AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
deadness: the state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.
deadwood: a mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.-dead trees or branches; useless material.
deaf: wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.-unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.-deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.-obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.-decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.-to deafen.
deaf-mute: a person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
deafen: to make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.-to render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
deafening: of deafen-the act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.
deafness: incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.-unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.
deal: a part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.-the process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed.-distribution; apportionment.-an arrangement to attain a desired result by a combination of interested parties; -- applied to stock speculations and political bargains.-the division of a piece of timber made by sawing; a board or plank; particularly, a board or plank of fir or pine above seven inches in width, and exceeding six feet in length. if narrower than this, it is called a batten; if shorter, a deal end.-wood of the pine or fir; as, a floor of deal.-to divide; to separate in portions; hence, to give in portions; to distribute; to bestow successively; -- sometimes with out.-specifically: to distribute, as cards, to the players at the commencement of a game; as, to deal the cards; to deal one a jack.-to make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.-to do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.-to act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.-to conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.-to contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with.
dealer: one who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.-one who distributes cards to the players.
dealfish: a long, thin fish of the arctic seas (trachypterus arcticus).
dealing: of deal-the act of one who deals; distribution of anything, as of cards to the players; method of business; traffic; intercourse; transaction; as, to have dealings with a person.
deambulatory: going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.-a covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
dean: a dignitary or presiding officer in certain ecclesiastical and lay bodies; esp., an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop.-the collegiate officer in the universities of oxford and cambridge, england, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college.-the head or presiding officer in the faculty of some colleges or universities.-a registrar or secretary of the faculty in a department of a college, as in a medical, or theological, or scientific department.-the chief or senior of a company on occasion of ceremony; as, the dean of the diplomatic corps; -- so called by courtesy.
deanery: the office or the revenue of a dean. see the note under benefice, n., 3.-the residence of a dean.-the territorial jurisdiction of a dean.
dear: bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.-marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.-highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.-hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.-of agreeable things and interests.-of disagreeable things and antipathies.-a dear one; lover; sweetheart.-dearly; at a high price.-to endear.
dearly: in a dear manner; with affection; heartily; earnestly; as, to love one dearly.-at a high rate or price; grievously.-exquisitely.
dearness: the quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.-fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.
dearth: scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
death: the cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.-total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.-manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.-cause of loss of life.-personified: the destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.-danger of death.-murder; murderous character.-loss of spiritual life.-anything so dreadful as to be like death.
death's-head: a naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
deathbed: the bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness.
deathbird: tengmalm's or richardson's owl (nyctale tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the north american indians that its note presages death.
deathblow: a mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
deathful: full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.-liable to undergo death; mortal.
deathless: not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
deathly: deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.-deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.
deathwatch: a small beetle (anobium tessellatum and other allied species). by forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.-a small wingless insect, of the family psocidae, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also deathtick.-the guard set over a criminal before his execution.
debacle: a breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
debar: to cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
debark: to go ashore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to put ashore.
debase: to reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words.
debased: of debase-turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
debatable: liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question.
debate: to engage in combat for; to strive for.-to contend for in words or arguments; to strive to maintain by reasoning; to dispute; to contest; to discuss; to argue for and against.-to engage in strife or combat; to fight.-to contend in words; to dispute; hence, to deliberate; to consider; to discuss or examine different arguments in the mind; -- often followed by on or upon.-a fight or fighting; contest; strife.-contention in words or arguments; discussion for the purpose of elucidating truth or influencing action; strife in argument; controversy; as, the debates in parliament or in congress.-subject of discussion.
debater: one who debates; one given to argument; a disputant; a controvertist.
debauch: to lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army.-excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.-an act or occasion of debauchery.
debauchee: one who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
debaucher: one who debauches or corrupts others; especially, a seducer to lewdness.
debauchery: corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.-excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.
debauchment: the act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
debenture: a writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.-a customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation.
debilitant: diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug.
debilitate: to impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
debilitation: the act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
debit: a debt; an entry on the debtor (dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.-to charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.-to enter on the debtor (dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.
deblai: the cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.
debonair: characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.
debonairness: the quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.
debouch: to march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.
debouchure: the outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait.
debris: broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.-rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.
debruised: surmounted by an ordinary; as, a lion is debruised when a bend or other ordinary is placed over it, as in the cut.
debt: that which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.-a duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.-an action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.
debtee: one to whom a debt is due; creditor; -- correlative to debtor.
debtor: one who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor.
debuscope: a modification of the kaleidoscope; -- used to reflect images so as to form beautiful designs.
debut: a beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker.
deca-: a prefix, from gr. de`ka, signifying ten; specifically (metric system), a prefix signifying the weight or measure that is ten times the principal unit.
decacerata: the division of cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also decapoda. [written also decacera.] see dibranchiata.
decachordon: an ancient greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.-something consisting of ten parts.
decade: a group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of livy.
decadency: a falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "the old castle, where the family lived in their decadence."
decadist: a writer of a book divided into decades; as, livy was a decadist.
decagon: a plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. a regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal.
decagramme: a weight of the metric system; ten grams, equal to about 154.32 grains avoirdupois.
decalcify: to deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.
decalcomanie: the art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
decalitre: a measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons.
decalogue: the ten commandments or precepts given by god to moses on mount sinai, and originally written on two tables of stone.
decameron: a celebrated collection of tales, supposed to be related in ten days; -- written in the 14th century, by boccaccio, an italian.
decametre: a measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches.
decamp: to break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly.-hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly.
decane: a liquid hydrocarbon, c10h22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications.
decani: used of the side of the choir on which the dean's stall is placed; decanal; -- correlative to cantoris; as, the decanal, or decani, side.
decant: to pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.
decantation: the act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another.
decanter: a vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.-one who decants liquors.
decapitate: to cut off the head of; to behead.-to remove summarily from office.
decapod: a crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the decapoda. also used adjectively.
decapoda: the order of crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.-a division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. see decacera.
decarbonize: to deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to decarbonize the blood.
decastyle: having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc.-a portico having ten pillars or columns in front.
decay: to pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; hopes decay.-to cause to decay; to impair.-to destroy.-gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the roman empire; a castle in decay.-destruction; death.-cause of decay.
decayed: of decay-fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or gentleman.
deccapodous: belonging to the decapods; having ten feet; ten-footed.
decease: departure, especially departure from this life; death.-to depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
deceit: an attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.-any trick, collusion, contrivance, false representation, or underhand practice, used to defraud another. when injury is thereby effected, an action of deceit, as it called, lies for compensation.
deceitful: full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere.
deceitfulness: the disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual.-the quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices.-tendency to mislead or deceive.
deceivable: fitted to deceive; deceitful.-subject to deceit; capable of being misled.
deceivableness: capability of deceiving.-liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.
deceive: to lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to insnare.-to beguile; to amuse, so as to divert the attention; to while away; to take away as if by deception.-to deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
deceiver: one who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.
december: the twelfth and last month of the year, containing thirty-one days. during this month occurs the winter solstice.-fig.: with reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the december of his life.
decemvir: one of a body of ten magistrates in ancient rome.-a member of any body of ten men in authority.
decemvirate: the office or term of office of the decemvirs in rome.-a body of ten men in authority.
decency: the quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.-that which is proper or becoming.
decene: one of the higher hydrocarbons, c10h20, of the ethylene series.
decennial: consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games.-a tenth year or tenth anniversary.
decent: suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.-free from immodesty or obscenity; modest.-comely; shapely; well-formed.-moderate, but competent; sufficient; hence, respectable; fairly good; reasonably comfortable or satisfying; as, a decent fortune; a decent person.
decentralize: to prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
deception: the act of deceiving or misleading.-the state of being deceived or misled.-that which deceives or is intended to deceive; false representation; artifice; cheat; fraud.
deceptive: tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
decern: to perceive, discern, or decide.-to decree; to adjudge.
decerption: the act of plucking off; a cropping.-that which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.
decide: to cut off; to separate.-to bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.-to determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.
decided: of decide-free from ambiguity; unequivocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; clear; evident; as, a decided advantage.-free from doubt or wavering; determined; of fixed purpose; fully settled; positive; resolute; as, a decided opinion or purpose.
decidua: the inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.
deciduata: a group of mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.
deciduous: falling off, or subject to fall or be shed, at a certain season, or a certain stage or interval of growth, as leaves (except of evergreens) in autumn, or as parts of animals, such as hair, teeth, antlers, etc.; also, shedding leaves or parts at certain seasons, stages, or intervals; as, deciduous trees; the deciduous membrane.
decigramme: a weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.
decile: an aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡.
decilitre: a measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces.
decillion: according to the english notation, a million involved to the tenth power, or a unit with sixty ciphers annexed; according to the french and american notation, a thousand involved to the eleventh power, or a unit with thirty-three ciphers annexed. [see the note under numeration.]
decillionth: pertaining to a decillion, or to the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.-the quotient of unity divided by a decillion.-one of a decillion equal parts.
decimal: of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.-a number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.
decimate: to take the tenth part of; to tithe.-to select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.-to destroy a considerable part of; as, to decimate an army in battle; to decimate a people by disease.
decimation: a tithing.-a selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment.-the destruction of any large proportion, as of people by pestilence or war.
decimetre: a measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches.
decimosexto: a book consisting of sheets, each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of book; -- usually written 16mo or 16¡.-having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size.
decine: one of the higher hydrocarbons, c10h15, of the acetylene series; -- called also decenylene.
decipher: to translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.-to find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.-to stamp; to detect; to discover.
decipium: a supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. symbol dp. see samarium.
decision: cutting off; division; detachment of a part.-the act of deciding; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion.-an account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the supreme court.-the quality of being decided; prompt and fixed determination; unwavering firmness; as, to manifest great decision.
decisive: having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.-marked by promptness and decision.
decistere: the tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. see stere.