AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
profiling: of profile-in the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
profit: acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.-accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,-to be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.-to gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.-to be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
profitable: yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
profligacy: the quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
profligate: overthrown; beaten; conquered.-broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.-an abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.-to drive away; to overcome.
profligateness: the quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
profound: descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.-intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.-characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.-bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.-the deep; the sea; the ocean.-an abyss.-to cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.-to dive deeply; to penetrate.
profundity: the quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
profuse: pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.-superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.-to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
profusion: the act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting.-abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities.
prog: to wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.-to steal; to rob; to filch.-to prick; to goad; to progue.-victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.-a vagrant beggar; a tramp.-a goal; progue.
progenerate: to beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race.
progeny: descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.
proglottis: one of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. it contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.
prognathi: a comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
prognathous: having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. see gnathic index, under gnathic.
progne: a swallow.-a genus of swallows including the purple martin. see martin.-an american butterfly (polygonia, / vanessa, progne). it is orange and black above, grayish beneath, with an l-shaped silver mark on the hind wings. called also gray comma.
prognosis: the act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydrophobia is bad.
prognostic: indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.-that which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction.-a sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease.-to prognosticate.
prognosticate: to indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
prognostication: the act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.-that which foreshows; a foretoken.
prognosticator: one who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.
programma: any law, which, after it had passed the athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.-an edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.-see programme.-a preface.
programme: that which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.
progress: a moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance-in actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.-in the growth of an animal or plant; increase.-in business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.-in knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.-toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.-a journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.-to make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.-to make improvement; to advance.-to make progress in; to pass through.
progression: the act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.-course; passage; lapse or process of time.-regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic.-a regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.
progressionist: one who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection.-one who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian.
progressive: moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde.-improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
progue: to prog.-a sharp point; a goad.-to prick; to goad.
prohibit: to forbid by authority; to interdict; as, god prohibited adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.-to hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.
prohibiter: one who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
prohibition: the act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.-specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
prohibitionist: one who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.-one who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
prohibitory: tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.
proin: to lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.-to employed in pruning.
project: the place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.-that which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.-an idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.-to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.-to cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.-to draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. see projection, 4.-to shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.-to form a project; to scheme.
projectile: projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.-caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion.-a body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm.-a part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force.
projection: the act of throwing or shooting forward.-a jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else.-the act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan.-the representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. the several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.-any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane.
projector: one who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes.
prolapse: the falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.-to fall down or out; to protrude.
prolate: stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.-to utter; to pronounce.
prolation: the act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation.-the act of deferring; delay.-a mediaeval method of determining of the proportionate duration of semibreves and minims.
prolatum: a prolate spheroid. see ellipsoid of revolution, under ellipsoid.
proleg: one of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. those of lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.
prolegomenary: of the nature of a prolegomenon; preliminary; introductory; prefatory.
prolegomenon: a preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.
prolepsis: a figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.-a necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.-an error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.-the application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
proleptical: of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative.-previous; antecedent.-anticipating the usual time; -- applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition.
proletaire: one of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country.
proletarian: of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.-a proletary.
proletary: a citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.
proliferate: to produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.-to produce zooids by budding.
proliferation: the continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.-the production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.
proliferous: bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.-producing young by budding.-producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.-producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
prolific: having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.-serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.-proliferous.
prolification: the generation of young.-reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmae.
prolificness: the quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.
prolix: extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.-indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.
prolixity: the quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings.
proll: to search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder.-to prowl about; to rob.
prologue: the preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of chaucer's "canterbury tales;"  esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance-one who delivers a prologue.-to introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
prolong: to extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.-to lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.-to put off to a distant time; to postpone.
prolongation: the act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.-that which forms an additional length.
prolonge: a rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
prolusion: a trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.
promenade: a walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.-a place for walking; a public walk.-to walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.
promerit: to oblige; to confer a favor on.-to deserve; to procure by merit.
promerops: any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to promerops, epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of new guinea. they have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail.
promethea: a large american bombycid moth (callosamia promethea). its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band.
promethean: of or pertaining to prometheus. see prometheus.-having a life-giving quality; inspiring.-an apparatus for automatic ignition.-a kind of lucifer match.
prometheus: the son of iapetus (one of the titans) and clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. jupiter, being angry at this, sent mercury to bind prometheus to mount caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.
prominency: the quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness.-that which is prominent; a protuberance.
prominent: standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase.-hence; distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building.-eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent character.
promiscuous: consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass.-distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse.
promise: in general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.-an engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing.  the word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.-that which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.-bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.-to engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.-to afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.-to make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.-to give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.-to afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.
promising: of promise-making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day.
promontory: a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.-a projecting part. especially: (a) the projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) a prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
promorphology: crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by haeckel. it is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. see tectology.
promote: to contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.-to exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.-to urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.
promoter: one who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.-specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.-one who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.-an informer; a makebate.
promottion: the act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment.
prompt: a limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. see prompt-note.-to assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.-to suggest; to dictate.-to remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten.
prompt-note: a memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
prompter: one who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.-one who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.
promptitude: the quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience.
promptness: promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.-cheerful willingness; alacrity.
promptuary: of or pertaining to preparation.-that from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository.
promt: ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; -- said of persons.-done or rendered quickly, readily, or immediately; given without delay or hesitation; -- said of conduct; as, prompt assistance.-easy; unobstructed.
promulgate: to make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.
promulgation: the act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel.
promuscis: the proboscis of hemipterous insects. see illust. under hemiptera.
pronation: the act of turning the palm or palmar surface of the forefoot downward.-that motion of the forearm whereby the palm or palmar, surface is turned downward.-the position of the limb resulting from the act of pronation. opposed to supination.
prone: bending forward; inclined; not erect.-prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine.-headlong; running downward or headlong.-sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous; inclined; not level.-inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or affections, usually in an ill sense. followed by to.
proneness: the quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.-the state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.-descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.-inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.
prong: a sharp-pointed instrument.-the tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.-a sharp projection, as of an antler.-the fang of a tooth.
pronged: having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.
pronghorn: an american antelope (antilocapra americana), native of the plain near the rocky mountains. the upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. the horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. called also cabree, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.
pronominalize: to give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc.
pronominally: in a pronominal manner/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.
pronotum: the dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. see illust. of coleoptera.
pronoun: a word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. the personal pronouns in english are i, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.
pronounce: to utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.-to utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.-to speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.-to declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.-to give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.-to make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.-pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
pronounced: of pronounce-strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [a gallicism]
pronouncer: one who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book.
pronucleus: one of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.