AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
defame: to harm or destroy the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.-to render infamous; to bring into disrepute.-to charge; to accuse.-dishonor.
defamer: one who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.
default: a failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.-fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.-a neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.-to fail in duty; to offend.-to fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.-to fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.-to fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.-to call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.-to leave out of account; to omit.
defaulter: one who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.-one who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
defeasance: a defeat; an overthrow.-a rendering null or void.-a condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated.
defeasible: capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title.
defeat: to undo; to disfigure; to destroy.-to render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.-to overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.-to resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.-an undoing or annulling; destruction.-frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.-an overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
defecate: freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified.-to clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine.-to free from extraneous or polluting matter; to clear; to purify, as from that which materializes.-to become clear, pure, or free.-to void excrement.
defecation: the act of separating from impurities, as lees or dregs; purification.-the act or process of voiding excrement.
defecator: that which cleanses or purifies; esp., an apparatus for removing the feculencies of juices and sirups.
defect: want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.-failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect of memory or judgment.-to fail; to become deficient.-to injure; to damage.
defection: act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
defective: wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.-lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb.
defence: see defense.-the act of defending, or the state of being defended; protection, as from violence or danger.-that which defends or protects; anything employed to oppose attack, ward off violence or danger, or maintain security; a guard; a protection.-protecting plea; vindication; justification.-the defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.-act or skill in making defense; defensive plan or policy; practice in self defense, as in fencing, boxing, etc.-prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
defend: to ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.-to prohibit; to forbid.-to repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies.-to deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit.
defendant: serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.-making defense.-one who defends; a defender.-a person required to make answer in an action or suit; -- opposed to plaintiff.
defender: one who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator.
defenseless: destitute of defense; unprepared to resist attack; unable to oppose; unprotected.
defensible: capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.-capable of offering defense.
defensive: serving to defend or protect; proper for defense; opposed to offensive; as, defensive armor.-carried on by resisting attack or aggression; -- opposed to offensive; as, defensive war.-in a state or posture of defense.-that which defends; a safeguard.
defensor: a defender.-a defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector.-the patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.
defer: to put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.-to put off; to delay to act; to wait.-to render or offer.-to lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; -- with to.-to yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; -- with to.
deference: a yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance.
deferent: serving to carry; bearing.-that which carries or conveys.-an imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
defervescency: a subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness.-the subsidence of a febrile process; as, the stage of defervescence in pneumonia.
defiance: the act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat.-a state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition.-a casting aside; renunciation; rejection.
defiant: full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
defibrinate: to deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
deficiency: the state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
deficient: wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment.
deficit: deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.
defier: one who dares and defies; a contemner; as, a defier of the laws.
defilade: to raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
defilading: of defilade-the art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected.
defile: to march off in a line, file by file; to file off.-same as defilade.-any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.-the act of defilading a fortress, or of raising the exterior works in order to protect the interior. see defilade.-to make foul or impure; to make filthy; to dirty; to befoul; to pollute.-to soil or sully; to tarnish, as reputation; to taint.-to injure in purity of character; to corrupt.-to corrupt the chastity of; to debauch; to violate.-to make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
defilement: the protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.-the act of defiling, or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness.
defiler: one who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.
definable: capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.
define: to fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.-to determine or clearly exhibit the boundaries of; to mark the limits of; as, to define the extent of a kingdom or country.-to determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly; as, the defining power of an optical instrument.-to determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term.-to determine; to decide.
definite: having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval.-having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression.-determined; resolved.-serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as, the definite article.-a thing defined or determined.
definition: the act of defining; determination of the limits; as, a telescope accurate in definition.-act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition.-description; sort.-an exact enunciation of the constituents which make up the logical essence.-distinctness or clearness, as of an image formed by an optical instrument; precision in detail.
definitive: determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express.-limiting; determining; as, a definitive word.-determined; resolved.-a word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.
deflagrable: burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.
deflagrate: to burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.-to cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.
deflagration: a burning up; conflagration.-the act or process of deflagrating.
deflagrator: a form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.
deflect: to cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.-to turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.
deflected: of deflect-turned aside; deviating from a direct line or course.-bent downward; deflexed.
deflection: the act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.-the deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.-a deviation of the rays of light toward the surface of an opaque body; inflection; diffraction.-the bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.
deflector: that which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion).
defloration: the act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.-that which is chosen as the flower or choicest part; careful culling or selection.
deflour: to deprive of flowers.-to take away the prime beauty and grace of; to rob of the choicest ornament.-to deprive of virginity, as a woman; to violate; to ravish; also, to seduce.
defluxion: a discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation.
defoliation: the separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.
deforce: to keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.-to resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty.
deforcement: a keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.-resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
deforciant: one who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.-one against whom a fictitious action of fine was brought.
deform: to spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.-to render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor.-deformed; misshapen; shapeless; horrid.
deformation: the act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.-transformation; change of shape.
deformed: of deform-unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head.
deformity: the state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.-anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety; irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an edifice; deformity of character.
defraud: to deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing taken or withheld.
defrauder: one who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
defray: to pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc.-to avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
defrayal: the act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.
deft: apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.
defy: to renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.-to provoke to combat or strife; to call out to combat; to challenge; to dare; to brave; to set at defiance; to treat with contempt; as, to defy an enemy; to defy the power of a magistrate; to defy the arguments of an opponent; to defy public opinion.-a challenge.
degarnish: to strip or deprive of entirely, as of furniture, ornaments, etc.; to disgarnish; as, to degarnish a house, etc.-to deprive of a garrison, or of troops necessary for defense; as, to degarnish a city or fort.
degarnishment: the act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
degeneracy: the act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.-the state of having become degenerate; decline in good qualities; deterioration; meanness.
degenerate: having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low.-to be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate.-to fall off from the normal quality or the healthy structure of its kind; to become of a lower type.
degeneration: the act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.-that condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.-a gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.-the thing degenerated.
degenerationist: a believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.
deglazing: the process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means.
deglutinate: to loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.
deglutition: the act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
degradation: the act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop.-the state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement.-diminution or reduction of strength, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration.-a gradual wearing down or wasting, as of rocks and banks, by the action of water, frost etc.-the state or condition of a species or group which exhibits degraded forms; degeneration.-arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole.
degrade: to reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer.-to reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man.-to reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.-to degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera.
degraded: of degrade-reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base.-having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.-having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also on degrees.
degree: a step, stair, or staircase.-one of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison.-the point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position.-measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree.-grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.-a certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree.-three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222,140 two degrees.-state as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. the degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree.-a 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. the degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds.-a division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.-a line or space of the staff.
degu: a small south american rodent (octodon cumingii), of the family octodontidae.
dehiscence: the act of gaping.-a gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.
dehiscent: characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.
dehorn: to deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. see dishorn.
dehors: out of; without; foreign to; out of the agreement, record, will, or other instrument.-all sorts of outworks in general, at a distance from the main works; any advanced works for protection or cover.
dehumanize: to divest of human qualities, such as pity, tenderness, etc.; as, dehumanizing influences.
dehydrate: to deprive of water; to render free from water; as, to dehydrate alcohol.
dehydration: the act or process of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.
dehydrogenation: the act or process of freeing from hydrogen; also, the condition resulting from the removal of hydrogen.
deicide: the act of killing a being of a divine nature; particularly, the putting to death of jesus christ.-one concerned in putting christ to death.
deictic: direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
deification: the act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
deified: honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard; godlike.-of deify
deiform: godlike, or of a godlike form.-conformable to the will of god.
deify: to make a god of; to exalt to the rank of a deity; to enroll among the deities; to apotheosize; as, julius caesar was deified.-to praise or revere as a deity; to treat as an object of supreme regard; as, to deify money.-to render godlike.
deign: to esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.-to condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.-to think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.
deipnosophist: one of an ancient sect of philosophers, who cultivated learned conversation at meals.
deism: the doctrine or creed of a deist; the belief or system of those who acknowledge the existence of one god, but deny revelation.
deist: one who believes in the existence of a god, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.
deistical: pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book.
deity: the collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the supreme being is seen in his works.-a god or goddess; a heathen god.
deject: to cast down.-to cast down the spirits of; to dispirit; to discourage; to dishearten.-dejected.
dejected: of deject-cast down; afflicted; low-spirited; sad; as, a dejected look or countenance.
dejection: a casting down; depression.-the act of humbling or abasing one's self.-lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.-a low condition; weakness; inability.-the discharge of excrement.-faeces; excrement.
dejectory: having power, or tending, to cast down.-promoting evacuations by stool.