AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
stem: alt. of steem-alt. of steem-the principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.-a little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.-the stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.-a branch of a family.-a curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. the lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.-fig.: an advanced or leading position; the lookout.-anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.-that part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.-the entire central axis of a feather.-the basal portion of the body of one of the pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.-the short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.-the part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.-to remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.-to ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.-to oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.-to move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
stem-clasping: embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.
stem-winding: wound by mechanism connected with the stem; as, a stem-winding watch.
stemma: one of the ocelli of an insect. see ocellus.-one of the facets of a compound eye of any arthropod.
stemmer: one who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).
stemmy: abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc.
stemson: a piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.
stench: to stanch.-a smell; an odor.-an ill smell; an offensive odor; a stink.-to cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink.
stencil: a thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. the pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. called also stencil plate.-to mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.
stenoderm: any species of bat belonging to the genus stenoderma, native of the west indies and south america. these bats have a short or rudimentary tail and a peculiarly shaped nose membrane.
stenodermine: of or pertaining to the genus stenoderma, which includes several west indian and south american nose-leaf bats.
stenograph: to write or report in stenographic characters.-a production of stenography; anything written in shorthand.
stenography: the art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand.
stenosis: a narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. it differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.
stenostome: having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.
stent: of stent-to keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.-to stint; to stop; to cease.-an allotted portion; a stint.
stentor: a herald, in the iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice.-any species of ciliated infusoria belonging to the genus stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. the stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. see illust. under heterotricha.-a howling monkey, or howler.
stentorian: of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
stentorin: a blue coloring matter found in some stentors. see stentor, 2.
step: to move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.-to walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.-to walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.-fig.: to move mentally; to go in imagination.-to set, as the foot.-to fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.-an advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.-a rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.-the space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.-a small space or distance; as, it is but a step.-a print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.-gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.-proceeding; measure; action; an act.-walk; passage.-a portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.-in general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.-one of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.-a bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.-the intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.-a change of position effected by a motion of translation.
step-: a prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to x is the wife of the father of x, married by him after the death of the mother of x. see stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, etc.
stepbrother: a brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.
stepchild: a bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.-a son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
stephanion: the point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture.
stephanite: a sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore.
stephanotis: a genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of madagascar, malaya, etc. they have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes.-a perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of stephanotis floribunda.
steppe: one of the vast plains in southeastern europe and in asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in western north america. see savanna.
stepped: of step-provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
stepping-stone: a stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.-fig.: a means of progress or advancement.
stepstone: a stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.
stercobilin: a coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.
stercoraceous: of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.
stercoranist: a nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.
sterculiaceous: of or pertaining to a natural order (sterculiaceae) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. the cacao (theobroma cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.
stere: a unit of cubic measure in the metric system, being a cubic meter, or kiloliter, and equal to 35.3 cubic feet, or nearly 1/ cubic yards.-to stir.-a rudder. see 5th steer.-helmsman. see 6th steer.
stereo-: a combining form meaning solid, hard, firm, as in stereo-chemistry, stereography.
stereo-chemical: pertaining to, or illustrating, the hypothetical space relations of atoms in the molecule; as, a stereo-chemic formula.
stereobate: the lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.
stereochromic: pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy.
stereochromy: a style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).
stereoelectric: of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone; as, a stereoelectric current is one obtained by means of solids, without any liquid.
stereogram: a diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.
stereograph: any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.
stereographical: made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth.
stereography: the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.
stereometer: an instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer.-an instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids.
stereometry: the art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; -- distinguished from planimetry.
stereomonoscope: an instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.
stereoplasm: the solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. see hygroplasm.
stereopticon: an instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.
stereoscope: an optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. it combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. it is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer.
stereoscopical: of or pertaining to the stereoscope; characteristic of, or adapted to, the stereoscope; as, a stereoscopic effect; the stereoscopic function of the eyeglasses; stereoscopic views.
stereoscopy: the art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it.
stereotomy: the science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.
stereotype: a plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.-the art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them.-to prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the bible.-fig.: to make firm or permanent; to fix.
stereotyped: of stereotype-formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.-fig.: formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions.
stereotyper: one who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
stereotypery: the art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.-a place where stereotype plates are made; a stereotype foundry.
sterhydraulic: pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.
sterile: producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.-incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.-free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.-fig.: barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
sterility: the quality or condition of being sterile.-quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores.
sterilization: the act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.
sterilize: to make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.-to deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.-to destroy all spores or germs in (an organic fluid or mixture), as by heat, so as to prevent the development of bacterial or other organisms.
sterlet: a small sturgeon (acipenser ruthenus) found in the caspian sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. the finest caviare is made from its roe.
sterling: same as starling, 3.-any english coin of standard value; coined money.-a certain standard of quality or value for money.-belonging to, or relating to, the standard british money of account, or the british coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of england; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.-genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
stern: the black tern.-having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree.-the helm or tiller of a vessel or boat; also, the rudder.-the after or rear end of a ship or other vessel, or of a boat; the part opposite to the stem, or prow.-fig.: the post of management or direction.-the hinder part of anything.-the tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.-being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.
stern-wheel: having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.
sternbergite: a sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.
sterned: having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
sternforemost: with the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.
sternmost: farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
sterno-: a combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular.
sternocostal: of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.
sternohyoid: of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
sternothyroid: of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.
sternpost: a straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.
sternson: the end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.
sternum: a plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.-the ventral part of any one of the somites of an arthropod.
sterquilinous: pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.
sterrink: the crab-eating seal (lobodon carcinophaga) of the antarctic ocean.
sterrometal: any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.
stertorous: characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.
stet: let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.-to cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
stethal: one of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.
stethometer: an apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.
stethoscope: an instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.-to auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
stethoscopical: of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.
stevedore: one whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.
steven: voice; speech; language.-an outcry; a loud call; a clamor.
stew: a small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.-an artificial bed of oysters.-to boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.-to be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.-a place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.-a brothel; -- usually in the plural.-a prostitute.-a dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.-a state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
steward: a man employed in a large family, or on a large estate, to manage the domestic concerns, supervise other servants, collect the rents or income, keep accounts, and the like.-a person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. in naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.-a fiscal agent of certain bodies; as, a steward in a methodist church.-in some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.-in scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.-to manage as a steward.
stewardess: a female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
stewartry: an overseer or superintendent.-the office of a steward; stewardship.-in scotland, the jurisdiction of a steward; also, the lands under such jurisdiction.
sthenic: strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.
stiacciato: the lowest relief, -- often used in italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.
stibine: antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. it has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.
stibnite: a mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.
stibonium: the hypothetical radical sbh4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.
sticcado: an instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. they are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. the tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.
stich: a verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.-a line in the scriptures; specifically (hebrew scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the old treatment, as written in the oldest hebrew manuscripts and in the revised version of the english bible.-a row, line, or rank of trees.
stichic: of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.
stichidium: a special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. it is found in certain red algae.
stichometrical: of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.
stichometry: measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.-division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
stick: a small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.-any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.-anything shaped like a stick; as, a stick of wax.-a derogatory expression for a person; one who is inert or stupid; as, an odd stick; a poor stick.-a composing stick. see under composing. it is usually a frame of metal, but for posters, handbills, etc., one made of wood is used.-a thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.-to penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence, to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast.-to cause to penetrate; to push, thrust, or drive, so as to pierce; as, to stick a needle into one's finger.-to fasten, attach, or cause to remain, by thrusting in; hence, also, to adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing; as, to stick a pin on the sleeve.-to set; to fix in; as, to stick card teeth.-to set with something pointed; as, to stick cards.-to fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork.-to attach by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.-to compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick; as, to stick type.-to run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. such moldings are said to be stuck.-to cause to stick; to bring to a stand; to pose; to puzzle; as, to stick one with a hard problem.-to impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.-to adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.-to remain where placed; to be fixed; to hold fast to any position so as to be moved with difficulty; to cling; to abide; to cleave; to be united closely.-to be prevented from going farther; to stop by reason of some obstacle; to be stayed.-to be embarrassed or puzzled; to hesitate; to be deterred, as by scruples; to scruple; -- often with at.-to cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
stick-seed: a plant (echinospermum lappula) of the borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.
sticker: one who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.-that which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.-in the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.-same as paster, 2.
stickiness: the quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.