AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
expression: the act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.-the act of declaring or signifying; declaration; utterance; as, an expression of the public will.-lively or vivid representation of meaning, sentiment, or feeling, etc.; significant and impressive indication, whether by language, appearance, or gesture; that manner or style which gives life and suggestive force to ideas and sentiments; as, he reads with expression; her performance on the piano has expression.-that which is expressed by a countenance, a posture, a work of art, etc.; look, as indicative of thought or feeling.-a form of words in which an idea or sentiment is conveyed; a mode of speech; a phrase; as, a common expression; an odd expression.-the representation of any quantity by its appropriate characters or signs.
expressional: of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment.
expressive: serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude.-full of expression; vividly representing the meaning or feeling meant to be conveyed; significant; emphatic; as, expressive looks or words.
expressly: in an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.
expropriate: to put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
expropriation: the act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.
expugn: to take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
expulsion: the act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.-the state of being expelled or driven out.
expunction: the act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged.
expunge: to blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.-to strike out; to wipe out or destroy; to annihilate; as, to expugne an offense.
expurgate: to purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book.
expurgation: the act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
expurgatory: serving to purify from anything noxious or erroneous; cleansing; purifying.
exquisite: carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.-exceeding; extreme; keen; -- used in a bad or a good sense; as, exquisite pain or pleasure.-of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment.-one who manifests an exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.
exquisitely: in an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought.
exrerience: to make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.-to exercise; to train by practice.
exsanguinity: privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora.
exsanguious: destitute of blood.-destitute of true, or red, blood, as insects.
exscind: to cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate.
exscriptural: not in accordance with the doctrines of scripture; unscriptural.
exscutellate: without, or apparently without, a scutellum; -- said of certain insects.
exsect: a cutting out or away.-the removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.
exserted: standing out; projecting beyond some other part; as, exsert stamens.
exsiccant: having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.-an exsiccant medicine.
exsiccation: the act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion of moisture; state of being dried up; dryness.
exsiccator: an apparatus for drying substances or preserving them from moisture; a desiccator; also, less frequently, an agent employed to absorb moisture, as calcium chloride, or concentrated sulphuric acid.
exstrophy: the eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.
exsufflation: a blast from beneath.-a kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.-a strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.
extant: standing out or above any surface; protruded.-still existing; not destroyed or lost; outstanding.-publicly known; conspicuous.
extemporaneous: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.
extempore: without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore.-done or performed extempore.-speaking or writing done extempore.
extemporization: the act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
extemporize: to speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.-to do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.
extend: to stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.-to enlarge, as a surface or volume; to expand; to spread; to amplify; as, to extend metal plates by hammering or rolling them.-to enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.-to hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand.-to bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering.-to increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors.-to value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
extendible: capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.-liable to be taken by a writ of extent.
extensibility: the quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.
extensible: capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible.
extension: the act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.-that property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space.-capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension.-the operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.-the straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.-a written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
extensive: having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.-capable of being extended.
extensiveness: the state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.
extensometer: an instrument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.
extensor: a muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor.
extent: extended.-space or degree to which a thing is extended; hence, superficies; compass; bulk; size; length; as, an extent of country or of line; extent of information or of charity.-degree; measure; proportion.-a peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment.-a process of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.
extenuate: to make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.-to lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate.-to lower or degrade; to detract from.-to become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.-thin; slender.
extenuation: the act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment.
exterior: external; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere.-external; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind.-relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom.-the outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.-outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
exterminate: to drive out or away; to expel.-to destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice.-to eliminate, as unknown quantities.
extermination: the act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.-elimination.
extern: external; outward; not inherent.-a pupil in a seminary who lives without its walls; a day scholar.-outward form or part; exterior.
external: outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.-outside of or separate from ourselves; (metaph.) separate from the perceiving mind.-outwardly perceptible; visible; physical or corporeal, as distinguished from mental or moral.-not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.-foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom.-away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.-something external or without; outward part; that which makes a show, rather than that which is intrinsic; visible form; -- usually in the plural.
externalism: the quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.-that philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.
externally: in an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
externe: an officer in attendance upon a hospital, but not residing in it; esp., one who cares for the out-patients.
exterritoriality: the state of being beyond the limits of a country.-the state of being free from the jurisdiction of a country when within its territorial limits.
extinct: extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.-without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.-to cause to be extinct.
extinction: the act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.-state of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.
extinguish: to quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.-to obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
extinguisher: one who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
extinguishment: the act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.-the annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
extirpable: capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant.
extirpate: to pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.
extirpation: the act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
extol: to place on high; to lift up; to elevate.-to elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a person.
extort: to wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.-to get by the offense of extortion. see extortion, 2.-to practice extortion.-extorted.
extortion: the act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.-the offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due.-that which is extorted or exacted by force.
extra: beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay.-something in addition to what is due, expected, or customary; something in addition to the regular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at european hotels lights are extras.
extra-: a latin preposition, denoting beyond, outside of; -- often used in composition as a prefix signifying outside of, beyond, besides, or in addition to what is denoted by the word to which it is prefixed.
extra-ocular: inserted exterior to the eyes; -- said of the antennae of certain insects.
extraaxillary: growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.
extrabranchial: outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.
extracapsular: situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
extract: to draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger.-to withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process; as, to extract an essence.  cf. abstract, v. t., 6.-to take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.-that which is extracted or drawn out.-a portion of a book or document, separately transcribed; a citation; a quotation.-a decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of peruvian bark.-a solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant; -- distinguished from an abstract. see abstract, n., 4.-a peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.-extraction; descent.-a draught or copy of writing; certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgement therein, with an order for execution.
extraction: the act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.-derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.-that which is extracted; extract; essence.
extractive: capable of being extracted.-tending or serving to extract or draw out.-anything extracted; an extract.-a chemical principle once supposed to exist in all extracts.-any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue.
extractor: one who, or that which, extracts-a forceps or instrument for extracting substances.-a device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
extraditable: subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.-making liable to extradition; as, extraditable offenses.
extradite: to deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. see extradition.
extradition: the surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one state or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
extrados: the exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. see intrados.
extrafoliaceous: away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles.
extrajudicial: out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required.
extraneous: not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; not essential or intrinsic; foreign; as, to separate gold from extraneous matter.
extraordinary: beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.-exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur.-employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary.-that which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success.
extraprofessional: foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.
extrastapedial: pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes.-the extrastapedial part of columella.
extraterritoriality: the state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory-a fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation.
extravagance: a wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.-the state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue expenditure of money; vaid and superfluous expense; prodigality; as, extravagance of anger, love, expression, imagination, demands.
extravagant: wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.-exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.-profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.-one who is confined to no general rule.-certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.
extravagantly: in an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.
extravagantness: the state of being extravagant or in excess; excess; extravagance.
extravaganza: a composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.-an extravagant flight of sentiment or language.
extravasation: the act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.
extravascular: outside the vessels; -- said of the substance of all the tissues.-destitute of vessels; non-vascular.
extreme: at the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.-last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.-the best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly.-radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.-extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.-the utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.-utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; -- often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet.-an extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc.-either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.-the first or the last term of a proportion or series.
extremely: in an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
extremity: the extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.-one of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.-the utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.-the highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
extricate: to free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.-to cause to be emitted or evolved; as, to extricate heat or moisture.
extrication: the act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.-the act of sending out or evolving.
extrinsic: not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.-attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. opposed to intrinsic.
extrorse: facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; -- said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.
extroversion: the condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder.
extrude: to thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away.
extrusion: the act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.
exuberance: the state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage.
exuberant: characterized by abundance or superabundance; plenteous; rich; overflowing; copious or excessive in production; as, exuberant goodness; an exuberant intellect; exuberant foliage.
exudation: the act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded.
exude: to discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.-to flow from a body through the pores, or by a natural discharge, as juice.
exulcerate: to ulcerate.-to corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.-very sore; ulcerated.