AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
figure: the form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.-the representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.-a pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.-a diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.-the appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.-distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.-a character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.-value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.-a person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.-a mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement.-the form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.-any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.-a horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.-any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.-a form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.-to represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.-to embellish with design; to adorn with figures.-to indicate by numerals; also, to compute.-to represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.-to prefigure; to foreshow.-to write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.-to embellish.-to make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.-to calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.
figured: of figure-adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.-not literal; figurative.-free and florid; as, a figured descant. see figurate, 3.-indicated or noted by figures.
figurehead: the figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.-a person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
figurine: a very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
figwort: a genus of herbaceous plants (scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. see brownwort.
fijian: of or pertaining to the fiji islands or their inhabitants.-a native of the fiji islands.
filacer: a former officer in the english court of common pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process.
filament: a thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
filander: a species of kangaroo (macropus brunii), inhabiting new guinea.
filanders: a disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm.
filar: of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.
filaria: a genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. see guinea worm.
filature: a drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.-a reel for drawing off silk from cocoons; also, an establishment for reeling silk.
filbert: the fruit of the corylus avellana or hazel. it is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
filch: to steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer.
file: an orderly succession; a line; a row-a row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a number consisting the depth of a body of troops, which, in the ordinary modern formation, consists of two men, the battalion standing two deep, or in two ranks.-an orderly collection of papers, arranged in sequence or classified for preservation and reference; as, files of letters or of newspapers; this mail brings english files to the 15th instant.-the line, wire, or other contrivance, by which papers are put and kept in order.-a roll or list.-course of thought; thread of narration.-to set in order; to arrange, or lay away, esp. as papers in a methodical manner for preservation and reverence; to place on file; to insert in its proper place in an arranged body of papers.-to bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill.-to put upon the files or among the records of a court; to note on (a paper) the fact date of its reception in court.-to march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off.-a steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.-anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively.-a shrewd or artful person.-to rub, smooth, or cut away, with a file; to sharpen with a file; as, to file a saw or a tooth.-to smooth or polish as with a file.-to make foul; to defile.
filefish: any plectognath fish of the genera monacanthus, alutera, balistes, and allied genera; -- so called on account of the roughly granulated skin, which is sometimes used in place of sandpaper.
filial: of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.-bearing the relation of a child.
filiation: the relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.-the assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
filibuster: a lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the spanish american coasts, but introduced into common english to designate the followers of lopez in his expedition to cuba in 1851, and those of walker in his expedition to nicaragua, in 1855.-to act as a filibuster, or military freebooter.-to delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices.
filicic: pertaining to, or derived from, ferns; as, filicic acid.
filicide: the act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
filicoid: fernlike, either in form or in the nature of the method of reproduction.-a fernlike plant.
filiety: the relation of a son to a father; sonship; -- the correlative of paternity.
filiform: having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle.  see illust. of antennae.
filigree: ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.-relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. hence: fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative.
filing: of file-a fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
filipendulous: suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
fill: one of the thills or shafts of a carriage.-to make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.-to furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.-to fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.-to possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the house fills the chair.-to supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.-to press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.-to trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.-to make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.-to become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.-to fill a cup or glass for drinking.-a full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.
filler: one who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.-a thill horse.
fillet: a little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.-a piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.-a thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) a strip of metal from which coins are punched. (b) a strip of card clothing. (c) a thin projecting band or strip.-a concave filling in of a reentrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.-a narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. see illust. of base, and column.-an ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.-the thread of a screw.-a border of broad or narrow lines of color or gilt.-the raised molding about the muzzle of a gun.-any scantling smaller than a batten.-a fascia; a band of fibers; applied esp. to certain bands of white matter in the brain.-the loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.-to bind, furnish, or adorn with a fillet.
filleting: of fillet-the protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.-the material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
filling: of fill-that which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.-the woof in woven fabrics.-prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
fillip: to strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger.-to snap; to project quickly.-a jerk of the finger forced suddenly from the thumb; a smart blow.-something serving to rouse or excite.
fillister: the rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty.-a plane for making a rabbet.
filly: a female foal or colt; a young mare.  cf. colt, foal.-a lively, spirited young girl.
film: a thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.-a slender thread, as that of a cobweb.-to cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
filoplume: a hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
filter: any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device containing such substance; a strainer; also, a similar device for purifying air.-to purify or defecate, as water or other liquid, by causing it to pass through a filter.-to pass through a filter; to percolate.-same as philter.
filth: foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.-anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution.
filthiness: the state of being filthy.-that which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity.
filthy: defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
filtrate: to filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.-that which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration.
filtration: the act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
fimbria: a fringe, or fringed border.-a band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.
fimbriate: having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the fallopian tube.-to hem; to fringe.
fimbriated: of fimbriate-having a fringed border; fimbriate.-having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.
fimbricate: fringed; jagged; fimbriate.-fringed, on one side only, by long, straight hairs, as the antennae of certain insects.
fin: to carve or cut up, as a chub.-end; conclusion; object.-an organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.-a membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.-a finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin-the hand.-a blade of whalebone.-a mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.-the thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.-a feather; a spline.-a finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
fin-footed: having palmate feet.-having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
fin-toed: having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.
final: pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.-conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.-respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
finale: close; termination-the last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition.-the last composition performed in any act of an opera.-the closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
finality: the state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.-the relation of end or purpose to its means.
finally: at the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the romans finally conquered.-completely; beyond recovery.
finance: the income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.-the science of raising and expending the public revenue.
financier: one charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.-one skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.-to conduct financial operations.
finback: any whale of the genera sibbaldius, balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. the common finbacks of the new england coast are sibbaldius tectirostris and s. tuberosus.
finch: a small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family fringillidae.
find: to meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.-to learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.-to come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.-to discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.-to discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.-to gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.-to attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.-to provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.-to arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.-to determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.-anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
finder: one who, or that which, finds; specifically (astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
findfaulting: apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.
finding: of find-that which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.-support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.-the result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
fine: finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.-aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.-nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.-not coarse, gross, or heavy-not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.-not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.-not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.-thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.-made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.-having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.-(used ironically.)-to make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.-to make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.-to change by fine gradations; as (naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.-end; conclusion; termination; extinction.-a sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.-a final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.-a sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.-to impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.-to pay a fine. see fine, n., 3 (b).-to finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.
finedraw: to sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.
finedrawn: of finedraw-drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.
fineer: to run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit.-to veneer.
fineness: the quality or condition of being fine.-freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.-the proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.-keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.
finery: fineness; beauty.-ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.-a charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
finespun: spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
finesse: subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.-the act of finessing. see finesse, v. i., 2.-to use artifice or stratagem.-to attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
finfoot: a south american bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. the name is also applied to several related species of the genus podica.
finger: one of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.-anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.-the breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the united states, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.-skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.-to touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.-to touch lightly; to toy with.-to perform on an instrument of music.-to mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.-to take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.-to execute, as any delicate work.-to use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
fingered: of finger-having fingers.-having leaflets like fingers; digitate.-marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
fingering: of finger-the act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.-the manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.-the marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.-delicate work made with the fingers.
fingrigo: a prickly, climbing shrub of the genus pisonia. the fruit is a kind of berry.
finial: the knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
fining: of fine-the act of imposing a fin/.-the process of fining or refining; clarification; also (metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.-that which is used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for clarifying beer.
finish: to arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.-to bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.-to come to an end; to terminate.-to end; to die.-that which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.-the joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. see inside finish, and outside finish.-the labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.-see finishing coat, under finishing.-the result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.-completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.
finished: of finish-polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
finisher: one who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.-something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.
finishing: of finish-the act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.-tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.