AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
soft: easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.-not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.-hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.-not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.-not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.-easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.-expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.-effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.-gentle in action or motion; easy.-weak in character; impressible.-somewhat weak in intellect.-quiet; undisturbed; paceful; as, soft slumbers.-having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.-not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.-applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.-belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.-a soft or foolish person; an idiot.-softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.-be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
soft-finned: having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.
soft-hearted: having softness or tenderness of heart; susceptible of pity or other kindly affection; gentle; meek.
soft-spoken: speaking softly; having a mild or gentle voice; hence, mild; affable.
softa: any one attached to a mohammedan mosque, esp. a student of the higher branches of theology in a mosque school.
soften: to make soft or more soft.-to render less hard; -- said of matter.-to mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.-to palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.-to compose; to mitigate; to assuage.-to make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.-to make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.-to make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.-to make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.-to become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
softness: the quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
soggy: filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
soho: ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.
soil: to feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.-the upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.-land; country.-dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.-to enrich with soil or muck; to manure.-a marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.-to make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.-to stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.-to become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.-that which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
soja: an asiatic leguminous herb (glycine soja) the seeds of which are used in preparing the sauce called soy.
sojourn: to dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.-a temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
soke: see soc.-one of the small territorial divisions into which lincolnshire, england, is divided.
soken: a toll. see soc, n., 2.-a district held by socage.
soko: an african anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.
sol: the sun.-gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.-a syllable applied in solmization to the note g, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.-the tone itself.-a sou.-a silver and gold coin of peru. the silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
sol-fa: to sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order.-the gamut, or musical scale. see tonic sol-fa, under tonic, n.
sola: see solus.-a leguminous plant (aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in southern india and the east indies. its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc.-alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like.
solace: comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.-rest; relaxation; ease.-to cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward.-to allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.-to take comfort; to be cheered.
solacement: the act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces.
solanaceous: of or pertaining to plants of the natural order solanaceae, of which the nightshade (solanum) is the type. the order includes also the tobacco, ground cherry, tomato, eggplant, red pepper, and many more.
solanicine: an alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.
solanidine: an alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.
solanine: a poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.
solano: a hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of spain.
solanum: a genus of plants comprehending the potato (s. tuberosum), the eggplant (s. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
solar: a loft or upper chamber; a garret room.-of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. see solar system, below.-born under the predominant influence of the sun.-measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.-produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
solarium: an apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.-any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus solarium and allied genera. the shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. called also perspective shell.
solarization: injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.
solarize: to injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.-to become injured by undue or too long exposure to the sun's rays in the camera.
solatium: anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.
sold: of sell-imp. & p. p. of sell.-solary; military pay.
soldanel: a plant of the genus soldanella, low alpine herbs of the primrose family.
solder: a metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.-anything which unites or cements.-to unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.-to mend; to patch up.
soldier: one who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.-especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.-a brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.-the red or cuckoo gurnard (trigla pini.)-one of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. the soldiers serve to defend the nest. see termite.-to serve as a soldier.-to make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
soldiering: the act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.-the act of feigning to work. see the note under soldier, v. i., 2.
soldierly: like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike.
soldierwood: a showy leguminous plant (calliandra purpurea) of the west indies. the flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.
soldiery: a body of soldiers; soldiers, collectivelly; the military.-military service.
soldo: a small italian coin worth a sou or a cent; the twentieth part of a lira.
sole: any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus solea and allied genera of the family soleidae, especially the common european species (solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.-any one of several american flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the california sole (lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.-the bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.-the bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.-the bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.-the bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.-the horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.-the bottom of an embrasure.-a piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.-the seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.-to furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.-being or acting without another; single; individual; only.-single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.
solecism: an impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.-any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.
solely: singly; alone; only; without another; as, to rest a cause solely one argument; to rely solelyn one's own strength.
solemn: marked with religious rites and pomps; enjoined by, or connected with, religion; sacred.-pertaining to a festival; festive; festal.-stately; ceremonious; grand.-fitted to awaken or express serious reflections; marked by seriousness; serious; grave; devout; as, a solemn promise; solemn earnestness.-real; earnest; downright.-affectedly grave or serious; as, to put on a solemn face.-made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form.
solemnity: a rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.-ceremony adapted to impress with awe.-ceremoniousness; impressiveness; seriousness; grave earnestness; formal dignity; gravity.-hence, affected gravity or seriousness.-solemn state or feeling; awe or reverence; also, that which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of westminster abbey.-a solemn or formal observance; proceeding according to due form; the formality which is necessary to render a thing done valid.
solemnization: the act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
solemnize: to perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.-to dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate.-to make grave, serious, and reverential.-solemnization.
solemnness: the state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.
solen: a cradle, as for a broken limb. see cradle, 6.-any marine bivalve mollusk belonging to solen or allied genera of the family solenidae; a razor shell.
solenacean: any species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the family solenidae.
solenodon: either one of two species of singular west indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. one species (solendon paradoxus), native of st. domingo, is called also agouta; the other (s. cubanus), found in cuba, is called almique.
solenogastra: an order of lowly organized mollusca belonging to the isopleura. a narrow groove takes the place of the foot of other gastropods.
solenoglyph: pertaining to the selenoglypha. see ophidia.-one of the selenoglypha.
solenoglypha: a suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. see fang.
solenoid: an electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned back along its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect of the current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce the whole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circular currents. when traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.
solenostomi: a tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. the female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.
soleplate: a bedplate; as, the soleplate of a steam engine.-the plate forming the back of a waterwheel bucket.
solfatara: a volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. it represents the stages of the volcanic activity.
solfeggio: the system of arranging the scale by the names do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, by which singing is taught; a singing exercise upon these syllables.
solferino: a brilliant deep pink color with a purplish tinge, one of the dyes derived from aniline; -- so called from solferino in italy, where a battle was fought about the time of its discovery.
solicit: to ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.-to endeavor to obtain; to seek; to plead for; as, to solicit an office; to solicit a favor.-to awake or excite to action; to rouse desire in; to summon; to appeal to; to invite.-to urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.-to disturb; to disquiet; -- a latinism rarely used.
solicitor: one who solicits.-an attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in english practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. see the note under attorney.-the law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
solicitor-general: the second law officer in the government of great britain; also, a similar officer under the united states government, who is associated with the attorney-general; also, the chief law officer of some of the states.
solicitous: disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil; concerned; anxious; careful.
solicitude: the state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
solid: having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.-not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.-having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.-firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.-applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.-fig.: worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.-sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.-of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.-impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.-not having the lines separated by leads; not open.-united; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.-a substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.-a magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
solidism: the doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. it rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.
solidity: the state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to weakness or instability; the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others; hardness; massiveness.-moral firmness; soundness; strength; validity; truth; certainty; -- as opposed to weakness or fallaciousness; as, the solidity of arguments or reasoning; the solidity of principles, triuths, or opinions.-the solid contents of a body; volume; amount of inclosed space.
solidness: state or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.-soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.
solidungula: a tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family equidae.
solifidian: one who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian.-holding the tenets of solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.
solifugae: a division of arachnids having large, powerful fangs and a segmented abdomen; -- called also solpugidea, and solpugides.
soliitation: the act of soliciting; earnest request; persistent asking; importunity.-excitement; invitation; as, the solicitation of the senses.
soliloquize: to utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.
soliloquy: the act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.-a written composition, reciting what it is supposed a person says to himself.
soliped: a mammal having a single hoof on each foot, as the horses and asses; a solidungulate.
solitaire: a person who lives in solitude; a recluse; a hermit.-a single diamond in a setting; also, sometimes, a precious stone of any kind set alone.-a game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.-a large extinct bird (pezophaps solitaria) which formerly inhabited the islands of mauritius and rodrigeuz. it was larger and taller than the wild turkey. its wings were too small for flight. called also solitary.-any species of american thrushlike birds of the genus myadestes. they are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. called also fly-catching thrush. a west indian species (myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.
solitary: living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.-performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.-ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.-not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.-single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.-not associated with others of the same kind.-one who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.
solitude: state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.-remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.-solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.
sollar: see solar, n.-a platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.-to cover, or provide with, a sollar.
solleret: a flexible steel shoe (or one of the plates forming such a shoe), worn with mediaeval armor.
solo: a tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.
solomon: one of the kings of israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.
solon: a celebrated athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
solpugid: of or pertaining to the solifugae.-one of the solifugae.
solstice: a stopping or standing still of the sun.-the point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign cancer and the first point of the sign capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.-the time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about june 21 and december 21. see illust. in appendix.
solstitial: of or pertaining to a solstice.-happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer.
solubility: the quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.-the tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil.
soluble: susceptible of being dissolved in a fluid; capable of solution; as, some substances are soluble in alcohol which are not soluble in water.-susceptible of being solved; as, a soluble algebraic problem; susceptible of being disentangled, unraveled, or explained; as, the mystery is perhaps soluble.-relaxed; open or readily opened.
solute: loose; free; liberal; as, a solute interpretation.-relaxed; hence; merry; cheerful.-soluble; as, a solute salt.-not adhering; loose; -- opposed to adnate; as, a solute stipule.-to dissolve; to resolve.-to absolve; as, to solute sin.
solution: the act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.-the act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.-the state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.-the act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.-release; deliverance; discharge.-the termination of a disease; resolution.-a crisis.-a liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.