act of elucidating or that which elucidates, as an explanation, an exposition, an illustration; as, one example may serve for further elucidation of the subject.
elucidative: making clear; tending to elucidate; as, an elucidative note.
elude: to avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
elul: the sixth month of the jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of september.
elusion: act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
elusive: tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
elusory: tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.
elutriate: to wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing.
elutriation: the process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
elvan: pertaining to elves; elvish.-of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of cornwall; as, an elvan course.-alt. of elvanite
elvanite: the rock of an elvan vein, or the elvan vein itself; an elvan course.
elver: a young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.
elvish: pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. see elfish.-mysterious; also, foolish.
elysian: pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.
elysium: a dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; paradise.-hence, any delightful place.
elytrum: one of the anterior pair of wings in the coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair.-one of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. see chaetopoda.
elzevir: applied to books or editions (esp. of the greek new testament and the classics) printed and published by the elzevir family at amsterdam, leyden, etc., from about 1592 to 1680; also, applied to a round open type introduced by them.
em: the portion of a line formerly occupied by the letter m, then a square type, used as a unit by which to measure the amount of printed matter on a page; the square of the body of a type.
emaciate: to lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.-to cause to waste away in flesh and become very lean; as, his sickness emaciated him.-emaciated.
emaciation: the act of making very lean.-the state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
emanant: issuing or flowing forth; emanating; passing forth into an act, or making itself apparent by an effect; -- said of mental acts; as, an emanant volition.
emanate: to issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.-to proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.-issuing forth; emanant.
emanation: the act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.-that which issues, flows, or proceeds from any object as a source; efflux; an effluence; as, perfume is an emanation from a flower.
emancipate: to set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) to set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) to set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.-to free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.-set at liberty.
emancipation: the act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.
emancipationist: an advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
emarginated: having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.-notched at the summit.-having the edges truncated.
emargination: the act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.
emasculate: to deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.-to deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.-deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
emasculation: the act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.-the act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigor or strength; unmanly weakness.
embale: to make up into a bale or pack.-to bind up; to inclose.
embalm: to anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate (a dead body), with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction.-to fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume.-to preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance.
embank: to throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
embankment: the act of surrounding or defending with a bank.-a structure of earth, gravel, etc., raised to prevent water from overflowing a level tract of country, to retain water in a reservoir, or to carry a roadway, etc.
embar: to bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars.-to stop; to hinder by prohibition; to block up.
embargo: an edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.-to lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods.
embark: to cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.-to engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade.-to go on board a vessel or a boat for a voyage; as, the troops embarked for lisbon.-to engage in any affair.
embarkation: the act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.-that which is embarked; as, an embarkation of jesuits.
embarrass: to hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.-to hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.-to involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.-embarrassment.
embarrassment: a state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness.-difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
embase: to bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate.
embassador: a minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.-an official messenger and representative.-same as ambassador.
embassy: the public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.-the person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.-the residence or office of an ambassador.
embattle: to arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.-to be arrayed for battle.-to furnish with battlements.
embattled: of embattle-having indentations like a battlement.-having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.-having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.
embattlement: an intended parapet; a battlement.-the fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
embay: to bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.-to shut in, or shelter, as in a bay.
embed: to lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
embellish: to make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.
embellishment: the act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.-that which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
ember: a lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; -- used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.-making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.
embezzle: to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust.-to misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
embezzlement: the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.
embiotocoid: belonging to, or resembling, the embiotocidae.-one of a family of fishes (embiotocidae) abundant on the coast of california, remarkable for being viviparous; -- also called surf fishes and viviparous fishes. see illust. in append.
emblaze: to adorn with glittering embellishments.-to paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon.
emblazon: to depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. see blazon.-to deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate.
emblazoner: one who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.
emblazoning: of emblazon-the act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
emblazonry: the act or art of an emblazoner; heraldic or ornamental decoration, as pictures or figures on shields, standards, etc.; emblazonment.
emblem: inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.-a visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity.-a picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.-to represent by an emblem; to symbolize.
emblematical: pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity.
emblematiccize: to render emblematic; as, to emblematicize a picture.
emblement: the growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. the produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement.
embodiment: the act of embodying; the state of being embodied.-that which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organized system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety.
embody: to form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.-to unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
embogue: to disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river.
emboil: to boil with anger; to effervesce.-to cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.