AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
desert: that which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.-a deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of asia and africa are destitute and vegetation.-a tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.-of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.-to leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.-to abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.-to abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
deserter: one who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
desertion: the act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.-the state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.-abandonment by god; spiritual despondency.
deserve: to earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.-to serve; to treat; to benefit.-to be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
deserving: of deserve-desert; merit.-meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.
desiccant: drying; desiccative.-a medicine or application for drying up a sore.
desiccate: to dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.-to become dry.
desiccation: the act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
desiccative: drying; tending to dry.-an application for drying up secretions.
desiccator: one who, or that which, desiccates.-a short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calcium chloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
desiderate: to desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
desiderative: denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.-an object of desire.-a verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
desideratum: anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
design: to draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.-to mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.-to create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.-to intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.-to form a design or designs; to plan.-a preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.-a plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.-specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.-the realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.-the invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
designate: designated; appointed; chosen.-to mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.-to call by a distinctive title; to name.-to indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
designation: the act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.-selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.-that which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.-use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
designator: an officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.-one who designates.
designedly: by design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
designer: one who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.-one who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.-a plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
designing: of design-intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.-the act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
designment: delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.-design; purpose; scheme.
desilverization: the act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.
desirable: worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
desire: to long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.-to express a wish for; to entreat; to request.-to require; to demand; to claim.-to miss; to regret.-the natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.-an expressed wish; a request; petition.-anything which is desired; an object of longing.-excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.-grief; regret.
desirous: feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
desist: to cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
desitive: final; serving to complete; conclusive.-a proposition relating to or expressing an end or conclusion.
desk: a table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. it often has a drawer or repository underneath.-a reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the united states), a pulpit. hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."-to shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
desman: an amphibious, insectivorous mammal found in russia (myogale moschata). it is allied to the moles, but is called muskrat by some english writers.
desmidian: a microscopic plant of the family desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
desmine: same as stilbite. it commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.
desmodont: a member of a group of south american blood-sucking bats, of the genera desmodus and diphylla. see vampire.
desmognathous: having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (desmognathae), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
desmoid: resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
desmomyaria: the division of tunicata which includes the salpae. see salpa.
desolate: destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.-laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.-left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.-lost to shame; dissolute.-destitute of; lacking in.-to make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.-to lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
desolation: the act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.-the state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.-a place or country wasted and forsaken.
desoxalic: made or derived from oxalic acid; as, desoxalic acid.
despair: to be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.-to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.-to cause to despair.-loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.-that which is despaired of.
despecificate: to discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
desperado: a reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
desperate: without hope; given to despair; hopeless.-beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.-proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.-extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.-one desperate or hopeless.
desperately: in a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
desperation: the act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.-a state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
despicable: fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
despicableness: the quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
despicably: in a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.
despise: to look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
despite: malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.-an act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.-to vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.-in spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.
despiteous: feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.
despoil: to strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.-to deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.-spoil.
despond: to give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.-despondency.
despondency: the state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
despondent: marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
despot: a master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.-one who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
despotat: the station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.
despotical: having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
despotism: the power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.-a government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
despumate: to throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
despumation: the act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.
desquamate: to peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
desquamation: the separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.
desquamatory: of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.-an instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones.
dessert: a service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
destination: the act of destining or appointing.-purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.-the place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
destine: to determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.
destiny: that to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.-the fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
destitute: forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.-not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.-to leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.-to make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of.-to disappoint.
destitution: the state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.
destroy: to unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.-to ruin; to bring to naught; to put an end to; to annihilate; to consume.-to put an end to the existence, prosperity, or beauty of; to kill.
destruction: the act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.-the state of being destroyed, demolished, ruined, slain, or devastated.-a destroying agency; a cause of ruin or of devastation; a destroyer.
destructionist: one who delights in destroying that which is valuable; one whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing institutions; a destructive.-one who believes in the final destruction or complete annihilation of the wicked; -- called also annihilationist.
destructive: causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.-one who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
destructiveness: the quality of destroying or ruining.-the faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
desudation: a sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.
desuetude: the cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
desulphurize: to desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.
desultorily: in a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.
desultoriness: the quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness.
desultory: leaping or skipping about.-jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds.-out of course; by the way; as a digression; not connected with the subject; as, a desultory remark.
desynonymize: to deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms.
detach: to part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.-to separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.-to push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.
detached: of detach-separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.
detachment: the act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.-that which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.-abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
detail: a minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.-a narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.-the selection for a particular service of a person or a body of men; hence, the person or the body of men so selected.-to relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.-to tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron.
detain: to keep back or from; to withhold.-to restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident.-to hold or keep in custody.-detention.
detainer: one who detains.-the keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. forcible detainer is indictable at common law.-a writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.
detect: detected.-to uncover; to discover; to find out; to bring to light; as, to detect a crime or a criminal; to detect a mistake in an account.-to inform against; to accuse.
detecter: one who, or that which, detects or brings to light; one who finds out what another attempts to conceal; a detector.
detection: the act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot.
detective: fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.-one who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy.
detent: that which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.
detention: the act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.-the state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.-confinement; restraint; custody.
deter: to prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
deterge: to cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer.
detergent: cleansing; purging.-a substance which cleanses the skin, as water or soap; a medicine to cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.
deteriorate: to make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.-to grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
determinable: capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion.
determinant: serving to determine or limit; determinative.-that which serves to determine; that which causes determination.-the sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws-a mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise.
determinate: having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite.-conclusive; decisive; positive.-determined or resolved upon.-of determined purpose; resolute.-to bring to an end; to determine. see determine.
determinately: in a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably.-resolutely; unchangeably.
determination: the act of determining, or the state of being determined.-bringing to an end; termination; limit.-direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.-the quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.-the state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.-that which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.-a flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.-the act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.-the act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.-the addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.-the act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, i am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.
determinative: having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.-that which serves to determine.
determine: to fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.-to set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.-to fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.-to fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course.-to ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.-to bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause.-to resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.-to define or limit by adding a differentia.-to ascertain the presence, quantity, or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.-to come to an end; to end; to terminate.-to come to a decision; to decide; to resolve; -- often with on.
determinism: the doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
deterration: the uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground.
detersive: cleansing; detergent.-a cleansing agent; a detergent.
detest: to witness against; to denounce; to condemn.-to hate intensely; to abhor; to abominate; to loathe; as, we detest what is contemptible or evil.
detestable: worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices.
detestation: the act of detesting; extreme hatred or dislike; abhorrence; loathing.
dethrone: to remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
detinue: a person or thing detained-a form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.
detonate: to explode with a sudden report; as, niter detonates with sulphur.-to cause to explode; to cause to burn or inflame with a sudden report.
detonation: an explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.
detonize: to explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.
detortion: the act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.