AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
mode: manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.-prevailing popular custom; fashion, especially in the phrase the mode.-variety; gradation; degree.-any combination of qualities or relations, considered apart from the substance to which they belong, and treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter.-the form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.-same as mood.-the scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the dorian mode, the ionic mode, etc., of ancient greek music.-a kind of silk. see alamode, n.
model: a miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.-something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.-anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the american constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.-that by which a thing is to be measured; standard.-any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.-a person who poses as a pattern to an artist.-suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.-to plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.-to make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
modeling: of model-the act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form.
modenese: of or pertaining to modena or its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of modena; the people of modena.
moder: a mother.-the principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.-to moderate.
moderate: kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained-limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table.-limited in degree of activity, energy, or excitement; reasonable; calm; slow; as, moderate language; moderate endeavors.-not extreme in opinion, in partisanship, and the like; as, a moderate calvinist.-not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle; as, a moderate winter.-limited as to degree of progress; as, to travel at moderate speed.-limited as to the degree in which a quality, principle, or faculty appears; as, an infusion of moderate strength; a man of moderate abilities.-limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind.-one of a party in the church of scotland in the 18th century, and part of the 19th, professing moderation in matters of church government, in discipline, and in doctrine.-to restrain from excess of any kind; to reduce from a state of violence, intensity, or excess; to keep within bounds; to make temperate; to lessen; to allay; to repress; to temper; to qualify; as, to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.; to moderate heat or wind.-to preside over, direct, or regulate, as a public meeting; as, to moderate a synod.-to become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.-to preside as a moderator.
moderation: the act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.-the state or quality of being mmoderate.-calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation.-the first public examinations for degrees at the university of oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
moderator: one who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.-the officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.-in the university of oxford, an examiner for moderations; at cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of bachelor of arts.-a mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.
modern: of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.-new and common; trite; commonplace.-a person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
modernism: modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
modernization: the act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
modernize: to render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
modest: restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.-observing the proprieties of the sex; not unwomanly in act or bearing; free from undue familiarity, indecency, or lewdness; decent in speech and demeanor; -- said of a woman.-evincing modestly in the actor, author, or speaker; not showing presumption; not excessive or extreme; moderate; as, a modest request; modest joy.
modesty: the quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.-natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.
modification: the act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.
modify: to change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.-to limit or reduce in extent or degree; to moderate; to qualify; to lower.
modillion: the enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the corinthian and composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.
modish: according to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
modiste: a female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.
modocs: a tribe of warlike indians formerly inhabiting northern california. they are nearly extinct.
modular: of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
modulate: to form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.-to vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking.-to pass from one key into another.
modulation: the act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.-sound modulated; melody.-a change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. there are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
module: a model or measure.-the size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.-to model; also, to modulate.
modulus: a quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.
modus: the arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.-a qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.-a fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.
moe: a wry face or mouth; a mow.-to make faces; to mow.-more. see mo.
moesogothic: belonging to the moesogoths, a branch of the goths who settled in moesia.-the language of the moesogoths; -- also called gothic.
mogul: a person of the mongolian race.-a heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
mohair: the long silky hair or wool of the angora goat of asia minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.
mohammedan: of or pertaining to mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by mohammed.-a follower of mohammed, the founder of islamism; one who professes mohammedanism or islamism.
mohammedism: the religion, or doctrines and precepts, of mohammed, contained in the koran; islamism.
mohammedize: to make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of mohammedanism.
mohawk: one of a tribe of indians who formed part of the five nations. they formerly inhabited the valley of the mohawk river.-one of certain ruffians who infested the streets of london in the time of addison, and took the name from the mohawk indians.
mohicans: a tribe of lenni-lenape indians who formerly inhabited western connecticut and eastern new york.
moho: a gallinule (notornis mantelli) formerly inhabiting new zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. it was incapable of flight. see notornis.
mohr: a west african gazelle (gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. it is one of the species which produce bezoar.
mohur: a british indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21.
moiety: one of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.-an indefinite part; a small part.
moil: to daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.-to soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.-a spot; a defilement.
moineau: a small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
moire: originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.-a watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.
moire metallique: a crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.
moist: moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.-fresh, or new.-to moisten.
moisten: to make damp; to wet in a small degree.-to soften by making moist; to make tender.
moisture: a moderate degree of wetness.-that which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity.
moke: a donkey.-a mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.
molar: of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.-having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.-any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. the molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. see tooth.
molasse: a soft tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in switzerland. see chart of geology.
molasses: the thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. see treacle.
mold: a spot; a blemish; a mole.-alt. of mould-alt. of mould-alt. of mould-alt. of mould-alt. of mould-alt. of mould-alt. of mould
mole: a spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.-a spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.-a mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.-a mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.-any insectivore of the family talpidae. they have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.-a plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.-to form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.-to clear of molehills.
mole-eyed: having eyes like those of the mole; having imperfect sight.
molech: the fire god of the ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; moloch.
molecular: pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.
molecule: one of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist.-the smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state.-a group of atoms so united and combined by chemical affinity that they form a complete, integrated whole, being the smallest portion of any particular compound that can exist in a free state; as, a molecule of water consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen.  cf. atom.
molehill: a little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty.
moleskin: any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.
molest: to trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.-molestation.
molestation: the act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.
moline: the crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
molinism: the doctrines of the molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the arminians.
molinist: a follower of the opinions of molina, a spanish jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the jansenists.
moll: minor; in the minor mode; as, a moll, that is, a minor.
mollah: one of the higher order of turkish judges; also, a turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.
molle: lower by a semitone; flat; as, e molle, that is, e flat.
mollebart: an agricultural implement used in flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man.
mollemoke: any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as fulmarus glacialis, of the north atlantic, and several species of aestrelata, of the southern ocean. see fulmar.
mollification: the act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening.
mollify: to soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.-to assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
mollusca: one of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes cephalopoda, gastropoda, pteropodascaphopoda, and lamellibranchiata, or conchifera. these animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. they are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.
molluscan: of or pertaining to mollusks.-a mollusk; one of the mollusca.
molluscoid: resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the molluscoidea.-one of the molluscoidea.
molluscoidea: a division of invertebrata which includes the classes brachiopoda and bryozoa; -- called also anthoid mollusca.
molluscum: a cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.
moloch: the fire god of the ammonites in canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; molech. also applied figuratively.-a spiny australian lizard (moloch horridus). the horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.
molt: imp. of melt.-alt. of moult-alt. of moult-alt. of moult
molten: of melt-melted; being in a state of fusion, esp. when the liquid state is produced by a high degree of heat; as, molten iron.-made by melting and casting the substance or metal of which the thing is formed; as, a molten image.
moly: a fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by homer to have been given by hermes to ulysses to counteract the spells of circe.-a kind of garlic (allium moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.
molybdenite: a mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.
molybdenum: a rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. symbol mo. atomic weight 95.9.
molybdic: of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.
molybdous: of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.
moment: a minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.-impulsive power; force; momentum.-importance, as in influence or effect; consequence; weight or value; consideration.-an essential element; a deciding point, fact, or consideration; an essential or influential circumstance.-an infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.-tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis.
momental: lasting but a moment; brief.-important; momentous.-of or pertaining to moment or momentum.
momentary: done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
momentous: of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs.
momentum: the quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.-essential element, or constituent element.
momier: a name given in contempt to strict calvinists in switzerland, france, and some parts of germany, in the early part of the 19th century.
mon-: same as mono-.-a prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.
mona: a small, handsome, long-tailed west american monkey (cercopithecus mona). the body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
monacid: having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; -- said of bases, and of certain metals.
monad: an ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.-the elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.-one of the smallest flangellate infusoria; esp., the species of the genus monas, and allied genera.-a simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.-an atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.
monadelphia: a linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the mallow family.
monadelphous: of or pertaining to the monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.
monadical: of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. see monad, n.
monadiform: having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young.
monal: any asiatic pheasant of the genus lophophorus, as the impeyan pheasant.
monamine: a basic compound containing one amido group; as, methyl amine is a monamine.
monandria: a linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen.
monandric: of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.
monandry: the possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.
monarch: a sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.-one superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.-a patron deity or presiding genius.-a very large red and black butterfly (danais plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.-superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.
monarchal: pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial.
monarchian: one of a sect in the early christian church which rejected the doctrine of the trinity; -- called also patripassian.
monarchy: a state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.-a system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch.-the territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
monas: a genus of minute flagellate infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. see illust. under monad.
monastery: a house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
monastical: of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.-secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.
monatomic: consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic.-having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.
monaxial: having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.
monazite: a mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.
monera: the lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.-of moneron
monerula: a germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. it precedes the one-celled germ. so called from its likeness to a moner.
monesia: the bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from south america and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. it is used as an alterative and astringent.
monetization: the act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.