AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
contretemps: an unexpected and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarrassing; a hitch.
contribute: to give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor.-to give a part to a common stock; to lend assistance or aid, or give something, to a common purpose; to have a share in any act or effect.-to give or use one's power or influence for any object; to assist.
contributer: one who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.
contribution: the act of contributing.-that which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.-an irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.-payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.
contributory: contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.-one who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness.
contrite: thoroughly bruised or broken.-broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to god; humbly and thoroughly penitent.-a contrite person.-in a contrite manner.
contrition: the act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.-the state of being contrite; deep sorrow and repentance for sin, because sin is displeasing to god; humble penitence; through repentance.
contrivance: the act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.-the thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
contrive: to form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.-to make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.
control: a duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.-that which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.-power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.-to check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.-to exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.
controller: one who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.-an officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts.-an iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. the links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
controlment: the power or act of controlling; the state of being restrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence.-opposition; resistance; hostility.
controversial: relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
controversy: contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.-quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference.-a suit in law or equity; a question of right.
controvert: to make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.
contumacious: exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.-willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
contumacy: stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.-a willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
contumelious: exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.-shameful; disgraceful.
contumely: rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
contuse: to beat, pound, or together.-to bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.
contusion: the act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.-a bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
conundrum: a kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.-a question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.
conure: an american parrakeet of the genus conurus. many species are known. see parrakeet.
conus: a cone.-a linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. see cone, n., 4.
convalesce: to recover health and strength gradually, after sickness or weakness; as, a patient begins to convalesce.
convalescency: the recovery of heath and strength after disease; the state of a body renewing its vigor after sickness or weakness; the time between the subsidence of a disease and complete restoration to health.
convalescent: recovering from sickness or debility; partially restored to health or strength.-of or pertaining to convalescence.-one recovering from sickness.
convallamarin: a white, crystalline, poisonous substance, regarded as a glucoside, extracted from the lily of the valley (convallaria majalis). its taste is first bitter, then sweet.
convallarin: a white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste, extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.
convection: the act or process of conveying or transmitting.-a process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes.
convenable: capable of being convened or assembled.-consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies.
convene: to come together; to meet; to unite.-to come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.-to cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.-to summon judicially to meet or appear.
convener: one who convenes or meets with others.-one who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
conveniency: the state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.-freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation.-that which is convenient; that which promotes comfort or advantage; that which is suited to one's wants; an accommodation.-a convenient or fit time; opportunity; as, to do something at one's convenience.
convenient: fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.-affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.-seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.-near at hand; easy of access.
convent: a coming together; a meeting.-an association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.-a house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.-to meet together; to concur.-to be convenient; to serve.-to call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
conventicle: a small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.-an assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by nonconformists or dissenters in england, or by covenanters in scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.
convention: the act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.-general agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.-a meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.-an extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored charles ii. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by james ii.-an agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
conventional: formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.-growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.-based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.-abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell.  cf. conventionalize, v. t.
conventionalism: that which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.-the principles or practice of conventionalizing. see conventionalize, v. t.
conventionalist: one who adheres to a convention or treaty.-one who is governed by conventionalism.
conventionality: the state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
conventionalize: to make designs in art, according to conventional principles. cf. conventionalize, v. t., 2.
conventionalizw: to make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by usage.-to represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.-to represent according to an established principle, whether religious or traditional, or based upon certain artistic rules of supposed importance.
conventual: of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.-one who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.
converge: to tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.-to cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together.
convergent: tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.
converging: of converge-tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines.
conversance: the state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy.
conversant: having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.-familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in.-concerned; occupied.-one who converses with another; a convenser.
conversation: general course of conduct; behavior.-familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance.-commerce; intercourse; traffic.-colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue.-sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.
conversational: pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style.
converse: to keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.-to engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.-to have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.-frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.-familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.-turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.-a proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.-a proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.
conversion: the act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.-the act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed.-an appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse.-the act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.-a change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.-a change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.-a change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.-a spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of god; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.
convert: to cause to turn; to turn.-to change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.-to change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.-to produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.-to apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.-to exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.-to change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.-to turn into another language; to translate.-to be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.-a person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to christianity.-a lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
convertend: any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. see converse, n. (logic).
converter: one who converts; one who makes converts.-a retort, used in the bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
convertibility: the condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.
convertible: capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.-capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
convex: rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.-a convex body or surface.
convexity: the state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.
convexo-concave: convex on one side, and concave on the other. the curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. see meniscus.
convexo-convex: convex on both sides; double convex. see under convex, a.
convexo-plane: convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.
convey: to carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.-to cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.-to transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.-to impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.-to manage with privacy; to carry out.-to carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.-to accompany; to convoy.-to play the thief; to steal.
conveyance: the act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.-the instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.-the act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.-the act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.-dishonest management, or artifice.
conveyancer: one whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.
conveyancing: the business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.
conveyer: one who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.-one given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.
conveyor: a contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.
convict: proved or found guilty; convicted.-a person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.-a criminal sentenced to penal servitude.-to prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.-to prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.-to demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.-to defeat; to doom to destruction.
conviction: the act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.-a judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.-the act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.-the state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.
convince: to overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.-to overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.-to confute; to prove the fallacy of.-to prove guilty; to convict.
convincible: capable of being convinced or won over.-capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.
convivial: of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.
conviviality: the good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.
convocation: the act of calling or assembling by summons.-an assembly or meeting.-an assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.-an academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
convolute: rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
convolution: the act of rolling anything upon itself, or one thing upon another; a winding motion.-the state of being rolled upon itself, or rolled or doubled together; a tortuous or sinuous winding or fold, as of something rolled or folded upon itself.-an irregular, tortuous folding of an organ or part; as, the convolutions of the intestines; the cerebral convolutions. see brain.
convolvulaceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the bindweed and the morning-glory are common examples.
convolvulin: a glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.
convolvulus: a large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (c. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus ipomaea.
convoy: to accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.-the act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.-a vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.-a protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.-conveyance; means of transportation.-a drag or brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill.
convulse: to contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain.-to agitate greatly; to shake violently.
convulsion: an unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.-any violent and irregular motion or agitation; a violent shaking; a tumult; a commotion.
convulsionist: one who has convulsions; esp., one of a body of fanatics in france, early in the eighteenth century, who went into convulsions under the influence of religious emotion; as, the convulsionists of st. medard.
convulsive: producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
cony: a rabbit, esp., the european rabbit (lepus cuniculus)-the chief hare.-a simpleton.-an important edible west indian fish (epinephelus apua); the hind of bermuda.-a local name of the burbot.
conylene: an oily substance, c8h14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.
conyrine: a blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
coo: to make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.-to show affection; to act in a loving way. see under bill, v. i.
cooee: a peculiar whistling sound made by the australian aborigenes as a call or signal.
cook: to make the noise of the cuckoo.-to throw.-one whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.-a fish, the european striped wrasse.-to prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.-to concoct or prepare; hence, to tamper with or alter; to garble; -- often with up; as, to cook up a story; to cook an account.-to prepare food for the table.
cookery: the art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.-a delicacy; a dainty.
cookroom: a room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.