AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
straighten: to make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.-to make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one's affairs; to straighten an account.-a variant of straiten.
straightforward: proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank.-in a straightforward manner.
straightly: in a right line; not crookedly.-a variant of straitly. see 1st straight.
straightness: the quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.-a variant of straitness.
strain: race; stock; generation; descent; family.-hereditary character, quality, or disposition.-rank; a sort.-to draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument.-to act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it.-to exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously.-to stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person.-to injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship.-to injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle.-to squeeze; to press closely.-to make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.-to urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation.-to press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth.-to make violent efforts.-to percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil.-the act of straining, or the state of being strained.-a violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain.-a change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress.-a portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.-any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career.-turn; tendency; inborn disposition.  cf. 1st strain.
strained: of strain-subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.-done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
strainer: one who strains.-that through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
strait: a variant of straight.-narrow; not broad.-tight; close; closely fitting.-close; intimate; near; familiar.-strict; scrupulous; rigorous.-difficult; distressful; straited.-parsimonious; niggargly; mean.-strictly; rigorously.-a narrow pass or passage.-a (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of gibraltar; the straits of magellan; the strait, or straits, of mackinaw.-a neck of land; an isthmus.-fig.: a condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits.-to put to difficulties.
strait-jacket: a dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. it has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.
strait-laced: bound with stays.-restricted; stiff; constrained.-rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.
straiten: to make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.-to make tense, or tight; to tighten.-to restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances.
straitly: in a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.-closely; intimately.
straitness: the quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
strake: imp. of strike.-a streak.-an iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces.-one breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak.-a trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
stramash: to strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.-a turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.
stramineous: strawy; consisting of straw.-chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
stramonium: a poisonous plant (datura stramonium); stinkweed. see datura, and jamestown weed.
strand: one of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.-to break a strand of (a rope).-the shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.-to drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.-to drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.
strange: belonging to another country; foreign.-of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.-not before known, heard, or seen; new.-not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer.-reserved; distant in deportment.-backward; slow.-not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced.-strangely.-to alienate; to estrange.-to be estranged or alienated.-to wonder; to be astonished.
strangely: as something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange.-in the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly.-in a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.
stranger: one who is strange, foreign, or unknown.-one who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.-one whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.-one who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.-one not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.-one not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.-to estrange; to alienate.
strangle: to compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope.-to stifle, choke, or suffocate in any manner.-to hinder from appearance; to stifle; to suppress.-to be strangled, or suffocated.
strangles: a disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
strangulated: having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.-contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
strangulation: the act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.-inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
strangury: a painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.-a swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it.
strap: a long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.-something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.-a piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop.-a narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.-a band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.-a piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.-the flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.-the leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.-a shoulder strap. see under shoulder.-to beat or chastise with a strap.-to fasten or bind with a strap.-to sharpen by rubbing on a strap, or strop; as, to strap a razor.
strap-shaped: shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
strappado: a military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated.-to punish or torture by the strappado.
strapping: of strap-tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow.
strapple: to hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
strapwork: a kind of ornament consisting of a narrow fillet or band folded, crossed, and interlaced.
strass: a brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium.  cf. glass.
stratagem: an artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
stratarithmetry: the art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
strategy: the science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.-the use of stratagem or artifice.
strath: a valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, strath spey, strathdon, strathmore.
strathspey: a lively scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune.
straticulate: characterized by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate.
stratification: the act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.-the deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
stratified: having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.-of stratify
stratify: to form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
stratigraphical: pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence.
stratum: a bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. also used figuratively.-a bed or layer artificially made; a course.
stratus: a form of clouds in which they are arranged in a horizontal band or layer. see cloud.
straw: to spread or scatter. see strew, and strow.-a stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.-the gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.-anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
straw-colored: being of a straw color. see straw color, under straw, n.
strawberry: a fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus fragaria, of which there are many varieties. also, the plant bearing the fruit. the common american strawberry is fragaria virginiana; the european, f. vesca. there are also other less common species.
strawy: of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.
stray: to wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.-to wander from company, or from the proper limits; to rove at large; to roam; to go astray.-figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.-to cause to stray.-having gone astray; strayed; wandering; as, a strayhorse or sheep.-any domestic animal that has an inclosure, or its proper place and company, and wanders at large, or is lost; an estray.  used also figuratively.-the act of wandering or going astray.
streak: to stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.-a line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.-a strake.-the fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.-the rung or round of a ladder.-to form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.-with it as an object: to run swiftly.
streaked: of streak-marked or variegated with stripes.-uncomfortable; out of sorts.
stream: a current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.-a beam or ray of light.-anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.-a continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.-current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.-to issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.-to pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.-to issue in a stream of light; to radiate.-to extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.-to send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.-to mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.-to unfurl.
streamer: an ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.-a stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.-a searcher for stream tin.
streaming: of stream-sending forth streams.-the act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams.-the reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin.
streamless: destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel.
streamy: abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful.-resembling a stream; issuing in a stream.
streel: to trail along; to saunter or be drawn along, carelessly, swaying in a kind of zigzag motion.
street: originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
streetward: an officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.-facing toward the street.
strelitz: a soldier of the ancient muscovite guard or russian standing army; also, the guard itself.
strelitzia: a genus of plants related to the banana, found at the cape of good hope. they have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.
strength: the quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.-power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.-power of resisting attacks; impregnability.-that quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.-one who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.-force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?-vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work.-intensity; -- said of light or color.-intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.-a strong place; a stronghold.-to strengthen.
strengthen: to make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.-to animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.-to grow strong or stronger.
strenuous: eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
strepitores: a division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
strepsiptera: a group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. they are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also rhipiptera. see illust. under rhipipter.
strepsorhine: having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs.-one of the strepsorhina; a lemur. see illust. under monkey.
streptobacteria: a so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain.
streptococcus: a long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved.
streptoneura: an extensive division of gastropod mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. it is nearly to equivalent to prosobranchiata.
streptothrix: a genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.
stress: distress.-pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.-the force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.-force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. stress is in english the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. see guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.-distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.-to press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.-to subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
stretch: to reach out; to extend; to put forth.-to draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.-to cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings.-to make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly.-to draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.-to exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.-to be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles.-to extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.-to be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.-to strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.-to sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.-act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.-a continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.-the extent to which anything may be stretched.-the reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.-course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
stretcher: one who, or that which, stretches.-a brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.-a piece of timber used in building.-a narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.-a crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.-a litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.-an overstretching of the truth; a lie.-one of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.-an instrument for stretching boots or gloves.-the frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
stretto: the crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.-in an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
strew: to scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.-to cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.-to spread abroad; to disseminate.
strewing: of strew-the act of scattering or spreading.-anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.
stria: a minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striae, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striae on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.-a fillet between the flutes of columns, pilasters, or the like.
striated: of striate-marked with striaae, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.
striation: the quality or condition of being striated.-a stria; as, the striations on a shell.
stricken: struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.-worn out; far gone; advanced. see strike, v. t., 21.-whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.-of strike
strickle: an instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.-an instrument for whetting scythes; a rifle.-an instrument used for smoothing the surface of a core.-a templet; a pattern.-an instrument used in dressing flax.
strict: strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.-tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.-exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.-governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the sabbath.-rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.-upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.