AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
differ: to be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.-to be of unlike or opposite opinion; to disagree in sentiment; -- often with from or with.-to have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend.-to cause to be different or unlike; to set at variance.
difference: the act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty?-disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy.-that by which one thing differs from another; that which distinguishes or causes to differ; mark of distinction; characteristic quality; specific attribute.-choice; preference.-an addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. see augmentation, and marks of cadency, under cadency.-the quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.-the quantity by which one quantity differs from another, or the remainder left after subtracting the one from the other.-to cause to differ; to make different; to mark as different; to distinguish.
different: distinct; separate; not the same; other.-of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
differentia: the formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
differential: relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.-of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials.-relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism.-an increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity.-a small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. the lower rate is called a differential rate. differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.-one of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.-a form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.
differentiate: to distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to specialize; to desynonymize.-to express the specific difference of; to describe the properties of (a thing) whereby it is differenced from another of the same class; to discriminate.-to obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation.-to acquire a distinct and separate character.
differentiation: the act of differentiating.-the act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.-the gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the digestive and other organs and members, or when the animals as they advance in organization acquire special organs for specific purposes.-the supposed act or tendency in being of every kind, whether organic or inorganic, to assume or produce a more complex structure or functions.
difficult: hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.-hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.-to render difficult; to impede; to perplex.
difficulty: the state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.-something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.-a controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.-embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
diffidence: the state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.-distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
diffident: wanting confidence in others; distrustful.-wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
difform: irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.
diffract: to break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, a/ rays of light.
diffraction: the deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
diffusate: material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
diffuse: to pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.-to pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.-poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
diffuseness: the quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
diffusibility: the quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
diffusible: capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.-capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.
diffusion: the act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.-the act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
diffusive: having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
diffusiveness: the quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. especially of style: diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
diffusivity: tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
dig: to turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.-to get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.-to hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.-to thrust; to poke.-to work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.-to take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.-to work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.-a thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. see dig, v. t., 4.-a plodding and laborious student.
digamma: a letter (/, /) of the greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
digammated: having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the latin word vis is a digammated form of the greek /.
digamous: pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
digastric: having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.-pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
digenea: a division of trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
digenesis: the faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. see parthenogenesis.
digest: to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.-to separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.-to think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.-to appropriate for strengthening and comfort.-hence: to bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.-to soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.-to dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.-to ripen; to mature.-to quiet or abate, as anger or grief.-to undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.-to suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.-that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles-a compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. the term is applied in a general sense to the pandects of justinian (see pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, comyn's digest; the united states digest.
digester: one who digests.-a medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.-a strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.
digestion: the act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.-the conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.-generation of pus; suppuration.
digestive: pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.-that which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.-a substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.-a tonic.
diggers: a degraded tribe of california indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
digging: of dig-the act or the place of excavating.-places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in california, australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained.-region; locality.
dight: of dight-to prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn.-to have sexual intercourse with.
digit: one of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.-a finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.-one of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.-one twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.-to point at or out with the finger.
digitain: any one of several extracts of foxglove (digitalis), as the "french extract," the "german extract," etc., which differ among themselves in composition and properties.-a supposedly distinct vegetable principle as the essential ingredient of the extracts. it is a white, crystalline substance, and is regarded as a glucoside.
digital: of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
digitalis: a genus of plants including the foxglove.-the dried leaves of the purple foxglove (digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.
digitated: having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. also, in general, characterized by digitation.
digitiform: formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.
digitigrade: walking on the toes; -- distinguished from plantigrade.-an animal that walks on its toes, as the cat, lion, wolf, etc.; -- distinguished from a plantigrade, which walks on the palm of the foot.
digitorium: a small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.
digladiate: to fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently.
diglyph: a projecting face like the triglyph, but having only two channels or grooves sunk in it.
digne: worthy; honorable; deserving.-suitable; adequate; fit.-haughty; disdainful.
dignify: to invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
dignitary: one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
dignity: the state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.-elevation; grandeur.-elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.-quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.-one holding high rank; a dignitary.-fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
digraph: two signs or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.
digress: to step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.-to turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.-digression.
digression: the act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.-a turning aside from the right path; transgression; offense.-the elongation, or angular distance from the sun; -- said chiefly of the inferior planets.
digressional: pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression; departing from the main purpose or subject.
dihexagonal: consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.-having twelve similar faces; as, a dihexagonal prism.
diiambus: a double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).
diiodide: a compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine; -- called also biniodide.
diisatogen: a red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.
dika: a kind of food, made from the almondlike seeds of the irvingia barteri, much used by natives of the west coast of africa; -- called also dika bread.
dike: a ditch; a channel for water made by digging.-an embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.-a wall of turf or stone.-a wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.-to surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.-to drain by a dike or ditch.-to work as a ditcher; to dig.
diker: a ditcher.-one who builds stone walls; usually, one who builds them without lime.
dilapidate: to bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.-to impair by waste and abuse; to squander.-to get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.
dilapidated: of dilapidate-decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.
dilapidation: the act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.-ecclesiastical waste; impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or by intention.-the pulling down of a building, or suffering it to fall or be in a state of decay.
dilatability: the quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility.
dilatable: capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.
dilatation: prolixity; diffuse discourse.-the act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on al/ sides; the state of being dilated; dilation.-a dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
dilate: to expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.-to enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.-to grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.-to speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.-extensive; expanded.
dilated: of dilate-expanded; enlarged.-widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.-having the margin wide and spreading.
dilater: one who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
dilation: delay.-the act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
dilatometer: an instrument for measuring the dilatation or expansion of a substance, especially of a fluid.
dilator: one who, or that which, widens or expands.-a muscle that dilates any part.-an instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator.
dilatoriness: the quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
dilatory: inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once; given the procrastination; delaying; procrastinating; loitering; as, a dilatory servant.-marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish; -- said of actions or measures.
dildo: a burden in popular songs.-a columnar cactaceous plant of the west indies (cereus swartzii).
dilemma: an argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.-a state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue; a vexatious alternative or predicament; a difficult choice or position.
dilettant: of or pertaining to dilettanteism; amateur; as, dilettant speculation.-a dilettante.
dilettante: an admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.
dilettanteism: the state or quality of being a dilettante; the desultory pursuit of art, science, or literature.
diligence: the quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; -- the opposite of negligence.-interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.-process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.-a four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in france.
diligent: prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent.-interestedly and perseveringly attentive; steady and earnest in application to a subject or pursuit; assiduous; industrious.
diligently: in a diligent manner; not carelessly; not negligently; with industry or assiduity.
dill: an herb (peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.-to still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
dilogy: an ambiguous speech; a figure in which a word is used an equivocal sense.
diluent: diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.-that which dilutes.-an agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
dilute: to make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.-to diminish the strength, flavor, color, etc., of, by mixing; to reduce, especially by the addition of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken.-to become attenuated, thin, or weak; as, it dilutes easily.-diluted; thin; weak.
diluter: one who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
diluvial: of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of noah; diluvian.-effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. the time of deposition has been called the diluvian epoch.
diluvian: of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin.
diluvium: a deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.
dim: not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.-of obscure vision; not seeing clearly; hence, dull of apprehension; of weak perception; obtuse.-to render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse.-to deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.-to grow dim.
dime: a silver coin of the united states, of the value of ten cents; the tenth of a dollar.
dimension: measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in length and breadth, or in length, breadth, and thickness; extent; size; as, the dimensions of a room, or of a ship; the dimensions of a farm, of a kingdom.-extent; reach; scope; importance; as, a project of large dimensions.-the degree of manifoldness of a quantity; as, time is quantity having one dimension; volume has three dimensions, relative to extension.-a literal factor, as numbered in characterizing a term. the term dimensions forms with the cardinal numbers a phrase equivalent to degree with the ordinal; thus, a2b2c is a term of five dimensions, or of the fifth degree.-the manifoldness with which the fundamental units of time, length, and mass are involved in determining the units of other physical quantities.
dimera: a division of coleoptera, having two joints to the tarsi.-a division of the hemiptera, including the aphids.
dimethyl: ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. see ethane.
dimidiate: divided into two equal parts; reduced to half in shape or form.-consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half; as, a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed.-having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side; as, dimidiate hermaphroditism.-to divide into two equal parts.-to represent the half of; to halve.
dimidiation: the act of dimidiating or halving; the state of being dimidiate.