AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
reception: the act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas; reception of evidence.-the state of being received.-the act or manner of receiving, esp. of receiving visitors; entertainment; hence, an occasion or ceremony of receiving guests; as, a hearty reception; an elaborate reception.-acceptance, as of an opinion or doctrine.-a retaking; a recovery.
receptive: having the quality of receiving; able or inclined to take in, absorb, hold, or contain; receiving or containing; as, a receptive mind.
receptivity: the state or quality of being receptive.-the power or capacity of receiving impressions, as those of the external senses.
recess: a withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.-the state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.-remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.-part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.-a place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.-secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.-a sinus.-to make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.-a decree of the imperial diet of the old german empire.
recessed: of recess-having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.-withdrawn; secluded.
recession: the act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.-the act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.
rechabite: one of the descendants of jonadab, the son of rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. jer. xxxv. 2-19. also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors.
recharter: a second charter; a renewal of a charter.-to charter again or anew; to grant a second or another charter to.
recheat: a strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.-to blow the recheat.
recherche: sought out with care; choice. hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.
recidivous: tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
recipe: a formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.
recipiangle: an instrument with two arms that are pivoted together at one end, and a graduated arc, -- used by military engineers for measuring and laying off angles of fortifications.
recipient: a receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.-receiving; receptive.
reciprocal: recurring in vicissitude; alternate.-done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due from each to each; mutual; as, reciprocal love; reciprocal duties.-mutually interchangeable.-reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.-used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities. see the phrases below.-that which is reciprocal to another thing.-the quotient arising from dividing unity by any quantity; thus, / is the reciprocal of 4; 1/(a +b) is the reciprocal of a + b. the reciprocal of a fraction is the fraction inverted, or the denominator divided by the numerator.
reciprocally: in a reciprocal manner; so that each affects the other, and is equally affected by it; interchangeably; mutually.-in the manner of reciprocals.
reciprocalness: the quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
reciprocate: to move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.-to give and return mutually; to make return for; to give in return; to interchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors.
reciprocation: the act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.-alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.
reciprocity: mutual action and reaction.-reciprocal advantages, obligations, or rights; reciprocation.
recital: the act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.-a telling in detail and due order of the particulars of anything, as of a law, an adventure, or a series of events; narration.-that which is recited; a story; a narration.-a vocal or instrumental performance by one person; -- distinguished from concert; as, a song recital; an organ, piano, or violin recital.-the formal statement, or setting forth, of some matter of fact in any deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded; the statement of matter in pleading introductory to some positive allegation.
recitation: the act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.-the delivery before an audience of something committed to memory, especially as an elocutionary exhibition; also, that which is so delivered.-the rehearsal of a lesson by pupils before their instructor.
recitative: a species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.-of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.
recite: to repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from recollection; to rehearse; as, to recite the words of an author, or of a deed or covenant.-to tell over; to go over in particulars; to relate; to narrate; as, to recite past events; to recite the particulars of a voyage.-to rehearse, as a lesson to an instructor.-to state in or as a recital. see recital, 5.-to repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.-a recital.
reck: to make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.-to concern; -- used impersonally.-to make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of.
reckless: inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.-rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.
reckling: needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child.-a weak child or animal.
reckon: to count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.-to count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.-to charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.-to conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, i reckon he won't try that again.-to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.-to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.
reckoner: one who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.
reckoning: of reckon-the act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.-an account of time-adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.-the charge or account made by a host at an inn.-esteem; account; estimation.-the calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.-the position of a ship as determined by calculation.
reclaim: to claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.-to call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.-to call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.-to reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.-hence: to reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.-to call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.-to correct; to reform; -- said of things.-to exclaim against; to gainsay.-to cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.-to bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.-to draw back; to give way.-the act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
reclaimant: one who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
reclamation: the act or process of reclaiming.-representation made in opposition; remonstrance.
reclinate: reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base.
reclination: the act of leaning or reclining, or the state of being reclined.-the angle which the plane of the dial makes with a vertical plane which it intersects in a horizontal line.-the act or process of removing a cataract, by applying the needle to its anterior surface, and depressing it into the vitreous humor in such a way that the front surface of the cataract becomes the upper one and its back surface the lower one.
recline: to cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.-to lean or incline; as, to recline against a wall.-to assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch.-having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
reclining: of recline-bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.-recumbent.
recluse: shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.-a person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.-the place where a recluse dwells.-to shut up; to seclude.
recoct: to boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct.
recognition: the act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice.
recognizance: an obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to do some particular act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. a recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.-the verdict of a jury impaneled upon assize.-a token; a symbol; a pledge; a badge.-acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.
recognize: to know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.-to avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.-to acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.-to show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.-to review; to reexamine.-to reconnoiter.-to enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, a b recognized in the sum of twenty dollars.
recoil: to start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.-to draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.-to turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.-to draw or go back.-a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.-the state or condition of having recoiled.-specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
recollect: to recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.-reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.-a friar of the strict observance, -- an order of franciscans.
recollection: the act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.-the power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance; memory; as, an event within my recollection.-that which is recollected; something called to mind; reminiscence.-the act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
recommence: to commence or begin again.-to begin anew to be; to act again as.-to commence again or anew.
recommend: to commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.-to make acceptable; to attract favor to.-to commit; to give in charge; to commend.
recommendation: the act of recommending.-that which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.-the state of being recommended; esteem.
recommit: to commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.
recompensation: recompense.-used to denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.
recompense: to render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate.-to return an equivalent for; to give compensation for; to atone for; to pay for.-to give in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.-to give recompense; to make amends or requital.-an equivalent returned for anything done, suffered, or given; compensation; requital; suitable return.
recompilement: the act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws.
recompose: to compose again; to form anew; to put together again or repeatedly.-to restore to composure; to quiet anew; to tranquilize; as, to recompose the mind.
reconcilable: capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.
reconcile: to cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to reconcile persons who have quarreled.-to bring to acquiescence, content, or quiet submission; as, to reconcile one's self to affictions.-to make consistent or congruous; to bring to agreement or suitableness; -- followed by with or to.-to adjust; to settle; as, to reconcile differences.-to become reconciled.
reconciliation: the act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.-reduction to congruence or consistency; removal of inconsistency; harmony.
recondite: hidden from the mental or intellectual view; secret; abstruse; as, recondite causes of things.-dealing in things abstruse; profound; searching; as, recondite studies.
reconnaissance: the act of reconnoitering; preliminary examination or survey.-an examination or survey of a region in reference to its general geological character.-an examination of a region as to its general natural features, preparatory to a more particular survey for the purposes of triangulation, or of determining the location of a public work.-an examination of a territory, or of an enemy's position, for the purpose of obtaining information necessary for directing military operations; a preparatory expedition.
reconnoitre: to examine with the eye to make a preliminary examination or survey of; esp., to survey with a view to military or engineering operations.-to recognize.
reconquer: to conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province.
reconsider: to consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.-to take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.
reconsideration: the act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.
reconsolidation: the act or process of reconsolidating; the state of being reconsolidated.
reconstruct: to construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
reconstruction: the act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.-the act or process of reorganizing the governments of the states which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the civil war.
reconvention: a cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge.
reconvertible: capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
reconvey: to convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods.-to transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
record: to recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.-to repeat; to recite; to sing or play.-to preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.-to reflect; to ponder.-to sing or repeat a tune.-a writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.-an official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.-an authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book, or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.-an official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.-the various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.-testimony; witness; attestation.-that which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.-that which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.-that which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
recorder: one who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.-the title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an east indian settlement. the recorder of london is judge of the lord mayor's court, and one of the commissioners of the central criminal court.-a kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
recording: of record-keeping a record or a register; as, a recording secretary; -- applied to numerous instruments with an automatic appliance which makes a record of their action; as, a recording gauge or telegraph.
recorporification: the act of investing again with a body; the state of being furnished anew with a body.
recount: to count or reckon again.-a counting again, as of votes.-to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
recoupe: to keep back rightfully (a part), as if by cutting off, so as to diminish a sum due; to take off (a part) from damages; to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.-to get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.-to reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.
recourse: a coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence.-recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort.-access; admittance.-to return; to recur.-to have recourse; to resort.
recover: to cover again.-to get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain.-to make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of; as, to recover lost time.-to restore from sickness, faintness, or the like; to bring back to life or health; to cure; to heal.-to overcome; to get the better of, -- as a state of mind or body.-to rescue; to deliver.-to gain by motion or effort; to obtain; to reach; to come to.-to gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant.-to regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright.-to make one's way; to come; to arrive.-to obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.-recovery.
recoverable: capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
recovery: the act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.-restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.-the obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.-the getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.-in rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.
recreant: crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.-apostate; false; unfaithful.-one who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
recreate: to give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.-to take recreation.
recreation: the act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
recreative: tending to recreate or refresh; recreating; giving new vigor or animation; reinvigorating; giving relief after labor or pain; amusing; diverting.
recrement: superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.-excrement.-a substance secreted from the blood and again absorbed by it.
recrementitial: of the nature of a recrement. see recrement, 2 (b).
recriminate: to return one charge or accusation with another; to charge back fault or crime upon an accuser.-to accuse in return.
recrimination: the act of recriminating; an accusation brought by the accused against the accuser; a counter accusation.