AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
prospective: of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective.-looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective.-being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit.-the scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.-a perspective glass.
prospectus: a summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work.
prosper: to favor; to render successful.-to be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.-to grow; to increase.
prosperity: the state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity.
prosperous: tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.-being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation.
prosphysis: a growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball.
prostate: standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra.-the prostate gland.
prosthesis: the addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.-the prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a word, as in beloved.
prosthetic: of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.
prostitute: to offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.-to devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers.-openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.-a woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot.-a base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
prostitution: the act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.-the act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press.
prostitutor: one who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.
prostomium: that portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.
prostrate: lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.-lying at mercy, as a supplicant.-lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture.-trailing on the ground; procumbent.-to lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants.-to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice.-to throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself.-to cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever.
prostration: the act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.-the act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship.-the condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits.-a latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor.
prosy: of or pertaining to prose; like prose.-dull and tedious in discourse or writing; prosaic.
prosylogism: a syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.
protactic: giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory.
protagon: a nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. by decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.
protagonist: one who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.
protamin: an amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. it is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.
protasis: a proposition; a maxim.-the introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. see apodosis.-the first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis.
proteaceous: of or pertaining to the proteaceae, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the cape of good hope or of australia.
protean: of or pertaining to proteus; characteristic of proteus.-exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
protect: to cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.
protection: the act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.-that which protects or preserves from injury; a defense; a shield; a refuge.-a writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.-a theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade.
protector: one who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.-one having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.-a cardinal, from one of the more considerable roman catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
protectoral: of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
protectorate: government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of england by oliver cromwell.-the authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs.
proteid: one of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles, containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc.  proteids are present in nearly all animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and organs. they are also important constituents of vegetable tissues.  see 2d note under food.
proteidea: an order of aquatic amphibians having prominent external gills and four legs. it includes proteus and menobranchus (necturus). called also proteoidea, and proteida.
protein: a body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.
proteles: a south africa genus of carnivora, allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. it includes the aard-wolf.
proteolysis: the digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments.
proteolytic: converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.
proterandrous: having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous.
proteroglypha: a suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws. it includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes. called also proteroglyphia.
proterogynous: having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.
proterosaurus: an extinct genus of reptiles of the permian period. called also protosaurus.
protest: to affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.-to make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes.-to make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty.-to call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.-a solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in parliament.-a solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the nonpayment of the note, as the case may be.-a declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them.-a declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.
protestant: one who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the emperor charles v. and the diet of spires, in 1529, against the reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any christian who does not belong to the roman catholic or the greek church.-making a protest; protesting.-of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those christians who reject the authority of the roman catholic church; as, protestant writers.
protestantism: the quality or state of being protestant, especially against the roman catholic church; the principles or religion of the protestants.
protestation: the act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent.-formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.
protester: one who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.-one who protests a bill of exchange, or note.
proteus: a sea god in the service of neptune who assumed different shapes at will. hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles.-a genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in austria. they have permanent external gills as well as lungs. the eyes are small and the legs are weak.-a changeable protozoan; an amoeba.
prothallus: the minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc.
prothesis: a credence table; -- so called by the eastern or greek church.-see prosthesis.
prothetic: of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus.
prothorax: the first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. see illusts. of butterfly and coleoptera.
protista: a provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. some are probably plants, others animals.-of protiston
proto-: a combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.-denoting the first or lowest of a series, or the one having the smallest amount of the element to the name of which it is prefixed; as protoxide, protochloride, etc.-sometimes used as equivalent to mono-, as indicating that the compound has but one atom of the element to the name of which it is prefixed. also used adjectively.
proto-doric: pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the doric style are supposed to be found.
protocanonical: of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
protocatechuic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself yields pyrocatechin.
protocercal: having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.
protococcus: a genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (protococcus nivalis).
protocol: the original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.-the minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.-a preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.-a convention not formally ratified.-an agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.-to make a protocol of.-to make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.
protoconch: the embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
protogine: a kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.
protohippus: a genus of fossil horses from the lower pliocene. they had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small.
protomartyr: the first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to stephen, the first christian martyr.
protomorphic: having the most primitive character; in the earliest form; as, a protomorphic layer of tissue.
protonema: the primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.
protonotary: a chief notary or clerk.-formerly, a chief clerk in the court of king's bench and in the court of common pleas, now superseded by the master.-a register or chief clerk of a court in certain states of the united states.-formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the roman curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.-the chief secretary of the patriarch of constantinople.-same as prothonotary.
protoorganism: an organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
protophyte: any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.
protopine: an alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
protoplasm: the viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.
protoplasmic: of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.-of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.
protoplast: the thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.-a first-formed organized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species.
protoplasta: a division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. the genus gromia is one of the best-known.
protopodite: the basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.
protopope: one of the clergy of first rank in the lower order of secular clergy; an archpriest; -- called also protopapas.
protosilicate: a silicate formed with the lowest proportion of silicic acid, or having but one atom of silicon in the molecule.
protosulphide: that one of a series of sulphides of any element which has the lowest proportion of sulphur; a sulphide with but one atom of sulphur in the molecule.
prototype: an original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.
protovertebra: one of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. see illust. of ectoderm.
protoxide: that one of a series of oxides having the lowest proportion of oxygen. see proto-, 2 (b).
protoxidize: to combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide.
protozoan: of or pertaining to the protozoa.-one of the protozoa.
protozoic: of or pertaining to the protozoa.-containing remains of the earliest discovered life of the globe, which included mollusks, radiates and protozoans.
protozoon: one of the protozoa.-a single zooid of a compound protozoan.
protozoonite: one of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod.
protract: to draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.-to put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.-to draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.-to extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.-tedious continuance or delay.
protraction: a drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.-the act or process of making a plot on paper.-a plot on paper.
protractive: drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
protractor: one who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction.-a mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. it is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular.-an instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound.-a muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.-an adjustable pattern used by tailors.
protrude: to thrust forward; to drive or force along.-to thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.-to shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project.
protrusile: capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.
protrusion: the act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.-the state of being protruded, or thrust forward.
protrusive: thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion.-capable of being protruded; protrusile.
protuberance: that which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.
protuberancy: the quality or state of being protuberant; protuberance; prominence.
protuberant: prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye.
protuberate: to swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.
protyle: the hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.
proud: feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense-possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; presumptuous.-having a feeling of high self-respect or self-esteem; exulting (in); elated; -- often with of; as, proud of one's country.-giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.-excited by sexual desire; -- applied particularly to the females of some animals.
proudly: in a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.
proustite: a sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.
provant: to supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.-provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.
prove: to try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure.-to evince, establish, or ascertain, as truth, reality, or fact, by argument, testimony, or other evidence.-to ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.-to gain experience of the good or evil of; to know by trial; to experience; to suffer.-to test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved.-to take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.-to make trial; to essay.-to be found by experience, trial, or result; to turn out to be; as, a medicine proves salutary; the report proves false.-to succeed; to turn out as expected.
provection: a carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename.
proveditor: one employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.
proven/al: of or pertaining to provence or its inhabitants.-a native or inhabitant of provence in france.-the provencal language. see langue d'oc.
provence rose: the cabbage rose (rosa centifolia).-a name of many kinds of roses which are hybrids of rosa centifolia and r. gallica.
provender: dry food for domestic animals, as hay, straw, corn, oats, or a mixture of ground grain; feed.-food or provisions.
proverb: an old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.-a striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.-a familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.-a drama exemplifying a proverb.-to name in, or as, a proverb.-to provide with a proverb.-to write or utter proverbs.
proverbial: mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial.-of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb.
proverbialist: one who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing; one who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
proverbially: in a proverbial manner; by way of proverb; hence, commonly; universally; as, it is proverbially said; the bee is proverbially busy.
provessel: openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed christian.