AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
detour: a turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the mississippi.
detract: to take away; to withdraw.-to take credit or reputation from; to defame.-to take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from.
detraction: a taking away or withdrawing.-the act of taking away from the reputation or good name of another; a lessening or cheapening in the estimation of others; the act of depreciating another, from envy or malice; calumny.
detractive: tending to detractor draw.-tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
detriment: that which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.-a charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.-to do injury to; to hurt.
detritus: a mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.-hence: any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
detruncation: the act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body.
detrusion: the act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
deuce: two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.-a condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned "40 all"), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.-the devil; a demon.
deut-: a prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi-or di-, although little used.
deuterocanonical: pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the apocrypha, certain epistles, etc.
deuterogamy: a second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. see bigamy.
deuterogenic: of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
deuteronomy: the fifth book of the pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by moses.
deuteropathic: pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy.
deuteropathy: a sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.
deuteroscopy: second sight.-that which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification.
deuterozooid: one of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. in the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
deutohydroguret: a compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogen united with some other element or radical.
deutoplasm: the lifeless food matter in the cytoplasm of an ovum or a cell, as distinguished from the active or true protoplasm; yolk substance; yolk.
deutoxide: a compound containing in the molecule two atoms of oxygen united with some other element or radical; -- usually called dioxide, or less frequently, binoxide.
devastation: the act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.-waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor or administrator.
devastavit: waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator.
develop: to free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.-to unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.-to advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.-to change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.-to cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.-to go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.-to become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
developer: one who, or that which, develops.-a reagent by the action of which the latent image upon a photographic plate, after exposure in the camera, or otherwise, is developed and visible.
development: the act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.-the series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.-the act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.-the equivalent expression into which another has been developed.-the elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
developmental: pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
devest: to divest; to undress.-to take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.-to be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
devexity: a bending downward; a sloping; incurvation downward; declivity.
deviate: to go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.-to cause to deviate.
deviation: the act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.-the state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense.-the voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.
device: that which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.-power of devising; invention; contrivance.-an emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. see cognizance.-improperly, an heraldic bearing.-anything fancifully conceived.-a spectacle or show.-opinion; decision.
devil: the evil one; satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.-an evil spirit; a demon.-a very wicked person; hence, any great evil.-an expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.-a dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with cayenne pepper.-a machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.-to make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.-to grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
devil's darning-needle: a dragon fly. see darning needle, under darn, v. t.
devilfish: a huge ray (manta birostris / cephaloptera vampyrus) of the gulf of mexico and southern atlantic coasts. several other related species take the same name. see cephaloptera.-a large cephalopod, especially the very large species of octopus and architeuthis. see octopus.-the gray whale of the pacific coast. see gray whale.-the goosefish or angler (lophius), and other allied fishes. see angler.
devilish: resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.-extreme; excessive.
devilism: the state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.
devilry: conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.-the whole body of evil spirits.
devilwood: a kind of tree (osmanthus americanus), allied to the european olive.
devious: out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way.-going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step.
devirginate: deprived of virginity.-to deprive of virginity; to deflour.
devisable: capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.-capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
devise: to form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.-to plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.-to say; to relate; to describe.-to imagine; to guess.-to give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.-to form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.-the act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.-a will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.-property devised, or given by will.-device. see device.
devisor: one who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.
devitrification: the act or process of devitrifying, or the state of being devitrified. specifically, the conversion of molten glassy matter into a stony mass by slow cooling, the result being the formation of crystallites, microbites, etc., in the glassy base, which are then called devitrification products.
devitrify: to deprive of glasslike character; to take away vitreous luster and transparency from.
devoid: to empty out; to remove.-void; empty; vacant.-destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride.
devoir: duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.
devolution: the act of rolling down.-transference from one person to another; a passing or devolving upon a successor.
devolve: to roll onward or downward; to pass on.-to transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.-to pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.
devon: one of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of devon, england. those of pure blood have a deep red color. the small, longhorned variety, called north devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen.
devonian: of or pertaining to devon or devonshire in england; as, the devonian rocks, period, or system.-the devonian age or formation.
devote: to appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames.-to execrate; to curse.-to give up wholly; to addict; to direct the attention of wholly or compound; to attach; -- often with a reflexive pronoun; as, to devote one's self to science, to one's friends, to piety, etc.-devoted; addicted; devout.-a devotee.
devoted: of devote-consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer.
devotee: one who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
devotion: the act of devoting; consecration.-the state of being devoted; addiction; eager inclination; strong attachment love or affection; zeal; especially, feelings toward god appropriately expressed by acts of worship; devoutness.-act of devotedness or devoutness; manifestation of strong attachment; act of worship; prayer.-disposal; power of disposal.-a thing consecrated; an object of devotion.
devotional: pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
devour: to eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.-to seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate.-to enjoy with avidity; to appropriate or take in eagerly by the senses.
devout: devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.-expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs devout; a devout posture.-warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout wishes for one's welfare.-a devotee.-a devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.
devoutly: in a devout and reverent manner; with devout emotions; piously.-sincerely; solemnly; earnestly.
dew: moisture from the atmosphere condensed by cool bodies upon their surfaces, particularly at night.-figuratively, anything which falls lightly and in a refreshing manner.-an emblem of morning, or fresh vigor.-to wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew.-same as due, or duty.
dew-point: the temperature at which dew begins to form. it varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere.
dewberry: the fruit of certain species of bramble (rubus); in england, the fruit of r. caesius, which has a glaucous bloom; in america, that of r. canadensis and r. hispidus, species of low blackberries.-the plant which bears the fruit.
dewclaw: in any animal, esp. of the herbivora, a rudimentary claw or small hoof not reaching the ground.
dewlap: the pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.-the flesh upon the human throat, especially when with age.
dewretting: dewrotting; the process of decomposing the gummy matter of flax and hemp and setting the fibrous part, by exposure on a sward to dew, rain, and sunshine.
dewrot: to rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. see dewretting.
dewy: pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.-falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.-resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.
dexter: pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left.-on the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. to a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side.
dexterity: right-handedness.-readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel.-readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness.
dexterous: ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman.-skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager.-done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
dextrality: the state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.
dextrally: towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
dextrin: a translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. it is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. it is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also british gum, alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. see achroodextrin, and erythrodextrin.
dextro-: a prefix, from l. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right-having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.
dextronic: pertaining to, or derived from, dextrose; as, dextronic acid.
dextrorotatory: turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc.  cf. levorotatory.
dextrorse: turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory.
dextrose: a sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, c6h12o6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. it is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice.
dey: a servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.-the governor of algiers; -- so called before the french conquest in 1830.
dezincification: the act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the condition resulting from the removal of zinc.
dhole: a fierce, wild dog (canis dukhunensis), found in the mountains of india. it is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.
dhow: a coasting vessel of arabia, east africa, and the indian ocean. it has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
di-: a prefix, signifying twofold, double, twice-denoting two atoms, radicals, groups, or equivalents, as the case may be. see bi-, 2.-a prefix denoting through; also, between, apart, asunder, across. before a vowel dia-becomes di-; as, diactinic; dielectric, etc.
diabase: a basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. it includes part of what was early called greenstone.
diabetes: a disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.
diabley: devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief.
diabolical: pertaining to the devil; resembling, or appropriate, or appropriate to, the devil; devilish; infernal; impious; atrocious; nefarious; outrageously wicked; as, a diabolic or diabolical temper or act.
diabolify: to ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or to represent as, a devil.
diacatholicon: a universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.
diacaustic: pertaining to, or possessing the properties of, a species of caustic curves formed by refraction. see caustic surface, under caustic.-that which burns by refraction, as a double convex lens, or the sun's rays concentrated by such a lens, sometimes used as a cautery.-a curved formed by the consecutive intersections of rays of light refracted through a lens.
diachylum: a plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consisting essentially of glycerin mixed with lead salts of the fat acids.
diacid: divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid.  cf. dibasic, a., and biacid.
diaconate: the office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.-governed by deacons.
diacoustics: that branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. see the note under acoustics.
diacritical: that separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, /, a, /, /, etc.
diactinic: capable of transmitting the chemical or actinic rays of light; as, diactinic media.
diadelphia: a linnaean class of plants whose stamens are united into two bodies or bundles by their filaments.
diadelphous: of or pertaining to the class diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens).
diadem: originally, an ornamental head band or fillet, worn by eastern monarchs as a badge of royalty; hence (later), also, a crown, in general.-regal power; sovereignty; empire; -- considered as symbolized by the crown.-an arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its center.-to adorn with a diadem; to crown.
diadrom: a complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.
diageotropism: the tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.
diaglyphtic: represented or formed by depressions in the general surface; as, diaglyphic sculpture or engraving; -- opposed to anaglyphic.
diagnosis: the art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.-scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.-critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.
diagnostic: pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.-the mark or symptom by which one disease is known or distinguished from others.
diagnostics: that part of medicine which has to do with ascertaining the nature of diseases by means of their symptoms or signs.
diagometer: a sort of electroscope, invented by rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power.
diagonal: joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.-a right line drawn from one angle to another not adjacent, of a figure of four or more sides, and dividing it into two parts.-a member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel.-a diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes, ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
diagram: a figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.-any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.-to put into the form of a diagram.
diagrammatic: pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram.
diagraphics: the art or science of descriptive drawing; especially, the art or science of drawing by mechanical appliances and mathematical rule.
diaheliotropic: relating or, or manifesting, diaheliotropism.
diaheliotropism: a tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.