AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
secretion: the act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods.-the act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. the process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions.-any substance or fluid secreted, or elaborated and emitted, as the gastric juice.
secretive: tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
secretiveness: the quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.-the faculty or propensity which impels to reserve, secrecy, or concealment.
secretness: the state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.-secretiveness; concealment.
secretory: secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves.-a secretory vessel; a secernent.
sect: a cutting; a scion.-those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.
sectant: one of the portions of space bounded by the three coordinate planes. specif. (crystallog.), one of the parts of a crystal into which it is divided by the axial planes.
sectarian: pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.-one of a sect; a member or adherent of a special school, denomination, or religious or philosophical party; one of a party in religion which has separated itself from established church, or which holds tenets different from those of the prevailing denomination in a state.
sectarianism: the quality or character of a sectarian; devotion to the interests of a party; excess of partisan or denominational zeal; adherence to a separate church organization.
sectarianize: to imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.
sectary: a sectarian; a member or adherent of a sect; a follower or disciple of some particular teacher in philosophy or religion; one who separates from an established church; a dissenter.
sectile: capable of being cut; specifically (min.), capable of being severed by the knife with a smooth cut; -- said of minerals.
section: the act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.-a part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.-a distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.-a distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.-one of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the united states are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. these sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.-the figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. in the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.-a division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.-a part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. see phrase.-the description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.
sectional: of or pertaining to a sections or distinct part of larger body or territory; local.-consisting of sections, or capable of being divided into sections; as, a sectional steam boiler.
sectionalism: a disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
sector: a part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.-a mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. the sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.-an astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. when it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector.
secular: coming or observed once in an age or a century.-pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.-of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.-not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest.-belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.-a secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.-a church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.-a layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
secularism: the state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.-the tenets or principles of the secularists.
secularist: one who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.
secularization: the act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
secularize: to convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.-to convert from spiritual or common use; as, to secularize a church, or church property.-to make worldly or unspiritual.
secularness: the quality or state of being secular; worldliness; worldly-minded-ness.
secundine: the second coat, or integument, of an ovule, lying within the primine.-the afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural.
secundo-geniture: a right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.
secure: free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.-overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.-confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.-net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.-to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.-to put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.-to make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.-to get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
secureness: the condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.
securipalp: one of a family of beetles having the maxillary palpi terminating in a hatchet-shaped joint.
security: the condition or quality of being secure; secureness.-freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.-hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness.-freedom from risk; safety.-that which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.-something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.-one who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.-an evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.
sedan: a portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. called also sedan chair.
sedate: undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.
sedative: tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize-allaying irritability and irritation; assuaging pain.-a remedy which allays irritability and irritation, and irritative activity or pain.
sedentary: accustomed to sit much or long; as, a sedentary man.-characterized by, or requiring, much sitting; as, a sedentary employment; a sedentary life.-inactive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil.-caused by long sitting.-remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans.
sedge: any plant of the genus carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. they have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. there are several hundred species.-a flock of herons.
sedilia: seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.
sediment: the matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.-the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
sedimentary: of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.
sedimentation: the act of depositing a sediment; specifically (geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
sedition: the raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority.-dissension; division; schism.
seditious: of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.-disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens.
seduce: to draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.-specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.
seducement: the act of seducing.-the means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting.
seducer: one who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.
seduction: the act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.-that which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.
seductive: tending to lead astray; apt to mislead by flattering appearances; tempting; alluring; as, a seductive offer.
sedulity: the quality or state of being sedulous; diligent and assiduous application; constant attention; unremitting industry; sedulousness.
sedulous: diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
sedum: a genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop.
see: a seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.-specifically: (a) the seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of new york. (b) the seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) the seat, place, or office of the pope, or roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) the pope or his court at rome; as, to appeal to the see of rome.-to perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.-to perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.-to follow with the eyes, or as with the eyes; to watch; to regard attentivelly; to look after.-to have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit; as, to go to see a friend.-to fall in with; to have intercourse or communication with; hence, to have knowledge or experience of; as, to see military service.-to accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.-to have the power of sight, or of perceiving by the proper organs; to possess or employ the sense of vision; as, he sees distinctly.-figuratively: to have intellectual apprehension; to perceive; to know; to understand; to discern; -- often followed by a preposition, as through, or into.-to be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house.
seed: of seed-a ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. by germination it produces a new plant.-any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.-the generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used in the plural.-that from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.-the principle of production.-progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of abraham; the seed of david.-race; generation; birth.-to sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.-to cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
seedbox: a capsule.-a plant (ludwigia alternifolia) which has somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.
seediness: the quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.
seedling: a plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
seedsman: a sower; one who sows or scatters seed.-a person who deals in seeds.
seedy: abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.-having a peculiar flavor supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; -- said of certain kinds of french brandy.-old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat.
seeing: of see-in view of the fact (that); considering; taking into account (that); insmuch as; since; because; -- followed by a dependent clause; as, he did well, seeing that he was so young.
seek: sick.-to go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.-to inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.-to try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.-to try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.-to make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
seek-no-further: a kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; -- formerly called go-no-further.
seeker: one who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.-one of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in great britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.
seel: to close the eyes of (a hawk or other bird) by drawing through the lids threads which were fastened over the head.-hence, to shut or close, as the eyes; to blind.-to incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.-alt. of seeling-good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. [obs.] "so have i seel".-time; season; as, hay seel.
seem: to appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.-to befit; to beseem.
seeming: of seem-having a semblance, whether with or without reality; apparent; specious; befitting; as, seeming friendship; seeming truth.-appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness.-apprehension; judgment.
seemly: suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.-in a decent or suitable manner; becomingly.
seer: sore; painful.-one who sees.-a person who foresees events; a prophet.
seersucker: a light fabric, originally made in the east indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
seesaw: a play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.-a plank or board adjusted for this play.-a vibratory or reciprocating motion.-same as crossruff.-to move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.-to cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.-moving up and down, or to and fro; having a reciprocating motion.
seethe: to decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.-to be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.
seggar: a case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin.
segment: one of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.-a part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the illustration.-a piece in the form of the sector of a circle, or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.-a segment gear.-one of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.-one of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.-to divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation, or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
segmental: relating to, or being, a segment.-of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae.-of or pertaining to the segmental organs.
segmentation: the act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.
sego: a liliaceous plant (calochortus nuttallii) of western north america, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the ute indians and the mormons.
segregate: separate; select.-separated from others of the same kind.-to separate from others; to set apart.-to separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.
segregation: the act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.-separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
seguestration: the act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. it may be voluntary or involuntary.-a prerogative process empowering certain commissioners to take and hold a defendant's property and receive the rents and profits thereof, until he clears himself of a contempt or performs a decree of the court.-a kind of execution for a rent, as in the case of a beneficed clerk, of the profits of a benefice, till he shall have satisfied some debt established by decree; the gathering up of the fruits of a benefice during a vacancy, for the use of the next incumbent; the disposing of the goods, by the ordinary, of one who is dead, whose estate no man will meddle with.-the seizure of the property of an individual for the use of the state; particularly applied to the seizure, by a belligerent power, of debts due from its subjects to the enemy.-the state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.-disunion; disjunction.
seiches: local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as lake geneva.
seidlitz: of or pertaining to seidlitz, a village in bohemia.
seigneurial: of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.-vested with large powers; independent.
seignior: a lord; the lord of a manor.-a title of honor or of address in the south of europe, corresponding to sir or mr. in english.
seigniorage: something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.-a share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.
seigniory: the power or authority of a lord; dominion.-the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.
seine: a large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. it hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish.
seirospore: one of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus callithamnion.
seismograph: an apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.
seismographic: of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.
seismography: a writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.-the art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.
seismometer: an instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.
seismometric: of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.
seismometry: the mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the coordinates of space.
seize: to fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.-to take possession of by force.-to invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.-to take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.-to fasten; to fix.-to grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.-to bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
seizin: possession; possession of an estate of froehold. it may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. in some of the united states seizin means merely ownership.-the act of taking possession.-the thing possessed; property.