AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
resume: a summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.-to take back.-to enter upon, or take up again.-to begin again; to recommence, as something which has been interrupted; as, to resume an argument or discourse.
resumption: the act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.-the taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.
resumptive: taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.
resupinate: inverted in position; appearing to be upside down or reversed, as the flowers of the orchis and the leaves of some plants.
resupination: the state of luing on the back; the state of being resupinate, or reversed.
resurgent: rising again, as from the dead.-one who rises again, as from the dead.
resurrect: to take from the grave; to disinter.-to reanimate; to restore to life; to bring to view (that which was forgotten or lost).
resurrection: a rising again; the resumption of vigor.-especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of jesus christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the day of judgment.-state of being risen from the dead; future state.-the cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
resuscitant: one who, or that which resuscitates. also used adjectively.
resuscitate: restored to life.-to revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or restore from apparent death; as, to resuscitate a drowned person; to resuscitate withered plants.-to come to life again; to revive.
ret: see aret.-to prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.
retable: a shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc.
retail: the sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.-done at retail; engaged in retailing commodities; as a retail trade; a retail grocer.-to sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.-to sell at second hand.-to distribute in small portions or at second hand; to tell again or to many (what has been told or done); to report; as, to retail slander.
retailer: one who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip.
retain: to continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like.-to keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor.-to restrain; to prevent.-to belong; to pertain.-to keep; to continue; to remain.
retainer: one who, or that which, retains.-one who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on.-hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery.-the act of a client by which he engages a lawyer or counselor to manage his cause.-the act of withholding what one has in his hands by virtue of some right.-a fee paid to engage a lawyer or counselor to maintain a cause, or to prevent his being employed by the opposing party in the case; -- called also retaining fee.-the act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence.
retake: to take or receive again.-to take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners.
retaliate: to return the like for; to repay or requite by an act of the same kind; to return evil for (evil). [now seldom used except in a bad sense.]-to return like for like; specifically, to return evil for evil; as, to retaliate upon an enemy.
retaliation: the act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
retaliatory: tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
retard: to keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- opposed to accelerate.-to put off; to postpone; as, to retard the attacks of old age; to retard a rupture between nations.-to stay back.-retardation; delay.
retardation: the act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.-that which retards; an obstacle; an obstruction.-the keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.-the extent to which anything is retarded; the amount of retarding or delay.
retch: to make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.-to care for; to heed; to reck.
rete: a net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
retene: a white crystalline hydrocarbon, polymeric with benzene. it is extracted from pine tar, and is also found in certain fossil resins.
retention: the act of retaining, or the state of being ratined.-the power of retaining; retentiveness.-that which contains something, as a tablet; a //// of preserving impressions.-the act of withholding; retraint; reserve.-place of custody or confinement.-the right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien.
retentive: having power to retain; as, a retentive memory.-that which retains or confines; a restraint.
retentivity: the power of retaining; retentive force; as, the retentivity of a magnet.
retentor: a muscle which serves to retain an organ or part in place, esp. when retracted. see illust. of phylactolemata.
retepore: any one of several species of bryozoans of the genus retepora. they form delicate calcareous corals, usually composed of thin fenestrated fronds.
retiarius: a gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him.
retiary: any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.-a retiarius.-netlike.-constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.-armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.
reticence: the quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.-a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
reticle: a small net.-a reticule. see reticule, 2.
reticular: having the form of a net, or of network; formed with interstices; retiform; as, reticular cartilage; a reticular leaf.-of or pertaining to a reticulum.
reticularia: an extensive division of rhizopods in which the pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. it includes the shelled foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.
reticulated: resembling network; having the form or appearance of a net; netted; as, a reticulated structure.-having veins, fibers, or lines crossing like the threads or fibers of a network; as, a reticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect.
reticulation: the quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.
reticule: a little bag, originally of network; a woman's workbag, or a little bag to be carried in the hand.-a system of wires or lines in the focus of a telescope or other instrument; a reticle.
reticulum: the second stomach of ruminants, in which folds of the mucous membrane form hexagonal cells; -- also called the honeycomb stomach.-the neuroglia.
retiform: composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.
retina: the delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. see eye.
retinaculum: a connecting band; a fraenum; as, the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves.-one of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.-one of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.-a small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
retinalite: a translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.
retineum: that part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate.
retinic: of or pertaining to resin; derived from resin; specifically, designating an acid found in certain fossil resins and hydrocarbons.
retinite: an inflammable mineral resin, usually of a yellowish brown color, found in roundish masses, sometimes with coal.
retinoid: resinlike, or resinform; resembling a resin without being such.
retinol: a hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.
retinophora: one of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axial part of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, and contain the terminal nerve fibrillae. see illust. under ommatidium.
retinoscopy: the study of the retina of the eye by means of the ophthalmoscope.
retinue: the body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.
retinula: one of the group of pigmented cells which surround the retinophorae of invertebrates. see illust. under ommatidium.
retirade: a kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. it usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.
retire: to withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.-to withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.-to cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer.-to go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice.-to retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle.-to withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.-to recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs.-to go to bed; as, he usually retires early.-the act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires.-a call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.
retired: of retire-private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits.-withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician.
retirement: the act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.-a place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode.
retiring: of retire-reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners.-of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement.
retitelae: a group of spiders which spin irregular webs; -- called also retitelariae.
retort: to bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.-to throw back; to reverberate; to reflect.-to return, as an argument, accusation, censure, or incivility; as, to retort the charge of vanity.-to return an argument or a charge; to make a severe reply.-the return of, or reply to, an argument, charge, censure, incivility, taunt, or witticism; a quick and witty or severe response.-a vessel in which substances are subjected to distillation or decomposition by heat. it is made of different forms and materials for different uses, as a bulb of glass with a curved beak to enter a receiver for general chemical operations, or a cylinder or semicylinder of cast iron for the manufacture of gas in gas works.
retortion: act of retorting or throwing back; reflection or turning back.-retaliation.
retouch: to touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.-to correct or change, as a negative, by handwork.-a partial reworking,as of a painting, a sculptor's clay model, or the like.
retrace: to trace back, as a line.-to go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one's steps; to retrace one's proceedings.-to trace over again, or renew the outline of, as a drawing; to draw again.
retract: to draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle.-to withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion.-to take back,, as a grant or favor previously bestowed; to revoke.-to draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation.-to take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration.-the pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
retractile: capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back or up; as, the claws of a cat are retractile.
retraction: the act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.-the act of withdrawing something advanced, stated, claimed, or done; declaration of change of opinion; recantation.-the act of retracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew.-the state or condition of a part when drawn back, or towards the center of the body.
retractive: serving to retract; of the nature of a retraction.-that which retracts, or withdraws.
retractor: one who, or that which, retracts.-in breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.-an instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.-a bandage to protect the soft parts from injury by the saw during amputation.-a muscle serving to draw in any organ or part. see illust. under phylactolaemata.
retraxit: the withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action.
retreat: the act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.-the place to which anyone retires; a place or privacy or safety; a refuge; an asylum.-the retiring of an army or body of men from the face of an enemy, or from any ground occupied to a greater distance from the enemy, or from an advanced position.-the withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.-a signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action.-a special season of solitude and silence to engage in religious exercises.-a period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat.-to make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.
retrench: to cut off; to pare away.-to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses.-to confine; to limit; to restrict.-to furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions.-to cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed.
retrenchment: the act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing.-a work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation.
retrial: a secdond trial, experiment, or test; a second judicial trial, as of an accused person.
retribute: to pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal.
retribution: the act of retributing; repayment.-that which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or wrong.-specifically, reward and punishment, as distributed at the general judgment.
retributory: of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.
retrieve: to find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.-to recall; to bring back.-to remedy the evil consequence of, to repair, as a loss or damadge.-to discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve.-a seeking again; a discovery.-the recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
retriever: one who retrieves.-a dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.
retro-: a prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as, retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.
retroact: to act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective.
retroactive: fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.
retrocede: to cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor.-to go back.
retrocedent: disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.
retrocession: the act of retroceding.-the state of being retroceded, or granted back.-metastasis of an eruption or a tumor from the surface to the interior of the body.
retrochoir: any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.
retroflexion: the act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed.  cf. retroversion.
retrogradation: the act of retrograding, or moving backward.-the state of being retrograde; decline.
retrograde: apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.-tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive.-declining from a better to a worse state; as, a retrograde people; retrograde ideas, morals, etc.-to go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet.-hence, to decline from a better to a worse condition, as in morals or intelligence.
retrogression: the act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.-backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism.
retrogressive: tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.-passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.
retromingent: organized so as to discharge the urine backward.-an animal that discharges its urine backward.
retrospect: to look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.-a looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
retrospective: looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view.-having reference to what is past; affecting things past; retroactive; as, a retrospective law.
retroversion: a turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.
retry: to try (esp. judicially) a second time; as, to retry a case; to retry an accused person.
retting: the act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. see ret.-a place where flax is retted; a rettery.
retund: to blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.
return: to turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.-to come back, or begin again, after an interval, regular or irregular; to appear again.-to speak in answer; to reply; to respond.-to revert; to pass back into possession.-to go back in thought, narration, or argument.-to bring, carry, send, or turn, back; as, to return a borrowed book, or a hired horse.-to repay; as, to return borrowed money.-to give in requital or recompense; to requite.-to give back in reply; as, to return an answer; to return thanks.-to retort; to throw back; as, to return the lie.-to report, or bring back and make known.-to render, as an account, usually an official account, to a superior; to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.-hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers.-to bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ.-to convey into official custody, or to a general depository.-to bat (the ball) back over the net.-to lead in response to the lead of one's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club.-the act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary.-the act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis.-that which is returned.-a payment; a remittance; a requital.-an answer; as, a return to one's question.-an account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, and the like; as, election returns; a return of the amount of goods produced or sold; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.-the profit on, or advantage received from, labor, or an investment, undertaking, adventure, etc.-the continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south.-the rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court.-the certificate of an officer stating what he has done in execution of a writ, precept, etc., indorsed on the document.-the sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.-a day in bank. see return day, below.-an official account, report, or statement, rendered to the commander or other superior officer; as, the return of men fit for duty; the return of the number of the sick; the return of provisions, etc.-the turnings and windings of a trench or mine.
returnable: capable of, or admitting of, being returned.-legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.
reunion: a second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects.-an assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a disbanded regiment; an assembly so composed.