AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
distinctive: marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.-having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating.
distinctly: with distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.-with meaning; significantly.
distinctness: the quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.-nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated his arguments with great distinctness.
distinguish: not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.-to separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.-to recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum.-to constitute a difference; to make to differ.-to separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.-to make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.-to become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
distinguishable: capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.-worthy of note or special regard.
distinguished: of distinguish-marked; special.-separated from others by distinct difference; having, or indicating, superiority; eminent or known; illustrious; -- applied to persons and deeds.
distinguisher: one who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.-one who discerns accurately the difference of things; a nice or judicious observer.
distinguishing: of distinguish-constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic.
distoma: a genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. see 1st fluke, 2.
distort: distorted; misshapen.-to twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.-to force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.-to wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of scripture, or their meaning.
distortion: the act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.-a wresting from the true meaning.-the state of being distorted, or twisted out of shape or out of true position; crookedness; perversion.-an unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.
distract: separated; drawn asunder.-insane; mad.-to draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.-to draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention.-to agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass.-to unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted.
distraction: the act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.-that which diverts attention; a diversion.-a diversity of direction; detachment.-state in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.-confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.-agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind; despair.-derangement of the mind; madness.
distrain: to press heavily upon; to bear down upon with violence; hence, to constrain or compel; to bind; to distress, torment, or afflict.-to rend; to tear.-to seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done, etc.; to take by distress; as, to distrain goods for rent, or of an amercement.-to subject to distress; to coerce; as, to distrain a person by his goods and chattels.-to levy a distress.
distrainor: one who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.
distraught: of distract-torn asunder; separated.-distracted; perplexed.
distress: extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.-that which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.-a state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.-the act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.-the thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.-to cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.-to compel by pain or suffering.-to seize for debt; to distrain.
distressful: full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation.
distressing: of distress-causing distress; painful; unpleasant.-in a distressing manner.
distribute: to divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.-to dispense; to administer; as, to distribute justice.-to divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.-to separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.-to spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.-to employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.-to make distribution.
distributer: one who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser.
distribution: the act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.-separation into parts or classes; arrangement of anything into parts; disposition; classification.-that which is distributed.-a resolving a whole into its parts.-the sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.-the steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
distributive: tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.-assigning the species of a general term.-expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively; as, a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as each, either, every; a distributive numeral, as (latin) bini (two by two).-a distributive adjective or pronoun; also, a distributive numeral.
district: rigorous; stringent; harsh.-the territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing.-a division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc.-any portion of territory of undefined extent; a region; a country; a tract.-to divide into districts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district states for the choice of representatives.
distringas: a writ commanding the sheriff to distrain a person by his goods or chattels, to compel a compliance with something required of him.
distrust: to feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.-doubt of sufficiency, reality, or sincerity; want of confidence, faith, or reliance; as, distrust of one's power, authority, will, purposes, schemes, etc.-suspicion of evil designs.-state of being suspected; loss of trust.
distrustful: not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers.-apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
disturb: to throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.-to agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.-to turn from a regular or designed course.-disturbance.
disturbance: an interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.-confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.-violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.-the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like.
disturber: one who, or that which, disturbs of disquiets; a violator of peace; a troubler.-one who interrupts or incommodes another in the peaceable enjoyment of his right.
distyle: having two columns in front; -- said of a temple, portico, or the like.
disulphate: a salt of disulphuric or pyrosulphuric acid; a pyrosulphate.-an acid salt of sulphuric acid, having only one equivalent of base to two of the acid.
disulphide: a binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret.  cf. bisulphide.
disulphuric: applied to an acid having in each molecule two atoms of sulphur in the higher state of oxidation.
disunion: the termination of union; separation; disjunction; as, the disunion of the body and the soul.-a breach of concord and its effect; alienation.-the termination or disruption of the union of the states forming the united states.
disunionist: an advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the united states.
disunite: to destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.-to alienate in spirit; to break the concord of.-to part; to fall asunder; to become separated.
disusage: gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.
disuse: to cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.-to disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil.-cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.
disworship: to refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy.-a deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.
disyoke: to unyoke; to free from a yoke; to disjoin.
ditch: a trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. in the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.-any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.-to dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.-to surround with a ditch.-to throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.-to dig a ditch or ditches.
ditheism: the doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.
dithionic: containing two equivalents of sulphur; as, dithionic acid.
dithyramb: a kind of lyric poetry in honor of bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain.
dithyrambic: pertaining to, or resembling, a dithyramb; wild and boisterous.-a dithyrambic poem; a dithyramb.
ditokous: having two kinds of young, as certain annelids.-producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do.
ditolyl: a white, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, c14h14, consisting of two radicals or residues of toluene.
ditone: the greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
ditrichotomous: divided into twos or threes.-dividing into double or treble ramifications; -- said of a leaf or stem.
ditrochee: a double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.
ditroite: an igneous rock composed of orthoclase, elaeolite, and sodalite.
dittany: a plant of the mint family (origanum dictamnus), a native of crete.-the dictamnus fraxinella. see dictamnus.-in america, the cunila mariana, a fragrant herb of the mint family.
ditto: the aforesaid thing; the same (as before). often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition.-as before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.
ditty: a saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.-a song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.-to sing; to warble a little tune.
ditty-bag: a sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.
ditty-box: a small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.
diureide: one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin.  cf. ureide.
diuretic: tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.-a medicine with diuretic properties.
diurna: a division of lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
diurnal: relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.-daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.-opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.-active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (diurna) among insects.-a daybook; a journal.-a small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.-a diurnal bird or insect.
diurnation: continuance during the day.-the condition of sleeping or becoming dormant by day, as is the case of the bats.
divalent: having two units of combining power; bivalent.  cf. valence.
divan: a book; esp., a collection of poems written by one author; as, the divan of hafiz.-in turkey and other oriental countries: a council of state; a royal court. also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly.-a chief officer of state.-a saloon or hall where a council is held, in oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.-a cushioned seat, or a large, low sofa or couch; especially, one fixed to its place, and not movable.-a coffee and smoking saloon.
divaricate: to part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.-to diverge; to be divaricate.-to divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.-diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.-forking and diverging; widely diverging; as the branches of a tree, or as lines of sculpture, or color markings on animals, etc.
divarication: a separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.-an ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.-a divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.
divaricator: one of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. see illust. of brachiopoda.
dive: to plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.-fig.: to plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.-to plunge (a person or thing) into water; to dip; to duck.-to explore by diving; to plunge into.-a plunge headforemost into water, the act of one who dives, literally or figuratively.-a place of low resort.
diver: one who, or that which, dives.-fig.: one who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business.-any bird of certain genera, as urinator (formerly colymbus), or the allied genus colymbus, or podiceps, remarkable for their agility in diving.
diverb: a saying in which two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb.
diverge: to extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.-to differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.
divergency: a receding from each other in moving from a common center; the state of being divergent; as, an angle is made by the divergence of straight lines.-disagreement; difference.
divergent: receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.-causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.-fig.: disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.
diverging: of diverge-tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.
divers: different in kind or species; diverse.-several; sundry; various; more than one, but not a great number; as, divers philosophers. also used substantively or pronominally.
diverse: different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.-capable of various forms; multiform.-in different directions; diversely.-to turn aside.
diversification: the act of making various, or of changing form or quality.-state of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation.
diversified: distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.-of diversify
diversify: to make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
diversion: the act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.-that which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.-the act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.
diversity: a state of difference; dissimilitude; unlikeness.-multiplicity of difference; multiformity; variety.-variegation.
diversory: serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing.-a wayside inn.
divert: to turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its usual course.-to turn away from any occupation, business, or study; to cause to have lively and agreeable sensations; to amuse; to entertain; as, children are diverted with sports; men are diverted with works of wit and humor.-to turn aside; to digress.
diverter: one who, or that which, diverts, turns off, or pleases.
diverticle: a turning; a byway; a bypath.-a diverticulum.
dives: the name popularly given to the rich man in our lord's parable of the "rich man and lazarus" (luke xvi. 19-31). hence, a name for a rich worldling.
divest: to unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.-fig.: to strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.-see devest.
divestiture: the act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
divi-divi: a small tree of tropical america (caesalpinia coriaria), whose legumes contain a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, and are used by tanners and dyers.
divide: to part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.-to cause to be separate; to keep apart by a partition, or by an imaginary line or limit; as, a wall divides two houses; a stream divides the towns.-to make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share.-to disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.-to separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question.-to subject to arithmetical division.-to separate into species; -- said of a genus or generic term.-to mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant.-to play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.-to be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.-to cause separation; to disunite.-to break friendship; to fall out.-to have a share; to partake.-to vote, as in the british parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.-a dividing ridge of land between the tributaries of two streams; a watershed.
divided: of divide-parted; disunited; distributed.-cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.
dividend: a sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.-a number or quantity which is to be divided.
divider: one who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.-one who deals out to each his share.-one who, or that which, causes division.-an instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. see compasses.
divination: the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.-an indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
divine: of or belonging to god; as, divine perfections; the divine will.-proceeding from god; as, divine judgments.-appropriated to god, or celebrating his praise; religious; pious; holy; as, divine service; divine songs; divine worship.-pertaining to, or proceeding from, a deity; partaking of the nature of a god or the gods.-godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. in this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. sir j. davies.-presageful; foreboding; prescient.-relating to divinity or theology.-one skilled in divinity; a theologian.-a minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.-to foresee or foreknow; to detect; to anticipate; to conjecture.-to foretell; to predict; to presage.-to render divine; to deify.-to use or practice divination; to foretell by divination; to utter prognostications.-to have or feel a presage or foreboding.-to conjecture or guess; as, to divine rightly.
divinely: in a divine or godlike manner; holily; admirably or excellently in a supreme degree.-by the agency or influence of god.
diviner: one who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.-a conjecture; a guesser; one who makes out occult things.