Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
629. Adj. turning &c. v.; circuitous; circumforaneous[obs3],
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circumfluent[obs3]. Adv. round about.
#312. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation.—N. rotation,
revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning around
an axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation[obs3], circumvolution,
circumgyration[obs3]; volutation[obs3], circination|,
turbination[obs3], pirouette, convolution. verticity|, whir, whirl,
eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge[obs3]; countercurrent; Maelstrom,
Charybdis; Ixion. [rotating air] cyclone; tornado, whirlwind; dust
devil. [rotation of an automobile] spin-out. axis, axis of rotation,
swivel, pivot, pivot point; axle, spindle, pin, hinge, pole, arbor,
bobbin, mandrel; axle shaft; gymbal; hub, hub of rotation. [rotation
and translation together] helix, helical motion. [measure of rotation]
angular momentum, angular velocity; revolutions per minute, RPM.
[result of rotation] centrifugal force; surge; vertigo, dizzy round;
coriolus force. [things that go around] carousel, merry-go-round;
Ferris wheel; top, dreidel ,teetotum[obs3]; gyroscope; turntable, lazy
suzan; screw, whirligig, rolling stone[obs3], water wheel, windmill;
wheel, pulley wheel, roulette wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear;
roller; flywheel; jack; caster; centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench
centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas centrifuge, microfuge; drill,
augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire, tyre[Brit][Brit]. [Science of
rotary motion] trochilics[obs3]. [person who rotates] whirling dervish.
V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve[obs3];
circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle,
troll, bowl. roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like
a top, spin like a teetotum|!. [of an automobile] spin out. Adj.
rotating &c.v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory[obs3], trochilic[obs3],
vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose[obs3]. Adv. head over heels,
round and round, like a horse in a mill.
#313. [Motion in the reverse circle.] Evolution.—N. evolution,
unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion &c.
(inversion) 218. V. evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist,
unfurl, untwine, unravel; untangle, disentangle; develop. Adj. evolving
&c. v.; evolved &c. v.
#314. [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro.] Oscillation.—N.
oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation;
undulation; pulsation; pulse. alternation; coming and going &c. v.; ebb
and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down. fluctuation; vacillation &c.
(irresolution) 605. wave, vibratiuncle[obs3], swing, beat, shake, wag,
seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan[obs3], loggan[obs3], rocking-stone,
vibroscope[obs3]. V. oscillate; vibrate, librate[obs3]; alternate,
undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob,
courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble[obs3], wabble[obs3]; dangle, swag.
fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker;
wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and
down, bob up and down &c. Adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and
go; vacillate &c. 605; teeter [U.S.]. brandish, shake, flourish. Adj.
oscillating &c. v.; oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory[obs3],
libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile[obs3]; pendulous. Adv. to
and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw,
zigzag, wibble-wabble[obs3], in and out, from side to side, like
buckets in a well.
#315. [Irregular motion] Agitation.—N. agitation, stir, tremor,
shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion[obs3],
trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation|, quassation|;
shuffling 7c. v.; twitter, flicker, flutter. turbulence, perturbation;
commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation|; hubbub, rout,
bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus[obs3], staggers, megrims, epilepsy,
fits; carphology[obs3], chorea, floccillation[obs3], the jerks, St.
Vitus's dance, tilmus[obs3]. spasm, throe, throb, palpitation,
convulsion. disturbance, chaos &c. (disorder) 59; restlessness &c.
(changeableness) 149. ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence,
hurly-burly, cahotage[obs3]; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea,
whirlpool, vortex &c. 312; whirlwind &c. (wind) 349. V. be agitated
&c.; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake,
shiver, twitter, twire[obs3], writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger,
bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance,
stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance,
cavort [U.S.]; squirm. throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat;
flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle. ferment, effervesce, foam;
boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer. toss about, jump about; jump like a
parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to
its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro
like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post,
drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk
and buzzard. agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield,
brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle,
jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop,
whip, vellicate[obs3]. Adj. shaking &c. v.; agitated, tremulous;
desultory, subsultory|; saltatoric[obs3]; quasative[obs3]; shambling;
giddy-paced, saltatory[obs3], convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a
twitter. Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily| &c. adj[obs3].; per
saltum[Lat]; hop skip and jump; in convulsions, in fits. Phr. tempete
dans un verre d'eau[Fr].
CLASS III
WORDS RELATING TO MATTER
SECTION I. MATTER IN GENERAL
#316. MATERIALITY.—N. materiality, materialness; corporeity[obs3],
corporality[obs3]; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood,
plenum; physical condition. matter, body, substance, brute matter,
stuff, element, principle, parenchyma[Biol], material, substratum,
hyle[obs3], corpus, pabulum; frame. object, article, thing, something;
still life; stocks and stones; materials &c. 635. [Science of matter]
physics; somatology[obs3], somatics; natural philosophy, experimental
philosophy; physicism[obs3]; physical science, philosophie
positive[Fr], materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism[obs3],
somatist[obs3]. Adj. material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical;
somatic, somatoscopic[obs3]; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable,
substantial. objective, impersonal, nonsubjective[obs3], neuter,
unspiritual, materialistic.
#317. Immateriality.—N. immateriality, immaterialness;
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incorporeity[obs3], spirituality; inextension[obs3]; astral plane.
personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit &c. (soul) 450; astral
body;
immaterialism[obs3]; spiritualism, spiritualist.
V. disembody, spiritualize.
Adj. immaterial, immateriate[obs3]; incorporeal, incorporal[obs3];
incorporate, unfleshly[obs3]; supersensible[obs3]; asomatous[obs3],
unextended[obs3]; unembodied[obs3], disembodied; extramundane,
unearthly;
pneumatoscopic[obs3]; spiritual &c. (psychical) 450[obs3].
personal, subjective, nonobjective.
#318. World.—N. world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe,
wide world; cosmos; kosmos[obs3]; terraqueous globe[obs3], sphere;
macrocosm, megacosm[obs3]; music of the spheres. heavens, sky, welkin|,
empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament; Midgard;
supersensible regions[obs3]; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven;
celestial spaces. heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy,
milky way, galactic circle, via lactea[Lat], ame no kawa [Jap.]. sun,
orb of day, Apollo[obs3], Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar
system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana,
silver-footed queen; aerolite[obs3], meteor; planetary ring; falling
star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite[obs3]. constellation, zodiac,
signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great
Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.
colures[obs3], equator, ecliptic, orbit. [Science of heavenly bodies]
astronomy; uranography, uranology[obs3]; cosmology, cosmography[obs3],
cosmogony; eidouranion[obs3], orrery; geodesy &c. (measurement) 466;
star gazing, star gazer[obs3]; astronomer; observatory; planetarium.
Adj. cosmic, cosmical[obs3]; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious|,
terraqueous[obs3], terrene, terreous|, telluric, earthly, geotic[obs3],
under the sun; sublunary[obs3], subastral[obs3]. solar, heliacal[obs3];
lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery[obs3]; starry, stellar; sidereal,
sideral[obs3]; astral; nebular; uranic. Adv. in all creation, on the
face of the globe, here below, under the sun. Phr. die Weltgeschichte
ist das Weltergesicht[Ger]; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent
voice of God" [Hageman]; "green calm below, blue quietness above"
[Whittier]; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World" [Paradise
Lost]; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]; "silently as a
dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]; "some touch of nature's genial glow"
[Scott]; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet];
"through knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].
#319. Gravity.—N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c. adj.;
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specific gravity; pondorosity[obs3], pressure, load; burden,
burthen[obs3];
ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
weighing, ponderation[obs3], trutination|; weights; avoirdupois
weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple,
drachma[obs3],
ounce, pound, lb, arroba[obs3], load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton,
long
ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod[obs3].
[metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram;
nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
[Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam,
weighbridge[obs3]; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical
balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.
[Science of gravity] statics.
V. be heavy &c. adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
[Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous,
ponderable;
lumpish[obs3], lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy,
massive.
incumbent, superincumbent[obs3].
#320. Levity.—N. levity; lightness &c. adj.; imponderability,
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buoyancy, volatility.
feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer,
straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
leaven, ferment, barm[obs3], yeast.
lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot
air
balloon.
convection, thermal draft, thermal.
V. be light &c. adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up.
render light &c. adj.; lighten, leaven.
Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous[obs3], imponderable;
astatic[obs3], weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery;
suberose[obs3],
suberous[obs3]; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c. v.;
portable.
light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than
air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon.
SECTION II. INORGANIC MATTER
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