AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
pronunciation: the act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.-the mode of uttering words or sentences.-the art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
proof: any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.-that degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.-the quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.-firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.-a trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet.-a process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed.  cf. prove, v. t., 5.-armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.-used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.-firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.-being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of alcoholic liquors.
proof-arm: to arm with proof armor; to arm securely; as, to proof-arm herself.
proostracum: the anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. see illust. of phragmocone.
prootic: in front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule.-a prootic bone.
prop: a shell, used as a die. see props.-to support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (fig.)  to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.-that which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.
propaedeutical: of, pertaining to, or conveying, preliminary instruction; introductory to any art or science; instructing beforehand.
propagable: capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.-capable of being spread or extended by any means; -- said of tenets, doctrines, or principles.
propaganda: a congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.-the college of the propaganda, instituted by urban viii. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.-hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.
propagandism: the art or practice of propagating tenets or principles; zeal in propagating one's opinions.
propagate: to cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.-to cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light.-to spread from person to person; to extend the knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the christian religion.-to multiply; to increase.-to generate; to produce.-to have young or issue; to be produced or multiplied by generation, or by new shoots or plants; as, rabbits propagate rapidly.
propagation: the act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants.-the spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel.
propane: a heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, c3h8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.
propel: to drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
propeller: one who, or that which, propels.-a contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel.-a steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
propend: to lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend.
propense: leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness.
propensity: the quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
propenyl: a hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, c3h5, isomeric with allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin.  cf. allyl, and glyceryl.
propeptone: a product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.
proper: belonging to one; one's own; individual.-belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites.-befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.-becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.-pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; dublin is the proper name of a city.-rightly so called; strictly considered; as, greece proper; the garden proper.-represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge.-properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
properly: in a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.-individually; after one's own manner.
property: that which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.-an acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.-the exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.-that to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.-all the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.-propriety; correctness.-to invest which properties, or qualities.-to make a property of; to appropriate.
prophecy: a declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.-a book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of ahijah.-public interpretation of scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.
prophesy: to foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.-to foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.-to utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.-to give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.
prophet: one who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.-one inspired or instructed by god to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, moses, elijah, etc.-an interpreter; a spokesman.-a mantis.
prophetical: containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.
propheticalness: the quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
prophragma: an internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.
prophylactic: a medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.-alt. of prophylactical
prophylaxis: the art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.
propidene: the unsymmetrical hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, ch3.ch2.ch, analogous to ethylidene, and regarded as the type of certain derivatives of propane; -- called also propylidene.
propination: the act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another.
propine: to pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.-hence, to give in token of friendship.-to give, or deliver; to subject.-a pledge.-a gift; esp., drink money.-same as allylene.
propinquity: nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity.-nearness in time.-nearness of blood; kindred; affinity.
propinyl: a hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of propine and allied compounds.
propiolic: pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also propargylic acid) of the acetylene or tetrolic series, analogous to propionic acid, and obtained as a white crystalline substance.
propione: the ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.
propionic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is produced in the distillation of wood, in the fermentation of various organic substances, as glycerin, calcium lactate, etc., and is obtained as a colorless liquid having a sharp, pungent odor. propionic acid is so called because it is the first or lowest member of the fatty acid series whose salts have a fatty feel.
propionyl: the hypothetical radical c3h5o, regarded as the essential residue of propionic acid and certain related compounds.
propithecus: a genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. see indris.
propitiate: to appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.-to make propitiation; to atone.
propitiation: the act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.-that which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice; specifically, the influence or effects of the death of christ in appeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor.
propitiatory: having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice.-the mercy seat; -- so called because a symbol of the propitiated jehovah.
propitious: convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze.-hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity.
propodial: of or pertaining to the propodialia, or the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
propodiale: the bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.
propodite: the sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, the penultimate joint.
propodium: the anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.-the segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.
proponent: making proposals; proposing.-one who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.-the propounder of a thing.
proportion: the relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body.-harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.-the portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.-a part considered comparatively; a share.-the equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth.-the rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.-to adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.-to form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.-to divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
proportionable: capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate.
proportional: having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.-relating to, or securing, proportion.-constituting a proportion; having the same, or a constant, ratio; as, proportional quantities; momentum is proportional to quantity of matter.-any number or quantity in a proportion; as, a mean proportional.-the combining weight or equivalent of an element.
proportionally: in proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large.
proportionate: adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.-to make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
proposal: that which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.-the offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.
propose: to set forth.-to offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.-to set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.-to speak; to converse.-to form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but god disposes.-to offer one's self in marriage.-talk; discourse.
proposer: one who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.-a speaker; an orator.
proposition: the act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.-that which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.-a statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of wyclif and huss.-a complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.-a statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.-that which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.-the part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
propositional: pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense.
propound: to offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.-to propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
propretor: a magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.
proprietary: a proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.-a body proprietors, taken collectively.-a monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.-belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
proprietor: one who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
propriety: individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.-that which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.-the quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.
props: a game of chance, in which four sea shells, each called a prop, are used instead of dice.
propterygium: the anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes.
propulsion: the act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.-an impelling act or movement.
propulsive: tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.
propyl: the hypothetical radical c3h7, regarded as the essential residue of propane and related compounds.
propylaeum: any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure.
propylene: a colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (c3h6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. it occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. called also propene.
propylic: pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.
prorogation: the act of counting in duration; prolongation.-the act of proroguing; the ending of the session of parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign.
prorogue: to protract; to prolong; to extend.-to defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage.-to end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business.
prosaical: of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition.-dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person.
proscenium: the part where the actors performed; the stage.-the part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework.
proscolex: an early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. see redia.
proscribe: to doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, sylla and marius proscribed each other's adherents.-to denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the puritans proscribed theaters.
proscriber: one who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.
proscript: a proscription; a prohibition; an interdict.-one who is proscribed.
proscription: the act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best roman citizens fell by proscription.-the state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.
proscriptive: of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.
prose: the ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition.-hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.-a hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the mass. see sequence.-pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.-possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.-to write in prose.-to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.-to write prose.
prosector: one who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.
prosecute: to follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.-to seek to obtain by legal process; as, to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law.-to pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.-to follow after.-to institute and carry on a legal prosecution; as, to prosecute for public offenses.
prosecution: the act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war.-the institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense.-the institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.-the party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted.
prosecutor: one who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.-the person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government.
proselyte: a new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a gentile converted to judaism, or a pagan converted to christianity, is a proselyte.-to convert to some religion, opinion, or system; to bring over.
proselytism: the act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.-conversion to a religion, system, or party.
proselytize: to convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.-to make converts or proselytes.
prosencephalon: the anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain.-the cerebrum.
prosenchyma: a general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood.
prosiness: the quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.
prosing: of prose-writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
prosiphon: a minute tube found in the protoconch of ammonites, and not connected with the true siphon.
prosobranchiata: the highest division, or subclass, of gastropod mollusks, including those that have the gills situated anteriorly, or forward of the heart, and the sexes separate.
prosody: that part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
prosoma: the anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.
prosopolepsy: respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance.
prosopop/ia: a figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. it includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.
prosopulmonata: a division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail.
prospect: that which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.-especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.-a position affording a fine view; a lookout.-relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.-the act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.-that which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.-to look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.-to make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.