Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 80
Truck (n.) Commodities appropriate for barter, or for small trade; small commodities; esp., in the United States, garden vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]
Truck (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also {truck system}.
{Garden truck}, Vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.]
{Truck farming}, Raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]
Truck (n.) An automotive vehicle suitable for hauling [syn: {truck}, {motortruck}].
Truck (n.) A handcart that has a frame with two low wheels and a ledge at the bottom and handles at the top; used to move crates or other heavy objects [syn: {hand truck}, {truck}].
Truck (v.) Convey (goods etc.) by truck; "truck fresh vegetables across the mountains."
Truckage (n.) The practice of bartering goods; exchange; barter; truck.
The truckage of perishing coin. -- Milton.
Truckage (n.) Money paid for the conveyance of goods on a truck; freight.
Truckage (n.) A fee charged for transporting goods by truckage.
Truckage (n.) The activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: hauling, trucking, truckage].
Trucker (n.) One who trucks; a trafficker.
No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls. -- South.
Trucker (n.) Someone who drives a truck as an occupation [syn: teamster, trucker, truck driver].
Trucking (n.) The business of conveying goods on trucks.
Trucking (n.) The activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: hauling, trucking, truckage].
Truckle (n.) 小車輪；腳輪；（可推入大床底下的）輪式矮床 A small wheel or caster. -- Hudibras.
Truckle (v. i.) 屈從；諂媚；用腳輪轉動 To yield or bend obsequiously to the will of another; to submit; to creep. "Small, trucking states." -- Burke.
Religion itself is forced to truckle to worldly poliey. -- Norris.
Truckled (imp. & p. p.) of Truckle.
Truckling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truckle.
Truckle (v. t.) To roll or move upon truckles, or casters; to trundle.
Truckle (n.) A low bed to be slid under a higher bed [syn: trundle bed, trundle, truckle bed, truckle].
Truckle (v.) Yield to out of weakness.
Truckle (v.) Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up].
Truckle-bed (n.) A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; a trundle-bed. "His standing bed and truckle-bed." -- Shak.
Truckler (n.) One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
Truckler (n.) Someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect [syn: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler].
Truckmen (n. pl. ) of Truckman.
Truckman (n.) 卡車司機；卡車運輸業者 One who does business in the way of barter or exchange.
Truckman (n.) One who drives a truck, or whose business is the conveyance of goods on trucks.
Truculence (n.) Alt. of Truculency.
Truculency (n.) The quality or state of being truculent; savageness of manners; ferociousness.
Truculent (a.) 兇狠的，殘酷的；野蠻的；好戰的，好鬥的 Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia. -- Ray.
Truculent (a.) Cruel; destructive; ruthless.
More or less truculent plagues. -- Harvey.
Truculent (a.) Defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government."
Truculently (adv.) 好鬥地；愛爭吵地 In a truculent manner.
Truculently (adv.) In an aggressively truculent manner; "they strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests."
Truculently (adv.) In a defiantly truculent manner; "the boy looked up truculently at his teacher."
Trudged (imp. & p. p.) of Trudge.
Trudging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trudge.
Trudge (v. i.) 跋涉，步履艱難地走 [Q] To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.
And trudged to Rome upon my naked feet. -- Dryden.
Trudge (n.) 長途跋涉 [C] A long difficult walk.
Trudge (v.) (v. t.) 沿著……跋涉；艱難地走過 Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: {slog}, {footslog}, {plod}, {trudge}, {pad}, {tramp}].
Trudgeman (n.) [C] 口譯員，通譯員；解釋者 A truchman. [Obs.]
True (a.) Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is true when it states the facts.
True (a.) Right to precision; conformable to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate; as, a true copy; a true likeness of the original.
Making his eye, foot, and hand keep true time. -- Sir W. Scott.
True (a.) Steady in adhering to friends, to promises, to a prince, or the like; unwavering; faithful; loyal; not false, fickle, or perfidious; as, a true friend; a wife true to her husband; an officer true to his charge.
Thy so true, So faithful, love unequaled. -- Milton.
Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie. -- Herbert.
True (a.) Actual; not counterfeit, adulterated, or pretended; genuine; pure; real; as, true balsam; true love of country; a true Christian.
The true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. -- John i. 9.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. -- Pope.
True (a.) (Biol.) Genuine; real; not deviating from the essential characters of a class; as, a lizard is a true reptile; a whale is a true, but not a typical, mammal.
Note: True is sometimes used elliptically for It is true.
Out of true, Varying from correct mechanical form, alignment, adjustment, etc.; -- said of a wall that is not perpendicular, of a wheel whose circumference is not in the same plane, and the like. [Colloq.]
A true bill (Law), A bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true.
True time. See under Time.
True (adv.) In accordance with truth; truly. -- Shak.
True (adv.) As acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class" [syn: true, admittedly, avowedly, confessedly].
True (a.) Consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" -- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement" [ant: false].
True (a.) Accurately placed or thrown; "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target" [syn: true, dead on target].
True (a.) Devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them."
True (a.) Expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person" [syn: truthful, true] [ant: untruthful].
True (a.) Conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician."
True (a.) Worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable sourcSFLe of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me" [syn: dependable, honest, reliable, true(p)].
True (a.) Not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed; "genuine emotion"; "her interest in people was unfeigned"; "true grief" [syn: genuine, true(a), unfeigned].
True (a.) Rightly so called; "true courage"; "a spirit which true men have always admired"; "a true friend."
True (a.) Determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles; "true north is geographic north."
True (a.) Having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king" [syn: true(a), lawful, rightful(a)].
True (a.) In tune; accurate in pitch; "a true note" [syn: on-key, true].
True (a.) Accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true" [syn: true, straight].
True (n.) Proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true."
True (v.) Make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the cylinder of an engine" [syn: true, true up].
True-blue (n.) A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
True-blue (a.) Of inflexible honesty and fidelity; -- a term derived from the true, or Coventry, blue, formerly celebrated for its unchanging color. See True blue, under Blue.
True-blue (a.) Marked by unswerving loyalty; "a true-blue American"; "a reliable true-blue country club conservative."
True-born (a.) Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.
True-bred (a.) Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast. -- Shak.
True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman.
True-hearted (a.) Of a faithful heart; honest; sincere; not faithless or deceitful; as, a truhearted friend. -- True" -- heart`ed*ness, n.
Truelove (n.) （忠實的）情人，愛人；白檀科的矮樹 One really beloved.
Truelove (n.) (Bot.) A plant. See {Paris}.
Truelove (n.) An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. -- T. R. Lounsbury.
Under his tongue a truelove he bore. -- Chaucer.
{Truelove knot}, A complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also {true-lover's knot}.
Truelove (n.) A person loved by another person [syn: {sweetheart}, {sweetie}, {steady}, {truelove}].
Trueness (n.) The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.
Trueness (n.) Conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity].
Trueness (n.) The quality of being loyal [syn: loyalty, trueness] [ant: disloyalty].
Trueness (n.) Exactness of adjustment; "I marveled at the trueness of his aim."
True-penny (n.) An honest fellow. -- Shak. Bacon.
Truffle (n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle ({Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle ({Tuber aestivum}) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Truffle worm (Zool.), The larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles.
Truffle (n.) Any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe [syn: truffle, earthnut, earth-ball].
Truffle (n.) Edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber [syn: truffle, earthnut].
Truffle (n.) Creamy chocolate candy [syn: truffle, chocolate truffle].
Truffled (a.) Provided or cooked with truffles; stuffed with truffles; as, a truffled turkey.
Trug (n.) A trough, or tray. Specifically:
Trug (n.) A hod for mortar.
Trug (n.) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel. -- Bailey.
Trug (n.) A concubine; a harlot. [Obs.] -- Taylor (1630).
Trugging-house (n.) A brothel. [Obs.] -- Robert Greene.
Truism (n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Trifling truisms clothed in great, swelling words. -- J. P. Smith.
Truism (n.) An obvious truth.
Truismatic (a.) Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms. [R.]
Trull (n.) A drab; a strumpet; a harlot; a trollop. -- Shak.
Trull (n.) A girl; a wench; a lass. [Obs.]
Trullization (n.) The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.
Truly (adv.) In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
Truly (adv.) Exactly; justly; precisely; accurately; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
Truly (adv.) Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover; the citizens are truly loyal to their prince or their country. -- Burke.
Truly (adv.) Conformably to law; legally; legitimately.
His innocent babe [is] truly begotten. -- Shak.
Truly (adv.) In fact; in deed; in reality; in truth.
Beauty is excelled by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair. -- Milton.
Truly (adv.) In accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: truly, genuinely, really].
Truly (adv.) By right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" [syn: rightfully, truly].
Truly (adv.) With sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" [syn: sincerely, unfeignedly, truly] [ant: insincerely].
Truly (adv.) In fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly].
Trump (n.) A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. -- 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.
The wakeful trump of doom. -- Milton.
Trumped (imp. & p. p.) of Trump.
Trumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trump.
Trump (v. i.) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
Trump (v. t.) To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.
Trump (v. t.) To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obs.] "To trick or trump mankind." -- B. Jonson.
Trump (v. t.) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
Authors have been trumped upon us. -- C. Leslie.
To trump up, To devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.
Trump (v. i.) To blow a trumpet. [Obs.] -- Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).
Trump (n.) A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.
Trump (n.) An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff. -- Decker.
Trump (n.) A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]
Alfred is a trump, I think you say. -- Thackeray.
To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, To force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.
But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. -- Milton.
Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. -- W. Irving.
Trump (n.) A playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps; "the ace of trumps is a sure winner" [syn: trump, trump card].
Trump (n.) (Card games) The suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand; "clubs were declared trumps"; "a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led."
Trump (n.) A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump].
Trump (v.) Produce a sound as if from a trumpet.
Trump (v.) Get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop].
Trump (v.) Play a trump [syn: trump, ruff].
Trump (v.) Proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump, trump out].
Trumpery (a.) Worthless or deceptive in character. "A trumpery little ring." -- Thackeray.
Trumpery (n.) Deceit; fraud. [Obs.] -- Grenewey.
Trumpery (n.) Something serving to deceive by false show or pretense; falsehood; deceit; worthless but showy matter; hence, things worn out and of no value; rubbish.
The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, for state to catch these thieves. -- Shak.
Upon the coming of Christ, very much, though not all, of this idolatrous trumpery and superstition was driven out of the world. -- South.
Trumpery (n.) Nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop].
Trumpery (n.) Ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery].
Trumpet (n.) (Mus.) [C] 喇叭；小號；喇叭形擴聲器；喇叭聲似的聲音；象的吼聲 A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone.
The trumpet's loud clangor Excites us to arms. -- Dryden.
Trumpet (n.) (Mil.) A trumpeter. -- Clarendon.
Trumpet (n.) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it. -- Shak.
That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times . . . to be the trumpet of his praises. -- Dryden.
Trumpet (n.) (Mach) A funnel, or short, fiaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
{Ear trumpet}. See under {Ear}.
{Sea trumpet} (Bot.), A great seaweed ({Ecklonia buccinalis}) of the Southern Ocean. It has a long, hollow stem, enlarging upwards, which may be made into a kind of trumpet, and is used for many purposes.
{Speaking trumpet}, An instrument for conveying articulate sounds with increased force.
{Trumpet animalcule} (Zool.), Any infusorian belonging to Stentor and allied genera, in which the body is trumpet-shaped. See {Stentor}.
{Trumpet ash} (Bot.), The trumpet creeper. [Eng.]
{Trumpet conch} (Zool.), A trumpet shell, or triton.
{Trumpet creeper} (Bot.), An American climbing plant ({Tecoma radicans}) bearing clusters of large red trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also {trumpet flower}, and in England {trumpet ash}.
{Trumpet fish}. (Zool.) The bellows fish.
{Trumpet fish}. (Zool.) The fistularia.
{Trumpet flower}. (Bot.) The trumpet creeper; also, its blossom.
{Trumpet flower}. (Bot.) The trumpet honeysuckle.
{Trumpet flower}. (Bot.) A West Indian name for several plants with trumpet-shaped flowers.
{Trumpet fly} (Zool.), A botfly.
{Trumpet honeysuckle} (Bot.), A twining plant ({Lonicera sempervirens}) with red and yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; -- called also {trumpet flower}.
{Trumpet leaf} (Bot.), A name of several plants of the genus {Sarracenia}.
{Trumpet major} (Mil.), The chief trumpeter of a band or regiment.
{Trumpet marine} (Mus.), A monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the archetype of all others. It probably owes its name to "its external resemblance to the large speaking trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." -- Grove.
{Trumpet shell} (Zool.), Any species of large marine univalve shells belonging to Triton and allied genera. See {Triton}, 2.
{Trumpet tree}. (Bot.) See {Trumpetwood}.
Trumpeted (imp. & p. p.) of Trumpet.
Trumpeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trumpet.
Trumpet (v. t.) To publish by, or as by, sound of trumpet; to noise abroad; to proclaim; as, to trumpet good tidings.
They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish. -- Bacon.
Trumpet (v. i.) 吹喇叭；大聲疾呼；（象等）吼叫 To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a trumplike cry.
Trumpet (n.) A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: {cornet}, {horn}, {trumpet}, {trump}].
Trumpet (v.) Proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet; "Liberals like to trumpet their opposition to the death penalty."
Trumpet (v.) Play or blow on the trumpet.
Trumpet (v.) Utter in trumpet-like sounds; "Elephants are trumpeting."
Trumpeter (n.) 小號手，號手；吹噓者，吹鼓手；【魚】刺魚；【鳥】（北美）野天鵝 One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces.
Trumpeter (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged South American birds of the genus Psophia, especially P. crepitans, which is abundant, and often domesticated and kept with other poultry by the natives. They are allied to the cranes. So called from their loud cry. Called also agami, and yakamik.
Trumpeter (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
Trumpeter (n.) An American swan (Olor buccinator) which has a very loud note.
Trumpeter (n.) A large edible fish (Latris hecateia) of the family Cirrhitidae, native of Tasmania and New Zealand. It sometimes weighs as much as fifty or sixty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish.
Trumpeting (n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.
Trumpets (n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.
Trumpet-shaped (a.) Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
Trumpet-tongued (a.) Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
Trumpetweed (n.) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.
Trumpetweed (n.) The sea trumpet.
Trumpetwood (n.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
Trumpie (n.) (Zool.) The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
Trumpism (n.) [U] The policies and political ideas of the US president Donald Trump.
Trumpism (n.) [C] A comment made by the US president Donald Trump, or a word or expression often used by him.
Trumplike (a.) Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice. -- Chapman.
Truncal (a.) Of or pertaining to the trunk, or body.
Truncate (a.) 截頭的，去尾的，截短的；縮短了的，被刪節的 Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather.
Truncated (imp. & p. p.) of Truncate.
Truncating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Truncate.
Truncate (v. t.) 切去（樹木等）的頭端，把……截短；縮短（文章等） To cut off; to lop; to maim.
Truncate (a.) Terminating abruptly by having or as if having an end or point cut off; "a truncate leaf"; "truncated volcanic mountains"; "a truncated pyramid" [syn: {truncate}, {truncated}].
Truncate (v.) Replace a corner by a plane.
Truncate (v.) Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one; "truncate a series."
Truncate (v.) Make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains" [syn: {truncate}, {cut short}].
Truncate (v.) [ T ] 截短，刪節，縮短（尤指去尾） To make something shorter or quicker, especially by removing the end of it.
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