Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 41
Tiff (v. i.) To be in a pet.
She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. -- Landor.
Tiff (v. t.) To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] -- A. Tucker.
Tiff (n.) A quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss].
TIFF, () Tag / Tagged Image File Format (Aldus).
Tagged Image File Format
TIFF
(TIFF) A file format used for still-image bitmaps, stored in tagged fields. Application programs can use the tags to accept or ignore fields, depending on their capabilities.
While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g. lossless 24-bit colour) requires nonstandard, often redundant, extensions. The incompatibility of extensions has led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File Formats."
Compare GIF, PNG, JPEG.
(1997-10-11)
Tiffany (n.) A species of gause, or very silk.
The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. -- Sir T. Browne.
Tiffany (a.) [After Louis Comfort Tiffany.] Made of stained glass by, or in the style of objects made by, Louis C. Tiffany; as, a Tiffany lamp.
Tiffany (a.) Made by or purchased from the Tiffany corporation (with headquarters in New York City); as, Tiffany jewelry.
Tiffany (n.) United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933) [syn: Tiffany, Louis Comfort Tiffany].
Tiffin (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.
Tiffin (n.) A midday meal [syn: lunch, luncheon, tiffin, dejeuner].
Tiffin, OH -- U.S. city in Ohio
Population (2000): 18135
Housing Units (2000): 7862
Land area (2000): 6.494442 sq. miles (16.820526 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.141731 sq. miles (0.367082 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.636173 sq. miles (17.187608 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76778
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.116834 N, 83.179003 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44883
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tiffin, OH
Tiffin
Tiffin, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 975
Housing Units (2000): 457
Land area (2000): 2.989005 sq. miles (7.741486 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.989005 sq. miles (7.741486 sq. km)
FIPS code: 78060
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.706432 N, 91.661471 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tiffin, IA
Tiffin
Tiffish (a.) Inclined to tiffs; peevish; petulant.
Tift (n.) A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff.
After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church. -- Blackwood's Mag.
Tift -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 38407
Housing Units (2000): 15411
Land area (2000): 265.049242 sq. miles (686.474357 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.811585 sq. miles (9.871959 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 268.860827 sq. miles (696.346316 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.458076 N, 83.519231 W
Headwords:
Tift
Tift, GA
Tift County
Tift County, GA
Tig (n.) A game among children. See Tag.
Tig (n.) A capacious, flat-bottomed drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.
Tigella (n.) (Bot.) That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.
Tigelle (n.) [F.] (Bot.) Same as Tigella.
Tiger (n.) A very large and powerful carnivore ({Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
Tiger (n.) Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
As for heinous tiger, Tamora. -- Shak.
Tiger (n.) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress. -- Dickens.
Tiger (n.) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering; as, three cheers and a tiger. [Colloq. U. S.]
Tiger (n.) A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
American tiger. (Zool.) (a) The puma.
American tiger. (Zool.) (b) The jaguar.
Clouded tiger (Zool.), A handsome striped and spotted carnivore ({Felis macrocelis or Felis marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail about three feet long. Its ground color is brownish gray, and the dark markings are irregular stripes, spots, and rings, but there are always two dark bands on the face, one extending back from the eye, and one from the angle of the mouth. Called also tortoise-shell tiger.
Mexican tiger (Zool.), The jaguar.
Tiger beetle (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of active carnivorous beetles of the family Cicindelidae. They usually inhabit dry or sandy places, and fly rapidly.
Tiger bittern. (Zool.) See Sun bittern, under Sun.
Tiger cat (Zool.), Any one of several species of wild cats of moderate size with dark transverse bars or stripes somewhat resembling those of the tiger.
Tiger flower (Bot.), An iridaceous plant of the genus Tigridia (as Tigridia conchiflora, Tigridia grandiflora, etc.) having showy flowers, spotted or streaked somewhat like the skin of a tiger.
Tiger grass (Bot.), A low East Indian fan palm ({Chamaerops Ritchieana). It is used in many ways by the natives. -- J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
Tiger lily. (Bot.) See under Lily.
Tiger moth (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Arctiadae which are striped or barred with black and white or with other conspicuous colors. The larvae are called woolly bears.
Tiger shark (Zool.), A voracious shark ({Galeocerdo tigrinus syn. Galeocerdo maculatus) more or less barred or spotted with yellow. It is found in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Called also zebra shark.
Tiger shell (Zool.), A large and conspicuously spotted cowrie ({Cypraea tigris); -- so called from its fancied resemblance to a tiger in color and markings. Called also tiger cowrie.
Tiger snake (Zool.), Either of two very venomous snakes of Tasmania and Australia, Notechis scutatis and Notechis ater, which grow up to 5 feet in length.
Tiger wolf (Zool.), The spotted hyena ({Hyaena crocuta"> Tiger wolf (Zool.), the spotted hyena ({Hyaena crocuta).
Tiger wood, The variegated heartwood of a tree ({Machaerium Schomburgkii) found in Guiana.
Tiger (n.) A fierce or audacious person; "he's a tiger on the tennis court"; "it aroused the tiger in me."
Tiger (n.) Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered [syn: tiger, Panthera tigris].
Tiger, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 316
Housing Units (2000): 161
Land area (2000): 0.822521 sq. miles (2.130320 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.822521 sq. miles (2.130320 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76504
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.846374 N, 83.434181 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30576
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tiger, GA
Tiger
Tiger-eye (n.) (Min.) A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.
Compare: Crocidolite
Crocidolite (n.) (Min.) A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color.
It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.
Tiger-foot (n.) (Bot.) Same as Tiger's-foot.
Tiger-footed (a.) Hastening to devour; furious.
Tigerine (a.) Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]
Tigerish (a.) Like a tiger; tigrish.
Tigerish (a.) Resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy; "a tigerish fury."
Tiger's-foot (n.) (Bot.) A name given to some species of morning-glory ({Ipomoea) having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
Tigh (n.) A close, or inclosure; a croft. [Obs.] -- Cowell.
Tight () Obs. p. p. of Tie. -- Spenser.
Tight (a.) Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.
Tight (a.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
Tight (a.) Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.
Tight (a.) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
Clad very plain, but clean and tight. -- Evelyn.
I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight. -- Gay.
Tight (a.) Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings. [Colloq.]
Tight (a.) Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.
Tight (a.) Handy; adroit; brisk. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tight (a.) Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy. [Slang]
Tight (a.) (Com.) Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.
Tight (v. t.) To tighten. [Obs.]
Tight (adv.) Firmly or closely; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" [syn: fast, tight].
Tight (adv.) In an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely, tight].
Tight (a.) Closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest" [ant: loose].
Tight (a.) Pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" [syn: taut, tight].
Tight (a.) Set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade."
Tight (a.) Pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" [syn: compressed, tight].
Tight (a.) (Used of persons or behavior) Characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight].
Tight (a.) Affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market."
Tight (a.) Of such close construction as to be impermeable; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house" [ant: leaky].
Tight (a.) Of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" [syn: close, tight].
Tight (a.) Securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid; "the bolts are tight."
Tight (a.) (Of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" [syn: close, tight].
Tight (a.) Very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet].
Tight (a.) Exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" [syn: nasty, tight].
Compare: Exasperatingly
Exasperatingly (adv.) 使人惱怒地；激怒人地 In a way that is annoying, especially because you can do nothing to solve a problem.
// My brother is exasperatingly single-minded.
// It is hard to understand why the subject is so exasperatingly boring.
Compare: Boring
Boring (a.) 煩人的；乏味的；無聊的 Not interesting or exciting.
// She finds opera boring.
// It's boring to sit on the plane with nothing to read.
// A boring lecture.
// The movie was so boring I fell asleep.
Tight (a.) Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous, stringent, tight].
Tight (a.) Packed closely together; "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight."
Tightrope (n.) 繃索；危險的處境 Tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground. tightrope
Tightrope (n.) A rope or wire stretched tightly high above the ground, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
[As modifier] ‘A tightrope walker.’ 走鋼絲表演者。
‘He continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure.’
Tightrope (v. i.) Walk or perform on a tightrope.
‘The man who tightroped across Niagara Falls.’
Walk, tread a tightrope (idiom.) 走鋼絲；（尤指因進退兩難而）處境危險 If you walk/ tread a tightrope, you have to deal with a difficult situation, especially one involving making a decision between two opposing plans of action.
// Many manufactures have to walk a tightrope between pricing their goods too high and not selling them, and pricing them low and losing money.
Tights (n. pl.)（運動員等的）緊身衣；貼身襯衣；（婦女的）緊身下裝 Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Tights (n.) Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls [syn: tights, leotards].
Tights (n.) An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation!
It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of _renaissances_, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage.
Tightened (imp. & p. p.) of Tighten.
Tightening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tighten.
Tighten (v. t.) 勒緊，使變緊 To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
Tightener (n.) That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.
Tighter (n.) A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer.
Tightly (adv.) 緊緊地；堅固地；牢固地 In a tight manner; closely; nearly.
Tightness (n.) 堅固；緊密 The quality or condition of being tight.
Tightness (n.) A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: stringency, tightness].
Tightness (n.) A tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat" [syn: constriction, tightness].
Tightness (n.) The spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution].
Tightness (n.) Extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness].
Tightness (n.) Lack of movement or room for movement [syn: tightness, tautness] [ant: looseness, play].
Tights (n. pl.) （運動員等的）緊身衣；貼身襯衣 Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Tights (n.) Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls [syn: tights, leotards].
Tiglic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.
Tigress (n.) (Zool.) 【動】雌虎；兇悍的女人 The female of the tiger. -- Holland.
Tigress (n.) A female tiger.
Tigrine (a.) Of or pertaining to a tiger; like a tiger.
Tigrine (a.) (Zool.) Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat ({Felis tigrina) of South America.
Tigrish (a.) Resembling a tiger; tigerish.
Tike (n.) (Zool.) A tick. See 2d Tick. [Obs.]
Tike (n.) A dog; a cur. "Bobtail tike or trundle-tail." -- Shak.
Tike (n.) A countryman or clown; a boorish, clumsy, or eccentric person; -- also spelled tyke.
Tike (n.) A small child; -- variant of tyke.
Tike (n.) A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike].
Tike (n.) A young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling].
Tikus (n.) The bulau.
Til (prep. & conj.) See Till.
Tilburies (n. pl. ) of Tilbury.
Tilbury (n.) A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.
Tilde (n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, [~n], [~l]], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
Tilde (n.) [ C ] （尤置於字母n之上表示其發音特殊的）波形符，齶化符號（~） (used when writing some languages) A ~ mark made above a letter, especially n, to show that the letter has a special sound.
Tilapia (n.) 吳郭魚 Tilapia is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the tilapiine cichlid tribe. Tilapia are mainly freshwater fish inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers and lakes and less commonly found living in brackish water. Historically, they have been of major importance in artisan fishing in Africa and the Middle East, and they are of increasing importance in aquaculture and aquaponics. Tilapia can become problematic invasive species in new warm-water habitats such as Australia, [2] whether deliberately or accidentally introduced, but generally not in temperate climates due to their inability to survive in cold water.
Tilapia is the fourth most consumed fish in the United States dating back to 2002. The popularity of tilapia came about due to its cheap price, easy preparation, and its mild taste. [3]
Tilapia lake virus (n.) 吳郭魚湖泊病毒。
Tilapia lake virus, or TiLV, Is a virus infecting populations of tilapia. [1] The virus is responsible for decimation of some populations and was only discovered recently. [2]
Tile (v. t.) To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
Tile (n.) A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
Tile (n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
Tile (n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.
Tile (n.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
Tile (n.) A draintile.
Tile (n.) A stiff hat.
Tiled (imp. & p. p.) of Tile.
Tiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tile.
Tile (v. t.) To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
Tile (v. t.) Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
Tile-drain (v. t.) To drain by means of tiles; to furnish with a tile drain.
Tilefish (n.) A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round, yellow spots.
Tiler (n.) A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
Tiler (n.) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.
Tileries (n. pl. ) of Tilery.
Tilery (n.) A place where tiles are made or burned; a tile kiln.
Tilestone (n.) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
Tilestone (n.) A tile of stone.
Tiliaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Tiliaceae) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The order includes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.
Tiling (n.) A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
Tiling (n.) Tiles, collectively.
Till (n.) A vetch; a tare.
Till (n.) A drawer.
Till (n.) A tray or drawer in a chest.
Till (n.) A money drawer in a shop or store.
Till (n.) A deposit of clay, sand, and gravel, without lamination, formed in a glacier valley by means of the waters derived from the melting glaciers; -- sometimes applied to alluvium of an upper river terrace, when not laminated, and appearing as if formed in the same manner.
Till (n.) A kind of coarse, obdurate land.
Till (v. t.) To; unto; up to; as far as; until; -- now used only in respect to time, but formerly, also, of place, degree, etc., and still so used in Scotland and in parts of England and Ireland; as, I worked till four o'clock; I will wait till next week.
Till (conj.) As far as; up to the place or degree that; especially, up to the time that; that is, to the time specified in the sentence or clause following; until.
Tilled (imp. & p. p.) of Till.
Tilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Till.
Till (prep.) To plow and prepare for seed, and to sow, dress, raise crops from, etc., to cultivate; as, to till the earth, a field, a farm.
Till (prep.) To prepare; to get.
Till (v. i.) To cultivate land.
Tillable (a.) Capable of being tilled; fit for the plow; arable.
Tillage (n.) The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.
Tillage (n.) A place tilled or cultivated; cultivated land.
Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.
Tiller (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
Tiller (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
Tiller (n.) A young timber tree.
Tillered (imp. & p. p.) of Tiller.
Tillering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tiller.
Tiller (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.