AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
synclinal: inclined downward from opposite directions, so as to meet in a common point or line.-formed by strata dipping toward a common line or plane; as, a synclinal trough or valley; a synclinal fold; -- opposed to anticlinal.-a synclinal fold.
synclinorium: a mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.
syncopate: to contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "gloster" is a syncopated form of "gloucester."-to commence, as a tone, on an unaccented part of a measure, and continue it into the following accented part, so that the accent is driven back upon the weak part and the rhythm drags.
syncopation: the act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.-the act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
syncope: an elision or retrenchment of one or more letters or syllables from the middle of a word; as, ne'er for never, ev'ry for every.-same as syncopation.-a fainting, or swooning. see fainting.-a pause or cessation; suspension.
syncretic: uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.
syncretism: attempted union of principles or parties irreconcilably at variance with each other.
syncretist: one who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;-an adherent of george calixtus and other germans of the seventeenth century, who sought to unite or reconcile the protestant sects with each other and with the roman catholics, and thus occasioned a long and violent controversy in the lutheran church.
syncretistic: pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of jehovah and the worship of idols.-of or pertaining to syncretists.
syncytium: tissue in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle.-the ectoderm of a sponge.
syndactylous: having the toes firmly united together for some distance, and without an intermediate web, as the kingfishers; gressorial.
syndetical: connecting; conjunctive; as, syndetic words or connectives; syndetic references in a dictionary.
syndic: an officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.-an agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.
syndicate: the office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.-an association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds.-to judge; to censure.
syndrome: concurrence.-a group of symptoms occurring together that are characteristic and indicative of some underlying cause, such as a disease.
syndyasmian: pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
syne: afterwards; since; ago.-late, -- as opposed to soon.-since; seeing.
synecdoche: a figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.
synechia: a disease of the eye, in which the iris adheres to the cornea or to the capsule of the crystalline lens.
synedral: growing on the angles of a stem, as the leaves in some species of selaginella.
synentognathi: an order of fishes, resembling the physoclisti, without spines in the dorsal, anal, and ventral fins. it includes the true flying fishes.
synepy: the interjunction, or joining, of words in uttering the clauses of sentences.
syneresis: the union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.-same as synaeresis.
synergism: the doctrine or theory, attributed to melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both of god and of man.
synergist: one who holds the doctrine of synergism.-a remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.
synergy: combined action-the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.-an effect of the interaction of the actions of two agents such that the result of the combined action is greater than expected as a simple additive combination of the two agents acting separately. also synergism.
syngenesia: a linnaean class of plants in which the stamens are united by the anthers.
syngenesious: having the stamens united by the anthers; of or pertaining to the syngenesia.
syngenesis: a theory of generation in which each germ is supposed to contain the germs of all subsequent generations; -- the opposite of epigenesis.
syngnathi: a suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snout and lack the ventral and first dorsal fins.  the pipefishes and sea horses are examples.
synizesis: an obliteration of the pupil of the eye.-a contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.
synocil: a sense organ found in certain sponges. it consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.
synod: an ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.-an assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.-a conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
synodal: synodical.-a tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.-a constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
synodical: of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.-pertaining to conjunction, especially to the period between two successive conjunctions; extending from one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see lunar month, under month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet.
synodically: in a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.
synoecious: having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle.
synomocy: sworn brotherhood; a society in ancient greece nearly resembling a modern political club.
synonym: one of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. see under synonymous.
synonymic: the science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.-alt. of synonymical
synonymize: to express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.
synonymous: having the character of a synonym; expressing the same thing; conveying the same, or approximately the same, idea.
synonymy: the quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.-a system of synonyms.-a figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.
synopsis: a general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
synoptic: alt. of synoptical-one of the first three gospels of the new testament. see synoptist.
synoptical: affording a general view of the whole, or of the principal parts of a thing; as, a synoptic table; a synoptical statement of an argument.
synoptist: any one of the authors of the three synoptic gospels, which give a history of our lord's life and ministry, in distinction from the writer of john's gospel, which gives a fuller record of his teachings.
synosteosis: union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.
synovia: a transparent, viscid, lubricating fluid which contains mucin and secreted by synovial membranes; synovial fluid.
synpelmous: having the two main flexor tendons of the toes blended together.
syntactical: of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.
syntax: connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.-that part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
synthesis: composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.-the art or process of making a compound by putting the ingredients together, as contrasted with analysis; thus, water is made by synthesis from hydrogen and oxygen; hence, specifically, the building up of complex compounds by special reactions, whereby their component radicals are so grouped that the resulting substances are identical in every respect with the natural articles when such occur; thus, artificial alcohol, urea, indigo blue, alizarin, etc., are made by synthesis.-the combination of separate elements of thought into a whole, as of simple into complex conceptions, species into genera, individual propositions into systems; -- the opposite of analysis.
synthesize: to combine by synthesis; to unite.-to produce by synthesis; as, to synthesize albumin.
synthetical: of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical.-artificial.  cf. synthesis, 2.-comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. see the note under comprehensive, 3.
syntonin: a proteid substance (acid albumin) formed from the albuminous matter of muscle by the action of dilute acids; -- formerly called musculin. see acid albumin, under albumin.
syphering: the lapping of chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.
syphilis: the pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. see under primary, secondary, and tertiary.
syphilitic: of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.-a syphilitic patient.
syphilization: inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.
syphilodermatous: of or pertaining to the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis.
syriac: of or pertaining to syria, or its language; as, the syriac version of the pentateuch.-the language of syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.
syrianism: a syrian idiom, or a peculiarity of the syrian language; a syriacism.
syringa: a genus of plants; the lilac.-the mock orange; -- popularly so called because its stems were formerly used as pipestems.
syringe: a kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. it consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc.-to inject by means of a syringe; as, to syringe warm water into a vein.-to wash and clean by injection from a syringe.
syringeal: of or pertaining to the syrinx; as, the syringeal muscle.
syringin: a glucoside found in the bark of the lilac (syringa) and extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called also lilacin.
syringotome: a small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.
syrinx: a wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.-the lower larynx in birds.
syrma: a long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in greek and roman theaters.
syrphian: of or pertaining to the syrphus flies.-a syrphus fly.
syrphus fly: any one of numerous species of dipterous flies of the genus syrphus and allied genera. they are usually bright-colored, with yellow bands, and hover around plants. the larvae feed upon plant lice, and are, therefore, very beneficial to agriculture.
syrtic: of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand.
syrup: a thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.-a thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated.-alt. of syrupy
syrupy: like sirup, or partaking of its qualities.-same as sirup, sirupy.
systaltic: capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.
system: an assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.-hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.-regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.-the collection of staves which form a full score. see score, n.-an assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.-one of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.
systematical: of or pertaining to system; consisting in system; methodical; formed with regular connection and adaptation or subordination of parts to each other, and to the design of the whole; as, a systematic arrangement of plants or animals; a systematic course of study.-proceeding according to system, or regular method; as, a systematic writer; systematic benevolence.-pertaining to the system of the world; cosmical.-affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration.
systematist: one who forms a system, or reduces to system.-one who adheres to a system.
systematize: to reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.
systemic: of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.-of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases.
systemless: being without system.-not agreeing with some artificial system of classification.-not having any of the distinct systems or types of structure, as the radiate, articulate, etc., characteristic of organic nature; as, all unicellular organisms are systemless.
systole: the shortening of the long syllable.-the contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.
systolic: of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur.
systyle: having a space equal to two diameters or four modules between two columns; -- said of a portico or building. see intercolumniation.-a systyle temple or other edifice.
syzygy: the point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.-the coupling together of different feet; as, in greek verse, an iambic syzygy.-any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.-the immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.
t: the twentieth letter of the english alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. with the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. see guide to pronunciation, //262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
t'other: a colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. see the note under that, 2.
ta'en: p. p. of ta, to take, or a contraction of taken.
tab: the flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.-a tag. see tag, 2.-a loop for pulling or lifting something.-a border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.-a loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
tabard: a sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. when worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.
tabarder: one who wears a tabard.-a scholar on the foundation of queen's college, oxford, england, whose original dress was a tabard.
tabasheer: a concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. it is highly valued in the east indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
tabby: a kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. the watering is given to it by calendering.-a mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. when dry, this becomes as hard as rock.-a brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.-an old maid or gossip.-having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.-brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.-to water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
tabellion: a secretary or notary under the roman empire; also, a similar officer in france during the old monarchy.
tabernacle: a slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.-a portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.-hence, the jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.-figuratively: the human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.-any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.-the ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.-a niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.-hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.-a tryptich for sacred imagery.-a seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.-a boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.-to dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
tabernacular: of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the jewish tabernacle.-formed in latticework; latticed.-of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.
tabes: progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
tabetic: of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affected with tabes; tabid.-one affected with tabes.
tablature: a painting on a wall or ceiling; a single piece comprehended in one view, and formed according to one design; hence, a picture in general.-an ancient mode of indicating musical sounds by letters and other signs instead of by notes.-division into plates or tables with intervening spaces; as, the tablature of the cranial bones.
tableau: a striking and vivid representation; a picture.-a representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
tablecloth: a cloth for covering a table, especially one with which a table is covered before the dishes, etc., are set on for meals.
tableman: a man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. see table, n., 10.
tablespoon: a spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
tablespoonful: as much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. it is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.
tablet: a small table or flat surface.-a flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.-hence, a small picture; a miniature.-a kind of pocket memorandum book.-a flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.-a solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
tabling: a forming into tables; a setting down in order.-the letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.-a broad hem on the edge of a sail.-board; support.-act of playing at tables. see table, n., 10.
taboo: a total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of polynesia; interdiction.-to put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
tabor: a small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.-to play on a tabor, or little drum.-to strike lightly and frequently.-to make (a sound) with a tabor.
taborite: one of certain bohemian reformers who suffered persecution in the fifteenth century; -- so called from tabor, a hill or fortress where they encamped during a part of their struggles.
tabouret: same as taboret.-a seat without arms or back, cushioned and stuffed: a high stool; -- so called from its resemblance to a drum.-an embroidery frame.
tabula: a table; a tablet.-one of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
tabular: having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word).-having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.-formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.-set in squares.-arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics.-derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension.
tabularization: the act of tabularizing, or the state of being tabularized; formation into tables; tabulation.
tabulata: an artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. the genera pocillopora and favosites are examples.
tabulate: to form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.-to shape with a flat surface.
tabulation: the act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
tac: a kind of customary payment by a tenant; -- a word used in old records.