AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
semipalmated: having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. see illust. k under aves.
semiparabola: one branch of a parabola, being terminated at the principal vertex of the curve.
semipellucid: half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
semiperspicuous: half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.
semiplume: a feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather.
semiquartile: an aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half.
semiquaver: a note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.
semiquintile: an aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees.
semirecondite: half hidden or half covered; said of the head of an insect when half covered by the shield of the thorax.
semiring: one of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds. the semerings form an essential part of the syrinx, or musical organ, of singing birds.
semisextile: an aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees.
semitertian: having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.-an intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
semitic: of or pertaining to shem or his descendants; belonging to that division of the caucasian race which includes the arabs, jews, and related races.
semitone: half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
semitonic: of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.
semitransept: the half of a transept; as, the north semitransept of a church.
semivitrification: the quality or state of being semivitrified.-a substance imperfectly vitrified.
semivitrified: half or imperfectly vitrified; partially converted into glass.
semivocal: of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.
semivowel: a sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the english w and y.-the sign or letter representing such a sound.
semiweekly: coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.-that which comes or happens once every half week, esp. a semiweekly periodical.-at intervals of half a week each.
semnifical: forming or producing seed, or the male generative product of animals or of plants.
semolina: the fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.
sempervivum: a genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.
sempiternal: of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end.-without beginning or end; eternal.
senate: an assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.-a body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.-the upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in france, in the united states, in most of the separate states of the united states, and in some swiss cantons.-in general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.-the governing body of the universities of cambridge and london.-in some american colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
senator: a member of a senate.-a member of the king's council; a king's councilor.
senatorial: of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity.-entitled to elect a senator, or by senators; as, the senatorial districts of a state.
send: to cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.-to give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.-to emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.-to cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.-to dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.-to pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.-the impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.
senecas: a tribe of indians who formerly inhabited a part of western new york. this tribe was the most numerous and most warlike of the five nations.
senecio: a very large genus of composite plants including the groundsel and the golden ragwort.
senegin: a substance extracted from the rootstock of the polygala senega (seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.
seneschal: an officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the middle ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands.
senile: of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
senior: more advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.-belonging to the final year of the regular course in american colleges, or in professional schools.-a person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.-one older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.-an aged person; an older.-one in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an american college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary.
senna: the leaves of several leguminous plants of the genus cassia. (c. acutifolia, c. angustifolia, etc.). they constitute a valuable but nauseous cathartic medicine.-the plants themselves, native to the east, but now cultivated largely in the south of europe and in the west indies.
sennet: a signal call on a trumpet or cornet for entrance or exit on the stage.-the barracuda.
sennit: a braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.-plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.
senonian: in european geology, a name given to the middle division of the upper cretaceous formation.
sensate: to feel or apprehend more or less distinctly through a sense, or the senses; as, to sensate light, or an odor.-alt. of sensated
sensated: of sensate-felt or apprehended through a sense, or the senses.
sensation: an impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body.-a purely spiritual or psychical affection; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.-a state of excited interest or feeling, or that which causes it.
sensational: of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.-of or pertaining to sensationalism, or the doctrine that sensation is the sole origin of knowledge.-suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
sensationalism: the doctrine held by condillac, and by some ascribed to locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.-the practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.
sensationalist: an advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.-one who practices sensational writing or speaking.
sense: a faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. see muscular sense, under muscular, and temperature sense, under temperature.-perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.-perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.-sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.-that which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.-meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.-moral perception or appreciation.-one of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.-to perceive by the senses; to recognize.
senseless: destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable.
sensibility: the quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.-the capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.-experience of sensation; actual feeling.-that quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
sensible: capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.-having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.-hence: liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.-perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.-having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.-possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.-sensation; sensibility.-that which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.-that which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
sensibleness: the quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility.-intelligence; reasonableness; good sense.
sensibly: in a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively.-with intelligence or good sense; judiciously.
sensificatory: susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, the sensificatory part of a nervous system.
sensitive: having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.-having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.-having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.-readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.-serving to affect the sense; sensible.-of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
sensitivity: the quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.
sensitize: to render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.
sensori-volitional: concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition.
sensorial: of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.
sensorium: the seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations.
sensory: of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center.
sensual: pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit.-hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly.-devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous.-pertaining or peculiar to the philosophical doctrine of sensualism.
sensualism: the condition or character of one who is sensual; subjection to sensual feelings and appetite; sensuality.-the doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism.-the regarding of the gratification of the senses as the highest good.
sensualist: one who is sensual; one given to the indulgence of the appetites or senses as the means of happiness.-one who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.
sensuality: the quality or state of being sensual; devotedness to the gratification of the bodily appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness.
sensualize: to make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.
sensuous: of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.-highly susceptible to influence through the senses.
sent: of send-see scent, v. & n.-obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of send, for sendeth.-imp. & p. p. of send.
sentence: sense; meaning; significance.-an opinion; a decision; a determination; a judgment, especially one of an unfavorable nature.-a philosophical or theological opinion; a dogma; as, summary of the sentences; book of the sentences.-in civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. in common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases.-a short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.-a combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. see proposition, 4.-to pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.-to decree or announce as a sentence.-to utter sententiously.
sentential: comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.-of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause.
sententiary: one who read lectures, or commented, on the sentences of peter lombard, bishop of paris (1159-1160), a school divine.
sententious: abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.-comprising or representing sentences; sentential.
sentiency: the quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation.
sentient: having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. specif. (physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of nerves, which terminate in the various organs or tissues.-one who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being.
sentiment: a thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.-hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject.-a sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.-sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.
sentimental: having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.-inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.-addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
sentimentalism: the quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
sentimentalize: to regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.-to think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.
sentinel: one who watches or guards; specifically (mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.-watch; guard.-a marine crab (podophthalmus vigil) native of the indian ocean, remarkable for the great length of its eyestalks; -- called also sentinel crab.-to watch over like a sentinel.-to furnish with a sentinel; to place under the guard of a sentinel or sentinels.
sentry: a soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.-guard; watch, as by a sentinel.
sepalody: the metamorphosis of other floral organs into sepals or sepaloid bodies.
sepalous: having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. see under sepal.
separable: capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.
separate: to disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.-to come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the mediterranean sea separates europe and africa.-to set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.-to part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.-divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.-unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.-disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.
separation: the act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.-chemical analysis.-divorce.-the operation of removing water from steam.
separatism: the character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.
separatist: one who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
separatistic: of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
separator: one who, or that which, separates.-a device for depriving steam of particles of water mixed with it.-an apparatus for sorting pulverized ores into grades, or separating them from gangue.-an instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc.
separatory: separative.-an apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.-a surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
separatrix: the decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it follows. the term is sometimes also applied to other marks of separation.
sephen: a large sting ray of the genus trygon, especially t. sephen of the indian ocean and the red sea. the skin is an article of commerce.
sepia: the common european cuttlefish.-a genus comprising the common cuttlefish and numerous similar species. see illustr. under cuttlefish.-a pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms roman sepia.  cf. india ink, under india.-of a dark brown color, with a little red in its composition; also, made of, or done in, sepia.
sepic: of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.
sepidaceous: like or pertaining to the cuttlefishes of the genus sepia.
sepiostare: the bone or shell of cuttlefish. see illust. under cuttlefish.
sepoy: a native of india employed as a soldier in the service of a european power, esp. of great britain; an oriental soldier disciplined in the european manner.
sepsin: a soluble poison (ptomaine) present in putrid blood. it is also formed in the putrefaction of proteid matter in general.
sepsis: the poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.
sept: a clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in ireland.
septal: of or pertaining to a septum or septa, as of a coral or a shell.
septarium: a flattened concretionary nodule, usually of limestone, intersected within by cracks which are often filled with calcite, barite, or other minerals.
septate: divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.
septembrist: an agent in the massacres in paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of september, 1792.
septempartite: divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.
septemvirate: the office of septemvir; a government by septimvirs.
septenary: consisting of, or relating to, seven; as, a septenary number.-lasting seven years; continuing seven years.-the number seven.
septennate: a period of seven years; as, the septennate during which the president of the french republic holds office.
septennial: lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.-happening or returning once in every seven years; as, septennial elections in england.
septette: a set of seven persons or objects; as, a septet of singers.-a musical composition for seven instruments or seven voices; -- called also septuor.
septfoil: a european herb, the tormentil. see tormentil.-an ornamental foliation having seven lobes.  cf. cinquefoil, quarterfoil, and trefoil.-a typical figure, consisting of seven equal segments of a circle, used to denote the gifts of the holy chost, the seven sacraments as recognized by the roman catholic church, etc.
septi-: a combining form meaning seven; as, septifolious, seven-leaved; septi-lateral, seven-sided.
septic: of the seventh degree or order.-a quantic of the seventh degree.-alt. of septical-a substance that promotes putrefaction.