AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
subspecies: a group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.
subsphenoidal: situated under, or on the ventral side of, the body of the sphenoid bone.
subspinous: subvertebral.-situated beneath a spinous process, as that of the scapula; as, subspinous dislocation of the humerus.
substance: that which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence.-the most important element in any existence; the characteristic and essential components of anything; the main part; essential import; purport.-body; matter; material of which a thing is made; hence, substantiality; solidity; firmness; as, the substance of which a garment is made; some textile fabrics have little substance.-material possessions; estate; property; resources.-same as hypostasis, 2.-to furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.
substantial: belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.-not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.-corporeal; material; firm.-having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.-possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.
substantialness: the quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.
substantiate: to make to exist; to make real.-to establish the existence or truth of by proof or competent evidence; to verify; as, to substantiate a charge or allegation; to substantiate a declaration.
substantive: betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.-depending on itself; independent.-enduring; solid; firm; substantial.-pertaining to, or constituting, the essential part or principles; as, the law substantive.-a noun or name; the part of speech which designates something that exists, or some object of thought, either material or immaterial; as, the words man, horse, city, goodness, excellence, are substantives.-to substantivize.
substantively: in a substantive manner; in substance; essentially.-as a substantive, name, or noun; as, an adjective may be used substantively.
substantivize: to convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective.
substituent: any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.
substitute: one who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else-a person who enlists for military service in the place of a conscript or drafted man.-to put in the place of another person or thing; to exchange.
substituted: of substitute-exchanged; put in the place of another.-containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia.
substitution: the act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act for one in his absense; the substitution of bank notes for gold and silver as a circulating medium.-the state of being substituted for another.-the office or authority of one acting for another; delegated authority.-the designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him.-the doctrine that christ suffered vicariously, being substituted for the sinner, and that his sufferings were expiatory.-the act or process of substituting an atom or radical for another atom or radical; metethesis; also, the state of being so substituted. see metathesis.
substitutional: of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place of another; substituted.
substitutive: tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.
substrate: a substratum.-having very slight furrows.-to strew or lay under anything.
substratum: that which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (agric.), the subsoil.-the permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.
substruction: underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.
substyle: a right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
subsulphide: a nonacid compound consisting of one equivalent of sulphur and more than one equivalent of some other body, as a metal.
subsume: to take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include under something else.
subsumption: the act of subsuming, or of including under another.-that which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.
subtangent: the part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
subtenant: one who rents a tenement, or land, etc., of one who is also a tenant; an undertenant.
subtend: to extend under, or be opposed to; as, the line of a triangle which subtends the right angle; the chord subtends an arc.
subtense: a line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
subterfuge: that to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion.
subterraneous: being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.
subtile: thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.-delicately constituted or constructed; nice; fine; delicate; tenuous; finely woven.-acute; piercing; searching.-characterized by nicety of discrimination; discerning; delicate; refined; subtle.-sly; artful; cunning; crafty; subtle; as, a subtile person; a subtile adversary; a subtile scheme.
subtilization: the act of making subtile.-the operation of making so volatile as to rise in steam or vapor.-refinement; subtlety; extreme attenuation.
subtilize: to make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.-to refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments.-to refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.
subtilty: the quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light.-refinement; extreme acuteness; subtlety.-cunning; skill; craft.-slyness in design; artifice; guile; a cunning design or artifice; a trick; subtlety.
subtle: sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.-cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.-characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive.-smooth and deceptive.
subtlety: the quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.-nice discernment with delicacy of mental action; nicety of discrimination.-something that is sly, crafty, or delusive.
subtly: in a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.-nicely; delicately.-deceitfully; delusively.
subtonic: applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by dr. james rush in 1833. see guide to pronunciation, //155, 199-202.-a subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.-the seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.
subtract: to withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
subtraction: the act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.-the taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities.-the withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.
subtractive: tending, or having power, to subtract.-having the negative sign, or sign minus.
subtreasury: a subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the united states subtreasury at new york.
subtribe: a division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
subtrihedral: approaching the form of a three-sided pyramid; as, the subtrihedral crown of a tooth.
subtypical: deviating somewhat from the type of a species, genus, or other group; slightly aberrant.
subulated: very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.
subulicornes: a division of insects having slender or subulate antennae. the dragon flies and may flies are examples.
subulipalp: one of a group of carabid beetles having slender palpi.
subumbrella: the integument of the under surface of the bell, or disk-shaped body, of a jellyfish.
suburb: an outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of paris.-hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.
suburban: of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.-one who dwells in the suburbs.
suburbicary: being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of rome subject to the pope as bishop of rome.
subvaginal: situated under or inside a sheath or vaginal membrane; as, the subvaginal, or subdural, spaces about the optic nerve.
subvention: the act of coming under.-the act of relieving, as of a burden; support; aid; assistance; help.-a government aid or bounty.-to subventionize.
subversion: the act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution.
subvert: to overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.-to pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.-to overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.
subvertebral: situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
subvitalized: imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital power or energy.
subway: an underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.
subzonal: situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.
succade: a sweetmeat.-sweetmeats, or preserves in sugar, whether fruit, vegetables, or confections.
succedaneous: pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the place of something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.
succedaneum: one who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute-a remedy used as a substitute for another.
succeed: to follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.-to fall heir to; to inherit.-to come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.-to support; to prosper; to promote.-to come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.-specifically: to ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.-to descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.-to obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.-to go under cover.
succeeding: of succeed-the act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence.
success: act of succeeding; succession.-that which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.-the favorable or prosperous termination of anything attempted; the attainment of a proposed object; prosperous issue.-that which meets with, or one who accomplishes, favorable results, as a play or a player.
successful: resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise.
succession: the act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters.-a series of persons or things according to some established rule of precedence; as, a succession of kings, or of bishops; a succession of events in chronology.-an order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.-the power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne.-the right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.-the person succeeding to rank or office; a successor or heir.
successionist: a person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
successive: following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of egypt; successive strokes of a hammer.-having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire.
successor: one who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.
succinamic: of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide derivative of succinic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, and forming a series of salts.
succinct: girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.-compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.
succinic: pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, c/h/.(co/h)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. it is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.
succinimide: a white crystalline nitrogenous substance, c2h4.(co)2.nh, obtained by treating succinic anhydride with ammonia gas. it is a typical imido acid, and forms a series of salts. see imido acid, under imido.
succinuric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. it is known also in its salts.
succor: to run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.-aid; help; assistance; esp., assistance that relieves and delivers from difficulty, want, or distress.-the person or thing that brings relief.
succotash: green maize and beans boiled together. the dish is borrowed from the native indians.
succubous: having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus plagiochila.
succubus: a demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba.  cf. incubus.-the nightmare. see nightmare, 2.
succula: a bare axis or cylinder with staves or levers in it to turn it round, but without any drum.
succulency: the quality or condition of being succulent; juiciness; as, the succulence of a peach.
succumb: to yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
succussion: the act of shaking; a shake; esp. (med.), a shaking of the body to ascertain if there be a liquid in the thorax.
succussive: characterized by a shaking motion, especially an up and down movement, and not merely tremulous oscillation; as, the succussive motion in earthquakes.
such: of that kind; of the like kind; like; resembling; similar; as, we never saw such a day; -- followed by that or as introducing the word or proposition which defines the similarity, or the standard of comparison; as, the books are not such that i can recommend them, or, not such as i can recommend; these apples are not such as those we saw yesterday; give your children such precepts as tend to make them better.-having the particular quality or character specified.-the same that; -- with as; as, this was the state of the kingdom at such time as the enemy landed.-certain; -- representing the object as already particularized in terms which are not mentioned.
suchospondylous: having dorsal vertebrae with long and divided transverse processes; -- applied to certain reptiles.
suck: to draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting the air.-to draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.-to draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking; to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck water from the ground.-to draw or drain.-to draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up.-to draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with the mouth, or through a tube.-to draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking.-to draw in; to imbibe; to partake.-the act of drawing with the mouth.-that which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically, mikl drawn from the breast.-a small draught.-juice; succulence.
sucken: the jurisdiction of a mill, or that extent of ground astricted to it, the tenants of which are bound to bring their grain thither to be ground.
sucker: one who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.-a suckling; a sucking animal.-the embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.-a pipe through which anything is drawn.-a small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.-a shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.-any one of numerous species of north american fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. the flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. the most common species of the eastern united states are the northern sucker (catostomus commersoni), the white sucker (c. teres), the hog sucker (c. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (erimyzon sucetta). some of the large western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.-the remora.-the lumpfish.-the hagfish, or myxine.-a california food fish (menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.-a parasite; a sponger. see def. 6, above.-a hard drinker; a soaker.-a greenhorn; one easily gulled.-a nickname applied to a native of illinois.-to strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.-to form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
sucking: of suck-drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
suckle: a teat.-to give suck to; to nurse at the breast.-to nurse; to suck.
suckling: of suckle-a young child or animal nursed at the breast.-a small kind of yellow clover (trifolium filiforme) common in southern europe.
sucrate: a compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.
sucrose: a common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet root, etc. it is extracted as a sweet, white crystalline substance which is valuable as a food product, and, being antiputrescent, is largely used in the preservation of fruit. called also saccharose, cane sugar, etc. by extension, any one of the class of isomeric substances (as lactose, maltose, etc.) of which sucrose proper is the type.
suction: the act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air.
suctoria: an order of infusoria having the body armed with somewhat stiff, tubular processes which they use as suckers in obtaining their food. they are usually stalked.-same as rhizocephala.
suctorial: adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.-capable of adhering by suction; as, the suctorial fishes.
suctorian: a cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.-one of the suctoria.
sudamina: minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.
sudarium: the handkerchief upon which the savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.
sudatory: sweating; perspiring.-a bagnio; a sweating bath; a vapor bath.
sudden: happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation; immediate; instant; speedy.-hastly prepared or employed; quick; rapid.-hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.-suddenly; unexpectedly.-an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.
sudorific: causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs.-a sudorific medicine.  cf. diaphoretic.
suds: water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.