AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
probation: the act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.-any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation.-the novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule.-the trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor.-moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state.
probationer: one who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.-a student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach.
probative: serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence.
probator: an examiner; an approver.-one who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.
probatory: serving for trial; probationary.-pertaining to, or serving for, proof.
probe: to examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.-fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly.-an instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc.
probe-pointed: having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.
probity: tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.
problem: a question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.-anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.
problematical: having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful.
proboscidian: pertaining to the proboscidea.-one of the proboscidea.
proboscidifera: an extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. see illust. of gastropoda, and of winkle.-a subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (pyrula), the helmet shells (cassis), the tritons, and allied genera.
proboscidiform: having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth.
proboscis: a hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk.-by extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.-the nose.
procambium: the young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.
procatarxis: the kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause.
procedendo: a writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.-in english practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment.-a writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended.
procedure: the act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.-a step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.-that which results; issue; product.
proceed: to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.-to pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.-to issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.-to go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.-to be transacted; to take place; to occur.-to have application or effect; to operate.-to begin and carry on a legal process.-see proceeds.
proceeding: of proceed-the act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.-the course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.
proceeds: that which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
proceleusmatic: inciting; animating; encouraging.-consisting of four short syllables; composed of feet of four short syllables each.-a foot consisting of four short syllables.
procellarian: one of a family of oceanic birds (procellaridae)  including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. they are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.
procerite: the segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of crustacea.
process: the act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.-a series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.-a statement of events; a narrative.-any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.-the whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.
procession: the act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.-that which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the lord mayor's procession.-an orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without.-an old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.-to ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands.-to march in procession.-to honor with a procession.
processional: of or pertaining to a procession; consisting in a procession.-a service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.-a hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.
processionary: pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service.
processioner: one who takes part in a procession.-a manual of processions; a processional.-an officer appointed to procession lands.
processioning: a proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. see 2d procession.
prochordal: situated in front of the notochord; -- applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull.
prochronism: the dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; -- opposed to metachronism.
proclaim: to make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.-to outlaw by public proclamation.
proclamation: the act of proclaiming; official or general notice; publication.-that which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a king; a thanksgiving proclamation.
proclitic: leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.
proclivity: inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.-readiness; facility; aptitude.
proclivous: inclined; tending by nature.-having the incisor teeth directed forward.
procoele: a lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain.
procoelia: same as procoele.-a division of crocodilia, including the true crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebrae are concave in front.
procoelian: concave in front; as, procoelian vertebrae, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.-a reptile having procoelian vertebrae; one of the procoelia.
proconsul: an officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. he was usually one who had previously been consul.
proconsulary: of or pertaining of a proconsul; as, proconsular powers.-under the government of a proconsul; as, a proconsular province.
procrastinate: to put off till to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance.-to delay; to be dilatory.
procrastination: the act or habit of procrastinating, or putting off to a future time; delay; dilatoriness.
procreant: generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation.-one who, or that which, procreates.
procris: any species of small moths of the genus procris. the larvae of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.
procrustean: of or pertaining to procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the procrustean treatment; a procrustean limit. see procrustes.
procrustes: a celebrated legendary highwayman of attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of procrustes.
proctocele: inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani.
proctor: one who is employed to manage to affairs of another.-a person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar.-an officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. he answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.-a representative of the clergy in convocation.-an officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.-to act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
proctorage: management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt.
proctorial: of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.
proctorship: the office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office.
proctotomy: an incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture.
proctucha: a division of turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.-the nemertina.
procumbent: lying down, or on the face; prone.-lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.
procuracy: the office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another.-authority to act for another; a proxy.
procuration: the act of procuring; procurement.-the management of another's affairs.-the instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.-a sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy.
procurator: one who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor.-a governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of judea.
procuratorial: of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.
procure: to bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan.-to contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.-to solicit; to entreat.-to cause to come; to bring; to attract.-to obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.-to pimp.-to manage business for another in court.
procurement: the act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.-efficient contrivance; management; agency.
procurer: one who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.-one who procures the gratification of lust for another; a pimp; a pander.
procyon: a star of the first magnitude in the constellation canis minor, or the little dog.-a genus of mammals including the raccoon.
prod: a pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.-a prick or stab which a pointed instrument.-a light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.-to thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.
prodigal: given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.-one who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.
prodigality: extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
prodigalize: to act as a prodigal; to spend liberally.-to expend lavishly.
prodigally: in a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated.
prodigious: of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.-extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
prodigiously: enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great.-very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased.
prodigiousness: the quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.
prodigy: something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.-anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.-a production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.
proditorious: treacherous; perfidious; traitorous.-apt to make unexpected revelations.
prodromal: of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease.
prodromus: a prodrome.-a preliminary course or publication; -- used esp. in the titles of elementary works.
produce: to bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.-to bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.-to cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.-to give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.-to yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.-to draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.-to extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.-to yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.-that which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors-agricultural products.
producer: one who produces, brings forth, or generates.-one who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.-a furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel.
producible: capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.
product: anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.-the number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. in general, the result of any kind of multiplication. see the note under multiplication.-to produce; to bring forward.-to lengthen out; to extend.-to produce; to make.
production: the act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.-that which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius.-the act of lengthening out or prolonging.
productive: having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.-bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements.-producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.
productus: an extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the carboniferous rocks.
proeguminal: serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.
proembryo: the series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.-the primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
profanation: the act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of god.-the act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy.
profane: not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.-unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.-treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.-irreverent in language; taking the name of god in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.-to violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of god; to profane the scriptures, or the ordinance of god.-to put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
profaneness: the quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.
profaner: one who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.
profanity: the quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.-that which is profane; profane language or acts.
profert: the exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.
profess: to make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.-to set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.-to present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.-to take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.-to declare friendship.
profession: the act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.-that which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.-that of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.-the collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.-the act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
professional: of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.-engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.-a person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
professionalism: the following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.
professionally: in a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
professor: one who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the scriptures and his faith in christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.-one who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
professoriate: the body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.-a professorship.
proffer: to offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.-to essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.-an offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.-essay; attempt.
proficiency: the quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.
proficient: one who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.-well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,
profile: an outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.-a human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.-a section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.-a drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.-to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.-to shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.