Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 56
Tough-head (n.) (Zool.) The ruddy duck. [ Local U. S. ]
Toughish (a.) 稍堅韌的 Tough in a slight degree.
Toughly (adv.) 堅韌地；結實地；堅硬地；頑強地；強硬地 In a tough manner.
Toughly (adv.) In a ruggedly tough manner; "toughly vigorous story-telling".
Toughness (n.) [U] 堅韌；堅硬；結實；堅強；強健；不屈不撓 The quality or state of being tough.
Toughness (n.) Enduring strength and energy [syn: stamina, staying power, toughness].
Toughness (n.) The property of being big and strong [syn: huskiness, ruggedness, toughness].
Toughness (n.) The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking [syn: temper, toughness].
Toughness (n.) Impressive difficulty [syn: formidability, toughness].
Tough-pitch (n.) The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
Tough-pitch (n.) Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
Touite (n.) The wood warbler.
Toupee (n.) Alt. of Toupet.
Toupet (n.) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
Toupet (n.) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
Toupettit (n.) The crested titmouse.
Tour (n.) A tower.
Tour (v. t.) A going round; a circuit; hence, a journey in a circuit; a prolonged circuitous journey; a comprehensive excursion; as, the tour of Europe; the tour of France or England.
Tour (v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies.
Tour (v. t.) anything done successively, or by regular order; a turn; as, a tour of duty.
Toured (imp. & p. p.) of Tour.
Touring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tour.
Tour (v. i.) To make a tourm; as, to tour throught a country.
Touraco (n.) Same as Turacou.
Tourbillion (n.) An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
Tourism (n.) 旅遊，觀光；旅遊業，觀光業 The business of providing services to tourists; "Tourism is a major business in Bermuda" [syn: tourism, touristry].
Tourist (n.) 旅遊者，觀光者[C]；（飛機、輪船等的）旅遊艙，經濟艙 [U] One who makes a tour, or performs a journey, especially for pleasure.
Tourist (n.) Someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourist, tourer, holidaymaker].
Tourist (n.) [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/ or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare { twink, lurker, read-only user.
Tourist (n.) [IRC] An IRC user who goes from channel to channel without saying
anything; see channel hopping.
Tourist (n.) A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user. [{Jargon File] (1995-03-10)
Tourist (n.) [ C ] (A2) 旅遊者，遊客 Someone who visits a place for pleasure and interest, usually while on holiday.
// Millions of tourists visit Rome every year.
// Hordes (= very large groups) of tourists flock to the Mediterranean each year.
// Disneyworld is one of Florida's major tourist attractions.
// The island is very busy during the tourist season.
Tourist (n.) [ C ] (UK) 巡迴比賽運動隊隊員 A member of a sports team who is travelling from place to place in a foreign country, playing games.
// The West Indies easily defeated the tourists.
Tourmaline (n.) A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels.
Tourn (n.) A spinning wheel.
Tourn (n.) The sheriff's turn, or court.
Tournament (n.) [C] 比賽；錦標賽；聯賽；（中世紀騎士的）馬上比武（大會） A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle. "In battle and in tourneyment." -- Chaucer.
With cruel tournament the squadrons join. -- Milton.
Note: It different from the joust, which was a trial of skill between one man and another.
Compare: Mock
Mock (v.) [With object] (v. t.) 嘲弄，嘲笑；（為取笑而）模仿，仿效；使失望；使無效，挫敗 (v. i.) 嘲弄，嘲笑 [（+at）] Tease or laugh at in a scornful or contemptuous manner.
‘Opposition MPs mocked the government's decision.’
Mock (v.) [With object] Make (something) seem laughably unreal or impossible.
‘At Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretence at peace.’
Mock (v.) [With object] Mimic (someone or something) scornfully or contemptuously.
‘He ought to find out who used his name, mocked his voice, and aped a few of his guitar lines.’
Mock (v.) [With object] (Mock something up) Make a replica or imitation of something.
Mock (a.) [Attributive] Not authentic or real, but without the intention to deceive.
‘A mock-Georgian red brick house.’
‘Jim threw up his hands in mock horror.’
Mock (a.) [Attributive] (Of an examination, battle, etc.) Arranged for training or practice.
‘Mock GCSEs.’
Mock (n.) (Mocks) (British informal) Mock examinations.
‘Obtaining Grade A in mocks.’
Mock (n.) [Dated] An object of derision.
‘He has become the mock of all his contemporaries.’
Make (a) mock of (ph.) Hold up to scorn or ridicule.
‘Stop making a mock of other people's business.’
Tournament (n.) Any contest of skill in which there are many contestents for championship; as, a chess tournament.
Tournament (n.) A sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner [syn: tournament, tourney].
Tournament (n.) A series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize.
Tournament (n.) [ C ] (B1) 競賽；比賽；錦標賽；馬上刺槍比賽 A competition for teams or single players in which a series of games is played, and the winners of each game play against each other until only one winner is left.
// A tennis/ chess/ golf tournament.
They were defeated in the first round of the tournament.
Tournery (n.) 車床細工,旋床細工,旋磨 Work turned on a lathe; turnery.
Tourney (n.) 競賽；比賽；錦標賽；馬上刺槍比賽 A tournament.
Tourney (v. i.) (Tourneyed; Tourneying) 參加比賽；參加馬上刺槍比賽 To perform in tournaments; to tilt.
Tourniquet (n.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Tourniquet (n.) [ C ] 止血帶 A strip of cloth that is tied tightly around an injured arm or leg to stop it bleeding.
// If it continues to bleed, you may have to apply a tourniquet to the limb.
Tournois (n.) （硬幣）在法國都爾鑄的 A former French
money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction
from the
Tournure (n.) 【法】輪廓 Turn; contour; figure.
Tournure (n.) 撐腰架；（女服的）臀部 Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle. Touse
Compare: Bustle
Bustle (n.) 忙亂，喧囂 [U] [S1] Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. -- South.
Bustle (n.) （舊時用以鼓起女裙後部的）腰墊，裙撐 [C] A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.
Bustle (v. i.) [imp. & p. p. Bustled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bustling] 鬧哄哄地忙亂；奔忙 [（+about）]；充滿 [（+with）] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
And leave the world for me to bustle in. -- Shak.
Bustle (n.) A rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir].
Bustle (n.) A framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt.
Bustle (v.) (v. t.) 催促；使忙碌 Move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance" [syn: bustle, bustle about, hustle].
Tour tourism ( n.) [U] The activity of travelling abroad to see a singer or band live in concert.
Toused (imp. & p. p.) of Touze.
Tousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Touze.
Touse (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Touze.
Touze (v. t. & i.) To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry.
Touse (n.) A pulling; a disturbance.
Tousel (v. t.) Same as Tousle.
Touser (n.) One who touses.
Tousle (v. t.) To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse.
Tous-les-mois (n.) A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably C. edulis, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year.
Tout (v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Tout (v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
Tout (n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
Tout (v. i.) To toot a horn.
Tout (n.) The anus.
Tout-ensemble (n.) All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts.
Touter (n.) One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
Touze (v. t & i.) See Touse.
Tow (n.) The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
Towed (imp. & p. p.) of Tow.
Towing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tow.
Tow (v. t.) To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope.
Tow (v. t.) A rope by which anything is towed; a towline, or towrope.
Tow (v. t.) The act of towing, or the state of being towed; --chiefly used in the phrase, to take in tow, that is to tow.
Tow (v. t.) That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.
Towage (v.) The act of towing.
Towage (v.) The price paid for towing.
Towall (n.) A towel.
Toward (prep.) Alt. of Towards.
Towards (prep.) In the direction of; to.
Towards (prep.) With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.
Towards (prep.) Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.
Towards (prep.) Near; about; approaching to.
Toward (adv.) Alt. of Towards.
Towards (adv.) Near; at hand; in state of preparation.
Toward (prep.) Approaching; coming near.
Toward (prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
Toward (prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
Towardliness (n.) The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness.
Towardly (a.) Same as Toward, a., 2.
Towardness (n.) Quality or state of being toward.
Towards (prep. & adv.) See Toward.
Towboat (n.) A vessel constructed for being towed, as a canal boat.
Towboat (n.) A steamer used for towing other vessels; a tug.
Towel (n.) A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath.
Towel (v. t.) To beat with a stick.
Toweling (n.) Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
towered (imp. & p. p.) of Tower.
towering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tower.
Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
Tower (v. t.) To soar into.
Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.
Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
Towering (a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
Towery (a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Tow-head (n.) An urchin who has soft, whitish hair.
Tow-head (n.) The hooded merganser.
Towhee (n.) The chewink.
Towilly (n.) The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
Towline (v. t.) A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
Town (n.) Formerly: An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.]
Town (n.) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.]
Town (n.) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] -- Palsgrave.
Town (n.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. [Eng.] -- Johnson.