Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 66
Trapeze (n.) (Geom.) A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.
Trapeze (n.) A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; -- used by gymnasts.
Trapeze (n.) A swing used by circus acrobats
Trapeziform (a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.
Trapeziums (n. pl. ) of Trapezium
Trapezia (n. pl. ) of Trapezium
Trapezium (n.) (Geom.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
Trapezium (n.) (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
Trapezium (n.) (Anat.) A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
Trapezium (n.) A quadrilateral with no parallel sides [ant: parallelogram].
Trapezium (n.) A multiple star in the constellation of Orion.
Trapezium (n.) The wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals [syn: trapezium, trapezium bone, os trapezium].
Trapezohedral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.
Trapezohedron (n.) (Crystalloq.) A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.
Trapezohedron (n.) (Crystalloq.) A tetartohedral solid of the hexagonal system, bounded by six trapezoidal planes. The faces of this form are common on quartz crystals.
Trisoctahedron (n.) (Crystallog.) A solid of the isometric system bounded by twenty-four equal faces, three corresponding to each face of an octahedron.
Tetragonal
trisoctahedron,
A trisoctahedron each face of which is a quadrilateral; called also
trapezohedron and icositetrahedron.
Trigonal trisoctahedron, A trisoctahedron each face of which is an
isosceles triangle. Trispast
Trapezohedron (n.) A polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums
Trapezoid (n.) (Geom.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
Trapezoid (n.) (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.
Trapezoid (a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.
Trapezoid (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.
Trapezoid (n.) A quadrilateral with two parallel sides
Trapezoid (n.) The wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones [syn: trapezoid, trapezoid bone, os trapezoideum].
Trapezoidal (a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.
Trapezoidal (a.) (Min.) Trapezohedral.
Trapezoidal (a.) Resembling a trapezoid.
Traphole (n.) (Mil.) See Trou-de-loup.
Trappean (a.) (Min.) Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.
Trapped (a.) 陷入困境的；受到限制的；trap的動詞過去式、過去分詞 If you feel trapped, you are in an unpleasant situation in which you lack freedom, and you feel you cannot escape from it.
// He follows me everywhere and it makes me feel so trapped.
// ...People who think of themselves as trapped in mundane jobs. [+ in]
Trapped (a.) See also { trap}.
Trapped (a.) Forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal" [syn: at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treed].
Trapper (n.) One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals for their furs. -- W. Irving.
Trapper (n.) (Mining) A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. -- Raymond.
Trapper (n.) Someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs).
Trapper (n.) [ C ] （通常以出售毛皮為目的）設陷阱（或夾子）的捕獸者 A person who catches wild animals, usually to sell their fur.
// A fur trapper.
Trappings (n. pl.) That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
Trappings of life, for ornament, not use. -- Dryden.
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. -- Shak.
Trappings (n. pl.) Specifically, ornaments to be put on horses.
Caparisons and steeds, Bases and tinsel trappings. -- Milton.
Trappings (n.) (Usually plural) Accessory wearing apparel [syn: furnishing, trappings].
Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
Trappist (n.) Member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence [syn: Trappist, Cistercian].
Trappous (n.) (Min.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.
Trappures (n. pl.) Trappings for a horse. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trappy (a.) (Min.) Same as Trappous.
Traps (n. pl.) Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]
Trapstick (n.) A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. -- Addison.
Trash (n.) 垃圾，廢物 That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
Who steals my purse steals trash. -- Shak.
A haunch of venison would be trash to a Brahmin. -- Landor.
Trash (n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
Note: In the West Indies, the decayed leaves and stems of canes are called field trash; the bruised or macerated rind of canes is called cane trash; and both are called trash. -- B. Edwards.
Trash (n.) A worthless person. [R.] -- Shak.
Trash (n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game. -- Markham.
Trash ice, Crumbled ice mixed with water.
Trashed (imp. & p. p.) of Trash
Trashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trash
Trash (v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane. -- B. Edwards.
Trash (v. t.) 廢棄，破壞，損壞；向...投擲垃圾；搗毀行動，破壞行動 To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush. [Obs.]
Trash (v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously. [R.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Trash (v. i.) 搗毀 To follow with violence and trampling. [R.] -- The Puritan (1607).
Trash (n.) Worthless material that is to be disposed of [syn: rubbish, trash, scrap].
Trash (n.) Worthless people [syn: trash, scum].
Trash (n.) Nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop].
Trash (n.) An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant [syn: methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash].
Trash (v.) Dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer" [syn: trash, junk, scrap].
Trash (v.) Express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash].
Trash (v. t.) To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure). The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, scribble, and { roach.
Trash, () To destroy, e.g. the contents of a data structure. The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble. [{Jargon File] (1994-11-03)
Trashily (adv.) In a trashy manner.
Trashiness (n.) The quality or state of being trashy.
Trashiness (n.) The quality of being cheaply imitative of something better [syn: shoddiness, trashiness].
Trashy (a.) 碎屑的，沒用的，垃圾似的 Like trash; containing much trash; waste; rejected; worthless; useless; as, a trashy novel.
Trashy (a.) Cheap and inferior; of no value; "rubbishy newspapers that form almost the sole reading of the majority"; "trashy merchandise" [syn: rubbishy, trashy].
Trashy (a.) Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy].
Trass (n.) (Geol.) 粗面凝灰岩，火山土 A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also {tarras}, {tarrace}, {terras}.]
Note: The Dutch trass is made by burning and grinding a soft grayish rock found on the lower Rhine.
Traulism (n.) A stammering and stuttering speech. [Obs.] -- Dalgarno.
Traumatic (a.) (Med.) 【醫】外傷的；外傷用的；創傷（性）的 Of or pertaining to wounds; applied to wounds. -- Coxe.
Traumatic (a.) (Med.) Adapted to the cure of wounds; vulnerary.
Traumatic (a.) (Med.) Produced by wounds; as, traumatic tetanus.
Traumatic (n.) 外傷藥A traumatic medicine.
Traumatic (a.) Of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body
Traumatic (a.) Psychologically painful;"few experiences are more traumatic than losing a child".
Traumatism (n.) (Med.) 由外傷而致的病態症狀；外傷 A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.
Traunce (n. & v.) See Trance. [Obs.]
Trant (v. i.) To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle. [Written also traunt.] [Obs.]
Traunt (v. i.) Same as Trant. [Obs.]
Tranter (n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. [Written also traunter.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Traunter (n.) Same as Tranter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Travail (n.) Same as Travois.
Travail (n.) Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
As everything of price, so this doth require travail. -- Hooker.
Travail (n.) Parturition; labor; as, an easy travail.
Travailed (imp. & p. p.) of Travail
Travailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Travail
Travail (v. i.) To labor with pain; to toil. [Archaic] "Slothful persons which will not travail for their livings." -- Latimer.
Travail (v. i.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Travail (v. t.) To harass; to tire. [Obs.]
As if all these troubles had not been sufficient to travail the realm, a great division fell among the nobility. -- Hayward.
Travailous (a.) Causing travail;
laborious. [Obs.] -- Wyclif. -- Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv.
[Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Trave (n.) (Arch.) A crossbeam; a lay of joists. -- Maundrell.
Trave (n.) A wooden frame to confine an unruly horse or ox while shoeing.
She sprung
as a colt doth in the trave. -- Chaucer.
Trave (n.) A horizontal beam that extends across something [syn: trave,
traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece].
Traveled (imp. & p. p.) of Travel
Travelled () of Travel
Traveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Travel
Travelling () of Travel
Travel (v. i.) To labor; to travail. [Obsoles.] -- Hooker.
Travel (v. i.) To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.
Travel (v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.
Travel (v. i.) To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. -- Shak.
Travel (v. t.) To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent. "I travel this profound." -- Milton.
Travel (v. t.) To force to journey. [R.]
They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises. -- Spenser.
Travel (n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary. -- Shak.
His travels ended at his country seat. -- Dryden.
Travel (n.) pl. An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.
Travel (n.) (Mach.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.
Travel (n.) Labor; parturition; travail. [Obs.]
Travel (n.) The act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel" [syn: travel traveling, travelling].
Travel (n.) A movement through space that changes the location of something [syn: change of location, travel].
Travel (n.) Self-propelled movement [syn: locomotion, travel].
Travel (v.) Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "W travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" [syn: travel, go, move, locomote] [ant: stay in place].
Travel (v.) Undertake a journey or trip [syn: travel, journey].
Travel (v.) Make a trip for pleasure [syn: travel, trip, jaunt].
Travel (v.) Travel upon or across; "travel the oceans" [syn: travel, journey].
Travel (v.) Undergo transportation as in a vehicle; "We travelled North on Rte. 508".
Travel (v.) Travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge [syn: travel, move around].
Traveled (a.) Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience by traveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.]
The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. -- Byron.
Traveled (a.) Traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term [ant: untraveled, untravelled].
Traveled (a.) Familiar with many parts of the world; "a traveled, educated man"; "well-traveled people" [syn: traveled, travelled].
Sundowner (n.) A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then come in with the demand for unrefusable rations. -- Francis Adams.
Traverse table (n.) A tramp who habitually arrives at sundown.
Traverse table (n.) A drink taken at sundown
Traveler (n.) One who travels; one who has traveled much.
Traveler (n.) A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
Traveler (n.) (Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.
Traveler (n.) (Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.
Traveler (n.) (Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.
Traveler's joy (Bot.), The Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers.
Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.
Traveler (n.) A person who changes location [syn: traveler, traveller].
Travel-tainted (a.) Harassed; fatigued with travel. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Travers (a.) Across; athwart.
[Obs.]
The earl . . . caused . . . high trees to be hewn down, and laid travers one
over another. -- Ld. Berners.
Traversable (a.) Capable of being traversed, or passed over; as, a traversable region.
Traversable (a.) Deniable; specifically (Law), liable to legal objection; as, a traversable presentment. -- Sir M. Hale.
Traversable (a.) Capable of being traversed; "highway crews soon had the roads travelable" [syn: traversable, travelable].
Traverse (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. -- Sir H. Wotton.
The ridges of the fallow field traverse. -- Hayward.
Traveled (a.) (Mach.), A machine tool for drilling slots, in which the work or tool has a lateral motion back and forth; also, a drilling machine in which the spindle holder can be adjusted laterally.
Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.
Traverse (n.) Anything that traverses, or crosses.
Traverse (n.) Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
Traverse (n.) A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.
Men drinken and the travers draw anon. -- Chaucer.
And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. -- F. Beaumont.
Traverse (n.) (Arch.) A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
Traverse (n.) (Fort.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work.
Traverse (n.) (Law) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without this which follows.
Traverse (n.) (Naut.) The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
Traverse (n.) (Geom.) A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
Traverse (n.) (Surv.) A line surveyed across a plot of ground.
Traverse (n.) (Gun.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.
Traverse (n.) A turning; a trick; a subterfuge. [Obs.]
To work a traverse or To solve a traverse (Naut.), To reduce a series of courses or distances to an equivalent single one; to calculate the resultant of a traverse.
Traverse board (Naut.), A small board hung in the steerage, having the points of the compass marked on it, and for each point as many holes as there are half hours in a watch. It is used for recording the courses made by the ship in each half hour, by putting a peg in the corresponding hole.
Traverse jury (Law), A jury that tries cases; a petit jury.
Traverse sailing (Naut.), A sailing by compound courses; the method or process of finding the resulting course and distance from a series of different shorter courses and distances actually passed over by a ship.
Traverse table. (a) (Naut. & Surv.) A table by means of which the difference of latitude and departure corresponding to any given course and distance may be found by inspection. It contains the lengths of the two sides of a right-angled triangle, usually for every quarter of a degree of angle, and for lengths of the hypothenuse, from 1 to 100.
Traverse table. (b) (Railroad) A platform with one or more tracks, and arranged to move laterally on wheels, for shifting cars, etc., from one line of track to another.
Traversed (imp. & p. p.) of Traverse