AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
panel: a sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.-a piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.-a prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.-formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.-a board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.-one of the faces of a hewn stone.-a slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.-a heap of dressed ore.-one of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.-a plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.-a portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.-to form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.
pang: a paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.-to torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.
pangolin: any one of several species of manis, pholidotus, and related genera, found in africa and asia. they are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. called also scaly ant-eater.
panhellenic: of or pertaining to all greece, or to panhellenism; including all greece, or all the greeks.
panic: a plant of the genus panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.-extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.-a sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.-by extension: a sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
panicle: a pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
panicled: furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.
panicum: a genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.
panislamism: a desire or plan for the union of all mohammedan nations for the conquest of the world.
pannage: the food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.-a tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
pannel: a kind of rustic saddle.-the stomach of a hawk.-a carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed, on a march.
pannier: a bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass-a shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.-a table waiter at the inns of court, london.-a framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.
pannus: a very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.
panoistic: producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.
panopticon: a prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.-a room for the exhibition of novelties.
panorama: a complete view in every direction.-a picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.-a picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.
panorpian: like, or pertaining to, the genus panorpa.-same as panorpid.
panorpid: any neuropterous insect of the genus panorpa, and allied genera. the larvae feed on plant lice.
panpresbyterian: belonging to, or representative of, those who hold presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a panpresbyterian council.
panshon: an earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes.
panslavism: a scheme or desire to unite all the slavic races into one confederacy.
pansophical: all-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders.
pansophy: universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by comenius (1592 -- 1671), a moravian educator.
panspermic: of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.
panspermist: a believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
panspermy: the doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.-the doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
panstereorama: a model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like.
pansy: a plant of the genus viola (v. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
pant: to breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.-hence: to long eagerly; to desire earnestly.-to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.-to sigh; to flutter; to languish.-to breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.-to long for; to be eager after.-a quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.-a violent palpitation of the heart.
pantagruelism: the theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.-an assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose.
pantalet: one of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.
pantaloon: a ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.-a bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.-in recent times, same as trousers.
pantaloonery: the character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery.-materials for pantaloons.
pantastomata: one of the divisions of flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.
panter: one who pants.-a keeper of the pantry; a pantler.-a net; a noose.
pantheism: the doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is god; the doctrine that there is no god but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.
pantheistical: of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.
pantheon: a temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at rome.-the collective gods of a people, or a work treating of them; as, a divinity of the greek pantheon.
panther: a large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoologists considered a distinct species. it is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.-in america, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar.
pantherine: like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (ptyas mucosus) of brazil.
pantile: a roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated s laid on its side (/).
pantisocracy: a utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by coleridge, lovell, and southey, in their younger days.
pantisocratist: one who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.
pantler: the servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry.
panto-: combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.-see pan-.
pantograph: an instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
pantomime: a universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.-one who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist.-a dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally.-a dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by clown, harlequin, etc., are features.-representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.
pantomimical: of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show.
pantomimist: an actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.
pantophagist: a person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.
pantoscopic: literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.
panzoism: a term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.
pap: a nipple; a mammilla; a teat.-a rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.-a soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.-nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.-the pulp of fruit.-to feed with pap.
papacy: the office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of rome; papal jurisdiction.-the popes, collectively; the succession of popes.-the roman catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the roman catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
papain: a proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (carica papaya) of tropical america.
papal: of or pertaining to the pope of rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.-of or pertaining to the roman catholic church.
papaveraceous: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (papaveraceae) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples.
papaverine: an alkaloid found in opium. it has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.
papaverous: of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy.
papaw: a tree (carica papaya) of tropical america, belonging to the order passifloreae. it has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. the milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.-a tree of the genus asimina (a. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the united states, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.
papboat: a kind of sauce boat or dish.-a large spiral east indian marine shell (turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.
paper: a substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. it is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.-a sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.-a printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.-a printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.-negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.-decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. see paper hangings, below.-a paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.-a medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.-of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.-to cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.-to fold or inclose in paper.-to put on paper; to make a memorandum of.
paphian: of or pertaining to paphos, an ancient city of cyprus, having a celebrated temple of venus; hence, pertaining to venus, or her rites.-a native or inhabitant of paphos.
papier-mache: a hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixed with sise or glue, etc. it is formed into various articles, usually by means of molds.
papilionaceous: resembling the butterfly.-having a winged corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of the bean and pea.-belonging to that suborder of leguminous plants (papilionaceae) which includes the bean, pea, vetch, clover, and locust.
papillary: of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillae; bearing, or covered with, papillae; papillose.
papillate: to cover with papillae; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillae.-same as papillose.
papilloma: a tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.
papillose: covered with, or bearing, papillae; resembling papillae; papillate; papillar; papillary.
papillote: a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.
papion: a west african baboon (cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
papist: a roman catholic; one who adheres to the church of rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to roman catholics by their opponents.
papistical: of or pertaining to the church of rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly.
pappus: the hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
papula: a pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.-one of the numerous small hollow processes of the integument between the plates of starfishes.
papular: covered with papules.-consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.
papulose: having papulae; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.
papyrean: of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.
papyrine: imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.
papyrograph: an apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. the word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. see copygraph, hectograph, manifold.
papyrography: the process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph.
papyrus: a tall rushlike plant (cyperus papyrus) of the sedge family, formerly growing in egypt, and now found in abyssinia, syria, sicily, etc. the stem is triangular and about an inch thick.-the material upon which the ancient egyptians wrote. it was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.-a manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of egypt or herculaneum.
par: see parr.-by; with; -- used frequently in early english in phrases taken from the french, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.-equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.-equality of condition or circumstances.
para: a piece of turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
para grass: a valuable pasture grass (panicum barbinode) introduced into the southern united states from brazil.
para-: a prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.-a prefix denoting: (a) likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) specifically: (organ. chem.) that two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. cf. ortho-, and meta-. also used adjectively.
parabanic: pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (c3n2h2o3); -- also called oxalyl urea.
parablast: a portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels.
parablastic: of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.
parable: procurable.-a comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of christ.-to represent by parable.
parabola: a kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. it is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. see focus.-one of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. for the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. see under cubical, and semicubical. the parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.
parabolical: of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.-having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a parabolic curve.-generated by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a parabola as a directing curve; as, a parabolic conoid.
parabolically: by way of parable; in a parabolic manner.-in the form of a parabola.
parabolism: the division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
paraboloid: the solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
parabronchium: one of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.
paracelsian: of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of paracelsus, a swiss physician of the 15th century.-a follower of paracelsus or his practice or teachings.
paracentesis: the perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.
parachordal: situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord.-a parachordal cartilage.
parachronism: an error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.
parachute: a contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.-a web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.
paraclete: an advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the consoler, comforter, or intercessor; -- a term applied to the holy spirit.
paracmastic: gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.
paraconic: pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained as a deliquescent white crystalline substance, and isomeric with itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids.
paraconine: a base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
paracorolla: a secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the narcissus.
paracrostic: a poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.
paracyanogen: a polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.
parade: the ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.-an assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.-pompous show; formal display or exhibition.-that which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen.-posture of defense; guard.-a public walk; a promenade.-to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.-to assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops.-to make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place.-to assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review.
paradigm: an example; a model; a pattern.-an example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.-an illustration, as by a parable or fable.
paradigmatic: alt. of paradigmatical-a writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of christian excellence.
paradisaical: of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal.
paradise: the garden of eden, in which adam and eve were placed after their creation.-the abode of sanctified souls after death.-a place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.-an open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.-a churchyard or cemetery.-to affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
parados: an intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
paradox: a tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
paradoxical: of the nature of a paradox.-inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions.
paradoxure: any species of paradoxurus, a genus of asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (paradoxurus hermaphroditus). see musang.
paradoxy: a paradoxical statement; a paradox.-the quality or state of being paradoxical.
paraffine: a white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. it is used as an illuminant and lubricant. it is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. it was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.
parage: equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.-equality of condition between persons holding unequal portions of a fee.-kindred; family; birth.
paragenic: originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.
paraglobulin: an albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. see fibrinoplastin.
paraglossa: one of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. see illust. under hymenoptera.