AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
value: the property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance.-worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.-precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument-esteem; regard.-the relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].-in an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; -- often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.-valor.-to estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc.-to rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues.-to raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value.-to be worth; to be equal to in value.
valued: of value-highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend.
valvate: resembling, or serving as, a valve; consisting of, or opening by, a valve or valves; valvular.-meeting at the edges without overlapping; -- said of the sepals or the petals of flowers in aestivation, and of leaves in vernation.-opening as if by doors or valves, as most kinds of capsules and some anthers.
valve: a door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.-a lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid.-one or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or retard the flow in the opposite direction; as, the ileocolic, mitral, and semilunar valves.-one of the pieces into which a capsule naturally separates when it bursts.-one of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.-a small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry.-one of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
valvelet: a little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.
valvular: of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.-containing valves; serving as a valve; opening by valves; valvate; as, a valvular capsule.
valylene: a volatile liquid hydrocarbon, c5h6, related to ethylene and acetylene, but possessing the property of unsaturation in the third degree. it is the only known member of a distinct series of compounds. it has a garlic odor.
vamp: to advance; to travel.-the part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.-any piece added to an old thing to give it a new appearance. see vamp, v. t.-to provide, as a shoe, with new upper leather; hence, to piece, as any old thing, with a new part; to repair; to patch; -- often followed by up.
vamper: one who vamps; one who pieces an old thing with something new; a cobbler.-to swagger; to make an ostentatious show.
vampire: a blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. this superstition is now prevalent in parts of eastern europe, and was especially current in hungary about the year 1730.-fig.: one who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.-either one of two or more species of south american blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera desmodus and diphylla. these bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. they have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.-any one of several species of harmless tropical american bats of the genus vampyrus, especially v. spectrum.  these bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. called also false vampire.
vampirism: belief in the existence of vampires.-the actions of a vampire; the practice of bloodsucking.-fig.: the practice of extortion.
vamplate: a round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
van: the front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle.-a shovel used in cleansing ore.-to wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel.-a light wagon, either covered or open, used by tradesmen and others fore the transportation of goods.-a large covered wagon for moving furniture, etc., also for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition.-a close railway car for baggage. see the note under car, 2.-a fan or other contrivance, as a sieve, for winnowing grain.-a wing with which the air is beaten.-to fan, or to cleanse by fanning; to winnow.
vanadic: pertaining to, or obtained from, vanadium; containing vanadium; specifically distinguished those compounds in which vanadium has a relatively higher valence as contrasted with the vanadious compounds; as, vanadic oxide.
vanadinite: a mineral occurring in yellowish, and ruby-red hexagonal crystals. it consist of lead vanadate with a small proportion of lead chloride.
vanadious: pertaining to, or containing, vanadium; specifically, designating those compounds in which vanadium has a lower valence as contrasted with the vanadic compounds; as, vanadious acid.
vanadite: a salt of vanadious acid, analogous to a nitrite or a phosphite.
vanadium: a rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. it is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. symbol v (or vd, rarely). atomic weight 51.2.
vanadous: of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.
vanadyl: the hypothetical radical vo, regarded as a characterized residue of certain vanadium compounds.
vandal: one of a teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.-hence, one who willfully destroys or defaces any work of art or literature.-alt. of vandalic
vandalic: of or pertaining to the vandals; resembling the vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
vandalism: the spirit or conduct of the vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments.
vandyke: of or pertaining to the style of vandyke the painter; used or represented by vandyke.-a picture by vandyke. also, a vandyke collar, or a vandyke edge.-fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.
vane: a contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. it is usually a plate or strip of metal, or slip of wood, often cut into some fanciful form, and placed upon a perpendicular axis around which it moves freely.-any flat, extended surface attached to an axis and moved by the wind; as, the vane of a windmill; hence, a similar fixture of any form moved in or by water, air, or other fluid; as, the vane of a screw propeller, a fan blower, an anemometer, etc.-the rhachis and web of a feather taken together.-one of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc.
vanessa: any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterflies belonging to vanessa and allied genera. many of these species have the edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.
vanfess: a ditch on the outside of the counterscarp, usually full of water.
vanglo: benne (sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the west indies.
vanguard: the troops who march in front of an army; the advance guard; the van.
vanilla: a genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical america.-the long podlike capsules of vanilla planifolia, and v. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.
vanillic: pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
vanillin: a white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. it is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.
vanish: to pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.-to be annihilated or lost; to pass away.-the brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot.
vanity: the quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.-an inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.-that which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.-one of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. see morality, n., 5.
vanjas: the australian pied crow shrike (strepera graculina). it is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white.
vanning: a process by which ores are washed on a shovel, or in a vanner.
vanquish: to conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.-hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.-a disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
vansire: an ichneumon (herpestes galera) native of southern africa and madagascar. it is reddish brown or dark brown, grizzled with white. called also vondsira, and marsh ichneumon.
vantage: superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.-the first point after deuce.-to profit; to aid.
vap: that which is vapid, insipid, or lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine.
vapid: having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
vapor: any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.-in a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.-wind; flatulence.-something unsubstantial, fleeting, or transitory; unreal fancy; vain imagination; idle talk; boasting.-an old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues.-a medicinal agent designed for administration in the form of inhaled vapor.-to pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.-to emit vapor or fumes.-to talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.-to send off in vapor, or as if in vapor; as, to vapor away a heated fluid.
vaporation: the act or process of converting into vapor, or of passing off in vapor; evaporation.
vapored: of vapor-wet with vapors; moist.-affected with the vapors. see vapor, n., 5.
vaporific: producing vapor; tending to pass, or to cause to pass, into vapor; thus, volatile fluids are vaporific; heat is a vaporific agent.
vaporiform: existing in a vaporous form or state; as, steam is a vaporiform substance.
vaporimeter: an instrument for measuring the volume or the tension of any vapor; specifically, an instrument of this sort used as an alcoholometer in testing spirituous liquors.
vaporish: full of vapors; vaporous.-hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome.
vaporization: the act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.
vaporize: to convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.-to pass off in vapor.
vaporous: having the form or nature of vapor.-full of vapors or exhalations.-producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.-unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.
vapory: full of vapors; vaporous.-hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.
vara: a spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. the vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
varangian: one of the northmen who founded a dynasty in russia in the 9th century; also, one of the northmen composing, at a later date, the imperial bodyguard at constantinople.
varanus: a genus of very large lizards native of asia and africa. it includes the monitors. see monitor, 3.
varec: the calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.
vari: the ringtailed lemur (lemur catta) of madagascar. its long tail is annulated with black and white.
variability: the quality or state of being variable; variableness.-the power possessed by living organisms, both animal and vegetable, of adapting themselves to modifications or changes in their environment, thus possibly giving rise to ultimate variation of structure or function.
variable: having the capacity of varying or changing; capable of alternation in any manner; changeable; as, variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity.-liable to vary; too susceptible of change; mutable; fickle; unsteady; inconstant; as, the affections of men are variable; passions are variable.-that which is variable; that which varies, or is subject to change.-a quantity which may increase or decrease; a quantity which admits of an infinite number of values in the same expression; a variable quantity; as, in the equation x2 - y2 = r2, x and y are variables.-a shifting wind, or one that varies in force.-those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
variance: the quality or state of being variant; change of condition; variation.-difference that produce dispute or controversy; disagreement; dissension; discord; dispute; quarrel.-a disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding, which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the declaration, or between the allegation and the proof.
variant: varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.-changeable; changing; fickle.-something which differs in form from another thing, though really the same; as, a variant from a type in natural history; a variant of a story or a word.
variation: the act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing; modification; alternation; mutation; diversity; deviation; as, a variation of color in different lights; a variation in size; variation of language.-extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.-change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation, derivation, etc.-repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity.-one of the different arrangements which can be made of any number of quantities taking a certain number of them together.
varicocele: a varicose enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord; also, a like enlargement of the veins of the scrotum.
varicose: irregularly swollen or enlarged; affected with, or containing, varices, or varicosities; of or pertaining to varices, or varicosities; as, a varicose nerve fiber; a varicose vein; varicose ulcers.-intended for the treatment of varicose veins; -- said of elastic stockings, bandages. and the like.
varicosity: the quality or state of being varicose.-an enlargement or swelling in a vessel, fiber, or the like; a varix; as, the varicosities of nerve fibers.
varied: changed; altered; various; diversified; as, a varied experience; varied interests; varied scenery.-of vary
variegate: to diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
variegated: of variegate-having marks or patches of different colors; as, variegated leaves, or flowers.
variegation: the act of variegating or diversifying, or the state of being diversified, by different colors; diversity of colors.
varietal: of or pertaining to a variety; characterizing a variety; constituting a variety, in distinction from an individual or species.
variety: the quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.-that which is various.-a number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.-something varying or differing from others of the same general kind; one of a number of things that are akin; a sort; as, varieties of wood, land, rocks, etc.-an individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species.-in inorganic nature, one of those forms in which a species may occur, which differ in minor characteristics of structure, color, purity of composition, etc.
variolite: a kind of diorite or diabase containing imbedded whitish spherules, which give the rock a spotted appearance.
variolitic: thickly marked with small, round specks; spotted.-of, pertaining to, or resembling, variolite.
varioloid: resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.-the smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.
variolous: of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.
variorum: containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.
various: different; diverse; several; manifold; as, men of various names; various occupations; various colors.-changeable; uncertain; inconstant; variable.-variegated; diversified; not monotonous.
variscite: an apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. it is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.
varisse: an imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and frequently injuring the sale of the animal by growing to an unsightly size.
varix: a uneven, permanent dilatation of a vein.-one of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
varlet: a servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman.-hence, a low fellow; a scoundrel; a rascal; as, an impudent varlet.-in a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack.
varnish: a viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. when applied the varnish soon dries, either by evaporation or chemical action, and the resinous part forms thus a smooth, hard surface, with a beautiful gloss, capable of resisting, to a greater or less degree, the influences of air and moisture.-that which resembles varnish, either naturally or artificially; a glossy appearance.-an artificial covering to give a fair appearance to any act or conduct; outside show; gloss.-to lay varnish on; to cover with a liquid which produces, when dry, a hard, glossy surface; as, to varnish a table; to varnish a painting.-to cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt.
varnisher: one who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish.-one who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance.
varnishing: of varnish-the act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.
vartabed: a doctor or teacher in the armenian church. members of this order of ecclesiastics frequently have charge of dioceses, with episcopal functions.
varuna: the god of the waters; the indian neptune. he is regarded as regent of the west, and lord of punishment, and is represented as riding on a sea monster, holding in his hand a snaky cord or noose with which to bind offenders, under water.
varvel: in falconry, one of the rings secured to the ends of the jesses.
vary: to change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature of a thing; to vary a posture or an attitude; to vary one's dress or opinions.-to change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.-to make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.-to embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. see variation, 4.-to alter, or be altered, in any manner; to suffer a partial change; to become different; to be modified; as, colors vary in different lights.-to differ, or be different; to be unlike or diverse; as, the laws of france vary from those of england.-to alter or change in succession; to alternate; as, one mathematical quantity varies inversely as another.-to deviate; to depart; to swerve; -- followed by from; as, to vary from the law, or from reason.-to disagree; to be at variance or in dissension; as, men vary in opinion.-alteration; change.
vascular: consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap.-operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc.-of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions.-of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only.
vasculose: one of the substances of which vegetable tissue is composed, differing from cellulose in its solubility in certain media.
vasculum: same as ascidium, n., 1.-a tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.
vase: a vessel adapted for various domestic purposes, and anciently for sacrificial uses; especially, a vessel of antique or elegant pattern used for ornament; as, a porcelain vase; a gold vase; a grecian vase.  see illust. of portland vase, under portland.-a vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. see illust. of niche.-the body, or naked ground, of the corinthian and composite capital; -- called also tambour, and drum.-the calyx of a plant.