Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 24
Testimonies (n. pl. ) of Testimony
Testimony (n.) 【律】證詞，證言 [C] [U] [+that]；證據，證明；表徵 [C] [U] [（+of/ to）] [+that] A solemn declaration or affirmation made for the purpose of establishing or proving some fact.
Note: Such declaration, in judicial proceedings, may be verbal or written, but must be under oath or affirmation.
Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians.
Testimony (n.) Open attestation; profession.
[Thou] for the testimony of truth, hast borne Universal reproach. -- Milton.
Testimony (n.) Witness; evidence; proof of some fact.
When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. -- Mark vi. 11.
Testimony (n.) (Jewish Antiq.) The two tables of the law.
Thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. -- Ex. xxv. 16.
Testimony (n.) Hence, the whole divine revelation; the sacre? Scriptures.
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. -- Ps. xix. 7.
Syn: Proof; evidence; attestation; witness; affirmation; confirmation; averment.
Usage: Testimony, Proof, Evidence. Proof is the most familiar, and is used more frequently (though not exclusively) of facts and things which occur in the ordinary concerns of life. Evidence is a word of more dignity, and is more generally applied to that which is moral or intellectual; as, the evidences of Christianity, etc. Testimony is what is deposed to by a witness on oath or affirmation. When used figuratively or in a wider sense, the word testimony has still a reference to some living agent as its author, as when we speak of the testimony of conscience, or of doing a thing in testimony of our affection, etc. Testimony refers rather to the thing declared, evidence to its value or effect. "To conform our language more to common use, we ought to divide arguments into demonstrations, proofs, and probabilities; ba proofs, meaning such arguments from experience as leave no room for doubt or opposition." -- Hume. "The evidence of sense is the first and highest kind of evidence of which human nature is capable." -- Bp. Wilkins. "The proof of everything must be by the testimony of such as the parties produce." -- Spenser.
Testimony (v. t.) To witness; to attest; to prove by testimony. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Testimony (n.) A solemn statement made under oath.
Testimony (n.) An assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact; "according to his own testimony he can't do it".
Testimony (n.) Something that serves as evidence; "his effort was testimony to his devotion" [syn: testimony, testimonial].
Testimony, () Witness or evidence (2 Thess. 1:10).
Testimony, () The Scriptures, as the revelation of God's will (2 Kings 11:12; Ps. 19:7; 119:88; Isa. 8:16, 20).
Testimony, () The altar raised by the Gadites and Reubenites (Josh. 22:10).
Testimony, () evidence. The statement made by a witness under oath or affirmation. Vide Bill to perpetuate testimony.
Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
Testiness is a disposition or aptness to be angry. -- Locke.
Testiness (n.) Feeling easily irritated [syn: testiness, touchiness, tetchiness].
Testing (n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
Testing (n.) (Metal.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
Testing machine (Engin.), A machine used in the determination of the strength of materials, as iron, stone, etc., and their behavior under strains of various kinds, as elongation, bending, crushing, etc.
Testing (n.) The act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons".
Testing (n.) An examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox".
Testing (n.) The act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned [syn: examination, testing].
Test
Testing, () The process of exercising a product to identify differences between expected and actual behaviour. Typically testing is bottom-up: unit testing and integration testing by developers, system testing by testers, and user acceptance testing by users.
Test coverage attempts to assess how complete a test has been.
Test
Testing, () The second stage in a generate and test search algorithm. [{Jargon File] (2003-09-24)
Testes (n. pl. ) Of Teste, or of Testis.
Testis (n.) [L.] (Anat.) A testicle.
TESTES. () Witnesses.
Tester (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. -- Shak.
Teston (n.) A tester; a sixpence. [Obs.]
Testone (n.) A silver coin of Portugal, worth about sixpence sterling, or about eleven cents. -- Homans.
Testoon
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Italian silver coin. The testoon of
Testudinal (a.) (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a tortoise.
Testudinarious (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.
Testudinata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates. Testudinate
Testudinata (n.) Tortoises and turtles [syn: Chelonia, order Chelonia, Testudinata, order Testudinata, Testudines, order Testudines].
Testudinate (a.) Alt. of Testudinated
Testudinated (a.) Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted.
Testudineous (a.) Resembling the shell of a tortoise.
Testudines (n. pl. ) of Testudo.
Testudo (n.) (Zool.) A genus of tortoises which formerly included a large number of diverse forms, but is now restricted to certain terrestrial species, such as the European land tortoise ({Testudo Graeca) and the gopher of the Southern United States.
Testudo (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels.
Testudo (n.) (Mus.) A kind of musical instrument. a species of lyre; -- so called in allusion to the lyre of Mercury, fabled to have been made of the shell of a tortoise.
Testudo (n.) A movable protective covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification.
Testudo (n.) Type genus of the Testudinidae [syn: Testudo, genus Testudo].
Testy (a.) 易怒的；暴躁的；不耐煩的 Fretful; peevish; petulant; easily irritated.
Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor? -- Shak.
I was displeased with myself; I was testy. -- Latimer.
Testy (a.) Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy].
Tetanic (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.
This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasms into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus, or tetanic contraction. -- Foster.
Tetanic (a.) (Physiol. & Med.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.
Tetanic (n.) (Physiol. & Med.) A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.
Tetanic (a.) Of or relating to or causing tetany.
Tetanic (a.) Of or relating to or causing tetanus.
Tetanin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.
Tetanization (n.) (Physiol.) The production or condition of tetanus.
Tetanize (v. t.) (Physiol.) To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.
Tetanoid (a.) (Med. & Physiol.) Resembling tetanus.
Tetanomotor (n.) (Physiol.) An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.
Tetanus (n.) (Med.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.
Tetanus (n.) (Physiol.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks.
Tetanus (n.) An acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages [syn: tetanus, lockjaw].
Tetanus (n.) A sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses.
Tetany (n.) (Med.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.
Tetany (n.) Clinical neurological syndrome characterized by muscular twitching and cramps and (when severe) seizures; associated with calcium deficiency (hypoparathyroidism) or vitamin D deficiency or alkalosis [syn: tetany, tetanilla, intermittent tetanus, intermittent cramp, apyretic tetanus].
Tetard (n.) (Zool.) A gobioid fish ({Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.
Tetartohedral (a.) (Crystallog.) Having one fourth the number of planes which are requisite to complete symmetry. -- Te*tar`to*he"dral*ly, adv.
Tetartohedrism (n.) (Crystallog.) The property of being tetartohedral.
Tetaug (n.) (Zool.) See Tautog. [R.]
Tetchiness (n.) See Techiness.
Tetchiness (n.) Feeling easily irritated [syn: testiness, touchiness, tetchiness].
Tetchy (a.) See Techy. -- Shak.
Tetchy (a.) Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy].
Tete (n.) A kind of wig; false hair.
Tete-a-tete (n.) Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
Tete-a-tete (n.) A short sofa intended to accomodate two persons.
Tete-a-tete (a.) Private; confidential; familiar.
She avoided t[^e]te-[`a]-t[^e]te walks with him. -- C. Kingsley.
Tete-a-tete (adv.) Face to face; privately or confidentially; familiarly. -- Prior.
Tete-a-tete (a.) Involving two persons; intimately private; "a tete-a-tetesupper"; "a head-to-head conversation" [syn: tete-a-tete, head-to-head].
Tete-a-tete (n.) A private conversation between two people.
Tete-a-tete (n.) Small sofa that seats two people [syn: love seat, loveseat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis].
Tetes-de-pont (n. pl. ) of Tete-de-pont.
Tete-de-pont (n.) (Mil.) A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.
Tetel (n.) (Zool.) A large African antelope ({Alcelaphus tora). It has widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.
Tether (n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
Tethered (imp. & p. p.) of Tether.
Tethering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tether.
Tether (v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.
And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. -- Wordsworth.
Tethydan (n.) (Zool.) A tunicate.
Tethyodea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Tunicata including the common attached ascidians, both simple and compound. Called also Tethioidea.
Tethys (n.) (Zool.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored.
Tethys (n.) (Greek mythology) A Titaness and sea goddess; wife of Oceanus.
Tethys (n.) Type genus of the family Aplysiidae [syn: Aplysia, genus Aplysia, Tethys, genus Tethus].
Tetra- () A combining form or prefix signifying four, as in tetrabasic, tetrapetalous.
Tetra- () (Chem.) A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting four proportional or combining parts of the substance or ingredient denoted by the term to which it is prefixed, as in tetra-chloride, tetroxide.
Tetrabasic (a.) (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monacid base; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by bases; quadribasic; -- said of certain acids; thus, normal silicic acid, Si(OH)4, is a tetrabasic acid.
Pyroboric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to derived from, or designating, an acid, H2B4O7 (called also tetraboric acid), which is the acid ingredient of ordinary borax, and is obtained by heating boric acid.
Tetraboric (a.) (Chem.) Same as Pyroboric.
Tetrabranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of Cephalopoda having four gills. Among living species it includes only the pearly nautilus. Numerous genera and species are found in the fossil state, such as Ammonites, Baculites, Orthoceras, etc.
Tetrabranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Tetrabranchiata.
Tetrabranchiate (n.) One of the Tetrabranchiata.
Tetracarpel (a.) (Bot.) Composed of four carpels.
Tetrachord (n.) (Anc. Mus.) A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.
Tetrachotomous (a.) (Bot.) Having a division by fours; separated into four parts or series, or into series of fours.
Tetracid (a.) (Chem.) （指鹽基）能與一價酸之四分子起反應的；（指酸或酸鹽）含有四個可替換的氫原子的 Capable of neutralizing four molecules of a monobasic acid; having four hydrogen atoms capable of replacement ba acids or acid atoms; -- said of certain bases; thus, erythrine, C4H6(OH)4, is a tetracid alcohol.
Tetracid (a.) (of a base) Capable of reacting with four molecules of a monobasic acid.
Tetracid (n.) 含有四個可替換的氫原子的酸 A base that can react with four molecules of a monobasic acid to form a salt.
Tetracid (n.) An alcohol having four OH groups per molecule.
Tetracoccous (a.) (Bot.) Having four cocci, or carpels.
Tetracolon (n.) (Pros.) A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. -- Crabb.
Tetracoralla (n. pl.) (Paleon.) Same as Rugosa.
Tetractinellid (n.) (Zool.) Any species of sponge of the division Tetractinellida. Also used adjectively.
Tetractinellida (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae.
Tetrad (n.) 四個，四個一組，四分染色體；【化】四價元素 The number four; a collection of four things; a quaternion.
Tetrad (n.) (Chem.) A tetravalent or quadrivalent atom or radical; as, carbon is a tetrad. Tetradactyl
Tetrad (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: {four}, {4}, {IV}, {tetrad}, {quatern}, {quaternion}, {quaternary}, {quaternity}, {quartet}, {quadruplet}, {foursome}, {Little Joe}].
Tetradactyl (a.) Alt. of Tetradactyle
Tetradactyle (a.) (Zool.) Tetradactylous.
Tetradactylous (a.) (Zool.) Having, or characterized by, four digits to the foot or hand.
Tetradecane (n.) (Chem.) A light oily hydrocarbon, C14H30, of the marsh-gas series; -- so called from the fourteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
Tetradecapoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) Same as Arthrostraca.
Tetradic (a.) (Chem.) 四價元素的；四階張量 Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.
Tetradite (n.) A person in some way remarkable with regard to the number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. -- Smart.
Tetrodon (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. [Written also tetradon.]
Note: The skin is usually spinous, and the belly is capable of being greatly distended by air or water. It includes the swellfish, puffer (a), and similar species.
Tetradon (n.) (Zool.) See Tetrodon.
Tetrodont (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the tetrodons. -- n. A tetrodon. [Written also tetradont, and tetraodont.]
Tetradont (a. & n.) (Zool.) See Tetrodont. Tetradrachm
Compare: Stater
Stater (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) The principal gold coin of ancient Greece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about [pounds]1 2s., or about $5.35 (in 1890 value). The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.
Tetradrachm (n.) Alt. of Tetradrachma
Tetradrachma (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, of the value of four drachms.
Note: The Attic tetradrachm was equal to 3s. 3d. sterling, or about 76 cents.
Tetradymite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】輝碲鉍礦 A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth.
Tetradynamia (n. pl.) (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.
Tetradynamian (n.) (Bot.) A plant of the order Tetradynamia. Tetradynamian
Tetradynamian (a.) Alt. of Tetradynamous
Tetradynamous (a.) (Bot.) Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
Tetragon (n.) (Geom.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc.
Tetragon (n.) (Astrol.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. -- Hutton.
Tetragon (n.) A four-sided polygon [syn: quadrilateral, quadrangle, tetragon].
Tetragonal (a.) (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tetragon; having four angles or sides; thus, the square, the parallelogram, the rhombus, and the trapezium are tetragonal fingers.
Tetragonal (a.) (Bot.) Having four prominent longitudinal angles.
Tetragonal (a.) (Crystallog.) Designating, or belonging to, a certain system of crystallization; dimetric. See Tetragonal system, under Crystallization.
Tetragonal (a.) Of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral.
Tetragrammaton (n.) The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.
Tetragrammaton (n.) Four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce.
Tetragynia (n. pl.) (Bot.) A Linnaean order of plants having four styles. Tetragynian