Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 78
Trogonoid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the trogons.
Trogue (n.) (Mining) A wooden trough, forming a drain. -- Raymond.
Troic (a.) Pertaining to
Troilite (n.) (Min.) Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.
Troili (n. pl. ) of Troilus.
Troiluses (n. pl. ) of Troilus.
Troilus (n.) (Zool.) A large, handsome American butterfly ({Euph[oe]ades troilus, or Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings; -- also called troilus butterfly.
Troilus butterfly, () A large American butterfly ({Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear; -- also called troilus.
Trojan (a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Troy or its inhabitants.
Trojan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Troy.
Trojan (n.) One who shows the pluck, endurance, determined energy, strength, or the like, attributed to the defenders of Troy; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase like a Trojan; as, he endured the pain like a Trojan; he studies like a Trojan.
Tim jumped like a Trojan from the bed. -- Finnegan's Wake (Irish song)
Trojan (a.) Of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants; "Trojan cities".
Trojan (n.) A native of ancient Troy [syn: Trojan, Dardan, Dardanian].
Trojan (n.) A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful; "the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm"; "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse" [syn: trojan, trojan horse].
Trojan horse
Trojan, () (Or just "trojan") A term coined by MIT-hacker-turned-NSA-spook Dan Edwards for a malicious, security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign, such as a directory lister, archiver, game or (in one notorious 1990 case on the Mac) a program to find and destroy viruses! A Trojan horse is similar to a back door.
See also RFC 1135, worm, phage, mockingbird.
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Troll (n.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
Trolled (imp. & p. p.) of Troll.
Trolling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Troll.
Troll (v. t.) To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. -- Milton.
Troll (v. t.) To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
Then doth she troll to the bowl. -- Gammer Gurton's Needle.
Troll the brown bowl. -- Sir W. Scott.
Troll (v. t.) To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
Will you troll the catch ? -- Shak.
His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud. -- Hudibras.
Troll (v. t.) To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
Troll (v. t.) To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
With patient angle trolls the finny deep. -- Goldsmith.
Troll (v. i.) To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
Troll (v. i.) To move rapidly; to wag. -- F. Beaumont.
Troll (v. i.) To take part in trolling a song.
Troll (v. i.) To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. -- Bancroft.
Troll (n.) The act of moving round; routine; repetition. -- Burke.
Troll (n.) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
Thence the catch and troll, while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life. -- Prof. Wilson.
Troll (n.) A trolley.
Troll plate (Mach.), A rotative disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.
Troll (n.) (Scandanavian folklore) A supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains.
Troll (n.) A partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time; "they enjoyed singing rounds" [syn: round, troll].
Troll (n.) A fisherman's lure that is used in trolling; "he used a spinner as his troll".
Troll (n.) Angling by drawing a baited line through the water [syn: troll, trolling].
Troll (v.) Circulate, move around.
Troll (v.) Cause to move round and round; "The child trolled her hoop".
Troll (v.) Sing the parts of (a round) in succession.
Troll (v.) Angle with a hook and line drawn through the water.
Troll (v.) Sing loudly and without inhibition.
Troll (v.) Praise or celebrate in song; "All tongues shall troll you".
Troll (v.) Speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice.
Troll (v., n.) [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on {Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase ?trolling for newbies? which in turn comes from mainstream ?trolling?, a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it. See also YHBT.
Troll (n.) An individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that they have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, ?Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll.? Compare {kook.
Troll (n.) [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for CS students. Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed. Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark cavelike corners.
Some people claim that the troll (sense 1) is properly a narrower category than flame bait, that a troll is categorized by containing some assertion that is wrong but not overtly controversial. See also Troll-O-Meter.
The use of ?troll? in any of these senses is a live metaphor that readily produces elaborations and combining forms. For example, one not infrequently sees the warning ?Do not feed the troll? as part of a followup to troll postings.
TROLL, () An array language for continuous simulation, econometric
modelling or statistical analysis.
["TROLL Reference Manual", D0062, Info Proc Services, MIT
(1973-76)].
Troll, () An electronic mail message, Usenet posting or other (electronic) communication which is intentionally incorrect, but not overtly controversial (compare flame bait), or the act of sending such a message. Trolling aims to elicit an emotional reaction from those with a hair-trigger on the reply key. A really subtle troll makes some people lose their minds.
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Troller (n.) One who trolls. Trolley
Troller (n.) A fisherman who uses a hook and line [syn: angler, troller].
Trolley (n.) Alt. of Trolly.
Trolly (n.) A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. [Eng.]
Trolly (n.) A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.]
Trolly (n.) (Mach.) A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
Trolly (n.) (Electric Railway) A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
Trolly (n.) A trolley car.
Trolley (n.) A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car].
Trolleybus (n.) 無軌電車 A passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires [syn: trolleybus, trolley coach, trackless trolley].
Trollmydames (n.) The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames.] [Obs.] -- Shak.
Trollop (n.) A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.
Trollop (n.) A dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop].
Trollop (n.) A woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop].
Trollopee (n.) A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] -- Goldsmith.
Trombone (n.) (Mus.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown, it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn and majestic.
Trombone (n.) (Zool.) The common European bittern.
Trombone (n.) A brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide.
Trommel (n.) (Mining) A revolving buddle or sieve for separating, or sizing, ores. -- Raymond.
Tromp (n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.] Tromp
Tromp (n.) Alt. of Trompe.
Trompe (n.) A trumpet; a trump. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Trompil (n.) An aperture in a tromp.
Tron (n.) See 3d Trone, 2.
Trona (n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum.
Tronage (n.) A toll or duty paid for weighing wool; also, the act of weighing wool.
Tronator (n.) An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.
Trone (n.) A throne.
Trone (n.) A small drain.
Trone (n.) Alt. of Trones.
Trones (n.) A steelyard.
Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused.
Troop (n.) A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
Troop (n.) Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.
Troop (n.) Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
Troop (n.) A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
Troop (n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
Trooped (imp. & p. p.) of Troop.
Trooping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Troop.
Troop (v. i.) To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
Troop (v. i.) To march on; to go forward in haste.
Troop (n.) Troops (C2) [ plural ] 部隊，軍隊 Soldiers on duty in a large group.
// Traditionally, United Nations troops have been deployed only in a peacekeeping role.
// The major powers have said they will not send in ground troops (= soldiers who fight on land).
// In 1988, about 220,000 American troops were stationed in Western Europe.
// All troops will be withdrawn by the end of the year.
Troop (n.) Troops (C2) [ plural ] [ C ] 軍隊，部隊；（尤指）裝甲兵部隊，騎兵部隊A group of soldiers, especially ones who fight in strong military vehicles or on horses.
// The King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery.
Troop (n.) Troops (C2) [ plural ] [ C ] 童子軍 An organized group of young people who are Scouts.
// My brother joined the local Boy Scout troop.
Troop (a.) [ before noun ] 軍隊的；有關或涉及軍隊的 For, relating to, or involving troops.
// Satellite photographs provide us with a lot of information about their troop movements.
Troop (v.) [ I usually + adv/prep ] 成群結隊地走；（通常指）列隊而行 To walk somewhere in a large group, usually with one person behind another.
// The little boys trooped after him across the playing fields.
// The Norwich fans gave their team a loud cheer as they trooped off the field.
// None of us knew what to expect as we trooped into her office.
Troop (v.) [ I ] (Informal humorous) （尤指被告知）成群前往 To travel somewhere as a group, especially when told to.
// We all trooped down to London for the meeting.
Idiom:
The trooping of the colour (UK) 軍旗列隊儀式 A ceremony in which a military flag is carried in public with the soldiers that it represents marching behind it.
// We watched the trooping of the colour live from Horse Guards Parade.
Troopbird (n.) Any troupial.
Trooper (n.) [C] 騎兵；裝甲兵；騎兵的馬 A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.
Trooper (n.) A state police officer; -- also called {state trooper}. [U. S.]
Trooper (n.) A mounted policeman. [Australia]
Note: The {black troopers} of Queensland are a regiment of aboriginal police, employed chiefly for dispersing wild aborigines who encroach on sheep runs.
Trooper (n.) Trouper.
{like a trooper}, With energy, endurance, or enthusiasm; as, to work like a trooper.
Trooper (n.) A soldier in a motorized army unit [syn: {cavalryman}, {trooper}].
Trooper (n.) A mounted policeman.
Trooper (n.) A state police officer [syn: {trooper}, {state trooper}].
Trooper (n.) A soldier mounted on horseback; "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount" [syn: {cavalryman}, {trooper}].
Troopfowl (n.) The American scaup duck.
Troopial (n.) Same as Troupial.
Troopmeal (adv.) By troops; in crowds.
Troopship (n.) A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
Troostite (n.) Willemite.
Tropaeolin (n.) (Chem.) A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium ({Tropaeolum}).
Tropaeolum (n.)【植】金蓮花屬植物 A tropical American genus of dicotyledonous climbing or diffuse pungent herbs constituting the family Tropaeolaceae [syn: {Tropaeolum}, {genus Tropaeolum}].
Tropaeolum (n.) 旱金蓮屬（Tropaeolum）又名金蓮花屬，是十字花目旱金蓮科旗下三個屬的其中一種植物，有80多個不同品種的一年生及多年生草本植物。它與另一個同名的金蓮花屬（Trollius chinensis，毛茛目毛茛科金蓮花屬）不同。旱金蓮屬植物原產於南美玻利維亞至哥倫比亞的安地斯山脈中。
Tropaeolum [1] [2] commonly known as nasturtium [3] [4] [5] literally "nose-twister" or "nose-tweaker"), is a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants. It was named by Carl Linnaeus in his book Species Plantarum, [6] and is the only genus in the family Tropaeolaceae. The nasturtiums received their common name because they produce an oil similar to that of watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
The genus Tropaeolum, native to South and Central America, includes several very popular garden plants, the most common being T. majus, T. peregrinum and T. speciosum. One of the hardiest species is T. polyphyllum from Chile, the perennial roots of which can survive the winter underground at altitudes of 3,300 metres (10,000 ft).
Plants in this genus have showy, often intensely bright flowers, and rounded, peltate (shield-shaped) leaves with the petiole in the centre. The flowers are bisexual and zygomorphic, with five petals, a superior three-carpelled ovary, and a funnel-shaped nectar spur at the back, formed by modification of one of the five sepals. [7]
Trope (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
Trope (n.) The word or expression so used.
Torpedo (n.) [ C or U ] (pl. Torpedoes) 魚雷 A long, thin bomb that travels underwater in order to destroy the ship at which it is aimed.
Tropeine (n.) Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.
Trophi (n. pl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
Trophic (a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
Trophied (a.) Adorned with trophies.
Trophonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Trophonius, his architecture, or his cave and oracle.
Trophosome (n.) The nutritive zooids of a hydroid, collectively, as distinguished from the gonosome, or reproductive zooids.
Trophosperm (n.) The placenta.
Trophies (n. pl. ) of Trophy.
Trophy (n.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.
Trophy (n.) The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.
Trophy (n.) Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
Trophy (n.) Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.
Tropic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23?28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
Tropic (n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
Tropic (n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
Tropic (a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
Tropical (a.) 熱帶的，熱情的 Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.
Tropical (a.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
Tropical cyclone (n.) 熱帶氣旋 A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by names such as hurricane, [1] [2] [3] typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. [4] A hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean, a typhoon occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, and a cyclone occurs in the south Pacific or Indian Ocean. [4]
Tropical cyclones typically form over large bodies of relatively warm water. They derive their energy through the evaporation of water from the ocean surface, which ultimately recondenses into clouds and rain when moist air rises and cools to saturation. This energy source differs from that of mid-latitude cyclonic storms, such as nor'easters and European windstorms, which are fueled primarily by horizontal temperature contrasts. The strong rotating winds of a tropical cyclone are a result of the conservation of angular momentum imparted by the Earth's rotation as air flows inwards toward the axis of rotation. As a result, they rarely form within 5° of the equator. [5] Tropical cyclones are typically between 100 and 2,000 km (62 and 1,243 mi) in diameter. They are far less common south of the Equator, mainly because the African easterly jet, warmer waters, and areas of atmospheric instability, which gives rise to cyclones in the Atlantic ocean and Americas, occur in the Northern hemisphere, and because vertical wind shear is much stronger south of the equator, which typically prevents tropical depressions and potential storms from developing into cyclones.
Tropical refers to the geographical origin of these systems, which form almost exclusively over tropical seas. Cyclone refers to their cyclonic nature, with wind blowing counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. The opposite direction of circulation is due to the Coriolis effect.
Coastal regions are particularly vulnerable to the impact of a tropical cyclone, compared to inland regions. The primary energy source for these storms is warm ocean waters, therefore these forms are typically strongest when over or near water, and weaken quite rapidly over land. Coastal damage may be caused by strong winds and rain, high waves (due to winds), storm surges (due to severe pressure changes), and the potential of spawning tornadoes. Tropical cyclones also draw in air from a large area—which can be a vast area for the most severe cyclones—and concentrate the precipitation of the water content in that air (made up from atmospheric moisture and moisture evaporated from water) into a much smaller area. This continual replacement of moisture-bearing air by new moisture-bearing air after its moisture has fallen as rain, may cause extremely heavy rain and river flooding up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the coastline, far beyond the amount of water that the local atmosphere holds at any one time.
Though their effects on human populations are often devastating, tropical cyclones can relieve drought conditions. They also carry heat energy away from the tropics and transport it toward temperate latitudes, which may play an important role in modulating regional and global climate.
Tropically (adv.) In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically.
Tropidine (n.) An alkaloid, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.
Tropilidene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the dry distillation of tropine with quicklime. It is regarded as being homologous with dipropargyl.
Tropine (n.) A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.
Tropist (n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
Tropologic (a.) Alt. of Tropological.
Tropological (a.) Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
Tropologize (v. t.) To use in a tropological sense, as a word; to make a trope of.
Tropology (n.) A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.
Trossers (n. pl.) Trousers.
Trotted (imp. & p. p.) of Trot.
Trotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trot.
Trot (v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.