Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 19
Tennis (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. -- Shak.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. -- Macaulay.
Court tennis, The old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis.
Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n.
Tennis court, A place or court for playing the game of tennis. -- Shak.
Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.] -- Spenser.
Tennis (n.) A game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court [syn: tennis, lawn tennis].
Tennu (n.) (Zool.) The tapir.
Ten-o'clock (n.) (Bot.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.
Tenon (n.) (Carp. & Join.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
Tenon saw, A saw with a thin blade, usually stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons. [Corruptly written tenant saw.] -- Gwilt.
Tenon (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
Tenon (n.) A projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint.
Tenonian (a.) (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
Tenonian capsule (Anat.), A lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat of the orbit; -- called also capsule of Tenon.
Tenor (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. -- Gray.
Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor. -- Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men? -- Spart.
Tenor (n.) Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor. -- Dryden.
Tenor (n.) (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument. -- Bouvier.
Tenor (n.) (Mus.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
Tenor (n.) (Mus.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
Old Tenor, New Tenor, Middle Tenor, different descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods, by the American colonial governments in the last century.
Tenosynovitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Tenosynovitis (n.) Inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath [syn: tenosynovitis, tendosynovitis, tendonous synovitis].
Tenotome (n.) (Surg.) A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
Tenotomy (n.) (Surg.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
Tenpenny (a.) Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
Tenpenny (a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.
Compare: Ninepins
Ninepins (n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Note: In the United States, ten pins are used for this game, which is therefore often called tenpins.
Tenpins (n.) A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins. [U. S.]
Tenpins (n.) Bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins [syn: tenpins, tenpin bowling].
Ten-pounder (n.) (Zool.) A large oceanic fish ({Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
Compare: Tendrac
Tendrac (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac ({Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
Tenrec (n.) (Zool.) A small insectivore ({Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.
Tenrec (n.) Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog [syn: tenrec, tendrac].
Tense (n.) (Gram.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
Note: The primary simple tenses are three: those which express time past, present, and future; but these admit of modifications, which differ in different languages.
Tense (a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. -- Goldsmith. -- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.
Tense (a.) In or of a state of physical or nervous tension [ant: relaxed].
Tense (a.) Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') [ant: lax].
Tense (a.) Taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" [ant: lax].
Tense (n.) A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time.
Tense (v.) Become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached" [syn: strain, tense].
Tense (v.) Increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring".
Tense (v.) Become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" [syn: tense, tense up] [ant: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind].
Tense (v.) Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" [syn: tense, strain, tense up] [ant: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain, unwind].
Tense (a.) Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly tuned, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU: ? This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes.? A tense programmer is one who produces tense code.
Tense, () Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly bummed, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU: "This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes." A tense programmer is one who produces tense code.
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TENSE. () A term used in, grammar to denote the distinction of time.
TENSE. () The acts of a court of justice ought to be in the present tense; as, "praeceptum est," not "preaceptum fuit;" but the acts of, the party may be in the preterperfect tense, as "venit, et protulit hic in curia quandum querelam suam;" and the continuances are in the preterperfect tense; as, "venerunt," not "veniunt." 1 Mod. 81.
TENSE. () The contract of marriage should be made in language in the present tense. 6 Binn. Rep. 405. Vide 1 Saund. 393, n. 1.
Tensibility (n.) The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
Tensible (a.) Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible. -- Bacon.
Tensile (a.) Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
Tensile (a.) Capable of extension; ductile; tensible. -- Bacon.
Tensile (a.) Of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull".
Tensile (a.) Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile].
Tensiled (a.) Made tensile. [R.]
Tensility (n.) The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. -- Dr. H. Mere.
Tension (n.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
Tension (n.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
Tension (n.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.
Tension (n.) (Mech.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.
Tension (n.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.
Tension (n.) (Physics) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.
Tension (n.) (Elec.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.
Tension brace, or Tension member (Engin.), A brace or member designed to resist tension, or subjected to tension, in a structure.
Tension rod (Engin.), An iron rod used as a tension member to strengthen timber or metal framework, roofs, or the like.
Tension (n.) (Psychology) A state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: tension, tenseness, stress].
Tension (n.) The physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" [syn: tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness].
Tension (n.) A balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature); "there is a tension created between narrative time and movie time"; "there is a tension between these approaches to understanding history".
Tension (n.) (Physics) A stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear".
Tension (n.) Feelings of hostility that are not manifest; "he could sense her latent hostility to him"; "the diplomats' first concern was to reduce international tensions" [syn: latent hostility, tension].
Tension (n.) The action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the belt in the pulleys".
Tensioned (a.) Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." -- Tyndall.
Tensity (n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Tensive (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
A tensive pain from distension of the parts. -- Floyer.
Tensor (n.) (Anat.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
Tensor (n.) (Geom.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.
Tensor (n.) A generalization of the concept of a vector.
Tensor (n.) Any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm.
Ten-strike (n.) (Tenpins) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. [U. S.]
Ten-strike (n.) Any quick, decisive stroke or act. [Colloq. U. S.]
Ten-strike (n.) A score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame" [syn: strike, ten-strike].
Tenstrike, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 195
Housing Units (2000): 110
Land area (2000): 3.278307 sq. miles (8.490776 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.177490 sq. miles (3.049685 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.455797 sq. miles (11.540461 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64444
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 47.661095 N, 94.680868 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56683
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tenstrike, MN
Tenstrike
Tensure (n.) Tension. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Tent (n.) [C] 帳篷，帳棚；住處，寓所；塞條，塞子 A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
Tent (n.) Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Lydgate.
Tent (n.) Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Tent (v. t.) (v. i.) 住帳篷；宿營；暫時居住 (v. t.) 用帳篷遮蓋；使在帳篷裡住宿 To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Halliwell.
Tent (v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
I'll tent him to the quick. -- Shak.
Tent (n.) (Surg.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
Tent (n.) (Surg.) A probe for searching a wound.
The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. -- Shak.
Tent (n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
Within his tent, large as is a barn. -- Chaucer.
Tent (n.) (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tent bed, A high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
Tent caterpillar (Zool.), Any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth ({Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.
Tented (imp. & p. p.) of Tent.
Tenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tent.
Tent (v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. -- Shak.
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. -- W. Kittredge.
Tent (n.) A portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek" [syn: {tent}, {collapsible shelter}].
Tent (n.) A web that resembles a tent or carpet.
Tent (v.) Live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {camp}, {encamp}, {camp out}, {bivouac}, {tent}].
Tent, () Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was placed over the mishcan.
Tent, () Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (Job 18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp. 14:18), the temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9; 26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from 'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.).
Tent, () Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor.
Tent, () Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of green boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11; Jonah 4:5; Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously rendered).
Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Gen. 4:20).
The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8; 13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24). Tents have always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54; 2 Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's occupation was that of a tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a maker of tent cloth.
Tentacle (n.) (Zool.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
Tentacle sheath (Zool.), A sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.
Tentacle (n.) Something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime".
Tentacle (n.) Any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion.
Tentacle (n.) A covert pseudo, sense 1. An artificial identity created in cyberspace for nefarious and deceptive purposes. The implication is that a single person may have multiple tentacles. This term was originally floated in some paranoid ravings on the cypherpunks list (see cypherpunk), and adopted in a spirit of irony by other, saner members. It has since shown up, used seriously, in the documentation for some remailer software, and is now (1994) widely recognized on the net. Compare astroturfing, sock puppet.
Tentacled (a.) (Zool.) Having tentacles.
Tentacled (a.) Having tentacles.
Tentacular (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
Tentaculata (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles. Tentaculate
Tentaculata (n.) Ctenophores have retractile tentacles [syn: Tentaculata, class Tentaculata].
Tentaculate (a.) Alt. of Tentaculated.
Tentaculated (a.) (Zool.) Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
Tentaculifera (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) Same as Suctoria, 1.
Tentaculiferous (a.) (Zool.) Producing or bearing tentacles.
Tentaculiform (a.) (Zool.) Shaped like a tentacle.
Tentaculite (n.) (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.
Tentaculocyst (n.) (Zool.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
Tentacula (n. pl. ) of Tentaculum.
Tentaculum (n.) (Zool.) A tentacle.
Tentaculum (n.) (Anat.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.
Tentage (n.) A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Tentation (n.) Trial; temptation. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Tentation (n.) (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. -- Knight.
Tentative (a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." -- Carlyle. --
Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.
Tentative (n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment. -- Berkley.
Tented (a.) Covered with tents.
Tenter (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
Tenter (n.) (Mach.) A kind of governor.
Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
Tenter ground, A place where tenters are erected.
Tenter-hook, A sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter.
To be on the tenters, To be on the tenter-hooks or To be on tenterhooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. -- Hudibras.
Tentered (imp. & p. p.) of Tenter.
Tentering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tenter.
Tenter (v. i.) To admit extension.
Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. -- Bacon.
Tenter (v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Tenter (n.) A framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth
Tentfuls (n. pl. ) of Tentful.
Tentful (n.) As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.
Tenth (a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
Tenth (a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
Tenth (n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
Tenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
Tenth (n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe. -- Shak.
Tenth (n.) (Mus.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
Tenth (n.) pl. (Eng. Law) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
Tenth (n.) pl. (Eng. Law) (Eccl. Law) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty. -- Burrill.
Tenth (a.) Coming next after the ninth and just before the eleventh in position [syn: tenth, 10th].
Tenth (n.) A tenth part; one part in ten equal parts [syn: one-tenth, tenth, tenth part, ten percent].
Tenth (n.) Position ten in a countable series of things.
Tenthly (adv.) In a tenth manner. Tenthmeter
Tenthly (adv.) (In enumerating something, such as topics or points of discussion) in the tenth place.
Tenthmeter (n.) Alt. of Tenthmetre.
Tenthmetre (n.) (Physics) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.
Tenthredinides (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.
Tentif (a.) Attentive. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tentifly (adv.) Attentively. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tentiginous (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] -- Johnson.