AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
monetize: to convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.
money: a piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.-any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.-in general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.-to supply with money.
money-maker: one who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money.-one who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
money-making: the act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.-affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business.-sussessful in gaining money, and devoted to that aim; as, a money-making man.
moneyage: a tax paid to the first two norman kings of england to prevent them from debashing the coin.-mintage; coinage.
moneyed: supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men.-converted into money; coined.-consisting in, or composed of, money.
moneyer: a person who deals in money; banker or broker.-an authorized coiner of money.
moneywort: a trailing plant (lysimachia nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
monger: a trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.-a small merchant vessel.-to deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
mongol: one of the mongols.-of or pertaining to mongolia or the mongols.
mongolian: of or pertaining to mongolia or the mongols.-one of the mongols.
mongolians: one of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of china, japan, and the interior of asia, with branches in northern europe and other parts of the world. by some american indians are considered a branch of the mongols. in a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of mongolia and adjacent countries, including the burats and the kalmuks.
mongoloid: resembling a mongol or the mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the mongols.
mongoos: a species of ichneumon (herpestes griseus), native of india. applied also to other allied species, as the african banded mongoose (crossarchus fasciatus).
mongrel: the progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.-not of a pure breed.-of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.
mongrelize: to cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.
moniliform: joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna.  see illust. of antenna.
moniment: something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.
monism: that doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.-see monogenesis, 1.
monition: instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.-information; indication; notice; advice.-a process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.-an order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.
monitor: one who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.-hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.-any large old world lizard of the genus varanus; esp., the egyptian species (v. niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. it is sometimes five or six feet long.-an ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.-a tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
monitorial: of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.-done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.
monitory: giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.-admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
monk: a man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.-a blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. it is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.-a piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.-a south american monkey (pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as cebus xanthocephalus.-the european bullfinch.
monk's seam: an extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
monkery: the life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.-a collective body of monks.
monkey: in the most general sense, any one of the quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.-any species of quadrumana, except the lemurs.-any one of numerous species of quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.-a term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.-the weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.-a small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.-to act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
monkey's puzzle: a lofty coniferous chilian tree (araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." the edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called pion by the chilians.
monkey-bread: the fruit of the adansonia digitata; also, the tree. see adansonia.
monkey-pot: the fruit of two south american trees (lecythis ollaria, and l. zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. vases and pots are made of this capsule.
monkfish: the angel fish (squatina).-the angler (lophius).
monkflower: a name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (catasetum tridentatum, etc.).
monkish: like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
monkshood: a plant of the genus aconitum; aconite. see aconite.
monobasic: capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.
monocarbonic: containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
monocardian: having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.-an animal having a single heart.
monocarpellary: consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
monocarpous: bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
monoceros: a one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.-the unicorn, a constellation situated to the east orion.
monochlamydeous: having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
monochord: an instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. it consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
monochrome: a painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
monochromic: made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture.
monoclinal: having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.
monoclinic: having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. see crystallization.
monoclinous: hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
monocondyla: a group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the sauropsida.
monocotyledonous: having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf.
monocrotic: of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.
monocrotism: that condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.
monocular: having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.-adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope.
monocystic: of or pertaining to a division (monocystidea) of gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.
monodelphia: the group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the placentalia. see mammalia.
monodical: belonging to a monody.-for one voice; monophonic.-homophonic; -- applied to music in which the melody is confined to one part, instead of being shared by all the parts as in the style called polyphonic.
monody: a species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
monodynamism: the theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force.
monoecia: a linnaean class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.
monoecian: of or pertaining to the monoecia; monoecious.-one of the monoecia.-a monoecious animal, as certain mollusks.
monoecious: having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious.
monogamia: a linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus lobelia.
monogamic: pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.-of or pertaining to the monogamia; having a simple flower with united anthers.
monogamous: upholding, or practicing, monogamy.-same as monogamian.-mating with but one of the opposite sex; -- said of birds and mammals.
monogamy: single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.-state of being paired with a single mate.
monogenesis: oneness of origin; esp. (biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. called also monism.-that form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction.-the direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis.
monogenetic: one in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range.-relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the source of all beings.
monogenic: of or pertaining to monogenesis.-producing only one kind of germs, or young; developing only in one way.
monogenism: the theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.
monogenist: one who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.
monogenous: of or pertaining to monogenesis; as, monogenous, or asexual, reproduction.
monogeny: monogenesis.-the doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin.
monogram: a character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.-a picture in lines; a sketch.-an arbitrary sign for a word.
monograph: a written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
monographical: of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography; as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture.
monogynia: a linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.
monogynian: pertaining to the monogynia; monogynous.-one of the monogynia.
monogynous: of or pertaining to monogynia; having only one style or stigma.
monogyny: marriage with the one woman only.-the state or condition of being monogynous.
monolith: a single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
monologue: a speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.-a dramatic composition for a single performer.
monomania: derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.
monomaniacal: affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.
monomerous: composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.-having but one joint; -- said of the foot of certain insects.
monometallism: the legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. see bimetallism.
monometallist: one who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.
monomial: a single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.-consisting of but a single term or expression.
monomorphous: having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.
monomphalus: a form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus.
monomyaria: an order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.
monomyary: of or pertaining to the monomya.-one of the monomya.
monopetalous: having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.
monophonic: single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; -- opposed to polyphonic.
monophthong: a single uncompounded vowel sound.-a combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
monophyletic: of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
monophyllous: one-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.
monophyodont: having but one set of teeth; -- opposed to diphyodont.
monophysite: one of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in jesus christ constituted but one composite nature. also used adjectively.
monoplastic: that has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element.
monopode: one of a fabulous tribe or race of ethiopians having but one leg and foot.-a monopodium.
monopodial: having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.
monopolist: one who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.
monopolize: to acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.
monopoly: the exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.-exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land.-the commodity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in france.
monopsychism: the doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.
monopteral: round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
monoptote: a noun having only one case.-a noun having only one ending for the oblique cases.
monorhyme: a composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.
monosepalous: having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.
monostichous: arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe chloridae.
monostrophic: having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure.
monosulphide: a sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
monosyllabic: being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.
monosyllabism: the state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.
monotessaron: a single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
monothelite: one of an ancient sect who held that christ had but one will as he had but one nature.  cf. monophysite.
monotocous: bearing fruit but once; monocarpic.-uniparous; laying a single egg.
monotone: a single unvaried tone or sound.-the utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.
monotonical: of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.
monotonist: one who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
monotonous: uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.
monotony: a frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.-any irksome sameness, or want of variety.
monotremata: a subclass of mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. the female lays eggs like a bird. see duck mole, under duck, and echidna.
monotriglyph: a kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.
monotropa: a genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the indian pipe and pine sap. the name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.
monotypic: having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.
monoxide: an oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.
monseigneur: my lord; -- a title in france of a person of high birth or rank; as, monseigneur the prince, or monseigneur the archibishop. it was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the revolution of 1789. (abbrev. mgr.)
monsel's salt: a basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from monsel, a frenchman.
monsel's solution: an aqueous solution of monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
monsieur: the common title of civility in france in speaking to, or of, a man; mr. or sir.-the oldest brother of the king of france.-a frenchman.
monsignore: my lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (abbrev. mgr.)
monsoon: a wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the indian ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of may to the middle of september, and from the northeast from about the middle of october to the middle of december.
monster: something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.-specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.-any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.-monstrous in size.-to make monstrous.
monstrosity: the state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.
monstrous: marvelous; strange.-having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.-extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.-extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.-abounding in monsters.-exceedingly; very; very much.
monstrously: in a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked.
mont de piete: one of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. the institution has been adopted in other countries, as in spain and france. see lombard-house.
montanist: a follower of mintanus, a phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the holy spirit, the paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the christian life.
montant: an upward thrust or blow.-an upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile.
monte-acid: an acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
monteith: see monteth.-a vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
montem: a custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at eton school, england, of going every third year, on whittuesday, to a hillock near the bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
montgolfier: a balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, stephen and joseph montgolfier, of france, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
month: one of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. in popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
monthly: continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.-done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.-a publication which appears regularly once a month.-once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.-as if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic.