Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 54
Tort (a.) Stretched tight; taut. [R.]
Yet holds he them with tortest rein. -- Emerson.
Tort (n.) (Law) Any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought [syn: tort, civil wrong].
Tort. () An injury; a wrong; (q.v.) hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong. Co. Lit. 158.
Tort. () Torts may be committed with force, as trespasses, which may be an injury to the person, such as assault, battery, imprisonment; to the property in possession; or they may be committed without force. Torts of this nature are to the absolute or relative rights of persons, or to personal property in possession or reversion, or to real property, corporeal or encorporeal, in possession or reversion: these injuries may be either by nonfeasance, malfeasance, or misfeasance. 1 Chit. Pl. 133-4. Vide 1 Fonb. Eq. 4; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.; and the article Injury.
Torta (n.) (Metal.) A flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.
Torteaus (n. pl. ) of Torteau.
Torteau (n.) (Her.) A roundel of a red color.
Torticollis (n.) (Med.) See Wryneck.
Torticollis (n.) An unnatural condition in which the head leans to one side because the neck muscles on that side are contracted [syn: torticollis, wryneck].
Tortile (a.) Twisted; wreathed; coiled.
Tortility (n.) The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.
Tortilla (n.) [Sp.] An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.
Tortilla (n.) Thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour.
Tortion (n.) Torment; pain. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Tortious (a.) Injurious; wrongful. [Obs.] "Tortious power." -- Spenser.
Tortious (a.) (Law) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.
Tortious (a.) Of or pertaining to the nature of a tort; "tortious acts."
Tortiously (adv.) (Law) In a tortous manner.
Tortive (a.) Twisted; wreathed. -- Shak.
Tortoise (n.) (Zool.) [C] 【動】陸龜；龜，烏龜；行動遲緩的人（或物） Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order {Testudinata}.
Note: The term is applied especially to the land and fresh-water species, while the marine species are generally called turtles, but the terms tortoise and turtle are used synonymously by many writers. See {Testudinata}, {Terrapin}, and {Turtle}.
Tortoise (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) Same as Testudo, 2.
{Box tortoise}, {Land tortoise}, etc. See under {Box}, {Land}, etc.
{Painted tortoise}. (Zool.) See {Painted turtle}, under {Painted}.
{Soft-shell tortoise}. (Zool.) See {Trionyx}.
{Spotted tortoise}. (Zool.) A small American fresh-water tortoise ({Chelopus guttatus} or {Nanemys guttatus}) having a blackish carapace on which are scattered round yellow spots.
{Tortoise beetle} (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of small tortoise-shaped beetles. Many of them have a brilliant metallic luster. The larvae feed upon the leaves of various plants, and protect themselves beneath a mass of dried excrement held over the back by means of the caudal spines. The golden tortoise beetle ({Cassida aurichalcea}) is found on the morning-glory vine and allied plants.
{Tortoise plant}. (Bot.) See {Elephant's foot}, under {Elephant}.
{Tortoise shell}, The substance of the shell or horny plates of several species of sea turtles, especially of the hawkbill turtle. It is used in inlaying and in the manufacture of various ornamental articles.
{Tortoise-shell butterfly} (Zool.), Any one of several species of handsomely colored butterflies of the genus {Aglais}, as {Aglais Milberti}, and {Aglais urticae}, both of which, in the larva state, feed upon nettles.
{Tortoise-shell turtle} (Zool.), The hawkbill turtle. See {Hawkbill}.
Tortoise (n.) Usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant- like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica.
Tortoise (n.) (Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals (Lev. 11:29). Land tortoises are common in Syria. The LXX. renders the word by "land crocodile." The word, however, more probably denotes a lizard, called by the modern Arabs _dhabb_.
Tortoise (n.) A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso:
TO MY PET TORTOISE
My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl.
Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches.
As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep. 'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep.
No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness -- mostly you're [sic] backbone.
Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use -- I wish that they did not; yet, on the whole, You lack -- excuse my mentioning it -- Soul.
So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you.
Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul.
So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land.
Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign!
In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne.
I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries that; A President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent -- Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the back; Subject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampede; All progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And "Take your time" the word, in Church and State.
O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regime!
I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.
Tortoise (n.) Having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
Tortoise (n.) A tortoise-shell cat.
Tortricid (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to Tortix, or the family Tortricidae.
Tortricid (n.) Any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls [syn: tortricid, tortricid moth].
Tortrix (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which usually roll up the leaves of plants on which they live; -- also called leaf roller.
Tortrix (n.) (Zool.) A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace.
Tortrix (n.) California moth whose larvae live in especially oranges [syn: orange tortrix, tortrix, Argyrotaenia citrana].
Tortrix (n.) Small Indian moth infesting e.g. tea and coffee plants [syn: tea tortrix, tortrix, Homona coffearia].
Tortulous (a.) (Nat. Hist.) Swelled out at intervals like a knotted cord.
Tortuose (a.) [See Tortuous.]
Wreathed; twisted; winding. -- Loudon
Tortuoslty (n.) The quality or state of being tortuous.
Tortuous (a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. -- Macaulay.
Tortuous (a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites. -- Macaulay.
Tortuous (a.) Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
Tortuous (a.) (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] -- Skeat.
Infortunate ascendent tortuous. -- Chaucer. -- {Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
Tortuous (a.) Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous].
Tortuous (a.) Marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous].
Tortuous (a.) Not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning."
Torturable (a.) Capable of being tortured.
Tortured (imp. & p. p.) of Torture.
Torturing. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Torture.
Torture (v. t.) 拷打；拷問 [O] [O2]；折磨；使為難 [H] [（+with/ by）]；歪曲；扭曲 To put to torture; to pain extremely; to harass; to vex.
Torture (v. t.) To punish with torture; to put to the rack; as, to torture an accused person. -- Shak.
Torture (v. t.) To wrest from the proper meaning; to distort. -- Jar. Taylor.
Torture (v. t.) To keep on the stretch, as a bow. [Obs.]
The bow tortureth the string. -- Bacon.
Torture (n.) 拷打，酷刑；拷問 [U]；折磨，痛苦 [C] [U] [（+of）] [+to-v]；歪曲；扭曲 [U] Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. -- Shak.
Ghastly spasm or racking torture. -- Milton.
Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel.
Torture (n.) The act or process of torturing.
Torture, which had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1640. -- Macaulay.
Torture (n.) Extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture].
Torture (n.) Unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment].
Torture (n.) Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture].
Torture (n.) The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting].
Torture (n.) The deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" [syn: torture, torturing].
Torture (v.) Torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack].
Torture (v.) Subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate, torment].
Torture, () Punishments. A punishment inflicted in some countries on supposed criminals to induce them to confess their crimes, and to reveal their associates.
Torture, () This absurd and tyrannical practice never was in use in the United States; for no man is bound to accuse himself. An attempt to torture a person accused of crime, in order to extort a confession, is an indictable offence. 2 Tyler, 380. Vide Question.
Torture (n.) (C2) [ U ] 拷打；拷問；折磨；虐待 The act of causing great physical or mental pain in order to persuade someone to do something or to give information, or to be cruel to a person or animal.
// Half of the prisoners died after torture and starvation.
// He revealed the secret under torture.
Torture (n.) (C1) [ C or U ] (Informal) 折磨，煎熬 A very unpleasant experience.
// The rush-hour traffic was sheer torture as usual.
Torture (v.) [ T ] (C2) 拷打；拷問；折磨；虐待 To cause great physical or mental pain to someone intentionally.
// It is claimed that the officers tortured a man to death in a city police station.
Torture (v.) 使精神上受到折磨；使痛苦；使苦惱 To cause mental pain.
// He tortured himself for years with the thought that he could have stopped the boy from running into the road.
Torturer (n.) 拷問者；拷打者；酷刑逼供者 One who tortures; a tormentor.
Torturingly (adv.) So as to torture.
Torturous (a.) Involving, or pertaining to, torture.
Torturous (a.) 拷問 [拷打] 的；痛苦的 Involving a lot of suffering or difficulty.
// The torturous path to passing the bill.
Compare: Saccharomyces
Saccharomyces (n.) (Biol.) 酵母屬 A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.
Torulae (n. pl. ) of Torula.
Torula (n.) (Biol.) 圓酵母 A chain of special bacteria.
Torula (n.) (Biol.) (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.
Torulaform (a.) (Biol.) Having the appearance of a torula; in the form of a little chain; as, a torulaform string of micrococci.
Torulose (a.) (Bot.) Same as Torose.
Torulose (a.) Of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals.
Torulous (a.) Same as Torose.
Tori (n. pl. ) of Torus.
Torus (n.) (Arch.) A lage molding used in the bases of columns. Its profile is semicircular. See Illust. of Molding.
Torus (n.) (Zool.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
Torus (n.) (Bot.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand.
Torus (n.) (Geom.) (a) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Torus (n.) (Geom.) (b) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.
Syn: --3d Tore [2].
Torved (a.) Stern; grim. See Torvous. [Obs.]
But yesterday his breath Awed Rome, and his least torved frown was death. -- J. Webster (1654).
Torvity (a.) Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness. [Obs.]
Torvous (a.) Sour of aspect; of a severe countenance; stern; grim. [Obs.]
That torvous, sour look produced by anger. -- Derham.
Tory (a.) Of ro pertaining to the Tories.
Tories (n. pl. ) of Tory.
Tory (n.) (Eng. Politics) A member of the conservative party, as opposed to the progressive party which was formerly called the Whig, and is now called the Liberal, party; an earnest supporter of exsisting royal and ecclesiastical authority.
Note: The word Tory first occurs in English history in 1679, during the struggle in Parliament occasioned by the introduction of the bill for the exclusion of the duke of York from the line of succession, and was applied by the advocates of the bill to its opponents as a title of obloquy or contempt. The Tories subsequently took a broader ground, and their leading principle became the maintenance of things as they were. The name, however, has for several years ceased to designate an existing party, but is rather applied to certain traditional maxims of public policy. The political successors of the Tories are now commonly known as Conservatives. -- New Am. Cyc.
Tory (n.) (Amer. Hist.) One who, in the time of the Revolution, favored submitting tothe claims of Great Britain against the colonies; an adherent tothe crown.
Tory (n.) An American who favored the British side during the American Revolution.
Tory (n.) A member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs.
Tory (n.) A supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative.
Toryism (n.) The principles of the Tories.
Toscatter (v. t.) To scatter in pieces; to divide. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tose (v. t.) To tease, or comb, as wool. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]
Tosh (a.) Neat; trim. [Scot.] -- Jomieson.
Tosh (n.) Pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle].
Toshred (v. t.) To cut into shreads or pieces. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tossed (imp. & p. p.) of Toss.
Tost () of Toss.
Tossing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Toss.
Toss (v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
Toss (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay. -- Addison.
Toss (v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest. -- Act xxvii. 18.
Toss (v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. -- Milton.
Toss (v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. -- Herbert.
Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham.
To toss off, (a) to drink hastily.
To toss off, (b) to accomplish easily or quickly.
To toss off, (c) to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.
To toss off, (d) to masturbate; -- British slang.
To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.
Toss (n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
Toss (n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. -- Swift.
Toss (v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain. -- Tillotson.
Toss (v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. -- Shak.
To toss for, To throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for.
To toss up, To throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. -- Bramsion.
Toss (n.) The act of flipping a coin [syn: flip, toss].
Toss (n.) (sports) The act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: pass, toss, flip].
Toss (n.) An abrupt movement; "a toss of his head."
Toss (v.) Throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: flip, toss, sky, pitch].
Toss (v.) Lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!" [syn: flip, toss].
Toss (v.) Throw carelessly; "chuck the ball" [syn: chuck, toss].
Toss (v.) Move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate].
Toss (v.) Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away].
Toss (v.) Agitate; "toss the salad."
Terminal Oriented Social Science
TOSS
(TOSS) The Cambridge Project Project MAC was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the MIT Lincoln Labs TX-2 called the Lincoln Reckoner, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like Logo, with matrix operators. A major feature was multiple levels of undo, back to the level of the login session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on Multics.
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Tossel (n.) See Tassel.
Tosser (n.) Ohe who tosser. -- J. Fletcher.
Tosser (n.) Terms of abuse for a masturbator [syn: tosser, jerk-off, wanker].
Tosser (n.) Someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward).
Tossily (adv.) In a tossy manner. [R.]
Tossing (n.) The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
Tossing (n.) (Mining.) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall.
Tossing (n.) (Mining) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
Tosspot (n.) A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard. -- Shak.
Tossy (a.) Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace. [R.] -- C. Kingsley.
Tost () imp. & p. p. of Toss.
Tosto (a.) [It.] (Mus.) Quick; rapid.
Pui tosto [It.] (Mus.), Faster; more rapid.
Toswink (v. i.) To labor excessively. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tot (n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
Tot (n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Tot (n.) A foolish fellow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Tot (n.) [L.] Lit., so much; -- a term used in the English exchequer to indicate that a debt was good or collectible for the amount specified, and often written opposite the item.
Tot (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Totted; p. pr. & vb. n. Totting.] To mark with the word "tot"; as, a totted debt. See Tot, n.
Tot (v. t.) [Cf. Total.] To add; to count; to make up the sum of; to total; -- often with up. [Colloq., Eng.]
The last two tot up the bill. -- Thackeray.
Tot (n.) A small amount (especially of a drink); "a tot of rum."
Tot (n.) A young child [syn: toddler, yearling, tot, bambino]
Tot (v.) Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up].
TOT, () Time Offset Table (DVB).
TOT, () Totally Off-Topic (slang, Usenet, IRC).
Compare: Grivet
Grivet (n.) (Zool.) A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia ({Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.
Tota (n.) (Zool.) The grivet.
Total (a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." -- Milton.
Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1.
Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.
Syn: Whole; entire; complete. See Whole.
Total (n.) The whole; the whole sum or amount; as, these sums added make the grand total of five millions.
Total (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Totaledor Totalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Totaling or Totalling.] To bring to a total; also, to reach as a total; to amount to. [Colloq.]
Total (v. t.) To determine the total of (a set of numbers); to add; -- often used with up; as, to total up the bill.
Total (v. t.) To damage beyond repair; -- used especially of vehicles damaged in an accident; as, he skid on an ice patch and totaled his Mercedes against a tree. From total loss. [colloq.]
Total (a.) Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full attention"; "a total failure" [syn: entire, full, total].
Total (a.) Complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster" [syn: full, total].
Total (n.) The whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate].
Total (a.) A quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers [syn: sum, amount, total].
Total (v.) Add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" [syn: total, number, add up, come, amount].
Total (v.) Determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up].
Total (v.) Damage beyond the point of repair; "My son totaled our new car"; "the rock star totals his guitar at every concert."
TOTAL. () Complete; containing the whole; as the total amount of an account is all the items of such account added together; total incapacity, is an absolute and complete incapacity to do a thing. A married woman is totally incapable to make a contract, because, although having intelligence, she has not legal capacity and an idiot is totally incapable to enter into a contract, because he has no will.
Totalitarian (a.) (Disapproving) (C2) 極權主義的 Of or being a political system in which those in power have complete control and do not allow people freedom to oppose them.
// A totalitarian regime/ state.
Totalitarian (a.) Characterized by a government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control; "a totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous institutions in its drive to seize the human soul" -- Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr.
Totalitarian (a.) Of or relating to the principles of totalitarianism according to which the state regulates every realm of life; "totalitarian theory and practice"; "operating in a totalistic fashion" [syn: totalitarian, totalistic].
Totalitarian (n.) An adherent of totalitarian principles or totalitarian government.
Totality (n.) The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.
Totality (n.) The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. -- Buckle.
The totality of a sentence or passage. -- Coleridge.
Totality (n.) The state of being total and complete; "he read the article in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness, integrality, totality].
Totality (n.) The quality of being complete and indiscriminate; "the totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing totality of the state."
Totality (n.) The whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate].
Totality (n.) [ U ] (Formal) 全部；整個 The whole of something.
// We need to consider this very serious issue in its totality.
Totalize (v. t.) To make total, or complete; to reduce to completeness. -- Coleridge.
Totalize (v. i.) To use a totalizator.
Totalize (v.) Make into a total; "Can we totalize these different ideas into one philosophy?" [syn: totalize, totalise].
Totally (adv.) In a total manner; wholly; entirely.
Totally (adv.) To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly].
Totalness (n.) The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.
Toted (imp. & p. p.) of Tote.
Toting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tote.
Tote (v. t.) To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; to tote a gun on one's hip; -- a colloquial word originating in the Southern States, and used there esp. by negroes, now common throughout the U. S.