AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
imply: to infold or involve; to wrap up.-to involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting.-to refer, ascribe, or attribute.
impolicy: the quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud.
impolite: not polite; not of polished manners; wanting in good manners; discourteous; uncivil; rude.
impolitic: not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure.
imponderable: not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.-an imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.
imporosity: the state or quality of being imporous; want of porosity; compactness.
import: to bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export. we import teas from china, coffee from brasil, etc.-to carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to signify.-to be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.-to signify; to purport; to be of moment.-merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.-that which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.-importance; weight; consequence.
importable: capable of being imported.-not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable.
importance: the quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.-subject; matter.-import; meaning; significance.-importunity; solicitation.
important: full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.-carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.-bearing on; forcible; driving.-importunate; pressing; urgent.
importation: the act of carrying, conveying, or delivering.-the act or practice of importing, or bringing into a country or state; -- opposed to exportation.-that which is imported; commodities or wares introduced into a country from abroad.
importer: one who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.
importunate: troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.-hard to be borne; unendurable.
importune: to request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.-to import; to signify.-to require; to demand.
importunee: inopportune; unseasonable.-troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation.
importunity: the quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity.
impose: to lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.-to lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.-to lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.-to arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.-to practice trick or deception.-a command; injunction.
imposing: of impose-laying as a duty; enjoining.-adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle.-deceiving; deluding; misleading.-the act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. see impose, v. t., 4.
imposition: the act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.-that which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.-an extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.-an excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.-the act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.-the act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. see impose, v. t., 4.
impossibility: the quality of being impossible; impracticability.-an impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured.-inability; helplessness.
impossible: not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible.-an impossibility.
impost: that which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.-the top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.
imposthumate: to apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess.-to affect with an imposthume or abscess.-imposthumated.
imposthumation: the act of forming an abscess; state of being inflamed; suppuration.-an abscess; an imposthume.
imposthume: a collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.-same as imposthumate.
impostor: one who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.
imposture: the act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
impotency: the quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.-want of self-restraint or self-control.-want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
impotent: not potent; wanting power, strength. or vigor. whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm.-wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent.-wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.-one who is imoitent.
impound: to shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.
impoundage: the act of impounding, or the state of being impounded.-the fee or fine for impounding.
impoverish: to make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.-to exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
impoverishment: the act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
impracticability: the state or quality of being impracticable; infeasibility.-an impracticable thing.-intractableness; stubbornness.
impracticable: not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.-not to be overcome, presuaded, or controlled by any reasonable method; unmanageable; intractable; not capable of being easily dealt with; -- used in a general sense, as applied to a person or thing that is difficult to control or get along with.-incapable of being used or availed of; as, an impracticable road; an impracticable method.
impracticableness: the state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.
imprecate: to call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.-to invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
imprecation: the act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
imprecatory: of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms.
impregnable: not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue.-capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant.
impregnant: that which impregnates.-not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile.
impregnate: to make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.-to come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.-to infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.-to infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate india rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.-to become pregnant.-impregnated; made prolific.
impregnation: the act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.-the fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation.-that with which anything is impregnated.-intimate mixture; influsion; saturation.-an ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
impresa: a device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.
imprescriptible: not capable of being lost or impaired by neglect, by disuse, or by the claims of another founded on prescription.-not derived from, or dependent on, external authority; self-evidencing; obvious.
impresionable: liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible.
impress: to press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).-to produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).-fig.: to fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.-to take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money.-to be impressed; to rest.-the act of impressing or making.-a mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.-characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.-a device. see impresa.-the act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
impression: the act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.-that which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.-that which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.-influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.-an indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.-impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.-the pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.-in painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.-a print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
impressionism: the theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
impressive: making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.-capable of being impressed.
impressment: the act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
imprest: to advance on loan.-a kind of earnest money; loan; -- specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment.
imprimatur: a license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.
imprint: to impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.-to stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).-to fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.-whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.
imprison: to put in prison or jail; to arrest and detain in custody; to confine.-to limit, restrain, or confine in any way.
imprison ment: the act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint.
improbability: the quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.
improbable: not probable; unlikely to be true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event.
improbation: the act of disapproving; disapprobation.-the act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged.
impromptu: offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous; extempore; as, an impromptu verse.-something made or done offhand, at the moment, or without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or remark.-a piece composed or played at first thought; a composition in the style of an extempore piece.
improper: not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress.-not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common.-not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.-to appropriate; to limit.
improperation: the act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt.
improperia: a series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the good friday in place of the usual daily mass of the roman ritual.
improperly: in an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
impropriate: to appropriate to one's self; to assume.-to place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.-to become an impropriator.-put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.
impropriation: the act of impropriating; as, the impropriation of property or tithes; also, that which is impropriated.-the act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.-a benefice in the hands of a layman, or of a lay corporation.
impropriator: one who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.
impropriety: the quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.-that which is improper; an unsuitable or improper act, or an inaccurate use of language.
improvable: capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities.-capable of being used to advantage; profitable; serviceable; advantageous.
improve: to disprove or make void; to refute.-to disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.-to make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.-to use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.-to advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.-to grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.-to advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.-to increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
improvement: the act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.-the act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.-the state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.-increase; growth; progress; advance.-valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.-a useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
improvident: not provident; wanting foresight or forethought; not foreseeing or providing for the future; negligent; thoughtless; as, an improvident man.
improvisate: unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore.-to improvise; to extemporize.
improvisation: the act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.-that which is improvised; an impromptu.
improvise: to compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously.-to bring about, arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation.-to invent, or provide, offhand, or on the spur of the moment; as, he improvised a hammer out of a stone.-to produce or render extemporaneous compositions, especially in verse or in music, without previous preparation; hence, to do anything offhand.
improvvisatore: one who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously.
imprudence: the quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence.
imprudent: not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence; improper.
impuberty: the condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.
impudence: the quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty.
impudent: bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy.
impudently: in an impudent manner; with unbecoming assurance; shamelessly.
impugn: to attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.
impugnment: the act of impugning, or the state of being impugned.
impulse: the act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.-the effect of an impelling force; motion produced by a sudden or momentary force.-the action of a force during a very small interval of time; the effect of such action; as, the impulse of a sudden blow upon a hard elastic body.-a mental force which simply and directly urges to action; hasty inclination; sudden motive; momentary or transient influence of appetite or passion; propension; incitement; as, a man of good impulses; passion often gives a violent impulse to the will.-to impel; to incite.
impulsion: the act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.-influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.
impulsive: having the power of driving or impelling; giving an impulse; moving; impellent.-actuated by impulse or by transient feelings.-acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said of forces.-that which impels or gives an impulse; an impelling agent.
impure: not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.-defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.-unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.-not purified according to the ceremonial law of moses; unclean.-not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure latin; an impure style.-to defile; to pollute.
impurity: the condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.-that which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.-want of ceremonial purity; defilement.
impurple: to color or tinge with purple; to make red or reddish; to purple; as, a field impurpled with blood.
imputable: that may be imputed; capable of being imputed; chargeable; ascribable; attributable; referable.-accusable; culpable.
imputation: the act of imputing or charging; attribution; ascription; also, anything imputed or charged.-charge or attribution of evil; censure; reproach; insinuation.-a setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another; as, the imputation of the sin of adam, or the righteousness of christ.-opinion; intimation; hint.
impute: to charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.-to adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of christ is imputed to us.-to take account of; to consider; to regard.
in: the specific signification of in is situation or place with respect to surrounding, environment, encompassment, etc. it is used with verbs signifying being, resting, or moving within limits, or within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. in its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among.-with reference to space or place; as, he lives in boston; he traveled in italy; castles in the air.-with reference to circumstances or conditions; as, he is in difficulties; she stood in a blaze of light.-with reference to a whole which includes or comprises the part spoken of; as, the first in his family; the first regiment in the army.-with reference to physical surrounding, personal states, etc., abstractly denoted; as, i am in doubt; the room is in darkness; to live in fear.-with reference to character, reach, scope, or influence considered as establishing a limitation; as, to be in one's favor.-with reference to movement or tendency toward a certain limit or environment; -- sometimes equivalent to into; as, to put seed in the ground; to fall in love; to end in death; to put our trust in god.-with reference to a limit of time; as, in an hour; it happened in the last century; in all my life.-not out; within; inside. in, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house).-with privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband.-one who is in office; -- the opposite of out.-a reentrant angle; a nook or corner.-to inclose; to take in; to harvest.