AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
elation: a lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.
elative: raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.
elatrometer: an instrument for measuring the degree of rarefaction of air contained in the receiver of an air pump.
elayl: olefiant gas or ethylene; -- so called by berzelius from its forming an oil combining with chlorine. [written also elayle.] see ethylene.
elbow: the joint or bend of the arm; the outer curve in the middle of the arm when bent.-any turn or bend like that of the elbow, in a wall, building, and the like; a sudden turn in a line of coast or course of a river; also, an angular or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.-a sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back.-to push or hit with the elbow, as when one pushes by another.-to jut into an angle; to project or to bend after the manner of an elbow.-to push rudely along; to elbow one's way.
elbowboard: the base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.
elbowroom: room to extend the elbows on each side; ample room for motion or action; free scope.
elcaja: an arabian tree (trichilia emetica). the fruit, which is emetic, is sometimes employed in the composition of an ointment for the cure of the itch.
elcesaite: one of a sect of asiatic gnostics of the time of the emperor trajan.
eld: old.-age; esp., old age.-old times; former days; antiquity.-to age; to grow old.-to make old or ancient.
elder: older; more aged, or existing longer.-born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.-one who is older; a superior in age; a senior.-an aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.-a person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.-a clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.-a genus of shrubs (sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
elderly: somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
eldership: the state of being older; seniority.-office of an elder; collectively, a body of elders.
eldest: oldest; longest in duration.-born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. see elder.
eldritch: hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh.
eleatic: of or pertaining to a certain school of greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.-a philosopher of the eleatic school.
elecampane: a large, coarse herb (inula helenium), with composite yellow flowers. the root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.-a sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
elect: chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.-chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.-chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.-one chosen or set apart.-those who are chosen for salvation.-to pick out; to select; to choose.-to select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.-to designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
electer: amber. see electrum.-a metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy.
election: the act of choosing; choice; selection.-the act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.-power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.-discriminating choice; discernment.-divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of calvinism.-the choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.-those who are elected.
electioneer: to make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate.
elective: exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.-pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.-dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.-in an american college, an optional study or course of study.
elector: one who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.-hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.-in the old german empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.-one of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the united states, to elect the president and vice president.-pertaining to an election or to electors.
electorate: the territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old german empire.-the whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them.
electrepeter: an instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
electric: alt. of electrical-a nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
electrical: pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.-capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance.-electrifying; thrilling; magnetic.
electricity: a power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. it is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.-the science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.-fig.: electrifying energy or characteristic.
electrify: to communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.-to cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.-to excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.-to become electric.
electrine: belonging to, or made of, amber.-made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.
electro-: a prefix or combining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic; electro-magnet.
electro-ballistics: the art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.
electro-biology: that branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.-that phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism, the phenomena of which are supposed to be produced by a form of electricity.
electro-bioscopy: a method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.
electro-capillarity: the occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
electro-capillary: pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
electro-chronograph: an instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. it has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. see chronograph.
electro-chronographic: belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.
electro-dynamical: pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
electro-dynamics: the phenomena of electricity in motion.-the branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity.
electro-gilding: the art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
electro-magnet: a mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. the metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.
electro-magnetic: of, pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current.
electro-magnetism: the magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.
electro-metallurgy: the act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty.
electro-metrical: pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.
electro-motion: the motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
electro-motive: producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
electro-muscular: pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
electro-negative: having the property of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.-negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.-a body which passes to the positive pole in electrolysis.
electro-physiological: pertaining to electrical results produced through physiological agencies, or by change of action in a living organism.
electro-physiology: that branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.
electro-polar: possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
electro-positive: of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative.-hence: positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.-a body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.
electro-puncture: an operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
electro-telegraphy: the art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.
electro-thermancy: that branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.
electro-tint: a style   of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. a picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. a cast of this is then the plate for printing.
electro-vital: derived from, or dependent upon, vital processes; -- said of certain electric currents supposed by some physiologists to circulate in the nerves of animals.
electro-vitalism: the theory that the functions of living organisms are dependent upon electricity or a kindred force.
electrocute: to execute or put to death by electricity. -- e*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. [recent; newspaper words]
electrode: the path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
electrogenic: of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.
electrogeny: a term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.
electrolier: a branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.
electrolysis: the act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.
electrolyte: a compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
electrometer: an instrument for measuring the quantity or intensity of electricity; also, sometimes, and less properly, applied to an instrument which indicates the presence of electricity (usually called an electroscope).
electromotor: a mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for generating a current of electricity.-an apparatus or machine for producing motion and mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic engine.
electrophorus: an instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.
electroplate: to plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.
electroplating: of electroplate-the art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
electroscope: an instrument for detecting the presence of electricity, or changes in the electric state of bodies, or the species of electricity present, as by means of pith balls, and the like.
electrostatics: that branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
electrotonic: of or pertaining to electrical tension; -- said of a supposed peculiar condition of a conducting circuit during its exposure to the action of another conducting circuit traversed by a uniform electric current when both circuits remain stationary.-relating to electrotonus; as, the electrotonic condition of a nerve.
electrotonus: the modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. see anelectrotonus, and catelectrotonus.
electrotype: a facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. also used adjectively.-to make facsimile plates of by the electrotype process; as, to electrotype a page of type, a book, etc. see electrotype, n.
electrum: amber.-an alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.-german-silver plate. see german silver, under german.
electuary: a medicine composed of powders, or other ingredients, incorporated with some convserve, honey, or sirup; a confection. see the note under confection.
eleemosynary: relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.-given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.-supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.-one who subsists on charity; a dependent.
elegancy: the state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.-that which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive.
elegant: very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.-exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
elegantly: in a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.
elegiac: belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.-used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.-elegiac verse.
elegit: a judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.
elegize: to lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
elegy: a mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
eleidin: lifeless matter deposited in the form of minute granules within the protoplasm of living cells.
element: one of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.-one of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. specifically: (chem.) a substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.-one of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.-one out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.-one of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.-one of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.-an infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. in the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.-sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.-one of the terms in an algebraic expression.-one of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.-the simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.-any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.-one of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.-the four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire-the conditions and movements of the air.-the elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.-the whole material composing the world.-the bread and wine used in the eucharist or lord's supper.-to compound of elements or first principles.-to constitute; to make up with elements.
elemental: pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air.-pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
elementalism: the theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
elementally: according to elements; literally; as, the words, "take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.
elementary: having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.-pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.-pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
elemi: a fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera amyris and canarium. a. elemifera yields mexican elemi; c. commune, the manila elemi. it is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.
elemin: a transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.
elench: that part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.-a specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.
elenctical: serving to refute; refutative; -- applied to indirect modes of proof, and opposed to deictic.
elephant: a mammal of the order proboscidia, of which two living species, elephas indicus and e. africanus, and several fossil species, are known. they have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. the molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. elephants are the largest land animals now existing.-ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
elephantiasis: a disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
elephantine: pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread.
eleusinian: pertaining to eleusis, in greece, or to secret rites in honor of ceres, there celebrated; as, eleusinian mysteries or festivals.
eleuthero-petalous: having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from each other; -- said of both plant and flower.
elevate: elevated; raised aloft.-to bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc.-to raise to a higher station; to promote; as, to elevate to an office, or to a high social position.-to raise from a depressed state; to animate; to cheer; as, to elevate the spirits.-to exalt; to ennoble; to dignify; as, to elevate the mind or character.-to raise to a higher pitch, or to a greater degree of loudness; -- said of sounds; as, to elevate the voice.-to intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.-to lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
elevated: of elevate-uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts.