AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
gasp: to open the mouth wide in catching the breath, or in laborious respiration; to labor for breath; to respire convulsively; to pant violently.-to pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.-to emit or utter with gasps; -- with forth, out, away, etc.-the act of opening the mouth convulsively to catch the breath; a labored respiration; a painful catching of the breath.
gasserian: relating to casserio (l. gasserius), the discover of the gasserian ganglion.
gassing: the process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.-boasting; insincere or empty talk.
gassy: full of gas; like gas. hence: [colloq.] inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.
gast: to make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. see aghast.
gasteromycetes: an order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
gastight: so tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
gastraea: a primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. this idea constitutes the gastraea theory of haeckel. see gastrula.
gastric: of, pertaining to, or situated near, the stomach; as, the gastric artery.
gastriloquy: a voice or utterance which appears to proceed from the stomach; ventriloquy.
gastro-: a combining form from the gr. /, /, the stomach, or belly; as in gastrocolic, gastrocele, gastrotomy.
gastrocolic: pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.
gastrodisc: that part of blastoderm where the hypoblast appears like a small disk on the inner face of the epibladst.
gastroduodenal: pertaining to the stomach and duodenum; as, the gastroduodenal artery.
gastroduodenitis: inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. it is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.
gastroelytrotomy: the operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. it is a substitute for the caesarean operation, and less dangerous.
gastrohepatic: pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.
gastrointestinal: of or pertaining to the stomach and intestines; gastroenteric.
gastrology: the science which treats of the structure and functions of the stomach; a treatise of the stomach.
gastromalacia: a softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.
gastromancy: a kind of divination, by means of words seemingly uttered from the stomach.-a species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art.
gastromyces: the fungoid growths sometimes found in the stomach; such as torula, etc.
gastromyth: one whose voice appears to proceed from the stomach; a ventriloquist.
gastronomy: the art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.
gastrophrenic: pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm; as, the gastrophrenic ligament.
gastropneumatic: pertaining to the alimentary canal and air passages, and to the cavities connected with them; as, the gastropneumatic mucuos membranes.
gastropoda: one of the classes of mollusca, of great extent. it includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. they generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. the head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. see mollusca.
gastrosplenic: pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.
gastrostomy: the operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.
gastrotricha: a group of small wormlike animals, having cilia on the ventral side. the group is regarded as an ancestral or synthetic one, related to rotifers and annelids.
gastrotrocha: a form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.
gastrovascular: having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates.
gastrula: an embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). see illust. under invagination. in a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. see gastraea.-of or pertaining to a gastrula.
gastrulation: the process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.
gat-toothed: goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton.
gate: a large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.-an opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.-a door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.-the places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.-in a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.-the channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.-the waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.-to supply with a gate.-to punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.-a way; a path; a road; a street (as in highgate).-manner; gait.
gatepost: a post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.-a post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.
gateway: a passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
gather: to bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.-to pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.-to accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.-to bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.-to derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.-to gain; to win.-to bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.-to haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.-to come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.-to grow larger by accretion; to increase.-to concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.-to collect or bring things together.-a plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.-the inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.-the soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. see gather, v. t., 7.
gatherer: one who gathers or collects.-an attachment for making gathers in the cloth.
gathering: of gather-the act of collecting or bringing together.-that which is gathered, collected, or brought together-a crowd; an assembly; a congregation.-a charitable contribution; a collection.-a tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.-assembling; collecting; used for gathering or concentrating.
gatling gun: an american machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.
gatten tree: a name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (viburnum opulus), cornel (cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (euonymus europaeus).
gauche: left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.-winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
gaucho: one of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of spanish-american descent. they live mostly by rearing cattle.
gaud: trick; jest; sport.-deceit; fraud; artifice; device.-an ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.-to sport or keep festival.-to bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.
gaudy: ostentatiously fine; showy; gay, but tawdry or meretricious.-gay; merry; festal.-one of the large beads in the rosary at which the paternoster is recited.-a feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
gauffer: to plait, crimp, or flute; to goffer, as lace. see goffer.
gauge: to measure or determine with a gauge.-to measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.-to measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.-to draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.-to measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.-a measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.-measure; dimensions; estimate.-any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.-any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; -- usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.-relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.-the depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.-the distance between the rails of a railway.-the quantity of plaster of paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.-that part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
gauger: one who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
gaul: the anglicized form of gallia, which in the time of the romans included france and upper italy (transalpine and cisalpine gaul).-a native or inhabitant of gaul.
gault: a series of beds of clay and marl in the south of england, between the upper and lower greensand of the cretaceous period.
gaultheria: a genus of ericaceous shrubs with evergreen foliage, and, often, edible berries. it includes the american winter-green (gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of northwestern america (gaultheria shallon).
gaunt: attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
gauntlet: see gantlet.-a glove of such material that it defends the hand from wounds.-a long glove, covering the wrist.-a rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
gauntry: a frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.-a scaffolding or frame carrying a crane or other structure.
gaur: an east indian species of wild cattle (bibos gauris), of large size and an untamable disposition.
gauze: a very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.-having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.
gauzy: pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.
gavel: a gable.-a small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.-the mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.-a mason's setting maul.-tribute; toll; custom. [obs.] see gabel.
gavelet: an ancient special kind of cessavit used in kent and london for the recovery of rent.
gavelkind: a tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. it still prevails in the county of kent.
gavial: a large asiatic crocodilian (gavialis gangeticus); -- called also nako, and gangetic crocodile.
gavot: a kind of difficult dance; a dance tune, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over.
gawk: a cuckoo.-a simpleton; a booby; a gawky.-to act like a gawky.
gawky: foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. a fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.
gay: excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.-brilliant in colors; splendid; fine; richly dressed.-loose; dissipated; lewd.-an ornament
gaydiang: a vessel of anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a chinese junk.
gayety: the state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.-finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.
gaylussite: a yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
gayly: with mirth and frolic; merrily; blithely; gleefully.-finely; splendidly; showily; as, ladies gayly dressed; a flower gayly blooming.
gaze: to fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention.-to view with attention; to gaze on .-a fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.-the object gazed on.
gazelle: one of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus gazella, esp. g. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. the gazelles are celebrated for the luster and soft expression of their eyes.
gazet: a venetian coin, worth about three english farthings, or one and a half cents.
gazette: a newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically; esp., the official journal published by the british government, and containing legal and state notices.-to announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy.
gazetteer: a writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.-a newspaper; a gazette.-a geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.-an alphabetical descriptive list of anything.
gazingstock: a person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.
gazogene: a portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale.
gazon: one of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.
gean: a species of cherry tree common in europe (prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.
geanticlinal: an upward bend or flexure of a considerable portion of the earth's crust, resulting in the formation of a class of mountain elevations called anticlinoria; -- opposed to geosynclinal.
gear: clothing; garments; ornaments.-goods; property; household stuff.-whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.-the harness of horses or cattle; trapping.-warlike accouterments.-manner; custom; behavior.-business matters; affairs; concern.-a toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.-an apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.-engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.-see 1st jeer (b).-anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish.-to dress; to put gear on; to harness.-to provide with gearing.-to be in, or come into, gear.
gearing: of gear-harness.-the parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
geat: the channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
geck: scorn, derision, or contempt.-an object of scorn; a dupe; a gull.-to deride; to scorn; to mock.-to cheat; trick, or gull.-to jeer; to show contempt.
gecko: any lizard of the family geckonidae. the geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. they are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in europe and the united states. see wall gecko, fanfoot.
gee: to agree; to harmonize.-to turn to the off side, or from the driver (i.e., in the united states, to the right side); -- said of cattle, or a team; used most frequently in the imperative, often with off, by drivers of oxen, in directing their teams, and opposed to haw, or hoi.-to cause (a team) to turn to the off side, or from the driver.
gehenna: the valley of hinnom, near jerusalem, where some of the israelites sacrificed their children to moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. in the new testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to hell.
geissler tube: a glass tube provided with platinum electrodes, and containing some gas under very low tension, which becomes luminous when an electrical discharge is passed through it; -- so called from the name of a noted maker in germany. it is called also plucker tube, from the german physicist who devised it.
geitonogamy: fertilization of flowers by pollen from other flowers on the same plant.
gelada: a baboon (gelada ruppelli) of abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.
gelatigenous: producing, or yielding, gelatin; gelatiniferous; as, the gelatigeneous tissues.
gelatinate: to convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.-to be converted into gelatin, or into a substance like jelly.
gelatination: the act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
gelatine: animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. specifically (physiol. chem.), a nitrogeneous colloid, not existing as such in the animal body, but formed by the hydrating action of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. it is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. it is used as food, but its nutritious qualities are of a low order.-same as gelatin.
gelatiniferous: yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
gelatinize: to convert into gelatin or jelly. same as gelatinate, v. t.-to coat, or otherwise treat, with gelatin.-same as gelatinate, v. i.
gelatinous: of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
geld: money; tribute; compensation; ransom.-to castrate; to emasculate.-to deprive of anything essential.-to deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.
gelding: of geld-a castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.-from geld, v. t.
gelose: an amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in gelidium, agar-agar, and other seaweeds.
gelsemine: an alkaloid obtained from the yellow jasmine (gelsemium sempervirens), as a bitter white semicrystalline substance; -- called also gelsemia.
gelseminic: pertaining to, or derived from, the yellow jasmine (gelsemium sempervirens); as, gelseminic acid, a white crystalline substance resembling esculin.
gelsemium: a genus of climbing plants. the yellow (false) jasmine (gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the southern united states. it has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.-the root of the yellow jasmine, used in malarial fevers, etc.
gem: a bud.-a precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel.-anything of small size, or expressed within brief limits, which is regarded as a gem on account of its beauty or value, as a small picture, a verse of poetry, a witty or wise saying.-to put forth in the form of buds.-to adorn with gems or precious stones.-to embellish or adorn, as with gems; as, a foliage gemmed with dewdrops.
gemara: the second part of the talmud, or the commentary on the mishna (which forms the first part or text).
gemel: coupled; paired.-one of the twins.-one of the barrulets placed parallel and closed to each other.  cf. bars gemel, under gemel, a.
geminate: in pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers.-to double.
gemini: a constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars castor and pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about may 20th.
gemma: a leaf bud, as distinguished from a flower bud.-a bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain protozoa, which separate one at a time from the parent cell.
gemmaceous: of or pertaining to gems or to gemmae; of the nature of, or resembling, gems or gemmae.
gemmary: of or pertaining to gems.-a receptacle for jewels or gems; a jewel house; jewels or gems, collectively.
gemmation: the formation of a new individual, either animal or vegetable, by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity. see budding.-the arrangement of buds on the stalk; also, of leaves in the bud.
gemmiparous: producing buds; reproducing by buds. see gemmation, 1.
gemmule: a little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.-one of the buds of mosses.-one of the reproductive spores of algae.-an ovule.-a bud produced in generation by gemmation.-one of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. they are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. see pangenesis.
gemmy: full of gems; bright; glittering like a gem.-spruce; smart.
gemote: a meeting; -- used in combination, as, witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
gemsbok: a south african antelope (oryx capensis), having long, sharp, nearly straight horns.
gemul: a small south american deer (furcifer chilensis), with simple forked horns.
gena: the cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.-the part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
genappe: a worsted yarn or cord of peculiar smoothness, used in the manufacture of braid, fringe, etc.
gender: kind; sort.-sex, male or female.-a classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex.-to beget; to engender.-to copulate; to breed.
genealogical: of or pertaining to genealogy; as, a genealogical table; genealogical order.
genealogy: an account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.-regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.