Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 59
Trade (v. i.) To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchase, or sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or anything else; to traffic; to bargain; to carry on commerce as a business.
A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded. -- Arbuthnot.
Trade (v. i.) To buy and sell or exchange property in a single instance.
Trade (v. i.) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated; -- usually followed by with.
How did you dare to trade and traffic with Macbeth? -- Shak.
Trade (v. t.) To sell or exchange in commerce; to barter.
They traded the persons of men. -- Ezek. xxvii. 13.
To dicker and to swop, to trade rifles and watches. -- Cooper.
Traded (v. i.) imp. & p. p. of Trade.
Trade, () obs. imp. of Tread.
Trade (n.) The commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services; "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade".
Trade (n.) The skilled practice of a practical occupation; "he learned his trade as an apprentice" [syn: trade, craft].
Trade (n.) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage" [syn: trade, patronage].
Trade (n.) A particular instance of buying or selling; "it was a package deal"; "I had no further trade with him"; "he's a master of the business deal" [syn: deal, trade, business deal].
Trade (n.) People who perform a particular kind of skilled work; "he represented the craft of brewers"; "as they say in the trade" [syn: craft, trade].
Trade (n.) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator; "they rode the trade winds going west" [syn: trade wind, trade].
Trade (n.) An equal exchange; "we had no money so we had to live by barter" [syn: barter, swap, swop, trade].
Trade (v.) Engage in the trade of; "he is merchandising telephone sets" [syn: trade, merchandise].
Trade (v.) Turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase; "trade in an old car for a new one" [syn: trade, trade in]
Trade (v.) Be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions; "The stock traded around $20 a share".
Trade (v.) Exchange or give (something) in exchange for [syn: trade, swap, swop, switch].
Trade (v.) Do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes" [syn: deal, sell, trade].
Trader. () One who makes it his business to buy merchandise or goods and chattels, and to sell the same for the purpose of making a profit. The quantum of dealing is immaterial, when an intention to deal generally exists. 3 Stark. 56; 2 C. & P. 135; 1 T. R. 572.
Trader. () Questions as to who is a trader most frequently arise under the bankrupt laws, and the most difficult among them are those cases where the party follows a business which is not that of buying and selling principally, but in which he is occasionally engaged in purchases and sales.
Trader. () To show who is a trader will be best illustrated by a few examples: A farmer who in addition to his usual business, occasionally buys a horse not calculated for his usual occupation, and sells him again to make a profit, and who in the course of two years had so bought and sold five or six horses, two of which had been sold after be bad bought them for the sake of a guinea profit, was held to be a trader. 1 T. R. 537, n.; 1 Price, 20. Another firmer who bought a large quantity of potatoes, not to be used on his farm, but merely to sell again for a profit, was also declared to be a trader. 1 Str. 513. See 7 Taunt. 409; 2 N. R. 78; 11 East, 274. A butcher who kills only such cattle as be has reared himself is not a trader, but if he buy them and kill and sell them with a view to profit, he is a trader. 4 Burr. 21, 47. See 2 Rose, 38; 3 Camp. 233 Cooke, B. L. 48, 73; 2 Wils. 169; 1 Atk. 128; Cowp.745. A brickmaker who follows the business, for the purpose of enjoying the profits of his real estate merely, is not a trader; but when he buys the earth by the load or otherwise, and manufactures it into bricks, and sells them with a view to profit, he is a trader. Cook, B. L. 52, 63; 7 East, 442; 3 C. & P. 500; Mood. & M. 263 2 Rose, 422; 2 Glyn & J. 183; 1 Bro. C. C. 173. For further examples, the reader is referred to 4 M. & R. 486; 9 B. & C. 577; 1 T. R. 34; 1 Rose, 316; 2 Taunt. 178; 2 Marsh. 236; 3 M. & Scott. 761; 10 Bing. 292 Peake, 76; 1 Vent. 270; 3 Brod. & B. 2 6 Moore, 56.
Traded (a.) Professional; practiced. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tradeful (a.) Full of trade; busy in traffic; commercial. -- Spenser.
Tradeless (a.) Having no trade or traffic. -- Young.
Trade-mark (n.) A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
Trader (n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.
Trader (n.) A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
Trader (n.) Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold [syn: trader, bargainer, dealer, monger].
Tradescantia (n.) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
Tradesfolk (n.) People employed in trade; tradesmen.
Tradesmen (n. pl. ) of Tradesman.
Tradesman (n.) One who trades; a shopkeeper.
Tradesman (n.) A mechanic or artificer; esp., one whose livelihood depends upon the labor of his hands. [U. S.] --Burrill.
Tradesman (n.) A merchant who owns or manages a shop [syn: shopkeeper, tradesman, storekeeper, market keeper].
Tradespeople (n.) People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
Tradespeople (n.) People engaged in trade.
Trades union (n.) Alt. of Trade union.
Trade union (n.) An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc. Trades-unionist
Trades union (n.) An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job" [syn: union, labor union, trade union, trades union, brotherhood].
Trades-unionist (n.) Alt. of Trade-unionist
Trade-unionist (n.) A member of a trades union, or a supporter of trades unions.
Tradeswomen (n. pl. ) of Tradeswoman.
Tradeswoman (n.) A woman who trades, or is skilled in trade.
Trading (v. i.) p. pr. & vb. n. of Trade.
Trading (a.) Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade; as, a trading company.
Trading (a.) Frequented by traders.
Trading (a.) Venal; corrupt; jobbing; as, a trading politician.
Tradition (v. t.) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down. [Obs.]
The following story is . . . traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics. -- Fuller.
Tradition (n.) The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.
"A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery." -- Blackstone.
Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.
Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed.
Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect? -- Shak.
Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pr['e]. -- Longfellow.
Tradition (n.) (Theol.) An unwritten code of law represented to have been given by God to Moses on Sinai.
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered. -- Mark vii. 13.
Tradition (n.) (Theol.) That body of doctrine and discipline, or any article thereof, supposed to have been put forth by Christ or his apostles, and not committed to writing.
Stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle. -- 2 Thess. ii. 15.
Tradition Sunday (Eccl.), Palm Sunday; -- so called because the creed was then taught to candidates for baptism at Easter.
Tradition (n.) An inherited pattern of thought or action.
Tradition (n.) A specific practice of long standing [syn: custom, tradition].
Tradition () Any kind of teaching, written or spoken, handed down from generation to generation. In Mark 7:3, 9, 13, Col. 2:8, this word refers to the arbitrary interpretations of the Jews. In 2 Thess. 2:15; 3:6, it is used in a good sense. Peter (1 Pet. 1:18) uses this word with reference to the degenerate Judaism of the "strangers scattered" whom he addresses (comp. Acts 15:10; Matt. 15:2-6; Gal. 1:14).
Traditional (a.) Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.
Traditional (a.) Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [R.] -- Shak.
Traditional (a.) Consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality" [ant: nontraditional, untraditional].
Traditional (a.) Pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; "the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished".
Traditional (a.) (B1) 傳統的 Following or belonging to the customs or ways of behaving that have continued in a group of people or society for a long time without changing.
// The villagers retain a strong attachment to their traditional values/ customs/ beliefs.
// The school uses a combination of modern and traditional methods for teaching reading.
// The dancers were wearing traditional Hungarian dress/costume.
// She's very traditional (in her ideas and opinions).
Traditionalism (n.) A system of faith founded on tradition; esp., the doctrine that all religious faith is to be based solely upon what is delivered from competent authority, exclusive of rational processes.
Traditionalist (n.) An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
Traditionalist (a.) Stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn: hidebound, traditionalist].
Traditionalist (n.) One who adheres to traditional views [syn: traditionalist, diehard].
Traditionally (adv.) In a traditional manner.
Traditionally (adv.) According to tradition; in a traditional manner; "traditionally, we eat fried foods on Hanukah".
Traditionarily (adv.) By tradition.
Traditionaries (n. pl. ) of Traditionary.
Traditionary (n.) One, among the Jews, who acknowledges the authority of traditions, and explains the Scriptures by them. Traditioner.
Traditionary (a.) Traditional.
The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. -- Buckminster.
Traditioner (n.) Alt. of Traditionist
Traditionist (n.) One who adheres to tradition.
Traditive (a.) Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Suppose we on things traditive divide. -- Dryden.
Traditor (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) A deliverer; -- a name of infamy given to Christians who delivered the Scriptures, or the goods of the church, to their persecutors to save their lives. -- Milner.
Traduced (imp. & p. p.) of Traduce.
Traducing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Traduce.
Traduce (v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants. [Obs.] -- Glanvill.
Traduce (v. t.) To translate from one language to another; as, to traduce and compose works. [Obs.] -- Golden Boke.
Traduce (v. t.) To increase or distribute by propagation. [Obs.]
From these only the race of perfect animals were propagated and traduced over the earth. -- Sir M. Hale.
Traduce (v. t.) To draw away; to seduce. [Obs.]
I can forget the weakness Of the traduced soldiers. -- Beau. & Fl.
Traduce (v. t.) To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Traduce (v. t.) To expose to contempt or shame; to represent as blamable; to calumniate; to vilify; to defame.
The best stratagem that Satan hath . . . is by traducing the form and manner of them [prayers], to bring them into contempt. -- Hooker.
He had the baseness . . . to traduce me in libel. -- Dryden.
Syn: To calumniate; vilify; defame; disparage; detract; depreciate; decry; slander.
Traduce (v.) Speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere" [syn: badmouth, malign, traduce, drag through the mud].
Traduce (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 強烈批評；（尤指）誹謗，詆毀 To strongly criticize someone, especially in a way that harms their reputation.
Traducement (n.) 誹謗；中傷 The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. [R.] -- Shak.
Traducement (n.) A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job].
Traducent (a.) 中傷性的，中傷的，挖苦人的 Slanderous. [R.] -- Entick.
Traducer (n.) 誹謗者；詆毀者 One who traduces; a slanderer; a calumniator. -- Bp. Hall.
Traducer (n.) One who derives or deduces. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Traducian (n.) 【神學】靈魂遺傳論者A believer in traducianism.
Traducianism (n.) (Theol.) 【神學】靈魂遺傳論 (cf. Creationism) （認為人類的靈魂由父母，因而從根源上說是由 Adam 那裡遺傳來的） The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.
Traducible (a.) Capable of being derived or propagated. [Obs.] -- Sir M. Hale.
Traducible (a.) Capable of being traduced or calumniated. [R.]
Traducingly (adv.) In a traducing manner; by traduction; slanderously.
Traduct (v. t.) To derive or deduce; also, to transmit; to transfer. [Obs.] -- Fotherby.
Traduct (n.) That which is traducted; that which is transferred; a translation. [Obs.] -- Howell.
Traduction (n.) Transmission from one to another. [Obs.]
Traditional communication and traduction of truths. -- Sir M. Hale.
Traduction (n.) Translation from one language to another. [Obs.]
Traduction (n.) Derivation by descent; propagation. [R.]
If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good. -- Dryden.
Traduction (n.) The act of transferring; conveyance; transportation. [R.] "The traduction of brutes." -- Sir M. Hale.
Traduction (n.) Transition. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Traduction (n.) (Logic) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to. -- Jevons.
Traductive (a.) Capable of being deduced; derivable. [R.] -- Bp. Warburton.
Trafficked (imp. & p. p.) of Traffic.
Trafficking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Traffic.
Traffic (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
Traffic (v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
Traffic (v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Traffic (n.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
A merchant of great traffic through the world. -- Shak.
The traffic in honors, places, and pardons. -- Macaulay.
Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.
Traffic (v.) Commodities of the market. [R.]
You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. -- Gay.
Traffic (v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
Traffic return, A periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line.
Traffic taker, A computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.
Traffic (n.) The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time.
Traffic (n.) Buying and selling; especially illicit trade.
Traffic (n.) The amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night".
Traffic (n.) Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') [syn: dealings, traffic].
Traffic (v.) Deal illegally; "traffic drugs".
Traffic (v.) Trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold".
Traffic. () Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and the like.
Trafficable (a.) Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Trafficker (n.) One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
Trafficker (n.) Someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker].
Trafficless (a.) Destitute of traffic, or trade.
Tragacanth (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub ({Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.
Compare: Dracanth
Dracanth (n.) A kind of gum; -- called also gum tragacanth, or tragacanth. See Tragacanth.
Tragacanth (n.) A gum used in pharmacy, adhesives, and textile printing.
Tragedian (n.) A writer of tragedy.
Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. -- Milton.
Tragedian (n.) An actor or player in tragedy. -- Shak.
Tragedian (n.) A writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies.
Tragedian (n.) An actor who specializes in tragic roles.
Tragedienne (n.) [F.] A woman who plays in tragedy.
Tragedienne (n.) An actress who specializes in tragic roles.
Tragedious (a.) Like tragedy; tragical. [Obs.] "Tragedious history." -- Fabyan.
Tragedies (n. pl. ) of Tragedy.
Tragedy (n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
Tragedy is to say a certain storie, As olde bookes maken us memorie, Of him that stood in great prosperitee And is yfallen out of high degree Into misery and endeth wretchedly. -- Chaucer.
All our tragedies are of kings and princes. -- Jer. Taylor.
Tragedy is poetry in its deepest earnest; comedy is poetry in unlimited jest. -- Coleridge.
Tragedy (n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. Tragic
Compare: Drama
Drama (n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
A divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon. -- Milton.
Drama (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest. "The drama of war." -- Thackeray.
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. -- Berkeley.
The drama and contrivances of God's providence. -- Sharp.
Drama (n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
Note: The principal species of the drama are tragedy and comedy; inferior species are tragi-comedy, melodrama, operas, burlettas, and farces.
The romantic drama, The kind of drama whose aim is to present a tale or history in scenes, and whose plays (like those of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and others) are stories told in dialogue by actors on the stage. -- J. A. Symonds. Dramatic
Tragedy (n.) An event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm].
Tragedy (n.) Drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity [ant: comedy].
Tragic (a.) Alt. of Tragical
Tragical (a.) 悲劇的 [Z] [B]；悲劇性的，悲慘的；悲痛的，悲哀的 Of or pertaining to tragedy; of the nature or character of tragedy; as, a tragic poem; a tragic play or representation.
Tragical (a.) Fatal to life; mournful; terrible; calamitous; as, the tragic scenes of the French revolution.
Tragical (a.) Mournful; expressive of tragedy, the loss of life, or of sorrow.
Why look you still so stern and tragical ? -- Shak. -- {Trag"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Trag"ic*al*ness}, n.
Tragic (n.) A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]
Tragic (n.) A tragedy; a tragic drama. [Obs.]
Tragic (a.) very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident" [syn: tragic, tragical].
Tragic (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero".
Tragi-comedy (n.) A kind of drama representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy.
The noble tragi-comedy of "Measure for Measure." -- Macaulay. Tragi-comic
Tragi-comic (a.) Alt. of Tragi-comical.
Tragi-comical (a.) Of or pertaining to tragi-comedy; partaking of grave and comic scenes. -- Trag`-com"ic*al*ly, adv.
Julian felt toward him that tragi-comic sensation which makes us pity the object which excites it not the less that we are somewhat inclined to laugh amid our sympathy. -- Sir W. Scott.
Tragi-comi-pastoral (a.) Partaking of the nature of, or combining, tragedy, comedy, and pastoral poetry. [R.] -- Gay.