Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 15
Tegmen (n.) (Zool.) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera.
Tegmen (n.) pl. (Zool.) Same as Tectrices.
Tegmental (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
Tegmenta (n. pl. ) of Tegmentum.
Tegmentum (n.) (Anat.) A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.
Teguexin (n.) (Zool.) A large South American lizard ({Tejus teguexin). It becomes three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits, insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely allied species Tejus rufescens is called red teguexin.
Tegulae (n. pl. ) of Tegula.
Tegula (n.) (Zool.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
Tegular (a.) Of or pertaining to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.
Tegular (a.) Of or relating to or resembling a series of tiles.
Tegulated (a.) Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor. -- Fairholt.
Tegument (n.) A cover or covering; an integument.
Tegument (n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
Tegument (n.) A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" [syn: skin, tegument, cutis].
Tegumentary (a.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.
Te-hee (n. & interj.) A tittering laugh; a titter. "'Te-hee,' quoth she." -- Chaucer.
Te-hee (v. i.) To titter; to laugh derisively.She cried, "Come, come; you must not look grave upon me." Upon this, I te-heed. -- Madame D'Arblay.
Teil (n.) The lime tree, or linden; -- called also teil tree.
Teind (n.) A tithe.
Teine (n.) See Teyne.
Teinland (n.) Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord.
Teinoscope (n.) An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope.
Teint (n.) Tint; color; tinge, See Tint.
Teinture (n.) Color; tinge; tincture.
Tek (n.) A Siberian ibex.
Telamones (n. pl.) Same as Atlantes.
Telangiectasis (n.) Dilatation of the capillary vessels.
Telangiectasy (n.) Telangiectasis.
Telarly (adv.) In a weblike manner.
Telary (a.) Of or pertaining to a web; hence, spinning webs; retiary.
Teledu (n.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard.
Telegram (n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Telegram (n.) [ C ] (US also wire) (Especially in the past) （尤指過去的）電報 A piece of paper with a message sent by telegraph.
Telegrammic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief.
Telegraph (n.) An apparatus, or a process, for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points, especially by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or by means of words and signs, transmitted by electrical action.
Telegraph (n.) [ U ] (Especially in the past) （尤指過去的）電報；電報機 A method of sending and receiving messages by electrical or radio signals, or the special equipment used for this purpose.
// The news came by telegraph.
Telegraphed (imp. & p. p.) of Telegraph.
Telegraphing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telegraph.
Telegraph (v. t.) To convey or announce by telegraph.
Telegrapher (n.) One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.
Telegraphic (a.) Of or pertaining to the telegraph; made or communicated by a telegraph; as, telegraphic signals; telegraphic art; telegraphic intelligence.
Telegraphical (a.) Telegraphic.
Telegraphist (n.) One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher.
Telegraphy (n.) The science or art of constructing, or of communicating by means of, telegraphs; as, submarine telegraphy.
Telemeter (n.) An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.
Teleocephial (n. pl.) An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the common market species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
Teleological (a.) Of or pertaining to teleology, or the doctrine of design.
Teleologist (n.) One versed in teleology.
Teleology (n.) The doctrine of the final causes of things.
Teleology (n.) the doctrine of design, which assumes that the phenomena of organic life, particularly those of evolution, are explicable only by purposive causes, and that they in no way admit of a mechanical explanation or one based entirely on biological science; the doctrine of adaptation to purpose.
Teleology (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) (In philosophy) 目的論（認為一切事物均為特定目的而安排） The belief that everything has a special purpose or use.
Teleophore (n.) Same as Gonotheca.
Teleorganic (a.) Vital; as, teleorganic functions.
Teleosaur (n.) Any one of several species of fossil suarians belonging to Teleosaurus and allied genera. These reptiles are related to the crocodiles, but have biconcave vertebrae.
Teleosaurus (n.) A genus of extinct crocodilian reptiles of the Jurassic period, having a long and slender snout.
Teleost (n.) One of the Teleosti. Also used adjectively.
Teleostean (a.) Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
Teleostean (n.) A teleostean fish.
Teleostei (n. pl.) A subclass of fishes including all the ordinary bony fishes as distinguished from the ganoids.
Teleostomi (n. pl.) An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
Teleozoic (a.) Having tissued composed of cells.
Teleozoon (n.) A metazoan.
Telepathy (n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
Telepheme (n.) A message by a telephone.
Telephone (n.) 電話機 [C]；電話 [U]；電話耳機，聽筒 [C] An instrument for reproducing sounds, especially articulate speech, at a distance.
Note: The ordinary telephone consists essentially of a device by which currents of electricity, produced by sounds through the agency of certain mechanical devices and exactly corresponding in duration and intensity to the vibrations of the air which attend them, are transmitted to a distant station, and there, acting on suitable mechanism, reproduce similar sounds by repeating the vibrations. The necessary variations in the electrical currents are usually produced by means of a microphone attached to a thin diaphragm upon which the voice acts, and are intensified by means of an induction coil. In the magnetic telephone, or magneto-telephone, the diaphragm is of soft iron placed close to the pole of a magnet upon which is wound a coil of fine wire, and its vibrations produce corresponding vibrable currents in the wire by induction. The mechanical, or string, telephone is a device in which the voice or sound causes vibrations in a thin diaphragm, which are directly transmitted along a wire or string connecting it to a similar diaphragm at the remote station, thus reproducing the sound. It does not employ electricity.
Telephone (v. t.) 打電話給，打電話告知 [O1] [O2] [+that] To convey or announce by telephone.
Telephone (n.) Electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone" [syn: {telephone}, {phone}, {telephone set}].
Telephone (n.) Transmitting speech at a distance [syn: {telephone}, {telephony}].
Telephone (v.) Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: {call}, {telephone}, {call up}, {phone}, {ring}].
Telephone (n.) An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Telephonic (a.) 電話的；用電話傳送的；電話機的 Conveying sound to a great distance.
Telephonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the telephone; by the telephone.
Telephonic (a.) Of or relating to telephony; "telephonic connection."
Telephonically (adv.) 用電話傳送地 By telephonic means or processes; by the use of the telephone.
Telephony <communications> Communication, often two-way, of spoken information, by means of electrical signals carried by wires or radio waves. The term was used to indicate transmission of the voice, as opposed to telegraphy (done in Morse code and usually called "continuous wave" or CW transmission), radio teletypewriter (RTTY) transmission (also called FSK for "Frequency Shift Keying", the modulation scheme used by such machines), and later, facimile. (1995-03-14)
Telephony (n.) 電話製造（或操作）法；電話（通訊方式）；電話學 The art or process of reproducing sounds at a distance, as with the telephone.
Telephony (n.) Transmitting speech at a distance [syn: {telephone}, {telephony}].
Telepolariscope (n.) A polariscope arranged to be attached to a telescope.
Telerythin (n.) A red crystalline compound related to, or produced from, erythrin. So called because regarded as the end of the series of erythrin compounds.
Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
Note: A telescope assists the eye chiefly in two ways; first, by enlarging the visual angle under which a distant object is seen, and thus magnifying that object; and, secondly, by collecting, and conveying to the eye, a larger beam of light than would enter the naked organ, thus rendering objects distinct and visible which would otherwise be indistinct and or invisible. Its essential parts are the object glass, or concave mirror, which collects the beam of light, and forms an image of the object, and the eyeglass, which is a microscope, by which the image is magnified.
Achromatic telescope. See under Achromatic.
Aplanatic telescope, A telescope having an aplanatic eyepiece.
Astronomical telescope, A telescope which has a simple eyepiece so constructed or used as not to reverse the image formed by the object glass, and consequently exhibits objects inverted, which is not a hindrance in astronomical observations.
Cassegrainian telescope, A reflecting telescope invented by Cassegrain, which differs from the Gregorian only in having the secondary speculum convex instead of concave, and placed nearer the large speculum. The Cassegrainian represents objects inverted; the Gregorian, in their natural position. The Melbourne telescope (see Illust. under Reflecting telescope, below) is a Cassegrainian telescope.
Dialytic telescope. See under Dialytic.
Equatorial telescope. See the Note under Equatorial.
Galilean telescope, A refracting telescope in which the eyeglass is a concave instead of a convex lens, as in the common opera glass. This was the construction originally adopted by Galileo, the inventor of the instrument. It exhibits the objects erect, that is, in their natural positions.
Gregorian telescope, A form of reflecting telescope. See under Gregorian.
Herschelian telescope, A reflecting telescope of the form invented by Sir William Herschel, in which only one speculum is employed, by means of which an image of the object is formed near one side of the open end of the tube, and to this the eyeglass is applied directly.
Newtonian telescope, A form of reflecting telescope. See under Newtonian.
Photographic telescope, A telescope specially constructed to make photographs of the heavenly bodies.
Prism telescope. See Teinoscope.
Reflecting telescope, A telescope in which the image is formed by a speculum or mirror (or usually by two speculums, a large one at the lower end of the telescope, and the smaller one near the open end) instead of an object glass. See Gregorian, Cassegrainian, Herschelian, & Newtonian, telescopes, above.
Refracting telescope, A telescope in which the image is formed by refraction through an object glass.
Telescope carp (Zool.), The telescope fish.
Telescope fish (Zool.), A monstrous variety of the goldfish having very protuberant eyes.
Telescope fly (Zool.), Any two-winged fly of the genus Diopsis, native of Africa and Asia. The telescope flies are remarkable for having the eyes raised on very long stalks.
Telescope shell (Zool.), An elongated gastropod ({Cerithium telescopium) having numerous flattened whorls.
Telescope sight (Firearms), A slender telescope attached to the barrel, having cross wires in the eyepiece and used as a sight.
Terrestrial telescope, A telescope whose eyepiece has one or two lenses more than the astronomical, for the purpose of inverting the image, and exhibiting objects erect.
Telescoped (imp. & p. p.) of Telescope.
Telescoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Telescope.
Telescope (v. i.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force. [Recent]
Telescope (v. t.) To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope. [Recent]
Telescope (v. t.) To shorten or abridge significantly; as, to telescope a whole semester's lectures into one week.
Telescope (a.) Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, a telescope bag; telescope table, etc.; -- now more commonly replaced by the term telescoping.
Telescoping (a.) Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of sections or parts one within the other; telescopic; as, telescoping tripod legs; a telescoping table, etc.; -- a term replacing the formerly used telescope.
Telescope (n.) A magnifier of images of distant objects [syn: telescope, scope].
Telescope (v.) Crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack".
Telescope (v.) Make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play".
Telescope (n.) A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
Telescopic (a.) Alt. of Telescopical.
Telescopical (a.) Of or pertaining to a telescope; performed by a telescope.
Telescopical (a.) Seen or discoverable only by a telescope; as, telescopic stars.
Telescopical (a.) Able to discern objects at a distance; farseeing; far-reaching; as, a telescopic eye; telescopic vision.
Telescopical (a.) Having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a small telescope or a spyglass; especially (Mach.), constructed of concentric tubes, either stationary, as in the telescopic boiler, or movable, as in the telescopic chimney of a war vessel, which may be put out of sight by being lowered endwise.
Telescopically (adv.) In a telescopical manner; by or with the telescope.
Telescopist (n.) One who uses a telescope.
Telescopy (n.) The art or practice of using or making telescopes.
Telesm (n.) A kind of amulet or magical charm.
Telesmatic (a.) Alt. of Telesmatical.
Telesmatical (a.) Of or pertaining to telesms; magical.
Telespectroscope (n.) A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.
Telestereoscope (n.) A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.
Telestic (a.) Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.
Telestich (n.) A poem in which the final letters of the lines, taken consequently, make a name. Cf. Acrostic.
Telethermometer (n.) An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
Teleutospore (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
Television (n.) [ C or U ] (also TV,) (UK informal telly) (A1) 電視機；電視；電視廣播業 A device shaped like a box with a screen that receives electrical signals and changes them into moving images and sound, or the method or business of sending images and sound by electrical signals.
// A 3D/ an HD television.
// Could you turn the television down?
// It's one of the few television programmes that I still watch.
// Is there anything good on television tonight?
// Clare has worked in television since she left college.
// Your problem is that you watch too much television.
Teleworking (n.) [ U ] (Also telecommuting UK) 遠程辦公（在家工作，透過電話、傳真或電腦與辦公室聯繫） The activity of working at home, while communicating with your office by phone or email.
Telic (a.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.
Told (imp. & p. p.) of Tell.
Telling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tell.
Tell (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. "An heap of coin he told." -- Spenser.
He telleth the number of the stars. -- Ps. cxlvii. 4.
Tell the joints of the body. -- Jer. Taylor.
Tell (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
Of which I shall tell all the array. -- Chaucer.
And not a man appears to tell their fate. -- Pope.
Tell (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? -- Gen. xii. 18.
Tell (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of? -- Shak.
Tell (v. t.) To order; to request; to command.
He told her not to be frightened. -- Dickens.
Tell (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.
Tell (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. [Obs.]
I ne told no dainity of her love. -- Chaucer.
Note: Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you know.
To tell off, to count; to divide. -- Sir W. Scott.
Syn: To communicate; impart; reveal; disclose; inform; acquaint; report; repeat; rehearse; recite.
Tell (v. i.) To give an account; to make report.
That I may publish with the voice of thankgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works. -- Ps. xxvi. 7.