AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
general: relating to a genus or kind; pertaining to a whole class or order; as, a general law of animal or vegetable economy.-comprehending many species or individuals; not special or particular; including all particulars; as, a general inference or conclusion.-not restrained or limited to a precise import; not specific; vague; indefinite; lax in signification; as, a loose and general expression.-common to many, or the greatest number; widely spread; prevalent; extensive, though not universal; as, a general opinion; a general custom.-having a relation to all; common to the whole; as, adam, our general sire.-as a whole; in gross; for the most part.-usual; common, on most occasions; as, his general habit or method.-the whole; the total; that which comprehends or relates to all, or the chief part; -- opposed to particular.-one of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. in european armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal.-the roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.-the chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule.-the public; the people; the vulgar.
generalissimo: the chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries.
generality: the state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.-that which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase.-the main body; the bulk; the greatest part; as, the generality of a nation, or of mankind.
generalizable: capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule.
generalization: the act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.-a general inference.
generalize: to bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.-to apply to other genera or classes; to use with a more extensive application; to extend so as to include all special cases; to make universal in application, as a formula or rule.-to derive or deduce (a general conception, or a general principle) from particulars.-to form into a genus; to view objects in their relations to a genus or class; to take general or comprehensive views.
generalized: of generalize-comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
generally: in general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.-in a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively.-collectively; as a whole; without omissions.
generalship: the office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general.-military skill in a general officer or commander.-fig.: leadership; management.
generant: generative; producing-acting as a generant.-that which generates.-a generatrix.
generate: to beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.-to cause to be; to bring into life.-to originate, especially by a vital or chemical process; to produce; to cause.-to trace out, as a line, figure, or solid, by the motion of a point or a magnitude of inferior order.
generation: the act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.-origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.-that which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.-a single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. hence: the body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.-race; kind; family; breed; stock.-the formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.-the aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.
generator: one who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.-an apparatus in which vapor or gas is formed from a liquid or solid by means of heat or chemical process, as a steam boiler, gas retort, or vessel for generating carbonic acid gas, etc.-the principal sound or sounds by which others are produced; the fundamental note or root of the common chord; -- called also generating tone.
generatrix: that which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.
generical: pertaining to a genus or kind; relating to a genus, as distinct from a species, or from another genus; as, a generic description; a generic difference; a generic name.-very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or their characteristics; -- opposed to specific.
generically: with regard to a genus, or an extensive class; as, an animal generically distinct from another, or two animals or plants generically allied.
generosity: noble birth.-the quality of being noble; noble-mindedness.-liberality in giving; munificence.
generous: of honorable birth or origin; highborn.-exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.-open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.-characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.-full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.
genesee epoch: the closing subdivision of the hamilton period in the american devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in genesee, new york.
genesis: the act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination.-the first book of the old testament; -- so called by the greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race.-same as generation.
genet: alt. of genette-a small-sized, well-proportioned, spanish horse; a jennet.
genethliac: pertaining to nativities; calculated by astrologers; showing position of stars at one's birth.-a birthday poem.-one skilled in genethliacs.
genethliacs: the science of calculating nativities, or predicting the future events of life from the stars which preside at birth.
genethlialogy: divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.
genetical: pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis of anything, or its natural mode of production or development.
genette: one of several species of small carnivora of the genus genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch.-the fur of the common genet (genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.
geneva: the chief city of switzerland.-a strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in holland; holland gin; hollands.
genevan: of or pertaining to geneva, in switzerland; genevese.-a native or inhabitant of geneva.-a supported of genevanism.
genevese: of or pertaining to geneva, in switzerland; genevan.-a native or inhabitant of geneva; collectively, the inhabitants of geneva; people of geneva.
genial: same as genian.-contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.-contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition.-belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.-denoting or marked with genius; belonging to the higher nature.
geniality: the quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
geniculate: bent abruptly at an angle, like the knee when bent; as, a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal.-to form joints or knots on.
geniculation: the act of kneeling.-the state of being bent abruptly at an angle.
geniohyoid: of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.
genipap: the edible fruit of a west indian tree (genipa americana) of the order rubiaceae. it is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.
genitival: possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb.
genitive: of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of latin and greek nouns) which expresses source or possession.  it corresponds to the possessive case in english.-the genitive case.
genitocrural: pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; -- applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.
genius: a good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad.  cf. jinnee.-the peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.-peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.-distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.-a man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, shakespeare was a rare genius.
genoese: of or pertaining to genoa, a city of italy.-a native or inhabitant of genoa; collectively, the people of genoa.
genouillere: a metal plate covering the knee.-that part of a parapet which lies between the gun platform and the bottom of an embrasure.
genre: a style of painting, sculpture, or other imitative art, which illustrates everyday life and manners.
gens: a clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the roman curia or tribe.-a minor subdivision of a tribe, among american aborigines. it includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.
genteel: possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.-graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. law.-suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.
gentian: any one of a genus (gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. see illust. of capsule.
gentianaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (gentianaceae) of which the gentian is the type.
gentianic: pertaining to or derived from the gentian; as, gentianic acid.
gentianose: a crystallizable, sugarlike substance, with a slightly sweetish taste, obtained from the gentian.
gentile: one of a non-jewish nation; one neither a jew nor a christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.-belonging to the nations at large, as distinguished from the jews; ethnic; of pagan or heathen people.-denoting a race or country; as, a gentile noun or adjective.
gentilism: hethenism; paganism; the worship of false gods.-tribal feeling; devotion to one's gens.
gentilitious: peculiar to a people; national.-hereditary; entailed on a family.
gentility: good extraction; dignity of birth.-the quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.-the class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry.-paganism; heathenism.
gentilize: to live like a gentile or heathen.-to act the gentleman; -- with it (see it, 5).-to render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize your unworthy sones.
gentiopikrin: a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian.
gentisin: a tasteless, yellow, crystalline substance, obtained from the gentian; -- called also gentianin.
gentle: well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.-quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposition; a gentle manner; a gentle address; a gentle voice.-a compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader.-not wild, turbulent, or refractory; quiet and docile; tame; peaceable; as, a gentle horse.-soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop .-one well born; a gentleman.-a trained falcon. see falcon-gentil.-a dipterous larva used as fish bait.-to make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble.-to make smooth, cozy, or agreeable.-to make kind and docile, as a horse.
gentleman: a man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.-one of gentle or refined manners; a well-bred man.-one who bears arms, but has no title.-the servant of a man of rank.-a man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
gentlemanliness: the state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
gentlemanly: of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite.
gentleness: the quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
gentlewoman: a woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.-a woman who attends a lady of high rank.
gentry: birth; condition; rank by birth.-people of education and good breeding; in england, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.-courtesy; civility; complaisance.
genu: the knee.-the kneelike bend, in the anterior part of the callosum of the brain.
genuine: belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials.
genus: a class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.-an assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. a genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. in proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus.
geocentrical: having reference to the earth as center; in relation to or seen from the earth, -- usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet.-having reference to the center of the earth.
geocronite: a lead-gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster, consisting of sulphur, antimony, and lead, with a small proportion of arsenic.
geocyclic: of, pertaining to, or illustrating, the revolutions of the earth; as, a geocyclic machine.-circling the earth periodically.
geode: a nodule of stone, containing a cavity, lined with crystals or mineral matter.-the cavity in such a nodule.
geodesy: that branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshions of the earth; or that branch of surveying in which the curvature of the earth is taken into account, as in the surveys of states, or of long lines of coast.
geodetical: of or pertaining to geodesy; obtained or determined by the operations of geodesy; engaged in geodesy; geodesic; as, geodetic surveying; geodetic observers.
geoduck: a gigantic clam (glycimeris generosa) of the pacific coast of north america, highly valued as an article of food.
geognostical: of or pertaining to geognosy, or to a knowledge of the structure of the earth; geological.
geognosy: that part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.
geogonical: of or pertaining to geogony, or to the formation of the earth.
geography: the science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited.-a treatise on this science.
geologize: to study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.
geology: the science which treats: (a) of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been produced; dynamical geology. see chart of the geological series.-a treatise on the science.
geomalism: the tendency of an organism to respond, during its growth, to the force of gravitation.
geomancy: a kind of divination by means of figures or lines, formed by little dots or points, originally on the earth, and latterly on paper.
geometer: one skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.-any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
geometrical: pertaining to, or according to the rules or principles of, geometry; determined by geometry; as, a geometrical solution of a problem.
geometrid: pertaining or belonging to the geometridae.-one of numerous genera and species of moths, of the family geometridae; -- so called because their larvae (called loopers, measuring worms, spanworms, and inchworms) creep in a looping manner, as if measuring. many of the species are injurious to agriculture, as the cankerworms.
geometrize: to investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.
geometry: that branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.-a treatise on this science.
georama: a hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.
george: a figure of st. george (the patron saint of england) on horseback, appended to the collar of the order of the garter. see garter.-a kind of brown loaf.
georgian: of or pertaining to georgia, in asia, or to georgia, one of the united states.-of or relating to the reigns of the four georges, kings of great britan; as, the georgian era.-a native of, or dweller in, georgia.
georgic: a rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the georgics of virgil.-alt. of georgical
georgium sidus: the planet uranus, so named by its discoverer, sir w. herschel.
geoselenic: pertaining to the earth and moon; belonging to the joint action or mutual relations of the earth and moon; as, geoselenic phenomena.
geosynclinal: the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal.
geothermometer: a thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.
geotropism: a disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.
gephyrea: an order of marine annelida, in which the body is imperfectly, or not at all, annulated externally, and is mostly without setae.
gephyrean: belonging to the gephyrea. -- n. one of the gerphyrea.
geraniaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (geraniaceae) which includes the genera geranium, pelargonium, and many others.
geranine: a valuable astringent obtained from the root of the geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.-a liquid terpene, obtained from the crane's-bill (geranium maculatum), and having a peculiar mulberry odor.
geranium: a genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. called sometimes crane's-bill.-a cultivated pelargonium.
gerbille: one of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus gerbillus. in their leaping powers they resemble the jerboa. they inhabit africa, india, and southern europe.
germ: that which is to develop a new individual; as, the germ of a fetus, of a plant or flower, and the like; the earliest form under which an organism appears.-that from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty.-to germinate.
german: nearly related; closely akin.-a native or one of the people of germany.-the german language.-a round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures.-a social party at which the german is danced.-of or pertaining to germany.
germander: a plant of the genus teucrium (esp. teucrium chamaedrys or wall germander), mintlike herbs and low shrubs.
germanic: pertaining to, or containing, germanium.-of or pertaining to germany; as, the germanic confederacy.-teutonic.
germanism: an idiom of the german language.-a characteristic of the germans; a characteristic german mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism.
germanium: a rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at freiberg. it is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. symbol ge. atomic weight 72.3.
germanize: to make german, or like what is distinctively german; as, to germanize a province, a language, a society.-to reason or write after the manner of the germans.
germicide: destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial germs, which are considered the cause of many infectious diseases.-a germicide agent.
germinal: pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.-the seventh month of the french republican calendar [1792 -- 1806]. it began march 21 and ended april 19. see vendemiaire.
germinate: to sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.-to cause to sprout.
germination: the process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
germogen: a polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed.-the primitive cell in certain embryonic forms.
gerontes: magistrates in sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.