AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
intervene: to come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the mediterranean intervenes between europe and africa.-to occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened ( i. e., between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.-to interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel.-in a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the   subject matter.-to come between.-a coming between; intervention; meeting.
intervener: one who intervenes; especially (law), a person who assumes a part in a suit between others.
intervention: the act of intervening; interposition.-any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation.-the act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
interventor: one who intervenes; a mediator; especially (eccles. hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers.
interventricular: between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.
interview: a mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the president.-a conservation, or questioning, for the purpose of eliciting information for publication; the published statement so elicited.-to have an interview with; to question or converse with, especially for the purpose of obtaining information for publication.
interviewer: one who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication.
intervisible: mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.
intervolution: the state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake.
interweave: to weave together; to intermix or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven.-to intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood.
interwoven: of interweave-imp. & p. p. of interweave.
intestable: not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament.
intestate: without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate.-not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.-a person who dies without making a valid will.
intestinal: of or pertaining to the intestines of an animal; as, the intestinal tube; intestinal digestion; intestinal ferments.
intestine: internal; inward; -- opposed to external.-internal with regard to a state or country; domestic; not foreign; -- applied usually to that which is evil; as, intestine disorders, calamities, etc.-depending upon the internal constitution of a body or entity; subjective.-shut up; inclosed.-that part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus. see illust. of digestive apparatus.-the bowels; entrails; viscera.
intextine: a thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants, and situated between the extine and the intine, as in /nothera.
inthrall: to reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave.
inthrallment: act of inthralling, or state of being inthralled; servitude; bondage; vassalage.
intimacy: the state of being intimate; close familiarity or association; nearness in friendship.
intimate: innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.-near; close; direct; thorough; complete.-close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.-an intimate friend or associate; a confidant.-to announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.-to suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office.
intimation: the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.-announcement; declaration.-a hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
intimidate: to make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
intimidation: the act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidation.
intinction: the act of tingeing or dyeing.-a method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.
intine: a transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.
into: to the inside of; within. it is used in a variety of applications.-expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.-expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.-indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.-denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.-indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
intolerable: not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.-enormous.
intolerance: want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.-the quality of being intolerant; refusal to allow to others the enjoyment of their opinions, chosen modes of worship, and the like; want of patience and forbearance; illiberality; bigotry; as, intolerance shown toward a religious sect.
intolerant: not enduring; not able to endure.-not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted.-an intolerant person; a bigot.
intoleration: intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.
intomb: to place in a tomb; to bury; to entomb. see entomb.
intonate: to thunder.-to sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.-to modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.-to utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.
intonation: a thundering; thunder.-the act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.-singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.-reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. see intone, v. t.
intone: to utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.-to utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate.
intorsion: a winding, bending, or twisting.-the bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.
intort: to twist in and out; to twine; to wreathe; to wind; to wring.
intoxicant: that which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.
intoxicate: intoxicated.-overexcited, as with joy or grief.-to poison; to drug.-to make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance.-to excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively.
intoxicatedness: the state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
intoxicating: of intoxicate-producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.
intoxication: a poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.-the state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.-a high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
intra-: a prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.
intracellular: within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells.
intractable: not tractable; not easily governed, managed, or directed; indisposed to be taught, disciplined, or tamed; violent; stubborn; obstinate; refractory; as, an intractable child.
intrados: the interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. see extrados.
intrafoliaceous: growing immediately above, or in front of, a leaf; as, intrafoliaceous stipules.
intrafusion: the act of pouring into a vessel; specif. (med.), the operation of introducing a substance into a blood vessel; as, intrafusion of blood.
intralobular: within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.
intramercurial: between the planet mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical vulcan is intramercurial.
intramural: being within the walls, as of a city.-being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.
intransgressible: incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed.
intransitive: not passing farther; kept; detained.-not transitive; not passing over to an object; expressing an action or state that is limited to the agent or subject, or, in other words, an action which does not require an object to complete the sense; as, an intransitive verb, e. g., the bird flies; the dog runs.
intrant: entering; penetrating.-one who enters; especially, a person entering upon some office or station.
intranuclear: within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis.
intraparietal: situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired.
intrapetiolar: situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.
intrauterine: within the uterus or womb; as, intrauterine hemorrhage.
intrench: to cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.-to surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself.-to invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown.
intrenchment: the act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.-any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.-any defense or protection.-an encroachment or infringement.
intrepid: not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.
intrepidity: the quality or state of being intrepid; fearless bravery; courage; resoluteness; valor.
intricacy: the state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot.
intricate: entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.-to entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
intrigue: to form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.-to carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.-to fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.-intricacy; complication.-a complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.-the plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.-a secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
intrinsic: inward; internal; hence, true; genuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person.-included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic.-a genuine quality.
intrinsicality: the quality of being intrinsic; essentialness; genuineness; reality.
intro-: a prefix signifying within, into, in, inward; as, introduce, introreception, introthoracic.
introduce: to lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.-to put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.-to lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.-to bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.-to produce; to cause to exist; to induce.-to open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.
introduction: the act of introducing, or bringing to notice.-the act of formally making persons known to each other; a presentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.-that part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject, or part; preliminary; matter; preface; proem; exordium.-a formal and elaborate preliminary treatise; specifically, a treatise introductory to other treatises, or to a course of study; a guide; as, an introduction to english literature.
introductory: serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
introit: a going in.-a psalm sung or chanted immediately before the collect, epistle, and gospel, and while the priest is entering within the rails of the altar.-a part of a psalm or other portion of scripture read by the priest at mass immediately after ascending to the altar.-an anthem or psalm sung before the communion service.-any composition of vocal music appropriate to the opening of church services.
intromission: the act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.-the act of letting go in; admission.-an intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.
intromit: to send in or put in; to insert or introduce.-to allow to pass in; to admit.-to intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
intromittent: throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.-used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.
introrse: turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.
introspection: a view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
introspectionist: one given to the introspective method of examining the phenomena of the soul.
introspective: inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.-involving the act or results of conscious knowledge of physical phenomena; -- contrasted with associational.
introversion: the act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.
intrude: to thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.-to thrust or force (something) in or upon; especially, to force (one's self) in without leave or welcome; as, to intrude one's presence into a conference; to intrude one's opinions upon another.-to enter by force; to invade.-the cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks.
intruder: one who intrudes; one who thrusts himself in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser.
intrusion: the act of intruding, or of forcing in; especially, the forcing (one's self) into a place without right or welcome; encroachment.-the penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.-the entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.-the settlement of a minister over 3 congregation without their consent.
intrusionist: one who intrudes; especially, one who favors the appointment of a clergyman to a parish, by a patron, against the wishes of the parishioners.
intrust: to deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.
intubation: the introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.
intuition: a looking after; a regard to.-direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.-any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.
intuitional: pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized by intuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.
intuitionalism: the doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.
intuitive: seeing clearly; as, an intuitive view; intuitive vision.-knowing, or perceiving, by intuition; capable of knowing without deduction or reasoning.-received. reached, obtained, or perceived, by intuition; as, intuitive judgment or knowledge; -- opposed to deductive.
intumesce: to enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
intumescence: the act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.-anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
inturgescence: a swelling; the act of swelling, or state of being swelled.
intussuscepted: received into some other thing or part, as a sword into a sheath; invaginated.
intussusception: the reception of one part within another.-the abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination.-the interposition of new particles of formative material among those already existing, as in a cell wall, or in a starch grain.-the act of taking foreign matter, as food, into a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs.
intwine: to twine or twist into, or together; to wreathe; as, a wreath of flowers intwined.-to be or to become intwined.
inulin: a substance of very wide occurrence. it is found dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as inula, helianthus, campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. it is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. called also dahlin, helenin, alantin, etc.
inuloid: a substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.
inunction: the act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.
inunctuosity: the want of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay.
inundate: to cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.-to fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.
inundation: the act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.-an overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists.
inurbanity: want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness.
inure: to apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.-to pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.
inurn: to put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.
inutility: uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
invade: to go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.-to enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the romans invaded great britain.-to attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.-to grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.-to make an invasion.
invader: one who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
invaginate: to insert as in a sheath; to produce intussusception in.-alt. of invaginated
invaginated: sheathed.-having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.
invagination: the condition of an invaginated organ or part.-one of the methods by which the various germinal layers of the ovum are differentiated.
invalid: of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.-having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.-a person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health.-not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.-to make or render invalid or infirm.-to classify or enroll as an invalid.
invalidate: to render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.
invalidity: want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will.-want of health; infirmity.