AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
teacher: one who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.-one who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
teaching: of teach-the act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.
teacupful: as much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
teak: a tree of east indies (tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.
teakettle: a kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.
teal: any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus anas and the subgenera querquedula and nettion. the male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.
team: a group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.-hence, a number of animals moving together.-two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.-a number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.-a flock of wild ducks.-a royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.-to engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.-to convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.
teaming: the act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.-contract work.
teapot: a vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.
teapoy: an ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.
tear: a drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.-something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.-that which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.-to separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.-hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.-to rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.-to pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.-to move violently; to agitate.-to divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.-to move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.-the act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
tear-thumb: a name given to several species of plants of the genus polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
tearer: one who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.
tearful: abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.
tearpit: a cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. it is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.
tease: to comb or card, as wool or flax.-to stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.-to tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.-to vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.-one who teases or plagues.
teasel: a plant of the genus dipsacus, of which one species (d. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. this flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.-a bur of this plant.-any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.-to subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.
teaseling: of teasel-the cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
teaspoon: a small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.
teaspoonful: as much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
teat: the protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.-a small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
teatish: peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. see tettish.
tebeth: the tenth month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of december with a part of january.
technic: technical.-the method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.-technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.
technical: of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical.
technicality: the quality or state of being technical; technicalness.-that which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like.
technically: in a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.
technicals: those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
technologist: one skilled in technology; one who treats of arts, or of the terms of arts.
technology: industrial science; the science of systematic knowledge of the industrial arts, especially of the more important manufactures, as spinning, weaving, metallurgy, etc.
tectibranch: one of the tectibranchiata. also used adjectively.
tectibranchiata: an order, or suborder, of gastropod mollusca in which the gills are usually situated on one side of the back, and protected by a fold of the mantle.  when there is a shell, it is usually thin and delicate and often rudimentary. the aplysias and the bubble shells are examples.
tectibranchiate: having the gills covered by the mantle; of or pertaining to the tectibranchiata.-a tectibranchiate mollusk.
tectology: a division of morphology created by haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. see promorphology, and morphon.
tectonics: the science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.
tectorial: of or pertaining to covering; -- applied to a membrane immediately over the organ of corti in the internal ear.
tectrices: the wing coverts of a bird. see covert, and illust. of bird.
ted: to spread, or turn from the swath, and scatter for drying, as new-mowed grass; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
tedder: a machine for stirring and spreading hay, to expedite its drying.-same as tether.-same as tether.
tedge: the gate of a mold, through which the melted metal is poured; runner, geat.
tedious: involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
tee: the mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.-the nodule of earth  from which the ball is struck in golf.-a short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter t in shape.
teem: to pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.-to pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.-to think fit.-to bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.-to be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.-to produce; to bring forth.
teemless: not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.
teen: grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.-to excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.-to hedge or fence in; to inclose.
teens: the years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
teeny: very small; tiny.-fretful; peevish; pettish; cross.
teetee: any one of several species of small, soft-furred south american monkeys belonging to callithrix, chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (chrysothrix sciurea). called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. see squirrel monkey, under squirrel.-a diving petrel of australia (halodroma wrinatrix).
teeter: to move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
teething: of teeth-the process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
teetotaler: one pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
teetotalism: the principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
teetotum: a child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.
tegmen: a tegument or covering.-the inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura.-one of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain orthoptera.-same as tectrices.
tegmental: of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
tegmentum: a covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
teguexin: a large south american lizard (tejus teguexin). it becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. it feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. the closely allied species tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
tegula: a small appendage situated above the base of the wings of hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
tegular: of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement.
tegulated: composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor.
tegument: a cover or covering; an integument.-especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
tegumentary: of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
teinoscope: an instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
teledu: an east indian carnivore (mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. it is a native of the high mountains of java and sumatra, and has long, silky fur. called also stinking badger, and stinkard.
telegrammic: pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief.
telegraph: an apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.-to convey or announce by telegraph.
telegrapher: one who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
telegraphic: of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
telegraphy: the science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
telemeter: an instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.
teleocephial: an extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
teleology: the doctrine of the final causes of things-the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
teleosaur: any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to teleosaurus and allied genera. these reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
teleosaurus: a genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
teleostei: a subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
teleostomi: an extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (teleostei) and the ganoids.
telepathy: the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
telephone: an instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.-to convey or announce by telephone.
telephonic: conveying sound to a great distance.-of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.
telerythin: a red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. so called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.
telescope: an optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.-to slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.-to cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.
telescopical: of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.-seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.-able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision.-having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
telespectroscope: a spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.
telestereoscope: a stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.
telestich: a poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name.  cf. acrostic.
telethermometer: an apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
teleutospore: the thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order uredinales), produced in late summer. see illust. of uredospore.
telic: denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. see ecbatic.
tell: to mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.-to utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.-to make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.-to give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.-to order; to request; to command.-to discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, i can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.-to make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.-to give an account; to make report.-to take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.-that which is told; tale; account.-a hill or mound.
teller: one who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.-one of four officers of the english exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king.-an officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks.-one who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc.
tellina: a genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells.
telltale: telling tales; babbling.-one who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.-a movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.-a mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.-a compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.-a machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.-the tattler. see tattler.
tellurhydric: of, pertaining to, or designating, hydrogen telluride, which is regarded as an acid, especially when in solution.
tellurian: of or pertaining to the earth.-a dweller on the earth.-an instrument for showing the operation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons.
telluric: of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.-of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.
telluride: a compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.
tellurism: an hypothesis of animal magnetism propounded by dr. keiser, in germany, in which the phenomena are ascribed to the agency of a telluric spirit or influence.
tellurite: a salt of tellurous acid.-oxide of tellurium. it occurs sparingly in tufts of white or yellowish crystals.
tellurium: a rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite, with mercury in coloradoite, etc. symbol te. atomic weight 125.2.
tellurize: to impregnate with, or to subject to the action of, tellurium; -- chiefly used adjectively in the past participle; as, tellurized ores.
tellurous: of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or containing, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with telluric compounds; as, tellurous acid, which is analogous to sulphurous acid.
telodynamic: relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
telotrocha: an annelid larva having telotrochal bands of cilia.
telotrochous: having both a preoral and a posterior band of cilla; -- applied to the larvae of certain annelids.
telpher: a contrivance for the conveyance of vehicles or loads by means of electricity.
telson: the terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of crustacea and other articulates. see thoracostraca.
telugu: a darvidian language spoken in the northern parts of the madras presidency. in extent of use it is the next language after hindustani (in its various forms) and bengali.-one of the people speaking the telugu language.-of or pertaining to the telugu language, or the telugus.
temerarious: unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.
temerity: unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war.
tempean: of or pertaining to temple, a valley in thessaly, celebrated by greek poets on account of its beautiful scenery; resembling temple; hence, beautiful; delightful; charming.
temper: to mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.-to fit together; to adjust; to accomodate.-to bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel.-to govern; to manage.-to moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.-to adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.-the state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities; just combination; as, the temper of mortar.-constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.-disposition of mind; the constitution of the mind, particularly with regard to the passions and affections; as, a calm temper; a hasty temper; a fretful temper.-calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure; as, to keep one's temper.-heat of mind or passion; irritation; proneness to anger; -- in a reproachful sense.-the state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling; as, the temper of iron or steel.-middle state or course; mean; medium.-milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.-to accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity.-to have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable.
temperament: internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.-due mixture of qualities; a condition brought about by mutual compromises or concessions.-the act of tempering or modifying; adjustment, as of clashing rules, interests, passions, or the like; also, the means by which such adjustment is effected.-condition with regard to heat or cold; temperature.-a system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. this scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, c/ becoming identical with d/, and so on.-the peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament.
temperance: habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.-moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.-state with regard to heat or cold; temperature.