AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
exoterical: external; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret.
exotheca: the tissue which fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
exotic: introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.-anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.
exoticism: the state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word or idiom; an exotic.
expand: to lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.-to cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.-to state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. see expansion, 5.-to become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.
expander: anything which causes expansion esp. (mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
expanding: of expand-that expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging.
expanse: that which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.-to expand.
expansion: the act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.-that which is expanded; expanse; extend surface; as, the expansion of a sheet or of a lake; the expansion was formed of metal.-space through which anything is expanded; also, pure space.-enlargement or extension of business transactions; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.-the developed result of an indicated operation; as, the expansion of (a + b)2 is a2 + 2ab + b2.-the operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.-the enlargement of the ship mathematically from a model or drawing to the full or building size, in the process of construction.
expansive: having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
expatiate: to range at large, or without restraint.-to enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.-to expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
expatriate: to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.-reflexively, as to expatriate one's self: to withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.
expatriation: the act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.
expect: to wait for; to await.-to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, i expect to receive wages; i expect that the troops will be defeated.-to wait; to stay.-expectation.
expectancy: the act of expecting ; expectation.-that which is expected, or looked or waited for with interest; the object of expectation or hope.
expectant: waiting in expectation; looking for-waiting for the efforts of nature, with little active treatment.-one who waits in expectation; one held in dependence by hope of receiving some good.
expectation: the act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.-that which is expected or looked for.-the prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.-the value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.-the leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.
expectative: constituting an object of expectation; contingent.-something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace.
expectorant: tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat.-an expectorant medicine.
expectorate: to eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.-to discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.
expectoration: the act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.-that which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
expediency: the quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.-expedition; haste; dispatch.-an expedition; enterprise; adventure.
expedient: hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right.-quick; expeditious.-that which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.-means devised in an exigency; shift.
expediently: in an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.-with expedition; quickly.
expeditate: to deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.
expedite: free of impediment; unimpeded.-expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.-to relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.-to despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.
expedition: the quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.-a sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.-an important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
expeditious: possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.
expel: to drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.-to drive away from one's country; to banish.-to cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.-to keep out, off, or away; to exclude.-to discharge; to shoot.
expend: to lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.-to be laid out, used, or consumed.-to pay out or disburse money.
expenditure: the act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.-that which is expended or paid out; expense.
expenitor: a disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.
expense: a spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.-that which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.-loss.
expensive: occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.-free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.
experience: trial, as a test or experiment.-the effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.-an act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
experienced: of exrerience-taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.
experientialism: the doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists.
experiment: atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.-experience.-to make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.-to try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
experimental: pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.-known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
expert: taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.-an expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.-a specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.-a sworn appraiser.-to experience.
expertly: in a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.
expertness: skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.
expiable: capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.
expiate: to extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.-to purify with sacred rites.-terminated.
expiation: the act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.-the means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.-an act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
expiatory: having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.
expiration: the act of expiring-the act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration.-emission of volatile matter; exhalation.-the last emission of breath; death.-a coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.-that which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.
expiratory: pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.
expire: to breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.-to give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.-to emit; to give out.-to bring to a close; to terminate.-to emit the breath.-to emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony.-to come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on saturday.-to burst forth; to fly out with a blast.
expiring: of expire-breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.-pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.
expiscate: to fish out; to find out by skill or laborious investigation; to search out.
explain: to flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.-to make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the bible.-to give an explanation.
explainer: one who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
explanation: the act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in scripture, or of a contract or treaty.-that which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation.-the meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense.-a mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation.
expletive: filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.-a word, letter, or syllable not necessary to the sense, but inserted to fill a vacancy; an oath.
expletory: serving to fill up; expletive; superfluous; as, an expletory word.
explicable: capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.
explicate: evolved; unfolded.-to unfold; to expand; to lay open.-to unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
explication: the act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.-the sense given by an expositor.
explicative: serving to unfold or explain; tending to lay open to the understanding; explanatory.
explicit: a word formerly used (as finis is now) at the conclusion of a book to indicate the end.-not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration.-having no disguised meaning or reservation; unreserved; outspoken; -- applied to persons; as, he was earnest and explicit in his statement.
explicitly: in an explicit manner; clearly; plainly; without disguise or reservation of meaning; not by inference or implication; as, he explicitly avows his intention.
explode: to become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.-to burst with force and a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.-to burst forth with sudden violence and noise; as, at this, his wrath exploded.-to drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.-to bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine.-to cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.-to drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
explodent: an instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.-see explosive, n., 2.
exploder: one who or that which explodes.-one who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt.
exploit: a deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of alexander the great.-combat; war.-to utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion.-hence: to draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon.
exploration: the act of exploring, penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of discovery, especially of geographical discovery; examination; as, the exploration of unknown countries-physical examination.
explore: to seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.-to search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science.
explosion: the act of exploding; detonation; a chemical action which causes the sudden formation of a great volume of expanded gas; as, the explosion of gunpowder, of fire damp,etc.-a bursting with violence and loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.-a violent outburst of feeling, manifested by excited language, action, etc.; as, an explosion of wrath.
explosive: driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.-an explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine.-a sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; (phonetics) one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. [see guide to pronunciation, ã 155-7, 184.]
exponent: a number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated-one who, or that which, stands as an index or representative; as, the leader of a party is the exponent of its principles.
exponential: pertaining to exponents; involving variable exponents; as, an exponential expression; exponential calculus; an exponential function.
export: to carry away; to remove.-to carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc.-the act of exporting; exportation; as, to prohibit the export of wheat or tobacco.-that which is exported; a commodity conveyed from one country or state to another in the way of traffic; -- used chiefly in the plural, exports.
exportation: the act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.-commodity exported; an export.-the act of carrying out.
exporter: one who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.
expose: to set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.-to lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.-to deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.-to disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.-a formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.
exposedness: the state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
exposition: the act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.-the act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.-situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun.-a public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the paris exposition of 1878.
expositor: one who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.
expository: pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
expostulate: to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with.-to discuss; to examine.
expostulation: the act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion.
expostulatory: containing expostulation or remonstrance; as, an expostulatory discourse or letter.
exposure: the act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt.-the state of being exposed or laid open or bare; openness to danger; accessibility to anything that may affect, especially detrimentally; as, exposure to observation, to cold, to inconvenience.-position as to points of compass, or to influences of climate, etc.-the exposing of a sensitized plate to the action of light.
expound: to lay open; to expose to view; to examine.-to lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret; as, to expound a text of scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle.
express: exactly representing; exact.-directly and distinctly stated; declared in terms; not implied or left to inference; made unambiguous by intention and care; clear; not dubious; as, express consent; an express statement.-intended for a particular purpose; relating to an express; sent on a particular errand; dispatched with special speed; as, an express messenger or train. also used adverbially.-a clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.-a messenger sent on a special errand; a courier; hence, a regular and fast conveyance; commonly, a company or system for the prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.-an express office.-that which is sent by an express messenger or message.-to press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit.-to make or offer a representation of; to show by a copy or likeness; to represent; to resemble.-to give a true impression of; to represent and make known; to manifest plainly; to show in general; to exhibit, as an opinion or feeling, by a look, gesture, and esp. by language; to declare; to utter; to tell.-to make known the opinions or feelings of; to declare what is in the mind of; to show (one's self); to cause to appear; -- used reflexively.-to denote; to designate.-to send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package.
expressible: capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered.