Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 58
Tracheal (a.) Of or pertaining to the trachea; like a trachea.
Tracheal (a.) Relating to or resembling or functioning like a trachea.
Trachearia (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen.
Tracheary (a.) Tracheal; breathing by means of tracheae.
Tracheary (n.) (Zool.) One of the Trachearia.
Tracheata (n. pl.) [NL.] (Zool.) An extensive division of arthropods comprising all those which breathe by tracheae, as distinguished from Crustacea, which breathe by means of branchiae.
Tracheate (a.) (Zool.) Breathing by means of tracheae; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
Tracheate (n.) (Zool.) Any arthropod having tracheae; one of the Tracheata.
Tracheid (n.) (Bot.) A wood cell with spiral or other markings and closed throughout, as in pine wood.
Tracheid (n.) Long tubular cell peculiar to xylem.
Tracheitis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the trachea, or windpipe.
Tracheitis (n.) Inflammation of the trachea.
Trachelidan (n.) (Zool.) Any one of a tribe of beetles ({Trachelides) which have the head supported on a pedicel. The oil beetles and the Cantharides are examples.
Trachelipod (n.) (Zool.) One of the Trachelipoda.
Trachelipoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
Trachelipodous (a.) (Zool.) Having the foot united with the neck; of or pertainingto the Trachelipoda.
Trachelobranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certain mollusks.
Trachelorrhaphy (n.) (Med.) The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.
Trachenchyma (n.) (Bot.) A vegetable tissue consisting of tracheae.
Tracheobranchlae (n. pl. ) of Tracheobranchia.
Tracheobranchia (n.) (Zool.) One of the gill-like breathing organs of certain aquatic insect larvae.
They contain tracheal tubes somewhat similar to those of other insects.
Tracheobronchial (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining both to the tracheal and bronchial tubes, or to their junction; -- said of the syrinx of certain birds.
Tracheocele (n.) (Med.) Goiter.
Tracheocele (n.) (Med.) A tumor containing air and communicating with the trachea. -- Morell Mackenzie.
Tracheophonae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.
Tracheoscopy (n.) (Med.) Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.
Tracheotomy (n.) (Surg.) The operation of making an opening into the windpipe.
Tracheotomy (n.) A surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes [syn: tracheostomy, tracheotomy].
Trachinoid (a.) (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or like, Trachinus, a genus of fishes which includes the weevers.
See Weever.
Trachitis (n.) [NL.] (Med.) Tracheitis.
Trachycarpous (a.) (Bot.) Rough-fruited. -- Gray.
Trachymedusae (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of acalephs in which the development is direct from the eggs, without a hydroid stage.
Some of the species are parasitic on other medusae.
Trachyspermous (a.) (Bot.) Rough-seeded. -- Gray.
Trachystomata (n. pl.) (Zool.) An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren and Pseudobranchus.
They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form, and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate.
The external gills are persistent through life.
Trachyte (n.) (Geol.) An igneous rock, usually light gray in color and breaking with a rough surface. It consists chiefly of orthoclase feldspar with sometimes hornblende and mica.
Trachytic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, trachyte.
Trachytoid (a.) (Min.) Resembling trachyte; -- used to define the structure of certain rocks.
Tracing (n.) The act of one who traces; especially, the act of copying by marking on thin paper, or other transparent substance, the lines of a pattern placed beneath; also, the copy thus producted.
Tracing (n.) A regular path or track; a course.
Tracing cloth, Tracing paper, Specially prepared transparent cloth or paper, which enables a drawing or print to be clearly seen through it, and so allows the use of a pen or pencil to produce a facsimile by following the lines of the original placed beneath.
Tracing (n.) The act of drawing a plan or diagram or outline.
Tracing (n.) A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image [syn: tracing, trace].
Tracing (n.) The discovery and description of the course of development of something; "the tracing of genealogies."
Track (n.) 行蹤；軌道；足跡[P1]We followed his tracks in the snow to a hut. 我們沿著他在雪地上留下的足跡走到一間小屋旁。
2.小徑，小道
3.鐵軌，軌道[P1]The train jumped the track. 火車出軌了。
4.【體】跑道；徑賽運動He runs around the track every morning. 他每天清晨繞著跑道跑步。
5.歷程；行動路線；思路You're on the wrong track. 你想得不對了。
6.慣例，常規
7.（坦克等的）履帶
A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
The bright track of his fiery car. -- Shak.
Track (n.) A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or beast; trace; vestige; footprint.
Far from track of men. -- Milton.
Track (n.) (Zool.) The entire lower surface of the foot; -- said of birds, etc.
Track (n.) A road; a beaten path.
Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. -- Dryden.
Track (n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet.
Track (n.) A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
Track (n.) (Railroad) The permanent way; the rails.
Track (n.) [Perhaps a mistake for tract.]
A tract or area, as of land. [Obs.] "Small tracks of ground." -- Fuller.
Track scale, A railway scale. See under Railway.
Tracked (imp. & p. p.) of Track.
Tracking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Track.
Track (v. t.) 跟蹤；追蹤 [（+to）]；沿著（道路）走；走過，通過；在……上留下足跡；為……鋪軌 To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
It was often found impossible to track the robbers to their retreats among the hills and morasses. -- Macaulay.
Track (v. t.) (Naut.) To draw along continuously, as a vessel, by a line, men or animals on shore being the motive power; to tow.
Trackage (n.) The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
Tracker (n.) 追蹤者；追捕者；【無】跟蹤雷達；追蹤系統；拉纖者 One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near. -- Sir W. Scott.
Tracker (n.) (Mus.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
Tracker (n.) Someone who tracks down game.
Trackless (a.) 無蹤跡的；不留痕跡；無軌道的；無人跡的；無路的 Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert.
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. -- Byron. Track"less*ly, adv. -- {Track"less*ness"> -- Track"less*ly, adv.-{Track"less*ness, n.
Trackless (a.) Having no tracks; "a trackless trolley"; "the trackless snowy meadow" [ant: tracked].
Trackless (a.) Lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas" [syn: pathless, roadless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden].
Trackmaster (n.) (Railroad) One who has charge of the track; -- called also roadmaster.
Track-road (n.) A towing path.
Trackscout (n.) See Trackschuyt.
Tract (n.) A written discourse or dissertation, generally of short extent; a short treatise, especially on practical religion.
The church clergy at that time writ the best collection of tracts against popery that ever appeared. -- Swift.
Tracts for the Times. See Tractarian.
Tract (n.) Something drawn out or extended; expanse.
Tract (n.) A region or quantity of land or water, of indefinite extent; an area; as, an unexplored tract of sea.
A very high mountain joined to the mainland by a narrow tract of earth. -- Addison.
Tract (n.) Traits; features; lineaments. [Obs.]
The discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness. -- Bacon.
Tract (n.) The footprint of a wild beast. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Tract (n.) Track; trace. [Obs.]
Efface all tract of its traduction. -- Sir T. Browne.
But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forthon, Leaving no tract behind. -- Shak.
Tract (n.) Treatment; exposition. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tract (v.) Continuity or extension of anything; as, the tract of speech. [Obs.] -- Older.
Tract (v.) Continued or protracted duration; length; extent. "Improved by tract of time." -- Milton.
Tract (v.) (R. C. Ch.) Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter; -- so called because sung tractim, or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.
Syn: Region; district; quarter; essay; treatise; dissertation.
Tract (v. t.) To trace out; to track; also, to draw out; to protact. [Obs.] -- Spenser. -- B. Jonson.
Tract (n.) An extended area of land [syn: tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel]
Tract (n.) A system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose.
Tract (n.) A brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet [syn: tract, pamphlet].
Tract (n.) A bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain [syn: nerve pathway, tract, nerve tract, pathway].
Tractability (n.) The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.
Tractability (n.) The trait of being easily persuaded [syn: tractability, tractableness, flexibility] [ant: intractability, intractableness]
Tractable (a.) 馴良的；易處理的；易於管教的 Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
I shall find them tractable enough. -- Shak.
Tractable (a.) Capable of being handled; palpable; practicable; feasible; as, tractable measures. [Obs.] --Holder. --{Tract"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Tract"a/bly}, adv.
Tractable (a.) Eeasily managed (controlled or taught or molded); "tractable young minds"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler [syn: {tractable}, {manipulable}] [ant: {intractable}].
Tractable (a.) Readily reacting to suggestions and influences; "a responsive student" [syn: {amenable}, {tractable}].
Tractarian (n.) 牛津運動者 One of the writers of the
Tractarian (a.) 牛津運動的 Of or pertaining to the Tractarians, or their principles.
Tractarian (n.) A follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times.')
Tractarianism (n.) (Ch. of England) The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
Tractarianism (n.) Principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times' [syn: Tractarianism, Puseyism].
Tractate (n.) A treatise; a tract; an essay.
Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. -- Hare.
Tractation (n.) Treatment or handling of a subject; discussion. [Obs.]
A full tractation of the points controverted. -- Bp. Hall.
Tractator (n.) One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. [R.] -- C. Kingsley.
Tractile (a.) Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. -- Bacon.
Tractile (a.) Capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile].
Tractility (n.) The quality of being tractile; ductility. -- Derham.
Traction (n.) The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.
Traction (n.) Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
Traction (n.) Attraction; a drawing toward. [R.]
Traction (n.) The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like; as, the car is stuck in the snow because it can;t get any traction. -- Knight.
Angle of traction (Mech.), The angle made with a given plane by the line of direction in which a tractive force acts.
Traction engine, A locomotive for drawing vehicles on highways or in the fields.
Traction (n.) The friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) [syn: grip, traction, adhesive friction].
Traction (n.) (Orthopedics) The act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing; "his leg was in traction for several days."
Tractite (n.) A Tractarian.
Tractitious (a.) Treating of; handling. [R.]
Tractive (a.) Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.
Tractive (a.) Exerting traction and serving to pull
Tractor (n.) That which draws, or is used for drawing.
Tractor (n.) pl. (Med.) Two small, pointed rods of metal, formerly used in the treatment called Perkinism.
Tractor (n.) A motor vehicle with a powerful engine and large wheels, used to pull farm equipment such as plows, harvesting machinery, etc., over farm land. Smaller forms of farm tractor are completely open, with only a seat for the driver.
Tractor (n.) A motor vehicle with a driver's cab and a powerful engine, fitted with a coupling at the rear, and designed to pull a large trailer or semi-trailer on the open highway; -- called also truck tractor. The combination of such a tractor with its trailer is called a tractor-trailer, and is a common form of truck used for commercial shipping of freight.
Tractor (n.) (Aviation) A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aeroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push; -- called also Tractor screw and Tractor propeller.
Tractor (n.) (Aviation) An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; -- called also tractor airplane.
Tractor airplane, n. (Aviation) An airplane having one or more tractor propellers; -- called also tractor.
Tractor (n.) A wheeled vehicle with large wheels; used in farming and other applications.
Tractor (n.) A truck that has a cab but no body; used for pulling large trailers or vans.
Tractoration (n.) See Perkinism. Tractor screw
Tractory (n.) (Geom.) A tractrix.
Tractrix (n.) (Geom.) A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
Trad () Obs. imp. of Tread. -- Chaucer.
Trad (n.) Traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s.
Trade. () In its most extensive signification this word includes all sorts of dealings by way of Bale or exchange. In a more limited sense it signifies the dealings in a particular business, as the India trade; by trade is also understood the business of a particular mechanic, hence boys are said to be put apprentices to learn a trade, as the trade of a carpenter, shoemaker, and the like. Bac. Ab. Master and Servant, D 1. Trade differs from art. (q.v.)
Trade. () It is the policy of the law to encourage trade, and therefore all contracts which restrain the exercise of a man's talents in trade are detrimental to the commonwealth, and therefore void; though he may bind himself not to exercise a trade in a particular place, for, in this last case, as he may pursue it in another place, the commonwealth has the benefit of it. 8 Mass. 223; 9 Mass. 522. Vide Ware R. 257, 260 Com. Dig. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.
Trade (n.) A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.]
A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. -- Surrey.
Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. -- Spenser.
Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourly trample on their sovereign's head. -- Shak.
Trade (n.) Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. [Obs.] "The right trade of religion." -- Udall.
There those five sisters had continual trade. -- Spenser.
Long did I love this lady, Long was my travel, long my trade to win her. -- Massinger.
Thy sin's not accidental but a trade. -- Shak.
Trade (n.) Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. [Obs.]
Have you any further trade with us? -- Shak.
Trade (n.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter.
Note: Trade comprehends every species of exchange or dealing, either in the produce of land, in manufactures, in bills, or in money; but it is chiefly used to denote the barter or purchase and sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, either by wholesale or retail. Trade is either foreign or domestic. Foreign trade consists in the exportation and importation of goods, or the exchange of the commodities of different countries. Domestic, or home, trade is the exchange, or buying and selling, of goods within a country. Trade is also by the wholesale, that is, by the package or in large quantities, generally to be sold again, or it is by retail, or in small parcels. The carrying trade is the business of transporting commodities from one country to another, or between places in the same country, by land or water.
Trade (n.) The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician.
Accursed usury was all his trade. -- Spenser.
The homely, slighted, shepherd's trade. -- Milton.
I will instruct thee in my trade. -- Shak.
Trade (v.) Instruments of any occupation. [Obs.]
The house and household goods, his trade of war. -- Dryden.
Trade (n.) A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade.
Trade (n.) pl. The trade winds.
Trade (n.) Refuse or rubbish from a mine. [Prov. Eng.]
Syn: Profession; occupation; office; calling; avocation; employment; commerce; dealing; traffic.
Board of trade. See under Board.
Trade dollar. See under Dollar.
Trade price, The price at which goods are sold to members of the same trade, or by wholesale dealers to retailers.
Trade sale, An auction by and for the trade, especially that of the booksellers.
Trade wind, A wind in the torrid zone, and often a little beyond at, which blows from the same quarter throughout the year, except when affected by local causes; -- so called because of its usefulness to navigators, and hence to trade.
Note: The general direction of the trade winds is from N. E. to S. W. on the north side of the equator, and from S. E. to N. W. on the south side of the equator. They are produced by the joint effect of the rotation of the earth and the movement of the air from the polar toward the equatorial regions, to supply the vacancy caused by heating, rarefaction, and consequent ascent of the air in the latter regions. The trade winds are principally limited to two belts in the tropical regions, one on each side of the equator, and separated by a belt which is characterized by calms or variable weather.
Traded (imp. & p. p.) of Trade.
Trading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trade.