AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
provide: to look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.-to supply; to afford; to contribute.-to furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.-to establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.-to foresee.-to appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. see provisor.-to procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.-to stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.
provided: of provide-on condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.
providence: the act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.-foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which god manifests for his creatures; hence, god himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.-a manifestation of the care and superintendence which god exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.-prudence in the management of one's concerns; economy; frugality.
provident: foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of; as, aprovident man; an animal provident of the future.
providential: effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.
providentness: the quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.
province: a country or region, more or less remote from the city of rome, brought under the roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of italy.-a country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.-a region of country; a tract; a district.-a region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.-the proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.-specif.: any political division of the dominion of canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the dominion parliament. hence, colloquially, the provinces, the dominion of canada.
provincial: of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.-exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.-of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.-of or pertaining to provence; provencal.-a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.-a monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
provincialism: a word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
provinciality: the quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
provision: the act of providing, or making previous preparation.-that which is provided or prepared; that which is brought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation.-especially, a stock of food; any kind of eatables collected or stored; -- often in the plural.-that which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions.-a canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.-a nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.-to supply with food; to victual; as, to provision a garrison.
provisional: of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.
proviso: an article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.
provisor: one who provides; a purveyor.-the purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.-one who is regularly inducted into a benefice. see provision, 5.-one who procures or receives a papal provision. see provision, 6.
provisorily: in a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily.
provisory: of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.-making temporary provision; provisional.
provocation: the act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger.-that which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation.-incitement; stimulus; as, provocation to mirth.-such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress.-an appeal to a court. [a latinism]
provocative: serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.-anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite.
provoke: to call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.-to cause provocation or anger.-to appeal. [a latinism]
provokement: the act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition.
provoking: of provoke-having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
provost: a person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of edinburgh or of glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.-the keeper of a prison.
prow: the fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.-see proa.-valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.-benefit; profit; good; advantage.
prowess: distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.
prowl: to rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty.-to collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.-to rove or wander stealthily, esp. for prey, as a wild beast; hence, to prey; to plunder.-the act of prowling.
prowling: of prowl-accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.
prox: "the ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes."
proxene: an officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.
proximal: toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.-situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb.-of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. opposed to distal.
proximity: the quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
proximo: in the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.
proxy: the agency for another who acts through the agent; authority to act for another, esp. to vote in a legislative or corporate capacity.-the person who is substituted or deputed to act or vote for another.-a writing by which one person authorizes another to vote in his stead, as in a corporation meeting.-the written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts.-see procuration.-to act or vote by proxy; to do anything by the agency of another.
prude: a woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.
prudence: the quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
prudent: sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.-frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.
prudential: proceeding from, or dictated or characterized by, prudence; prudent; discreet; sometimes, selfish or pecuniary as distinguished from higher motives or influences; as, prudential motives.-exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee.-that which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the pl.
prudery: the quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.
prudhomme: a trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. see citation under 3d commune, 1.
prudish: like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.
pruinose: frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.
prune: to lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.-to cut off or cut out, as useless parts.-to preen; to prepare; to dress.-to dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.-a plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, french or turkish prunes; california prunes.
prunella: angina, or angina pectoris.-thrush.-alt. of prunello
prunelle: a kind of small and very acid french plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
prunello: a smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.-a species of dried plum; prunelle.
pruner: one who prunes, or removes, what is superfluous.-any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the american oak pruner (asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. when the branches fall each contains a pupa.
pruning: of prune-the act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.-that which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.
prunus: a genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening.
prurient: uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
pruriginous: tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo.
prurigo: a papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.
prussic: designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. see hydrocyanic.
prutenic: prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of copernicus, a prussian.
pry: a lever; also, leverage.-to raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize.-to peep narrowly; to gaze; to inspect closely; to attempt to discover something by a scrutinizing curiosity; -- often implying reproach.-curious inspection; impertinent peeping.
prytaneum: a public building in certain greek cities; especially, a public hall in athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
prytanis: a member of one of the ten sections into which the athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
prytany: the period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
psalm: a sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of god.-especially, one of the hymns by david and others, collected into one book of the old testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.-to extol in psalms; to sing; as, psalming his praises.
psalmist: a writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to david and the other authors of the scriptural psalms.-a clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.
psalmody: the act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.
psalter: the book of psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the psalms separately printed.-specifically, the book of psalms as printed in the book of common prayer; among the roman catholics, the part of the breviary which contains the psalms arranged for each day of the week.-a rosary, consisting of a hundred and fifty beads, corresponding to the number of the psalms.
psalterium: the third stomach of ruminants. see manyplies.-the lyra of the brain.
psaltery: a stringed instrument of music used by the hebrews, the form of which is not known.
psarolite: a silicified stem of tree fern, found in abundance in the triassic sandstone.
psephism: a proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the athenian people; a statute.
pseudaesthesia: false or imaginary feeling or sense perception such as occurs in hypochondriasis, or such as is referred to an organ that has been removed, as an amputated foot.
pseudembryo: a false embryo.-an asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
pseudepigraphic: alt. of pseudepigraphic-of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.
pseudo-: a combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. also used adjectively.
pseudo-bulb: an aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.
pseudo-china: the false china root, a plant of the genus smilax (s. pseudo-china), found in america.
pseudo-cone: one of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.
pseudo-cumene: a hydrocarbon of the aromatic series, metameric with mesitylene and cumene, found in coal tar, and obtained as a colorless liquid.
pseudo-dipteral: falsely or imperfectly dipteral, as a temple with the inner range of columns surrounding the cella omitted, so that the space between the cella wall and the columns is very great, being equal to two intercolumns and one column.-a pseudo-dipteral temple.
pseudo-heart: any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system.
pseudo-hyperthophic: falsely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.
pseudo-metallic: falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
pseudo-monocotyledonous: having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
pseudo-symmetry: a kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
pseudobacteria: microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria.
pseudocarp: that portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.
pseudocoelia: the fifth ventricle in the mammalian brain. see ventricle.
pseudofilaria: one of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain gregarinae.
pseudohalter: one of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (stylops). they resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of diptera.
pseudomorph: an irregular or deceptive form.-a pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.
pseudomorphism: the state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.
pseudonavicula: one of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of gregarinae and some other protozoa.
pseudoneuroptera: division of insects (zool.) reticulated wings, as in the neuroptera, but having an active pupa state. it includes the dragon flies, may flies, white ants, etc. by some zoologists they are classed with the orthoptera; by others, with the neuroptera.
pseudonym: a fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.
pseudopod: any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.-a rhizopod.
pseudopodial: of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. see illust. of heliozoa.
pseudopupa: a stage intermediate between the larva and pupa of bees and certain other hymenopterous insects.
pseudorhabdite: one of the peculiar rodlike corpuscles found in the integument of certain turbellaria. they are filled with a soft granular substance.
pseudoscope: an instrument which exhibits objects with their proper relief reversed; -- an effect opposite to that produced by the stereoscope.
pseudoscopic: of, pertaining to, or formed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.
pseudoscorpiones: an order of arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. called also pseudoscorpii, and pseudoscorpionina. see illust. of book scorpion, under book.
pseudosphere: the surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. this surface corresponds in non-euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. an important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.
pseudostoma: a group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them.
pseudotetramera: a division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints.
pseudovum: an egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvae of certain insects. it is capable of development without fertilization. see illust. of paedogenesis.
pseuso-peripteral: falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end.-a pseudo-peripteral temple.
pshaw: pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc.-to express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation " pshaw!"
psilanthropic: pertaining to, or embodying, psilanthropy. "a psilanthropic explanation."
psilomelane: a hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.
psilopaedes: birds whose young at first have down on the pterylae only; -- called also gymnopaedes.
psilopaedic: having down upon the pterylae only; -- said of the young of certain birds.
psitta-co-fulvine: a yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.
psittacid: of or pertaining to the parrots, or the psittaci.-one of the psittaci.
psoas: an internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebrae and inserted into the femur. in man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas.
psoriasis: the state of being affected with psora.-a cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin.
psorosperm: a minute parasite, usually the young of gregarinae, in the pseudonavicula stage.
psyche: a lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of eros, or cupid. she is regarded as the personification of the soul.-the soul; the vital principle; the mind.-a cheval glass.
psychian: any small moth of the genus psyche and allied genera (family psychidae). the larvae are called basket worms. see basket worm, under basket.
psychical: of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.-of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; -- contrasted with physical.
psychism: the doctrine of quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.
psycho-: a combining form from gr. psychh` the soul, the mind, the understanding; as, psychology.
psychology: the science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.
psychometry: the art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.
psychopannychism: the doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.
psychophysical: of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.
psychophysics: the science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.
psychosis: any vital action or activity.-a disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes.
psychozoic: designating, or applied to the era of man; as, the psychozoic era.
psychrometer: an instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.
psylla: any leaping plant louse of the genus psylla, or family psyllidae.
ptarmigan: any grouse of the genus lagopus, of which numerous species are known. the feet are completely feathered. most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.
ptenoglossa: a division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.
pteranodon: a genus of american cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
pteranodontia: a group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus pteranodon.
pterichthys: a genus of devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. the head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. see placodermi.