Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 70
Tres-tyne (n.) (Zool.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.
Tret () Obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. -- Chaucer.
Tret (n.) (Com.) An allowance to purchasers, for waste or refuse matter, of four pounds on every 104 pounds of suttle weight, or weight after the tare deducted. -- M'Culloch.
TRET, () weights and measures. An allowance made for the water or dust that may be mixed with any commodity. It differs from tare. (q.v.)
Tretable (a.) Tractable; moderate. [Obs.]
By nature debonaire and tretable. -- Chaucer.
Trething (n.) A tax; an impost. [Obs.] -- Johnson. Tretis
Tretis (n.) Alt. of Tretys.
Tretys (n.) A treatise; also, a treaty. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Tretis
Tretis (a.) Alt. of Tretys.
Tretys (a.) Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. [Obs.] "Her nose tretys." -- Chaucer.
Trevat (n.) A weaver's cutting instrument; for severing the loops of the pile threads of velvet.
Trevet (n.) A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet. Trew
Compare: Trivit
Trivet (n.) A tree-legged stool, table, or other support; especially, a stand to hold a kettle or similar vessel near the fire; a tripod. [Written also trevet.]
Trivet (n.) A weaver's knife. See Trevat. -- Knight.
Trivet table, A table supported by three legs. -- Dryden.
Trew (a.) Alt. of Trewe.
Trewe (a.) True. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trews (n. pl.) Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders. "He wore the trews, or close trowsers, made of tartan." -- Sir W. Scott.
Trews (n.) Tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan.
Trewth (n.) Truth. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trey (n.) Three, at cards, dice, or dominoes; a card, die, or domino of three spots or pips.
Seven is my chance and thine is cinq and trey. -- Chaucer.
Trey (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Trey (n.) One of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn: trey, three].
Tri- () A prefix meaning three, thrice, threefold; as in tricolored, tridentate.
Tri- () (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) denoting three proportional or combining part, or the third degree of that to the name of which it is prefixed; as in trisulphide, trioxide, trichloride.
Tri-City, OR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oregon
Population (2000): 3519
Housing Units (2000): 1409
Land area (2000): 7.566289 sq. miles (19.596599 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.566289 sq. miles (19.596599 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74650
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 42.991481 N, 123.312353 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Tri-Lakes, IN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Indiana
Population (2000): 3925
Housing Units (2000): 1652
Land area (2000): 35.160049 sq. miles (91.064104 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.897983 sq. miles (2.325765 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 36.058032 sq. miles (93.389869 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76526
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 41.229009 N, 85.472531 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Triable (a.) Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. "Experiments triable." -- Boyle.
Triable (a.) (Law) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another.
Triableness (n.) Quality or state of being triable.
Triacid (a.) (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monobasic acid or the equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms which may be acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; thus, glycerin is a triacid base.
Triacle (n.) See Treacle. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Triacontahedral (a.) Having thirty sides.
Triaconter (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.
Triad (n.) A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
Triad (n.) (Mus.) A chord of three notes.
Triad (n.) (Mus.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.
Triad (n.) (Chem.) An element or radical whose valence is three.
Triads of the Welsh bards, Poetical histories, in which the facts recorded are grouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together.
Hindu triad. See Trimurti.
Triad (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Triad (n.) A set of three similar things considered as a unit [syn: trio, triad, triplet, triple].
Triad (n.) Three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome, triad, trinity].
Triad (n.) A three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones [syn: common chord, triad].
Triadelphous (a.) (Bot.) Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.
Triadic (a.) (Chem.) Having the characteristics of a triad; as, boron is triadic.
Triakisoctahedron (n.) (Crystalloq.) A trigonal trisoctahedron.
Trial (n.) 試；試用；試驗 [C] [U]；考驗；磨煉；艱苦 [C] [U]；棘手的事；討厭的人 [S] [（+to）]；審問，審判 [U] [C]；嘗試，努力 [C] The act of trying or testing in any manner. Specifically:
Trial (n.) Any effort or exertion of strength for the purpose of ascertaining what can be done or effected.
[I] defy thee to the trial of mortal fight. -- Milton.
Trial (n.) The act of testing by experience; proof; test.
Repeated trials of the issues and events of actions. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Trial (n.) Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.
Trial (n.) The state of being tried or tempted; exposure to suffering that tests strength, patience, faith, or the like; affliction or temptation that exercises and proves the graces or virtues of men.
Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings. -- Heb. xi. 36.
Trial (n.) That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
Every station is exposed to some trials. -- Rogers.
Trial (n.) (Law) The formal examination of the matter in issue in a cause before a competent tribunal; the mode of determining a question of fact in a court of law; the examination, in legal form, of the facts in issue in a cause pending before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining such issue.
Syn: Test; attempt; endeavor; effort; experiment; proof; essay. See Test, and Attempt.
Trial (n.) The act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial, run].
Trial (n.) Trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain" [syn: trial, trial run, test, tryout].
Trial (n.) The act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill" [syn: test, trial].
Trial (n.) (Law) The determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial".
Trial (n.) (Sports) A preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday".
Trial (n.) An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation].
Trial, () practice., The examination before a competent tribunal, according to the laws, of the land, of the facts put in issue in a cause, for the purpose of determining such issue. 4 Mason, 232.
Trial, () There are various kinds of trial, the most common of which is trial by jury. To insure fairness this mode of trial lust be in public; it is conducted by selecting a jury in the manner prescribed by the local statutes, who must be sworn to try the matter in dispute according to law, and the evidence. Evidence is then given by the party on whom rests the onus probandi or burden of the proof, as the witnesses are called by a party they are questioned by him, and after they have been examined, which is called an examination in chief, they are subject to a cross-examination by the other party as to every part of their testimony. Having examined all his witnesses, the party who supports the affirmative of the issue closes; and the other party then calls his witnesses to explain his case or support his part of the issue these are in the same manner liable to a cross-examination. In case the parties should differ as to what is to be given in evidence, the judge, must decide the matter, and his decision is conclusive upon the parties so far as regards the trial; but, in civil cases, a bill of exceptions (q.v.) way be taken, so that the matter may be examined before another tribunal. When the evidence has been closed, the counsel for the party who supports the affirmative of the issue, then addresses the jury, by recapitulating the evidence and applying the law to the facts, and showing on what particular points he rests his case. The opposite counsel then addresses the jury, enforcing in like manner the facts and the law as applicable to his side of the case; to which the other counsel has a right to reply. It is then the duty of the judge to sum up the evidence and explain to the jury the law applicable to the case this is called his charge. (q.v.) The jurors then retire to deliberate upon their verdict, and, after having agreed upon it, they come into court and deliver it in public. In case they cannot agree they may, in cases of necessity, be discharged: but, it is said, in capital cases they cannot be. Very just and merited encomiums have been bestowed on this mode of trial, particularly in criminal cases. Livingston's Rep. on the Plan of a Penal Code, 13 3 Story, Const. 1773. The learned Duponceau has given beautiful sketch of this tribunal; "twelve invisible judges," said he, "whom the eye of the corrupter cannot see, and the influence of the powerful cannot reach, for they are nowhere to be found, until the moment when the balance of justice being placed in their bands, they hear, weigh, determine, pronounce, and immediately disappear, and are lost in the crowd of their fellow citizens." Address at the opening of the Law Academy at Philadelphia. Vide, generally, 4 Com. Dig. 783; 7 Id. 522; 21 Vin. Ab. 1 Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Sell. Pr. 405 4 Bl. Com. ch. 27; Chit. Pr. Index, h.t. 3 Bl. Com. ch. 22; 15 Serg. & R. 61; 22 Vin. Ab. h.t. See Discharge of jury; Jury.
Trial, () Trial by certificate. By the English law, this is a mode of trial allowed in such cases where the evidence of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point in dispute. For, when the fact in question lies out of the cognizance of the court, the judges must rely on the solemn averments or information of persons in such station, as affords them the most clear and complete knowledge of the truth.
Trial, () As therefore such evidence, if given to a jury, must have been conclusive, the law, to save trouble and circuity, permits the fact to be determined upon such certificate merely. 3 Bl. Com. 333; Steph. Pl. 122.
Trial, () Trial by the grand assize. This kind of trial is very similar to the common trial by jury. There is only one case in which it appears ever to have been applied, and there it is still in force.
Trial, () In a writ of right, if the defendant by a particular form of plea appropriate to the purpose, (see the plea, 3 Chitty, 652,) denied the right of the demandant, as claimed, he had the option, till the recent abolition of the extravagant and barbarous method of wager by battel, of either offering battel or putting himself on the grand assize, to try whether he or the demandant "had the greater right." The latter course he may still take; and, if he does, the court award a writ for summoning four knights to make the election of twenty other recognitors. The four knights and twelve of the recognitors so elected, together making a jury of sixteen, constitute what is called the grand assise; and when assembled, they proceed to try the issue, or (as it is called in this case) the mise, upon the question of right. The trial, as in the case of a common jury, may be either at the bar or nisi prius; and if at nisi prius, a nisi prius record is made up; and the proceedings are in either case, in general, the same as where there is a common jury. See Wils. R. 419, 541; 1 Holt's N. P. Rep. 657; 3 Chitty's Pl. 635; 2 Saund. 45 e; 1 Arch. 402. Upon the issue or mise of right, the wager of battel or the grand assise was, till the abolition of the former, and the latter still is, the only legitimate method of trial; and the question cannot be tried by a jury in the common form. 1 B. & P. 192. See 3 Bl. Com. 351.
Trial, () Trial by inspection or examination. This trial takes place when for the greater expedition of a cause, in some point or issue being either the principal question or arising collaterally out of it, being evidently the object of sense, the judges of the court, upon the testimony of their own senses, shall decide the point in dispute. For where the affirmative or negative of a question is matter of such obvious determination, it is not thought necessary to summon a jury to decide it; who are properly called in to inform the conscience of the court in respect of dubious facts, and, therefore, when the fact, from its nature, must be evident to the court either from ocular demonstration or other irrefragable proof, there the law departs from its usual resort, the verdict of twelve men, and relies ou the judgment alone. For example, if a defendant pleads in abatement of the suit that the plaintiff is dead, and one appears and calls himself the plaintiff, which the defendant denies; in this case the judges shall determine by inspection and examination whether be be the plaintiff or not. 9 Co. 30; 3 Bl. Com. 331; Steph. Pl. 123.
Trial, () Judges of courts of equity frequently decide facts upon mere inspection. The most familiar examples are those of cases where the plaintiff prays an injunction on an allegation of piracy or infringement of a patent or copyright. 5 Ves. 709; 12 Ves. 270, and the cases there cited. And see 2 Atk. 141; 2 B. & C. 80; 4 Ves. 681; 2 Russ. R. 385; 1 V. & B. 67; Cro. Jac. 230; 1 Dall. 166.
Trial, () Trial by the record. This trial applies to cases where an issue of nul tiel record is joined in any action. If, on one side, a record be asserted to exist, and the opposite party deny its existence, under the form of traverse, that there is no such record remaining in court, as alleged, and issue be joined thereon, this is called an issue of nul tiel record; and the court awards, in such case, a trial by inspection and examination of the record: Upon this the party, affirming its existence, is bound to produce it in court, on a day given for the purpose, and if he fail to do so, judgment is given for his adversary.
Trial, () The trial by record is not only in use when an issue of this kind happens to arise for decision, but it is the only legitimate mode of trying such issue, and the parties cannot put themselves upon the country. Steph. Pl. 122; 2 Bl. Com. 330.
Trial, () Trial by wager of battel. In the old English law, this was a barbarous mode of trying facts, among a rude people, founded on the supposition that heaven would always interpose, and give the victory to the champions of truth and innocence. This mode of trial was abolished in England as late as the stat. 59 Geo. III., c. 46, A. D. 1818. It never was in force in the United States. See 8 Bl. Com. 337; 1 Hale's Hist. 188; see a modern case, 1 B. & A. 405.
Trial, () Trial by wager of law. This mode of trial has fallen into complete disuse; but in point of law, it seems, in England, to be still competent in most cases to which is anciently applied. The most important and best established of these cases, is, the issue of nil debet, arising in action of debt of simple contract, or the issue of non detinet, in an action of detinue. In the declaration in these actions, as in almost all others, the plaintiff concludes by offering his suit (of which the ancient meaning was followers or witnesses, though the words are now retained as mere form,) to prove the truth of his claim. On the other hand, if the defendant, by a plea of nil debet or non detinet, deny the debt or detention, be may conclude by offering to establish the truth of such plea, "against the plaintiff and his suit, in such manner as the court shall direct." Upon this the court awards the wager of law; Co. Ent. 119 a; Lill. Ent. 467; 3 Chit. Pl. 479; and the form of this proceeding, when so awarded, is that the defendant brings into court with him eleven of his neighbors, and for himself, makes oath that he does not owe the debt or detain the property alleged and then the eleven also swear that they believe him to speak the truth; and the defendant is then entitled to judgment. 3 Bl. Com. 343; Steph. Pl. 124. Blackstone compares this mode of trial to the canonical purgation of the catholic clergy, and to the decisory oath of the civil, law. See Oath, decisory.
Trial, () Trial by witnesses. This species of trial by witnesses, or per testes, is without the intervention of a jury.
Trial, () This is the only method of trial known to the civil law, in which the judge is left to form in his own breast his sentence upon the credit of the witnesses examined; but it is very rarely used in the common law, which prefers the trial by jury in almost every instance.
Trial, () In England, when a widow brings a writ of dower, and the tenant pleads that the tenant is not dead, this being looked upon as a dilatory plea, is, in favor of the widow, and for greater expedition, allowed to be tried by witnesses examined before the judges; and so, says Finch, shall no other case in our law. Finch's Law, 423. But Sir Edward Coke mentions others: as to try whether the tenant in a real action was duly summoned; or the validity of a challenge to a juror; so that Finch's observation must be confined to the trial of direct and not collateral issues. And in every case, Sir Edward Coke lays it down, that the affirmative must be proved by two witnesses at least. 3 Bl. Com. 336.
Trial, (n.) A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors. In order to effect this purpose it is necessary to supply a contrast in the person of one who is called the defendant, the prisoner, or the accused. If the contrast is made sufficiently clear this person is made to undergo such an affliction as will give the virtuous gentlemen a comfortable sense of their immunity, added to that of their worth. In our day the accused is usually a human being, or a socialist, but in mediaeval times, animals, fishes, reptiles and insects were brought to trial. A beast that had taken human life, or practiced sorcery, was duly arrested, tried and, if condemned, put to death by the public executioner. Insects ravaging grain fields, orchards or vineyards were cited to appeal by counsel before a civil tribunal, and after testimony, argument and condemnation, if they continued _in contumaciam_ the matter was taken to a high ecclesiastical court, where they were solemnly excommunicated and anathematized. In a street of Toledo, some pigs that had wickedly run between the viceroy's legs, upsetting him, were arrested on a warrant, tried and punished. In Naples and ass was condemned to be burned at the stake, but the sentence appears not to have been executed. D'Addosio relates from the court records many trials of pigs, bulls, horses, cocks, dog,s goats, etc., greatly, it is believed, to the betterment of their conduct and morals. In 1451 a suit was brought against the leeches infesting some ponds about Berne, and the Bishop of Lausanne, instructed by the faculty of Heidelberg University, directed that some of "the aquatic worms" be brought before the local magistracy. This was done and the leeches, both present and absent, were ordered to leave the places that they had infested within three days on pain ofincurring "the malediction of God." In the voluminous records of this _cause celebre_ nothing is found to show whether the offenders braved the punishment, or departed forthwith out of that inhospitable jurisdiction.
Triality (n.) Three united; state of being three. [R.] -- H. Wharton.
Trialogue (n.) A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
Triamide (n.) (Chem.) An amide containing three amido groups.
Triamine (n.) (Chem.) An amine containing three amido groups.
Triander (n.) (Bot.) Any one of the Triandria.
Triandria (n. pl.) (Bot.) A Linnaean class of plants having three distinct and equal stamens. Triandrian
Triandrian (a.) Alt. of Triandrous.
Triandrous (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the Triandria; having three distinct and equal stamens in the same flower.
Triangle (n.) (Geom.) A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A plane triangle is designated as scalene, isosceles, or equilateral, according as it has no two sides equal, two sides equal, or all sides equal; and also as right-angled, or oblique-angled, according as it has one right angle, or none; and oblique-angled triangle is either acute-angled, or obtuse-angled, according as all the angles are acute, or one of them obtuse. The terms scalene, isosceles, equilateral, right-angled, acute-angled, and obtuse-angled, are applied to spherical triangles in the same sense as to plane triangles.
Triangle (n.) (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
Triangle (n.) A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
Triangle (n.) (Mus.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.
Triangle (n.) (Astron.) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.
Triangle (n.) (Astron.) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.
Triangle spider (Zool.), A small American spider ({Hyptiotes Americanus) of the family Ciniflonidae, living among the dead branches of evergreen trees. It constructs a triangular web, or net, usually composed of four radii crossed by a double elastic fiber. The spider holds the thread at the apex of the web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.
Triangle (n.) A three-sided polygon [syn: triangle, trigon, trilateral].
Triangle (n.) Something approximating the shape of a triangle; "the coastline of Chile and Argentina and Brazil forms two legs of a triangle".
Triangle (n.) A small northern constellation near Perseus between Andromeda and Aries [syn: Triangulum, Triangle].
Triangle (n.) Any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles.
Triangle (n.) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle.
Triangle, VA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Virginia
Population (2000): 5500
Housing Units (2000): 2318
Land area (2000): 2.633489 sq. miles (6.820706 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.633489 sq. miles (6.820706 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79360
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.551287 N, 77.325900 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 22172
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Headwords:
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Compare: Compasses
Compasses (n., pl.) An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.
Note: The compasses for drawing circles have adjustable pen points, pencil points, etc.; those used for measuring without adjustable points are generally called dividers. See Dividers.
Bow compasses. See Bow-compass.
Caliber compasses, Caliper compasses. See Calipers.
Proportional, Triangular, etc., compasses. See under Proportional, etc.
Triangled (a.) Having three angles; triangular.
Triangular (a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
Triangular (a.) (Bot.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time.
Triangular crab (Zool.), Any maioid crab; -- so called because the carapace is usually triangular.
Triangular numbers (Math.), The series of numbers formed by the successive sums of the terms of an arithmetical progression, of which the first term and the common difference are 1. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.
Triangular (a.) Having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle; "a triangular figure"; "a triangular pyrimid has a triangle for a base".
Triangular (a.) Having three sides; "a trilateral figure" [syn: trilateral, triangular, three-sided].
Triangulares (n. pl.) [L.] (Zool.) The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
Triangularity (n.) The quality or state of being triangular. -- Bolingbroke.
Triangularity (n.) The property of being shaped like a triangle
Triangularly (adv.) In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. -- Dampier.
Triangulated (imp. & p. p.) of Triangulate.
Triangulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Triangulate.
Triangulate (v. t.) 分成三角形；作三角測量 To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
Triangulate (v. t.) To make triangular, or three-cornered.
Triangulate (a.) Composed of or marked with triangles
Triangulate (v.) Divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard".
Triangulate (v.) Measure by using trigonometry; "triangulate the angle."
Triangulate (v.) Survey by triangulation; "The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot."
Triangulation (n.) (Surv.) 三角測量；三角剖分 The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
Triangulation (n.) A trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points a known distance apart; useful in navigation.
Triangulation (n.) A method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated.
Triarchies (n. pl. ) of Triarchy.
Triarchy (n.) Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. -- Holland.
Triarian (a.) Occupying the third post or rank. [Obs.] -- Cowley.
Triarticulate (a.) (Zool.) Having three joints.
Trias (n.) (Geol.) The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
Triassic (a.) (Geol.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
Triassic (n.) The Triassic formation.
Triassic (a.) Of or relating to or denoting the first period of the Mesozoic era
Triassic (n.) From 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity [syn: Triassic, Triassic period].
Triathlon (n.) [C]【體】三項全能運動；鐵人三項（游泳、單車、賽跑三項全能賽）A sport competition in which competitors run, swim, and cycle long distances.
Compare: Triathlete
Triathlete (n.) (pl. Triathletes) (Countable) 【體】鐵人三項運動員 A triathlete is someone who takes part in a triathlon.
// Outside politics he is a keen triathlete.
Triatic (a.) (Naut.) A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
Triatomic (a.) (Chem.) Having three atoms; -- said of certain elements or radicals.
Triatomic (a.) (Chem.) Having a valence of three; trivalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having three hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic; thus, glycerin, glyceric acid, and tartronic acid are each triatomic.
Tribal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter. -- Bp. Warburton.
Tribal (a.) Relating to or characteristic of a tribe; "tribal customs."
Tribalism (n.) The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
Tribalism (n.) The state of living together in tribes.
Tribalism (n.) The beliefs of a tribal society.
Tribasic (a.) (Chem.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.
Tribble (n.) (Paper Manuf.) A frame on which paper is dried. -- Knight.
Tribe (v. t.) To distribute into tribes or classes. [R.]
Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed. -- Abp. Nicolson. Triblet
Tribe (n.) [C] 部落；種族 [G]；一幫，一夥 [the S] A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." -- Rev. v. 5.
A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. -- Shak.
Tribe (n.) (Bot.) A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order and genus.
Tribe (n.) A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.
Tribe (n.) A division, class,
or distinct portion of a people, from whatever cause that distinction may have
originated; as, the city of
Tribe (n.) (Stock Breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns.
Tribe (n.) A social division of (usually preliterate) people [syn: tribe, folk].
Tribe (n.) A federation (as of American Indians) [syn: tribe, federation of tribes].
Tribe (n.) (Biology) A taxonomic category between a genus and a Subfamily.
Tribe (n.) Group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe].
Tribe, () A collection of families descending from one ancestor. The "twelve tribes" of the Hebrews were the twelve collections of families which sprang from the sons of Jacob. In Matt. 24:30 the word has a wider significance. The tribes of Israel are referred to as types of the spiritual family of God (Rev. 7). (See ISRAEL, KINGDOM OF; JUDAH, KINGDOM OF.)
Triblet (n.) Alt. of Tribolet.
Tribolet (n.) A goldsmith's tool used in making rings. -- Ainsworth.
Tribolet (n.) A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. -- Tomlinson.
Tribolet (n.) (Blacksmithing) A tapering mandrel.
Tribometer (n.) An instrument to ascertain the degree of friction in rubbing surfaces. -- Brande & C.
Tribrach (n.) (Gr. & L. Pros.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
Tribracteate (a.) (Bot.) Having three bracts. Tribromophenol
Tribual (a.) Alt. of Tribular.
Tribular (a.) Of or relating to a tribe; tribal; as, a tribual characteristic; tribular worship. [R.]
The tribual lispings of the Ephraimites. -- Fuller.
Tribulation (n.) [C, U] 苦難，磨難；苦難的緣由，煩惱事That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
When tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. -- Matt. xiii. 21.
In the world ye shall have tribulation. -- John. xvi. 33.
Tribulation (n.) An annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation].
Tribulation, () Trouble or affiction of any kind (Deut. 4:30; Matt. 13:21; 2 Cor. 7:4). In Rom. 2:9 "tribulation and anguish" are the penal sufferings that shall overtake the wicked. In Matt. 24:21, 29, the word denotes the calamities that were to attend the destruction of Jerusalem.
Tribulation (n.) Unhappiness, pain, or suffering.
Tribulation (n.) An experience that causes someone to suffer.
Tribulation (n.) Distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution; also : A trying experience.
// The trials and tribulations of starting a new business.
Tribunal (n.) The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.
Tribunal (n.) Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.
Tribunal (n.) [Sp.] In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.
Tribunal (n.) An assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business [syn: court, tribunal, judicature].
Tribunal. () The seat of a judge; the place where he administers justice; but by this term is more usually understood the whole body of judges who compose a jurisdiction sometimes it is taken for the jurisdiction which they exercise.
Tribunal. () This term is Latin, and derives its origin from the elevated seat where the tribunes administered justice.
Tribunary (a.) Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.
Tribunate (n.) The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.
Tribune (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.
Note: The tribunes were at first two, but their number was increased ultimately to ten. There were also military tribunes, officers of the army, of whom there were from four to six in each legion. Other officers were also called tribunes; as, tribunes of the treasury, etc.
Tribune (n.) Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.
Tribune (n.) (Ancient Rome) An official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests.
Tribune (n.) The apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne.
Tribune, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 835
Housing Units (2000): 425
Land area (2000): 0.747538 sq. miles (1.936114 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.747538 sq. miles (1.936114 sq. km)
FIPS code: 71450
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 38.470288 N, 101.754489 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 67879
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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