AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
readable: such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.
reader: one who reads.-one whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.-one who reads lectures on scientific subjects.-a proof reader.-one who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.-one who reads much; one who is studious.-a book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book.
readily: in a ready manner; quickly; promptly.-without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully.
readiness: the state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.
reading: of read-the act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.-study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.-a lecture or prelection; public recital.-the way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.-manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.-an observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.-of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.-addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
readjust: to adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
readjuster: one who, or that which, readjusts; in some of the states of the united states, one who advocates a refunding, and sometimes a partial repudiation, of the state debt without the consent of the state's creditors.
readmission: the act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission of fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.
ready: prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the troops are ready to march; ready for the journey.-fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for lack of being prepared or furnished.-prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing; free; inclined; disposed.-not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman.-offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient; near; easy.-on the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a following infinitive.-a word of command, or a position, in the manual of arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.-in a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need no delay.-ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready.-to dispose in order.
ready-made: made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
reagent: a substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.
reaggravation: the last monitory, published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication.
real: a small spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the spanish monetary system.-royal; regal; kingly.-actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.-true; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real madeira wine; real ginger.-relating to things, not to persons.-having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.-pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.-a realist.
realgar: arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. it is also an artificial product.
realism: as opposed to nominalism, the doctrine that genera and species are real things or entities, existing independently of our conceptions. according to realism the universal exists ante rem (plato), or in re (aristotle).-as opposed to idealism, the doctrine that in sense perception there is an immediate cognition of the external object, and our knowledge of it is not mediate and representative.-fidelity to nature or to real life; representation without idealization, and making no appeal to the imagination; adherence to the actual fact.
realist: one who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.-an artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. see realism, 2.
realistic: of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
reality: the state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.-that which is real; an actual existence; that which is not imagination, fiction, or pretense; that which has objective existence, and is not merely an idea.-loyalty; devotion.-see 2d realty, 2.
realize: to make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project.-to cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.-to convert into real property; to make real estate of; as, to realize his fortune.-to acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation.-to convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.-to convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc.
realizing: of realize-serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred.
realm: a royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.-hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.
realty: royalty.-loyalty; faithfulness.-reality.-immobility, or the fixed, permanent nature of real property; as, chattels which savor of the realty; -- so written in legal language for reality.-real estate; a piece of real property.
ream: cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.-to cream; to mantle.-to stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.-a bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.-to bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.
reamer: one who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.
reanimate: to animate anew; to restore to animation or life; to infuse new life, vigor, spirit, or courage into; to revive; to reinvigorate; as, to reanimate a drowned person; to reanimate disheartened troops; to reanimate languid spirits.
reanimation: the act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
reanswer: to answer in return; to repay; to compensate; to make amends for.
reap: to cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.-to gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward or harvest, or as the fruit of labor or of works; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to reap a benefit from exertions.-to clear of a crop by reaping; as, to reap a field.-to deprive of the beard; to shave.-to perform the act or operation of reaping; to gather a harvest.-a bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
reapplication: the act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
reappointment: the act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.
rear: early; soon.-the back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.-specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.-being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.-to place in the rear; to secure the rear of.-to raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.-to erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.-to lift and take up.-to bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.-to breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.-to rouse; to stir up.-to rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
rearrangement: the act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.
rearward: the last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. also used figuratively.-at or toward the rear.
reascend: to rise, mount, or climb again.-to ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.
reason: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.-the faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.-due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.-ratio; proportion.-to exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.-hence: to carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.-to converse; to compare opinions.-to arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, i reasoned the matter with my friend.-to support with reasons, as a request.-to persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.-to overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion.-to find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.
reasonable: having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.-governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.-not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.-reasonably; tolerably.
reasoner: one who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
reasoning: of reason-the act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.-that which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
reasonless: destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.-void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable.
reassure: to assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.-to reinsure.
reaumur: of or pertaining to rene antoine ferchault de reaumur; conformed to the scale adopted by reaumur in graduating the thermometer he invented.-a reaumur thermometer or scale.
reave: to take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [archaic]
rebate: to beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.-to deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties.-to abate; to withdraw.-diminution.-deduction; abatement; as, a rebate of interest for immediate payment; a rebate of importation duties.-a rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. see rabbet.-a piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.-an iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.-a kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.-to cut a rebate in. see rabbet, v.
rebec: an instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow.-a contemptuous term applied to an old woman.
rebel: pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.-one who rebels.-to renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. see rebellion.-to be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
rebeldom: a region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.
rebellion: the act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.-open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
rebellious: engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
rebiting: the act or process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it again to the action of acid.
reboil: to boil, or to cause to boil, again.-fig.: to make or to become hot.
rebound: to spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.-to give back an echo.-to bound again or repeatedly, as a horse.-to send back; to reverberate.-the act of rebounding; resilience.
rebuff: repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.-sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.-to beat back; to offer sudden resistance to; to check; to repel or repulse violently, harshly, or uncourteously.
rebuild: to build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
rebuke: to check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.-a direct and pointed reproof; a reprimand; also, chastisement; punishment.-check; rebuff.
rebus: a mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.-a pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. see canting arms, under canting.-to mark or indicate by a rebus.
rebut: to drive or beat back; to repulse.-to contradict, meet, or oppose by argument, plea, or countervailing proof.-to retire; to recoil.-to make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
rebuttal: the giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.
rebutter: the answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.
recalcitrant: kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
recalcitrate: to kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.-to kick back; to kick against anything; hence, to express repugnance or opposition.
recalcitration: a kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.
recall: to call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.-to revoke; to annul by a subsequent act; to take back; to withdraw; as, to recall words, or a decree.-to call back to mind; to revive in memory; to recollect; to remember; as, to recall bygone days.-a calling back; a revocation.-a call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc.
recant: to withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.-to revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that i am wrong, and i will recant.
recantation: the act of recanting; a declaration that contradicts a former one; that which is thus asserted in contradiction; retraction.
recapitulate: to repeat, as the principal points in a discourse, argument, or essay; to give a summary of the principal facts, points, or arguments of; to relate in brief; to summarize.-to sum up, or enumerate by heads or topics, what has been previously said; to repeat briefly the substance.
recapitulation: the act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, argument, or essay.
recapitulatory: of the nature of a recapitulation; containing recapitulation.
recapper: a tool used for applying a fresh percussion cap or primer to a cartridge shell in reloading it.
recaption: the act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them.
recaptor: one who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.
recapture: the act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.-that which is captured back; a prize retaken.-to capture again; to retake.
recarbonize: to restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.
recast: to throw again.-to mold anew; to cast anew; to throw into a new form or shape; to reconstruct; as, to recast cannon; to recast an argument or a play.-to compute, or cast up, a second time.
recede: to move back; to retreat; to withdraw.-to withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.-to cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.
receipt: the act of receiving; reception.-reception, as an act of hospitality.-capability of receiving; capacity.-place of receiving.-hence, a recess; a retired place.-a formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.-a writing acknowledging the taking or receiving of goods delivered; an acknowledgment of money paid.-that which is received; that which comes in, in distinction from what is expended, paid out, sent away, and the like; -- usually in the plural; as, the receipts amounted to a thousand dollars.-to give a receipt for; as, to receipt goods delivered by a sheriff.-to put a receipt on, as by writing or stamping; as, to receipt a bill.-to give a receipt, as for money paid.
receiptment: the receiving or harboring a felon knowingly, after the commission of a felony.
receiptor: one who receipts; specifically (law), one who receipts for property which has been taken by the sheriff.
receive: to take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.-hence: to gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.-to allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.-to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.-to admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.-to be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.-to take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.-to bat back (the ball) when served.-to receive visitors; to be at home to receive calls; as, she receives on tuesdays.-to return, or bat back, the ball when served; as, it is your turn to receive.
receivedness: the state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion.
receiver: one who takes or receives in any manner.-a person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.-one who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.-a vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.-a vessel for receiving and containing gases.-the glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump.  cf. bell jar, and see illust. of air pump.-a vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.-a capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.-that portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
recency: the state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.
recension: the act of reviewing or revising; review; examination; enumeration.-specifically, the review of a text (as of an ancient author) by an editor; critical revisal and establishment.-the result of such a work; a text established by critical revision; an edited version.
recent: of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.-of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
receptacle: that which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.-the apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. see illust. of flower, and ovary.-the dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.-an intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.-a special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
receptacular: pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.
receptibility: the quality or state of being receptible; receivableness.-a receptible thing.