Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T

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Take (v. t.) To accept, as something offered; to receive; not to refuse or reject; to admit.

Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer. -- Num. xxxv. 31.

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore. -- 1 Tim. v. 10.

Take (v. t.) To receive as something to be eaten or dronk; to partake of; to swallow; as, to take food or wine.

Take (v. t.) Not to refuse or balk at; to undertake readily; to clear; as, to take a hedge or fence.

Take (v. t.) To bear without ill humor or resentment; to submit to; to tolerate; to endure; as, to take a joke; he will take an affront from no man.

Take (v. t.) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies.

You take me right. -- Bacon.

Charity, taken in its largest extent, is nothing else but the science love of God and our neighbor. -- Wake.

[He] took that for virtue and affection which was nothing but vice in a disguise. -- South.

You'd doubt his sex, and take him for a girl. -- Tate.

Take (v. t.) To accept the word or offer of; to receive and accept; to bear; to submit to; to enter into agreement with; -- used in general senses; as, to take a form or shape.

I take thee at thy word. -- Rowe.

Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command; . . . Not take the mold. -- Dryden.

Take (v. t.) To make a picture, photograph, or the like, of; as, to take a group or a scene. [Colloq.]

Take (v. t.) To give or deliver (a blow to); to strike; hit; as, he took me in the face; he took me a blow on the head. [Obs. exc. Slang or Dial.]

To be taken aback, To take advantage of, To take air, etc. See under Aback, Advantage, etc.

To take aim, To direct the eye or weapon; to aim.

To take along, To carry, lead, or convey.

To take arms, To commence war or hostilities.

To take away, To carry off; to remove; to cause deprivation of; to do away with; as, a bill for taking away the votes of bishops. "By your own law, I take your life away." -- Dryden.

To take breath, To stop, as from labor, in order to breathe or rest; to recruit or refresh one's self.

To take care, To exercise care or vigilance; to be solicitous. "Doth God take care for oxen?" --1 Cor. ix. 9.

To take care of, To have the charge or care of; to care for; to superintend or oversee.

To take down. (a) To reduce; to bring down, as from a high, or higher, place; as, to take down a book; hence, to bring lower; to depress; to abase or humble; as, to take down pride, or the proud. "I never attempted to be impudent yet, that I was not taken down." -- Goldsmith.

To take down. (b) To swallow; as, to take down a potion.

To take down. (c) To pull down; to pull to pieces; as, to take down a house or a scaffold.

To take down. (d) To record; to write down; as, to take down a man's words at the time he utters them.

To take effect, To take fire. See under Effect, and Fire.

To take ground to the right or To take ground to the left (Mil.), To extend the line to the right or left; to move, as troops, to the right or left.

To take heart, To gain confidence or courage; to be encouraged.

To take heed, To be careful or cautious. "Take heed what doom against yourself you give." -- Dryden.

To take heed to, To attend with care, as, take heed to thy ways.

To take hold of, To seize; to fix on.

To take horse, To mount and ride a horse.

To take in. (a) To inclose; to fence.

To take in. (b) To encompass or embrace; to comprise; to comprehend.

To take in. (c) To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to brail or furl; as, to take in sail.

To take in. (d) To cheat; to circumvent; to gull; to deceive. [Colloq.]

To take in. (e) To admit; to receive; as, a leaky vessel will take in water.

To take in. (f) To win by conquest. [Obs.]

For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in. -- Chapman.

To take in. (g) To receive into the mind or understanding. "Some bright genius can take in a long train of propositions." -- I. Watts.

To take in. (h) To receive regularly, as a periodical work or newspaper; to take. [Eng.]

To take in hand. See under Hand.

To take in vain, To employ or utter as in an oath. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." -- Ex. xx. 7.

To take issue. See under Issue.

To take leave. See Leave, n., 2.

To take a newspaper, magazine, Or the like, to receive it regularly, as on paying the price of subscription.

To take notice, To observe, or to observe with particular attention.

To take notice of. See under Notice.

To take oath, To swear with solemnity, or in a judicial manner.

To take on, To assume; to take upon one's self; as, to take on a character or responsibility.

To take one's own course, To act one's pleasure; to pursue the measures of one's own choice.

To take order for. See under Order.

To take order with, To check; to hinder; to repress. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

To take orders. (a.) To receive directions or commands.

To take orders. (b) (Eccl.) To enter some grade of the ministry. See Order, n., 10.

To take out. (a) To remove from within a place; to separate; to deduct.

To take out. (b) To draw out; to remove; to clear or cleanse from; as, to take out a stain or spot from cloth.

To take out. (c) To produce for one's self; as, to take out a patent.

To take up. (a) To lift; to raise. -- Hood.

To take up. (b) To buy or borrow; as, to take up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank.

To take up. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. -- Ezek. xix. 1.

To take up. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature.

To take up. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room.

To take up. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion." -- Addison.

To take up. (g) To seize; to catch; to arrest; as, to take up a thief; to take up vagabonds.

To take up. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.]

The ancients took up experiments upon credit. -- Bacon.

To take up. (i) To answer by reproof; to reprimand; to berate.

One of his relations took him up roundly. -- L'Estrange.

To take up. (k) To begin where another left off; to keep up in continuous succession; to take up (a topic, an activity).

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale. -- Addison.

To take up. (l) To assume; to adopt as one's own; to carry on or manage; as, to take up the quarrels of our neighbors; to take up current opinions. "They take up our old trade of conquering." -- Dryden.

To take up. (m) To comprise; to include. "The noble poem of Palemon and Arcite . . . takes up seven years." -- Dryden.

To take up. (n) To receive, accept, or adopt for the purpose of assisting; to espouse the cause of; to favor. -- Ps. xxvii. 10.

To take up. (o) To collect; to exact, as a tax; to levy; as, to take up a contribution. "Take up commodities upon our bills." -- Shak.

To take up. (p) To pay and receive; as, to take up a note at the bank.

To take up. (q) (Mach.) To remove, as by an adjustment of parts; as, to take up lost motion, as in a bearing; also, to make tight, as by winding, or drawing; as, to take up slack thread in sewing.

To take up. (r) To make up; to compose; to settle; as, to take up a quarrel. [Obs.] -- Shak.

To take up. (s) To accept from someone, as a wager or a challenge; as, J. took M. up on his challenge.

To take up arms. Same as To take arms, above.

To take upon one's self. (a) To assume; to undertake; as, he takes upon himself to assert that the fact is capable of proof.

To take upon one's self (b) To appropriate to one's self; to allow to be imputed to, or inflicted upon, one's self; as, to take upon one's self a punishment.

To take up the gauntlet. See under Gauntlet.

Take (v. i.) To take hold; to fix upon anything; to have the natural or intended effect; to accomplish a purpose; as, he was inoculated, but the virus did not take. -- Shak.

When flame taketh and openeth, it giveth a noise. -- Bacon.

In impressions from mind to mind, the impression taketh, but is overcome . . . before it work any manifest effect. -- Bacon.

Take (v. i.) To please; to gain reception; to succeed.

Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, And hint he writ it, if the thing should take. -- Addison.

Take (v. i.) To move or direct the course; to resort; to betake one's self; to proceed; to go; -- usually with to; as, the fox, being hard pressed, took to the hedge.

Take (v. i.) To admit of being pictured, as in a photograph; as, his face does not take well.

To take after. (a) To learn to follow; to copy; to imitate; as, he takes after a good pattern.

To take after. (b) To resemble; as, the son takes after his father.

To take in with, To resort to. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

To take on, To be violently affected; to express grief or pain in a violent manner.

To take to. (a) To apply one's self to; to be fond of; to become attached to; as, to take to evil practices. "If he does but take to you, . . . you will contract a great friendship with him." -- Walpole.

To take to. (b) To resort to; to betake one's self to. "Men of learning, who take to business, discharge it generally with greater honesty than men of the world." -- Addison.

To take up. (a) To stop. [Obs.] "Sinners at last take up and settle in a contempt of religion." -- Tillotson.

To take up. (b) To reform. [Obs.] -- Locke.

To take up with. (a) To be contended to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with; as, to take up with plain fare. "In affairs which may have an extensive influence on our future happiness, we should not take up with probabilities." -- I. Watts.

To take up with. (b) To lodge with; to dwell with. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange.

To take with, To please. -- Bacon.

Take (n.) That which is taken, such as the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch, or the amouont of money collected during one event; as, the box-office take.

Take (n.) (Print.) The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.

Take (n.) The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff].

Take (n.) The act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without Interruption.

Take (v.) Carry out; "take action"; "take steps"; "take vengeance".

Take (v.) Require (time or space); "It took three hours to get to work this morning"; "This event occupied a very short time" [syn: take, occupy, use up].

Take (v.) Take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace" [syn: lead, take, direct, conduct, guide].

Take (v.) Get into one's hands, take physically; "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please" [syn: take, get hold of].

Take (v.) Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take].

Take (v.) Interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" [syn: take, read].

Take (v.) Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring, convey, take].

Take (v.) Take into one's possession; "We are taking an orphan from Romania"; "I'll take three salmon steaks" [ant: give].

Take (v.) Travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; "He takes the bus to work"; "She takes Route 1 to Newark".

Take (v.) Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: choose, take, select, pick out].

Take (v.) Receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" [syn: accept, take, have] [ant: decline, pass up, refuse, reject, turn down].

Take (v.) Assume, as of positions or roles; "She took the job as director of development"; "he occupies the position of manager"; "the young prince will soon occupy the throne" [syn: fill, take, occupy].

Take (v.) Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn: consider, take, deal, look at].

Take (v.) Require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of].

Take (v.) Experience or feel or submit to; "Take a test"; "Take the plunge".

Take (v.) Make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take].

Take (v.) Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment" [syn: remove, take, take away, withdraw].

Take (v.) Serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant: abstain, desist, refrain].

Take (v.) Accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut" [syn: take, submit].

Take (v.) Make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" [syn: take, accept].

Take (v.) Take by force; "Hitler took the Baltic Republics"; "The army took the fort on the hill".

Take (v.) Occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" [syn: assume, take, strike, take up].

Take (v.) Admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: accept, admit, take, take on].

Take (v.) Ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; "take a pulse"; "A reading was taken of the earth's tremors".

Take (v.) Be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: learn, study, read, take].

Take (v.) Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" [syn: claim, take, exact].

Take (v.) Head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" [syn: take, make].

Take (v.) Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; "Please don't aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent" [syn: aim, take, train, take aim, direct].

Take (v.) Be seized or affected in a specified way; "take sick"; "be taken drunk".

Take (v.) Have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains" [syn: carry, pack, take].

Take (v.) Engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take].

Take (v.) Receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" [syn: subscribe, subscribe to, take].

Take (v.) Buy, select; "I'll take a pound of that sausage".

Take (v.) To get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; "take shelter from the storm".

Take (v.) Have sex with; archaic use; "He had taken this woman when she was most vulnerable" [syn: take, have].

Take (v.) Lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea" [syn: claim, take] [ant: disclaim].

Take (v.) Be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye" [syn: accept, take].

Take (v.) Be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" [syn: contain, take, hold].

Take (v.) Develop a habit; "He took to visiting bars".

Take (v.) Proceed along in a vehicle; "We drive the turnpike to work" [syn: drive, take].

Take (v.) Obtain by winning; "Winner takes all"; "He took first prize".

Take (v.) Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" [syn: contract, take, get].

Take. () This is a technical expression which signifies to be entitled to; as, a devisee will take under the will. To take also signifies to seize, as to take and carry away.

Take, (v. t.) To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

Takeaway (n.)【英】（從餐館）帶出去吃的簡便食物；外賣食物；外賣餐館；重點 Prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises; "in England they call takeout food `takeaway'" [syn: {takeout}, {takeout food}, {takeaway}].

Takeaway (n.) A concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures.

Takeaway (n.) The act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass).

Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.

Taken () p. p. of Take.

Take-off (n.) An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.

Takeover (n.) (Business, Finance) = Take-over, 接管；繼任 The acquisition of ownership of one company by another company, usually by purchasing a controlling percentage of its stock or by exchanging stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company. It is a hostile takeover if the management of the company being taken over is opposed to the deal. A hostile takeover is sometimes organized by a corporate raider.

Syn: acquisition, buyout

Takeover (n.) A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force [syn: coup d'etat, coup, putsch, takeover].

Takeover (n.) A change by sale or merger in the controlling interest of a corporation.

Takeover (n.) [ C ] (C1) 接管，收購（公司） A situation in which a company gets control of another company by buying enough of its shares.

// They were involved in a takeover last year.

Make a takeover bid for sth 競價收購 To try to get control of something.

// The company made a takeover bid for one of its rivals.

Taker (n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.

Take-up (n.) That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.

Taking (a.) Apt to take; alluring; attracting.

Taking (a.) Infectious; contageous.

Taking (n.) The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.

Taking (n.) Agitation; excitement; distress of mind.

Taking (n.) Malign influence; infection.

Taking-off (n.) Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.

Talapoin (n.) A small African monkey (Cercopithecus, / Miopithecus, talapoin) -- called also melarhine.

Talaria (n. pl.) Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.

Talbot (n.) A sort of dog, noted for quick scent and eager pursuit of game.

Talbotype (n.) Same as Calotype.

Talc (n.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.

Talcose (a.) Alt. of Talcous

Talcous (a.) Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc.

Tale (n.) See Tael.

Tale (v. i.) That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

Tale (v. i.) A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

Tale (v. i.) A count or declaration.

Tale (v. i.) To tell stories.

Talebearer (n.) 打小報告的人，告密者；散播謠言者 One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief.

Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to inflame her resentment. -- Macaulay.

Talebearer (n.) Someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth].

Talebearing (a.) Telling tales officiously.

Talebearing (n.) 打小報告，散布謠言 The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.

Talebearing (a.) Prone to communicate confidential information [syn: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)].

Taled (n.) (Jewish Antiq.) A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. -- Crabb.

Taleful (a.) Full of stories. [R.] -- Thomson.

Talegalla (n.) (Zool.) A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

Talent (n.) 天才，天資 [U] [S1] [（+for）]；天才們，有才能的人們 [U] [G]；天才 [C]；（演藝界）明星們，藝人們 [U] [G]；明星，藝人 [C]；【英】【俚】美人，尤物 [U] [G]；塔冷通（古希臘，羅馬等的重量或貨幣單位）[C] Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was [pounds] 243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180 (using 1900 values).

Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents. -- Jowett (Thucid.).

Talent (n.) Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 933/4 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from [pounds]340 to [pounds]396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916 (ca. 1900). For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.

Talent (n.) Inclination; will; disposition; desire. [Obs.]

They rather counseled you to your talent than to your profit. -- Chaucer.

Talent (n.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (-- Matt. xxv. 14-30).

He is chiefly to be considered in his three different talents, as a critic, a satirist, and a writer of odes. -- Dryden.

His talents, his accomplishments, his graceful manners, made him generally popular. -- Macaulay.

Syn: Ability; faculty; gift; endowment. See Genius.

Talent (n.) Natural abilities or qualities [syn: {endowment}, {gift}, {talent}, {natural endowment}].

Talent (n.) A person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity.

Talent () Of silver contained 3,000 shekels (Ex. 38:25, 26), and was equal to 94 3/7 lbs. avoirdupois. The Greek talent, however, as in the LXX., was only 82 1/4 lbs. It was in the form of a circular mass, as the Hebrew name _kikkar_ denotes. A talent of gold was double the weight of a talent of silver (2 Sam. 12:30). Parable of the talents (Matt. 18:24; 25:15).

Talent, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon

Population (2000): 5589

Housing Units (2000): 2420

Land area (2000): 1.260615 sq. miles (3.264977 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.260615 sq. miles (3.264977 sq. km)

FIPS code: 72500

Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41

Location: 42.239985 N, 122.782100 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 97540

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

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Talented (a.) 有天才的，有才幹的 Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talent; mentally gifted. --Abp. Abbot (1663).

Note: This word has been strongly objected to by Coleridge and some other critics, but, as it would seem, upon not very good grounds, as the use of talent or talents to signify mental ability, although at first merely metaphorical, is now fully established, and talented, as a formative, is just as analogical and legitimate as gifted, bigoted, moneyed, landed, lilied, honeyed, and numerous other adjectives having a participal form, but derived directly from nouns and not from verbs.

Talented (a.) Endowed with talent or talents; "a gifted writer" [syn: talented, gifted] [ant: talentless, untalented].

Tales (n.) Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter.

Tales (syntactically sing.) The writ by which such persons are summoned.

Talesmen (n. pl. ) of Talesman.

Talesman (n.) (Law) 【律】補缺陪審員；陪審員候選人 A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. -- Wharton.

Taleteller (n.) 講故事的人；講述人；打小報告的人；告密者 One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.

Taleteller (n.) Someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth].

Talewise (adv.) In a way of a tale or story.

Taliacotian (a.) See Tagliacotian.

Taliation (n.) Retaliation.

Talion (n.) Retaliation.

Talipes (n.) (Surg.) The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

Note: Several varieties are distinguished; as, Talipes varus, in which the foot is drawn up and bent inward; T. valgus, in which the foot is bent outward; T. equinus, in which the sole faces backward and the patient walks upon the balls of the toes; and T. calcaneus (called also talus), in which the sole faces forward and the patient walks upon the heel.

Talipes (n.) Congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes [syn: clubfoot, talipes].

Talipot (n.) (Bot.) A beautiful tropical palm tree ({Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper.

Talipot (n.) Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper [syn: talipot, talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera].

Talismans (n. pl. ) of Talisman

Talisman (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence.

Talisman (n.) Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.

Talismanic (a.) Alt. of Talismanical

Talismanical (a.) Of or pertaining to a talisman; having the properties of a talisman, or preservative against evils by occult influence; magical.

Talked (imp. & p. p.) of Talk.

Talking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Talk.

Talk (v. i.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you. -- Shak.

Talk (v. i.) To confer; to reason; to consult.

Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. -- Jer. xii. 1.

Talk (v. i.) To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]

To talk of, To relate; to tell; to give an account of; as, authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. "The natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of these rocks, and the great damage done." -- Addison.

To talk to, To advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as, I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]

Talk (v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.

Talk (v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.

Talk (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.

Talk (v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking. "They would talk themselves mad." -- Shak.

To talk over. (a) To talk about; to have conference respecting; to deliberate upon; to discuss; as, to talk over a matter or plan.

To talk over. (b) To change the mind or opinion of by talking; to convince; as, to talk over an opponent.

Talk (n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.

In various talk the instructive hours they passed. -- Pope.

Their talk, when it was not made up of nautical phrases, was too commonly made up of oaths and curses. -- Macaulay.

Talk (n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.

I hear a talk up and down of raising our money. -- Locke.

Talk (n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

Syn: Conversation; colloquy; discourse; chat; dialogue; conference; communication. See Conversation.

Talk (n.) An exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here" [syn: talk, talking].

Talk (n.) Discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of'); "his poetry contains much talk about love and anger".

Talk (n.) The act of giving a talk to an audience; "I attended an interesting talk on local history".

Talk (n.) A speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications" [syn: lecture, public lecture, talk].

Talk (n.) Idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately" [syn: talk, talk of the town].

Talk (v.) Exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words" [syn: talk, speak].

Talk (v.) Express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise].

Talk (v.) Use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" [syn: speak, talk].

Talk (v.) Reveal information; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"; "The former employee spilled all the details" [syn: spill, talk].

Talk (v.) Divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth].

Talk (v.) Deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" [syn: lecture, talk].

Talk

Talker system

A Unix program and protocol supporting conversation between two or more users who may be logged into the same computer or different computers on a network. Variants include ntalk, ytalk, and ports or emulators of these programs for other platforms.

Unix has the talk program and protocol and its variants xtalk and ytalk for the X Window System; VMS has phone; Windows for Workgroups has chat. ITS also has a talk system. These split the screen into separate areas for each user.

Unix's write command can also be used, though it does not attempt to separate input and output on the screen.

Users of such systems are said to be in talk mode which has many conventional abbreviations and idioms. Most of these survived into chat jargon, but many fell out of common use with the migration of user prattle from talk-like systems to chat systems in the early 1990s. These disused talk-specific forms include:

"BYE?" - are you ready to close the conversation? This is the standard way to end a talk-mode conversation; the other person types "BYE" to confirm, or else continues the conversation.

"JAM"/"MIN" - just a minute

"O" - "over" (I have stopped talking). Also "/" as in x/y - x over y, or two newlines (the latter being the most common).

"OO" - "over and out" - end of conversation.

"\" - Greek lambda.

"R U THERE?" - are you there?

"SEC" - wait a second.

"/\/\/" - laughter. But on a MUD, this usually means "earthquake fault".