AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
plate: a flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.-metallic armor composed of broad pieces.-domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.-metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.-a small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.-a piece of money, usually silver money.-a piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.-a page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.-that part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. it may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.-a horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.-a roundel of silver or tinctured argent.-a sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.-a prize giving to the winner in a contest.-to cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.-to cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.-to adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.-to beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.-to calender; as, to plate paper.
plate-gilled: having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
plateau: a flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.-an ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
platen: the part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.-hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.-the movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.
plater: one who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.-a machine for calendering paper.
platform: a plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. used also figuratively.-a place laid out after a model.-any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.-a declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the saybrook platform; a political platform.-a light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. see orlop.-to place on a platform.-to form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
plating: of plate-the art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.-a thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.-a coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.
platinic: of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as, platinic chloride (ptcl4).
platinichloric: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.
platiniridium: a natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
platinochloric: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid consisting of platinous chloride and hydrochloric acid, called platinochloric, / chloroplatinous, acid.
platinochloride: a double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.
platinocyanic: pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid compound of platinous cyanide and hydrocyanic acid. it is obtained as a cinnaber-red crystalline substance.
platinocyanide: a double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.
platinoid: resembling platinum.-an alloy of german silver containing tungsten; -- used for forming electrical resistance coils and standards.
platinotype: a permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.-the process by which such pictures are produced.
platinous: of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a lower valence, as contrasted with the platinic compounds; as, platinous chloride (ptcl2).
platinum: a metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). it is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. it is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. specific gravity 21.5. atomic weight 194.3. symbol pt. formerly called platina.
platitude: the quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.-a thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
platitudinarian: one addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms.
platitudinous: abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes.
platonic: alt. of platonical-a follower of plato; a platonist.
platonical: of or pertaining to plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.-pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
platonism: the doctrines or philosophy by plato or of his followers.-an elevated rational and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.
platonist: one who adheres to the philosophy of plato; a follower of plato.
platonize: to adopt the opinion of plato or his followers.-to explain by, or accomodate to, the platonic philosophy.
platoon: formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.-now, in the united states service, half of a company.
plattdeutsch: the modern dialects spoken in the north of germany, taken collectively; modern low german. see low german, under german.
platter: one who plats or braids.-a large plate or shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table.
platting: of plat-plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.
platy-: a combining form from gr. platy`s broad, wide, flat; as, platypus, platycephalous.
platycoelian: flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebrae of some extinct dinouaurs.
platyelminthes: a class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. called also flatworms.
platymeter: an apparatus for measuring the capacity of condensers, or the inductive capacity of dielectrics.
platyptera: a division of pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (perla).
platyrhine: having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine.-one of the platyrhini.
platyrhini: a division of monkeys, including the american species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. see monkey.
plausibility: something worthy of praise.-the quality of being plausible; speciousness.-anything plausible or specious.
plausible: worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.-obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.-using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
play: to engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.-to act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.-to contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.-to perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.-to act; to behave; to practice deception.-to move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.-to move gayly; to wanton; to disport.-to act on the stage; to personate a character.-to put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.-to perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.-to perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.-to bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.-to act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play king lear; to play the woman.-to engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.-to keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.-amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.-any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.-the act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.-action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.-a dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.-the representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.-performance on an instrument of music.-motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.-hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
playa: a beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of texas, new mexico, and arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation.
player: one who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.-one who plays any game.-a dramatic actor.-one who plays on an instrument of music.-a gamester; a gambler.
playful: sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.
playgoing: frequenting playhouses; as, the playgoing public.-the practice of going to plays.
playhouse: a building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater.-a house for children to play in; a toyhouse.
plea: that which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. that which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. in chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. in criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.-a cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the court of common pleas. see under common.-that which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology.-an urgent prayer or entreaty.
pleach: to unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.
plead: of plead-to argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father.-to present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea.-to contend; to struggle.-to discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury.-to allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty.-to allege or adduce in proof, support, or vendication; to offer in excuse; as, the law of nations may be pleaded in favor of the rights of ambassadors.
pleadable: capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law.
pleader: one who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.-one who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.
pleading: of plead-the act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
pleadings: the mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point.
pleasance: pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.-a secluded part of a garden.
pleasant: pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather.-cheerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow.-a wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
pleasantry: that which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.
please: to give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.-to have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.-to be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.-to afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.-to have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
pleasing: of please-giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners.-an object of pleasure.
pleasurable: capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction; gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.
pleasure: the gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.-amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.-what the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.-that which pleases; a favor; a gratification.-to give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.-to take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.
plebe: the common people; the mob.-a member of the lowest class in the military academy at west point.
plebeian: of or pertaining to the roman plebs, or common people.-of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.-one of the plebs, or common people of ancient rome, in distinction from patrician.-one of the common people, or lower rank of men.
plebeianism: the quality or state of being plebeian.-the conduct or manners of plebeians; vulgarity.
plebicolist: one who flatters, or courts the favor of, the common people; a demagogue.
plebiscite: a vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in france, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the national constitution of 1791.
plebiscitum: a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.
plectognath: of or pertaining to the plectognathi.-one of the plectognathi.
plectognathi: an order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.
plectospondyli: an extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes having the anterior vertebrae united and much modified; the eventognathi.
plectrum: a small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.
pledge: the transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.-a person who undertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage.-a hypothecation without transfer of possession.-anything given or considered as a security for the performance of an act; a guarantee; as, mutual interest is the best pledge for the performance of treaties.-a promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do, or to refrain from doing, something; especially, a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or the like; as, to sign the pledge; the mayor had made no pledges.-a sentiment to which assent is given by drinking one's health; a toast; a health.-to deposit, as a chattel, in pledge or pawn; to leave in possession of another as security; as, to pledge one's watch.-to give or pass as a security; to guarantee; to engage; to plight; as, to pledge one's word and honor.-to secure performance of, as by a pledge.-to bind or engage by promise or declaration; to engage solemnly; as, to pledge one's self.-to invite another to drink, by drinking of the cup first, and then handing it to him, as a pledge of good will; hence, to drink the health of; to toast.
pledgee: the one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
pledget: a small plug.-a string of oakum used in calking.-a compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged.
pledgor: one who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to pledgee.
pleiades: the seven daughters of atlas and the nymph pleione, fabled to have been made by jupiter a constellation in the sky.-a group of small stars in the neck of the constellation taurus.
pleiophyllous: having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.
pleistocene: of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the tertiary, and immediately preceding man.-the pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
plenary: full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority.-decisive procedure.
plenipotentiary: a person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.-containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers.
plenish: to replenish.-to furnish; to stock, as a house or farm.
plenitude: the quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power.-animal fullness; repletion; plethora.
plenteous: containing plenty; abundant; copious; plentiful; sufficient for every purpose; as, a plenteous supply.-yielding abundance; productive; fruitful.-having plenty; abounding; rich.
plentiful: containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.-yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.-lavish; profuse; prodigal.
plenty: full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.-plentiful; abundant.
plenum: that state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.
pleochroism: the property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.
pleomorphic: pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria.
pleomorphism: the property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.-the theory that the various genera of bacteria are phases or variations of growth of a number of protean species, each of which may exhibit, according to undetermined conditions, all or some of the forms characteristic of the different genera and species.
pleonasm: redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, i saw it with my own eyes.
pleonastical: of or pertaining to pleonasm; of the nature of pleonasm; redundant.
pleopod: one of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. see illust. under crustacea.
plesimorphism: the property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition.
plesiosauria: an extinct order of mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also sauropterygia.
plesiosaurus: a genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. it lived in the mesozoic age.
plethora: overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.-state of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
plethoric: haeving a full habit of body; characterized by plethora or excess of blood; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically.
plethrum: a long measure of 100 greek, or 101 english, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 greek feet.
plethysmograph: an instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.
plethysmography: the study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.
pleura: pl. of pleuron.-the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane.-the closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall.-same as pleuron.-of pleuron
pleural: of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax.
pleurapophysis: one of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib.
pleurenchyma: a tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.
pleurisy: an inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.
pleuritical: of or pertaining to pleurisy; as, pleuritic symptoms.-suffering from pleurisy.
pleuro-: a combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.
pleurobrachia: a genus of ctenophores having an ovate body and two long plumose tentacles.