AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
note paper: writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
notebook: a book in which notes or memorandums are written.-a book in which notes of hand are registered.
noted: of note-well known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated; as, a noted author, or traveler.
nothing: not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.-nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.-a thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.-a cipher; naught.-in no degree; not at all; in no wise.
nothingness: nihility; nonexistence.-the state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
notice: the act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.-intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge given or received; means of knowledge; express notification; announcement; warning.-an announcement, often accompanied by comments or remarks; as, book notices; theatrical notices.-a writing communicating information or warning.-attention; respectful treatment; civility.-to observe; to see to mark; to take note of; to heed; to pay attention to.-to show that one has observed; to take public note of; remark upon; to make comments on; to refer to; as, to notice a book.-to treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers.
noticeable: capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous.
notidanian: any one of several species of sharks of the family notidanidae, or hexanchidae. called also cow sharks. see shark.
notification: the act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.-notice given in words or writing, or by signs.-the writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or citation, etc.
notify: to make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.-to give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting.
notion: mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notae.-a sentiment; an opinion.-sense; mind.-an invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, yankee notions.-inclination; intention; disposition; as, i have a notion to do it.
notional: consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.-existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.-given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man.
notobranchiata: a division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back.-the dorsibranchiata.
notochord: an elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebrae and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. see illust. of ectoderm.
notochordal: of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.
notodontian: any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to notodonta, nerice, and allied genera. the caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.
notopodium: the dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. see parapodium.
notorhizal: having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.
notoriety: the quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
notorious: generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice.
notornis: a genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. notornis mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of new zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. it is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.
nototherium: an extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the pliocene formation of australia.
notwithstanding: without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of.-nevertheless; however; although; as, i shall go, notwithstanding it rains.
nougat: a cake, sweetmeat, or confection made with almonds or other nuts.
noumenal: of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.
noumenon: the of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of kant and his followers.
noun: a word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.
nourish: to feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.-to support; to maintain.-to supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.-to cherish; to comfort.-to educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.-to promote growth; to furnish nutriment.-to gain nourishment.-a nurse.
nourishable: capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body.-capable of giving nourishment.
nourishment: the act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.-that which serves to nourish; nutriment; food.
novaculite: a variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.
novatian: one of the sect of novatius, or novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.
novation: innovation.-a substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.
novel: of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.-that which is new or unusual; a novelty.-news; fresh tidings.-a fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.-a new or supplemental constitution. see the note under novel, a.
novelist: an innovator; an asserter of novelty.-a writer of news.-a writer of a novel or novels.
novelize: to innovate.-to innovate.-to put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction.
novelty: the quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.-something novel; a new or strange thing.
novenary: of or pertaining to the number nine.-the number of nine units; nine, collectively.
novercal: done or recurring every ninth year.-of or pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to, or in the manner of, a stepmother.
novice: one who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.-one newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the christian faith.-one who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.-like a novice; becoming a novice.
novitiate: the state of being a novice; time of initiation or instruction in rudiments.-hence: time of probation in a religious house before taking the vows.-one who is going through a novitiate, or period of probation; a novice.-the place where novices live or are trained.
novum: a game at dice, properly called novem quinque (l., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five.
now: at the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, i will write now.-very lately; not long ago.-at a time contemporaneous with something spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to.-in present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation.-existing at the present time; present.-the present time or moment; the present.
nowel: christmas; also, a shout of joy at christmas for the birth of the savior.-a kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the nativity of our lord; a christmas carol.-the core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object.-the bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.
nowhere: not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.
noxious: hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples.-guilty; criminal.
noyau: a cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.
nozzle: the nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.-a short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.- a short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.
nub: to push; to nudge; also, to beckon.-a jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.
nubecula: a nebula.-specifically, the magellanic clouds.-a slight spot on the cornea.-a cloudy object or appearance in urine.
nucament: a catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.
nucamentaceous: like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits.
nuchal: of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.
nuclear: of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see illust. of karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc.
nuclein: a constituent of the nuclei of all cells. it is a colorless amorphous substance, readily soluble in alkaline fluids and especially characterized by its comparatively large content of phosphorus. it also contains nitrogen and sulphur.
nucleobranch: belonging to the nucleobranchiata.-one of the nucleobranchiata.
nucleolus: a little nucleus.-a small rounded body contained in the nucleus of a cell or a protozoan.
nucleoplasm: the matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.
nucleoplasmic: of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.
nucleus: a kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.-the body or the head of a comet.-an incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.-a whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.-a body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. it is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see nucleoplasm). see cell division, under division.-the tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.-the central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.-a visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in tunicata and some mollusks.
nude: bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.-naked; without consideration; void; as, a nude contract. see nudum pactum.
nudge: to touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.-a gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.
nudibranch: of or pertaining to the nudibranchiata.-one of the nudibranchiata.
nudibranchiata: a division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. the gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. see ceratobranchia.
nudity: the quality or state of being nude; nakedness.-that which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (fine arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense.
nugatory: trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.-of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.
nugget: a lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.
nuisance: that which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.
nul: no; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.
null: ( a. ) Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
nullification: the act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.
nullifidian: of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to solifidian.-an unbeliever.
nullifier: one who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.
nullify: to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
nullipore: a name for certain crustaceous marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. they are now considered corallines of the genera melobesia and lithothamnion.
nullity: the quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.-nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists.-that which is null.
numb: enfeebled in, or destitute of, the power of sensation and motion; rendered torpid; benumbed; insensible; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.-producing numbness; benumbing; as, the numb, cold night.-to make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.
number: that which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.-a collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.-a numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.-numerousness; multitude.-the state or quality of being numerable or countable.-quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.-that which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.-the distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.-the measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.-to count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.-to reckon as one of a collection or multitude.-to give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a building.-to amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
numbers: pl. of number. the fourth book of the pentateuch, containing the census of the hebrews.
numbness: the condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
numeral: of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals.-expressing number; representing number; as, numeral letters or characters, as x or 10 for ten.-a figure or character used to express a number; as, the arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the roman numerals, i, v, x, l, etc.-a word expressing a number.
numerate: to divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.
numeration: the act or art of numbering.-the act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. the term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the arabic method.
numerator: one who numbers.-the term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.
numeric: alt. of numerical-any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. the term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nã-1, where m and n are real numerics.
numerical: belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement.-the same in number; hence, identically the same; identical; as, the same numerical body.
numerically: in a numerical manner; in numbers; with respect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.
numerous: consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.-consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.
numismatical: of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.
numismatology: the science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics.
nummulary: of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent.-having the appearance or form of a coin.
nummulation: the arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.
nummulites: a genus of extinct tertiary foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.
nummulitic: of, like, composed of, containing, nummulites; as, nummulitic beds.
nun: a woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.-a white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head.-the smew.-the european blue titmouse.
nunchion: a portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon.
nuncio: a messenger.-the permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government.  distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.
nuncupate: to declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally.-to dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book.
nuncupative: publicly or solemnly declaratory.-nominal; existing only in name.-oral; not written.
nunnery: a house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. see cloister, and convent.
nunnish: of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.
nuphar: a genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of europe, asia, and north america; the yellow water lily.  cf. nymphaea.
nuptial: of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.-marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.
nur: a hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.
nurl: to cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.
nurse: one who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) a woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) a person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.-one who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.-a lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.-a peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. see cercaria, and redia.-either one of the nurse sharks.-to nourish; to cherish; to foster-to nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.-to take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.-to bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention.-to manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.-to caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
nursery: the act of nursing.-the place where nursing is carried on-the place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.-a place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.-the place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.-that which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.-that which is nursed.
nurseryman: one who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
nursing: of nurse-supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.
nursling: one who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.
nurture: the act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.-that which nourishes; food; diet.-to feed; to nourish.-to educate; to bring or train up.
nut: the fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.-a perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. see illust. of lst bolt.-the tumbler of a gunlock.-a projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.-to gather nuts.
nutation: the act of nodding.-a very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.-the motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.-circumnutation.
nutcracker: an instrument for cracking nuts.-a european bird (nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. its color is dark brown, spotted with white. it feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.-the american, or clarke's, nutcracker (picicorvus columbianus) of western north america.
nutgall: a more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. see gall, gallnut.
nuthatch: any one of several species of birds of the genus sitta, as the european species (sitta europaea). the white-breasted nuthatch (s. carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (s. canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (s. pygmaea), and others, are american.
nuthook: a hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.-a thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.
nutmeg: the kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (myristica fragrans), a native of the molucca islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
nutrient: nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.-any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.
nutriment: that which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.-that which promotes development or growth.