Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 43
Timekeeper (n.) One who marks the time in musical performances.
Timekeeper (n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Timekeeper (n.) (Sports) An official who keeps track of the time elapsed [syn: {timekeeper}, {timer}].
Timekeeper (n.) A clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees.
Timekeeper (n.) A measuring instrument or device for keeping time [syn: {timepiece}, {timekeeper}, {horologe}].
Timeless (a.) 不受時間影響的；永恆的 Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.]
Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. -- Pope.
Timeless (a.) Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave. [Obs.]
Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death? -- Shak.
Timeless (a.) Having no end; interminable; unending. "Timeless night and chaos." -- Young.
Timeless (a.) Unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty" [syn: {dateless}, {timeless}].
Timelessly (adv.) In a timeless manner; unseasonably.
Timeline (n.) 時間表；時間軸；大事紀 A sequence of related events arranged in chronological order and displayed along a line (usually drawn left to right or top to bottom).
Timeliness (n.) The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.
Timeling (n.) A timeserver.
Timely (a.) 及時的；適時的；【古】早的 Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." -- Milton.
Timely (a.) Keeping time or measure. -- Spenser.
Timely (adv.) 及時地；適時地；【古】早 Early; soon; in good season.
Timely advised, the coming evil shun. -- Prior.
Thanks to you, That called me timelier than my purpose hither, For I have gained by it. -- Shak.
Timely (adv.) At an opportune time; "your letter arrived apropos" [syn: seasonably, timely, well-timed, apropos].
Timely (a.) Before a time limit expires; "the timely filing of his income tax return".
Timely (a.) Done or happening at the appropriate or proper time; "a timely warning"; "with timely treatment the patient has a good chance of recovery"; "a seasonable time for discussion"; "the book's publication was well timed" [syn: timely, seasonable, well-timed(a), well timed(p)].
In a timely manner (ph.) At the right or an opportune or appropriate time .
In a timely manner (ph.) An archaic word for Early; Timeliness (n.)
In a timely manner (ph.) It means to complete a given task in a reasonable amount of time.
// If I give you a book to read I'd appreciate it, if you read the book and returned it to me in a timely manner. (so I can finish reading it).
// We will get back to you in a timely manner.
Timenoguy (n.) A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
Timeous (a.) Timely; seasonable.
Timepiece (n.) A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
Timepleaser (n.) One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver.
Timer (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
Timesaving (a.) Saving time; as, a timesaving expedient.
Timeserver (n.) One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.
Timeserving (a.) Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
Timeserving (n.) An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.
Time-table (n.) A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.
Time-table (n.) A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.
Time-table (n.) A table showing the notation, length, or duration of the several notes.
Timid (a.) Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy.
Timidity (n.) The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
Timidous (a.) Timid.
Timist (n.) A performer who keeps good time.
Timist (n.) A timeserver.
Timmer (n.) Same as 1st Timber.
Timocracy (n.) A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.
Timocracy (n.) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.
Timocratic (a.) Belonging to, or constituted by, timocracy.
Timoneer (n.) A helmsman.
Timorous (a.) Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.
Timorous (a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.
Timorsome (a.) Easily frightened; timorous.
Timothy (n.) Alt. of Timothy grass.
Timothy grass (n.) 提摩西草、提摩草、梯牧草、貓尾草 A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes; -- called also herd's grass, in England, cat's-tail grass, and meadow cat's-tail grass. It is much prized for fodder. See Illustration in Appendix.
Timothy (n.) 提摩太前書；是新約聖經中的一卷，通常列於第15卷，在聖經全書中是第54本書。這本書是使徒保羅寫給提摩太的第一封信，這也是本書名字的由來。由於提摩太前書、提摩太後書和提多書這三卷聖經的對象是教會牧者，因此亦稱為教牧書信（Pastoral Letters）。
召會認為《提摩太前書》的主題是：「神對召會的經綸。」
The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to simply as First Timothy and often written 1 Timothy, is one of three letters in the New Testament of the Bible often grouped together as the Pastoral Epistles, along with Second Timothy and Titus. The letter, traditionally attributed to the Apostle Paul, consists mainly of counsels to his younger colleague and delegate Timothy regarding his ministry in Ephesus (1:3). These counsels include instructions on the organization of the Church and the responsibilities resting on certain groups of leaders therein as well as exhortations to faithfulness in maintaining the truth amid surrounding errors.
Timous (a.) Timely; seasonable.
Timpani (n. pl. ) of Timpano.
Timpano (n.) See Tympano.
Tim-whiskey (n.) A kind of carriage. See Whiskey.
Tin (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
Tin (n.) Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
Tin (n.) Money.
Tinned (imp. & p. p.) of Tin.
Tinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tin.
Tin (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
Tinamides (n. pl.) A division of struthious birds, including the tinamous.
Tinamou (n.) Any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera.
Tincal (n.) Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.
Tinchel (n.) A circle of sportsmen, who, by surrounding an extensive space and gradually closing in, bring a number of deer and game within a narrow compass.
Tinct (a.) Tined; tinged.
Tinct (n.) Color; tinge; tincture; tint.
Tinct (v. t.) To color or stain; to imblue; to tint.
Tinctorial (a.) Of or relating to color or colors; imparting a color; as, tinctorial matter.
Tincture (n.) 【藥】酊（劑）[C] [U] [（+of）], 顏色，色彩 [C], 氣息，特徵，跡象 [S] [（+of）] A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
Tincture (n.) (Her.) One of the metals, colors, or furs used in armory.
Note: There are two metals: gold, called or, and represented in engraving by a white surface covered with small dots; and silver, called argent, and represented by a plain white surface. The colors and their representations are as follows: red, called gules, or a shading of vertical lines; blue, called azure, or horizontal lines; black, called sable, or horizontal and vertical lines crossing; green, called vert, or diagonal lines from dexter chief corner; purple, called purpure, or diagonal lines from sinister chief corner. The furs are ermine, ermines, erminois, pean, vair, counter vair, potent, and counter potent. See Illustration in Appendix.
Tincture (n.) The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.
Tincture (n.) (Med.) A solution (commonly colored) of medicinal substance in alcohol, usually more or less diluted; spirit containing medicinal substances in solution.
Note: According to the United States Pharmacopoeia, the term tincture (also called alcoholic tincture, and spirituous tincture) is reserved for the alcoholic solutions of nonvolatile substances, alcoholic solutions of volatile substances being called spirits.
Ethereal tincture, A solution of medicinal substance in ether.
Tincture (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
Tincture (n.) A slight quality added to anything; a tinge; as, a tincture of French manners.
All manners take a tincture from our own. -- Pope.
Every man had a slight tincture of soldiership, and scarcely any man more than a slight tincture. -- Macaulay.
Tinctured (imp. & p. p.) of Tincture.
Tincturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tincture.
Tincture (v. t.) 著色於，染；使帶有……氣息（或風味、特徵）[H] [（+with）] To communicate a slight foreign color to; to tinge; to impregnate with some extraneous matter.
A little black paint will tincture and spoil twenty gay colors. -- I. Watts.
Tincture (v. t.) To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul. -- Barrow.
Tincture (n.) A substances that colors metals.
Tincture (n.) An indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, tincture, shadow].
Tincture (n.) A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" [syn: shade, tint, tincture, tone].
Tincture (n.) (Pharmacology) A medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution.
Tincture (v.) Fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" [syn: impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture].
Tincture (v.) Stain or tint with a color; "The leaves were tinctured with a bright red."
Tind (v. t.) To kindle. [Obs.] -- Bp. Sanderson.
Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain. [India] -- Malcom.
Tindal (n.) An attendant on an army. [India] -- Simmonds.
Tindal (n.) English translator and Protestant martyr; his translation of the Bible into English (which later formed the basis for the King James Version) aroused ecclesiastical opposition; he left England in 1524 and was burned at the stake in Antwerp as a heretic (1494-1536) [syn: Tyndale, William Tyndale, Tindale, William Tindale, Tindal, William Tindal].
Tinder (n.) Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen.
German tinder. Same as Amadou.
Tinder box, A box in which tinder is kept.
Tinder (n.) Material for starting a fire [syn: kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk].
Tine (n.) Trouble; distress; teen. [Obs.] "Cruel winter's tine." -- Spenser.
Tine (v. t.) To kindle; to set on fire. [Obs.] See Tind. "To tine the cloven wood." -- Dryden.
Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind. -- Spenser.
Tine (v. i.) To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.]
Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. -- Spenser.
Tine (v. t.) To shut in, or inclose. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Tine (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.
Tine (n.) Prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler.
Tinea (n.) (Med.) A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
Tinea (n.) (Zool.) A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
Tinea (n.) Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches [syn: tinea, ringworm, roundworm].
Tinea (n.) Type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths [syn: Tinea, genus Tinea].
Tinean (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Tinea, or of the family Tineidae, which includes numerous small moths, many of which are injurious to woolen and fur goods and to cultivated plants. Also used adjectively.
Tined (a.) Furnished with tines; as, a three-tined fork.
Tined (a.) Having prongs or tines; usually used in combination; "a three-tined fork" [syn: pronged, tined].
Tineid (n.) (Zool.) Same as Tinean.
Tineid (n.) Small yellowish moths whose larvae feed on wool or fur [syn: tineid, tineid moth].
Tinemen (n. pl. ) of Tineman.
Tineman (n.) (O. Eng. Forest Law) An officer of the forest who had the care of vert and venison by night. [Obs.]
Tinet (n.) Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges. [Obs. Eng.]
Compare: Thing
Thing, Ting (n.) In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. See Legislature, Norway.
Ting (n.) A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
Ting (v. i.) To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle. [R.] -- Holland.
Ting (n.) The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.
Ting (n.) A light clear metallic sound as of a small bell [syn: ting, tinkle].
Ting (v.) Cause to make a ting.
Ting (v.) Make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'.
Tinged (imp. & p. p.) of Tinge.
Tingeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tinge.
Tinge (v. t.) To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron.
His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections,
are tinged by a certain extravagance. -- Addison.
Syn: To color; dye; stain.
Tinge (n.) A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste.
His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge from his notions respecting the government of the church. -- Macaulay.
Tinge (n.) A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon].
Tinge (n.) A pale or subdued color [syn: undertone, tinge].
Tinge (v.) Affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his
life" [syn: tinge, color, colour, distort].
Tinge (v.) Color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November" [syn: tint, tinct, tinge, touch].
Tingent (a.) Having the power to tinge. [R.]
As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. -- Boyle.
Tinger (n.) One who, or that which, tinges.
Tingid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.
Tingis (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.
Tingled (imp. & p. p.) of Tingle.
Tingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tingle.
Tingle (v. i.) To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.
At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. -- 1 Sam. iii. 11.
Tingle (v. i.) To feel a sharp, thrilling pain.
The pale boy senator yet tingling stands. -- Pope.
Tingle (v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation.
They suck pollution through their tingling vein. -- Tickell.
Tingle (n.) An almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle].
Tingle (n.) A somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles [syn: prickling, tingle, tingling].
Tingle (v.) Cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle, prickle].
Tink (v. i.) To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. -- Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1).