Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 82
Trustily (adv.) In a trusty manner.
Trustiness (n.) The quality or state of being trusty.
Trustiness (n.) The trait of deserving trust and confidence [syn: trustworthiness, trustiness] [ant: untrustiness, untrustworthiness].
Trusting (a.) Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv.
Trusting (a.) Inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust; "great brown eye, true and trustful" -- Nordhoff & Hall [syn: trustful, trusting] [ant: distrustful].
Trustless (a.) That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n.
Trustworthy (a.) 值得信賴的，可信的，可靠的 Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- {Trust"wor`thi*ness}, n.
Trustworthy (a.) Worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion" [syn: {trustworthy}, {trusty}] [ant: {untrustworthy}, {untrusty}].
Trustworthy (a.) Taking responsibility for one's conduct and obligations; "trustworthy public servants".
Trusty (a.) Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable.
Your trusty and most valiant servitor. -- Shak.
Trusty (a.) Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm.
His trusty sword he called to his aid. -- Spenser.
Trusty (a.) Involving trust; as, a trusty business.
Trusty (a.) Worthy of trust or belief; "a trustworthy report"; "an experienced and trustworthy traveling companion" [syn: {trustworthy}, {trusty}] [ant: {untrustworthy}, {untrusty}].
Trusty (n.) A convict who is considered trustworthy and granted special privileges.
Truths (n. pl. ) of Truth.
Truth (n.) The quality or being true; as:
Truth (n.) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
Truth (n.) Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like.
Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. -- Mortimer.
Truth (n.) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.
Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. -- Coleridge.
Truth (n.) The practice of speaking what is true; freedom from falsehood; veracity.
If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. -- Shak.
Truth (n.) That which is true or certain concerning any matter or subject, or generally on all subjects; real state of things; fact; verity; reality.
Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor. -- Zech. viii. 16.
I long to know the truth here of at large. -- Shak.
The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material. -- Coleridge.
Truth (n.) A true thing; a verified fact; a true statement or proposition; an established principle, fixed law, or the like; as, the great truths of morals.
Even so our boasting . . . is found a truth. -- 2 Cor. vii. 14.
Truth (n.) Righteousness; true religion.
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. -- John i. 17.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth. -- John xvii. 17.
In truth, In reality; in fact.
Of a truth, In reality; certainly.
To do truth, To practice what God commands.
He that doeth truth cometh to the light. -- John iii. 21.
Truth (v. t.) To assert as
true; to declare. [R.]
Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. -- Ford.
Truth (n.) A fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it".
Truth (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].
Truth (n.) A true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it" [syn: truth, true statement] [ant: falsehood, falsity, untruth].
Truth (n.) The quality of being near to the true value; "he was beginning to doubt the accuracy of his compass"; "the lawyer questioned the truth of my account" [syn: accuracy, truth] [ant: inaccuracy].
Truth (n.) United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) [syn: Truth, Sojourner Truth].
Truth, (n.) Used in various senses in Scripture. In Prov. 12:17, 19, it denotes that which is opposed to falsehood. In Isa. 59:14, 15, Jer. 7:28, it means fidelity or truthfulness. The doctrine of Christ is called "the truth of the gospel" (Gal. 2:5), "the truth" (2 Tim. 3:7; 4:4). Our Lord says of himself, "I am the way, and the truth" (John 14:6).
Truth, (n.) The actual state of things.
Truth, (n.) In contracts, the parties are bound to toll the truth in their dealings, and a deviation from it will generally avoid the contract; Newl. on Contr. 352-3; 2 Burr. 1011; 3 Campb. 285; and even concealment, or suppressio veri, will be considered fraudulent in the contract of insurance. 1 Marsh. on Ins. 464; Peake's N. P. C. 115; 3 Campb. 154, 506.
Truth, (n.) In giving his testimony, a witness is required to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; for the object in the examination of matters of fact, is to ascertain truth.
Truth, (n.) When a defendant is sued civilly for slander or a libel, he may justify by giving the truth in evidence; but when a criminal prosecution is instituted by the commonwealth for a libel, he cannot generally justify by giving the truth in evidence.
Truth, (n.) The constitutions of several of the United States have made special provisions in favor of giving the truth in evidence in prosecutions for libels, under particular circumstances. In the constitutions of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, it is declared, that in publications for libels on men in respect to their public official conduct, the truth may be given in evidence, when the matter published was proper for public information. The constitution of New York declares, that in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. By constitutional provision in Mississippi and Missouri, and by legislative enactment in New Jersey, Arkansas, Tennessee, Act of 1805, c. 6: and Vermont, Rev. Stat. tit. 11, c. 25, s. 68; the right to give the truth in evidence has been more extended; it applies to all prosecutions or indictments for libels, without any qualifications annexed in restraint of the privilege. Cooke on Def. 61.
Truth, (n.) An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
Truthful (a.) Full of truth; veracious; reliable. -- Truth"ful*ly, adv. -- Truth"ful*ness, n.
Truthful (a.) Expressing or given to expressing the truth; "a true statement"; "gave truthful testimony"; "a truthful person" [syn: truthful, true] [ant: untruthful].
Truthful (a.) Conforming to truth; "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so"; "a truthful statement."
Truthful (a.) Dumb and illiterate.
Truthless (a.) Devoid of truth; dishonest; dishonest; spurious; faithless. -- Truth"less*ness, n.
Truth-lover (n.) One who loves the truth.
Truth-lover
was our English Duke. -- Tennyson.
Truthness (n.) Truth. [Obs. & R.] -- Marston.
Truth-teller (n.) One who tells the truth.
Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. -- Tennyson.
Truthy (a.) Truthful; likely; probable. [R.] "A more truthy import." -- W. G. Palgrave.
Trutination (n.) The act of weighing. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Truttaceous (a.) (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trout; as, fish of the truttaceous kind.
Tried (imp. & p. p.) of Try.
Trying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Try.
Try (v. t.) To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Elyot.
Try (v. t.) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc. -- Shak.
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. -- Ps. xii. 6.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. -- Ps. lxvi. 10.
Try (v. t.) To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
Let the end try the man. -- Shak.
Try (v. t.) To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased. -- Milton.
These are the times that try men's souls. -- Thomas Paine (1776)
Try (v. t.) To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.
Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. -- Shak.
To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries. -- Swift.
Try (v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.
Try (v. t.) (Law) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.
Try (v. t.) To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.
Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried. -- Shak.
Try (v. t.) To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience. -- Milton.
Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold. -- Dryden.
Try (v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.
Let us try . . . to found a path. -- Milton.
To try on. (a.) To put on, as a garment, to ascertain whether it fits the person.
To try on. (b) To attempt; to undertake. [Slang] -- Dickens.
Syn: To attempt; endeavor; strive; aim; examine.
Usage: Try, Attempt. To try is the generic, to attempt is the specific, term. When we try, we are usually uncertain as to success; when we attempt, we have always some definite object in view which we seek to accomplish. We may be indifferent as to the result of a trial, but we rarely attempt anything without a desire to succeed.
He first deceased: she for a little tried To live without him; liked it not, and died. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Alack, I am afraid they have a waked, And 't is not done. The attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us. -- Shak.
Try (v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.
Try (v. i.) To do; to fare; as, how do you try! [Prov. Eng.]
Try (n.) A screen, or sieve, for grain. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Holland.
Try (n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.
This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends. -- Shak.
Try (n.) In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; -- so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).
Try (a.) Refined; select; excellent; choice. [Obs.] "Sugar that is try." -- Chaucer.
Try (n.) Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try" [syn: attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try].
Try (v.) Make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: try, seek, attempt, essay, assay].
Try (v.) Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" [syn: test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay].
Try (v.) Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials" [syn: judge, adjudicate, try].
Try (v.) Take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" [syn: sample, try, try out, taste].
Try (v.) Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California" [syn: hear, try].
Try (v.) Give pain or trouble to; "I've been sorely tried by these students."
Try (v.) Test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" [syn: try, strain, stress].
Try (v.) Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole" [syn: try, render].
Try (v.) Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice; "Try on this sweater to see how it looks" [syn: try on, try].
Trygon (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
Trying (a.) Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.
Trying (a.) Hard to endure; "fell upon trying times."
Trying (a.) Extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office" [syn: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, trying].
Trypsin (n.) (physiol.) A proteolytic enzyme present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.
Trypsin (n.) An enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units.
Trypsinogen (n.) (Physiol.) The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
Trypsinogen (n.) Inactive precursor of trypsin; a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine.
Tryptic (a.) (Physiol.) Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.
Tryptone (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.
Trysail (n.) (Naut.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. --Totten.
Try-square (n.) An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.
Tryst (n.) Trust. [Obs.]
Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic]
To bide tryst, To wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment.
The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile. -- Tennyson.
Tryst (v. t.) To trust. [Obs.]
Tryst (v. t.) To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. [Scot.] -- Burns.
Tryst (v. i.) To mutually agree to meet at a certain place. [Scot.]
Tryst (n.) A date; usually with a member of the opposite sex [syn: tryst, rendezvous].
Tryst (n.) A secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: assignation, tryst].
Tryster (n.) One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.
Trysting (n.) An appointment; a tryst.
Trysting day, An arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like.
And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. -- Macaulay.
Trysting place, A place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the meeting of parties for an interview, or the like; a rendezvous. -- Byron.
Trywork (n.) A trywork, located aft of the fore-mast, is the most distinguishing feature of a whaling ship.
It is a furnace, typically constructed of brick and attached to the deck with iron braces. Two cast-iron trypots are set atop the furnace and used to heat blubber from whales for the recovery of oil. The task is similar to the rendering process for producing lard by heating or frying fatty pork. A reservoir of water under the bricks keeps the furnace from scorching the wood of the deck.
In the 18th and 19th century New England whaling industry, the use of tryworks on whaling ships allowed them to stay at sea longer. Since they could boil out their oil during the voyage, they did not have to carry unprocessed blubber home. Slices of blubber were cut as thinly as possible for the process, and on New England whaling ships, these slices were known as "bible leaves" by the sailors. [1] The ability to use tryworks at sea thus enabled the Yankee whaling industry to flourish. [2]
Tsar (n.) The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar. Tsarina
Compare: Czar
Czar (n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia. [Written also tsar and tzar.]
Tsar (n.) A male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to [syn: czar, tsar, tzar].
Tsarina (n.) Alt. of Tsaritsa.
Tsaritsa (n.) The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina.
Tsarina (n.) The wife or widow of a czar [syn: czarina, tsarina, tzarina, czaritza, tsaritsa].
Tschakmeck (n.) (Zool.) The chameck.
Tschego (n.) (Zool.) A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building large, umbrella-shaped nests in trees. Called also tscheigo, tschiego, nschego, nscheigo.
Tsebe (n.) (Zool.) The springbok.
Tsetse (n.) (Zool.) A venomous two-winged African fly ({Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders extensive districts in which it abounds uninhabitable during certain seasons of the year. [Written also tzetze, and tsetze.]
Tsetse (n.) Bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. [syn: tsetse fly, tsetse, tzetze fly, tzetze, glossina].
Compare: T
T, () The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]262-264, and also [sect][sect]153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180. The letter derives its name and form from the Latin, the form of the Latin letter being further derived through the Greek from the Ph[oe]nician. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. It is etymologically most nearly related to d, s, th; as in tug, duke; two, dual, L. duo; resin, L. resina, Gr. "rhti`nh, tent, tense, a., tenuous, thin; nostril, thrill. See D, S.
T bandage (Surg.), A bandage shaped like the letter T, and used principally for application to the groin, or perineum.
T cart, A kind of fashionable two seated wagon for pleasure driving.
T iron. (a) A rod with a short crosspiece at the end, -- used as a hook.
T iron. (b) Iron in bars, having a cross section formed like the letter T, -- used in structures.
T rail, A kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the letter T.
T square, A ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end, for the purpose of making parallel lines; -- so called from its shape. It is laid on a drawing board and guided by the crosspiece, which is pressed against the straight edge of the board. Sometimes the head is arranged to be set at different angles.
To a T, Exactly, perfectly; as, to suit to a T. [Colloq.]
T square (n.) See under T.Truthful (a.)
T-square (n.) [ C ] （畫圖用的）丁字尺；曲尺 A long, flat, T-shaped piece of wood, metal, or plastic, used to draw parallel lines.
Compare: Set square
Set square (n.) [ C ] (UK) (US triangle) 三角板 A flat piece of metal or plastic in the shape of a triangle with one angle of 90°, used for drawing angles.
Tidal wave (n.) 海嘯；滿潮 An unusually high wave from the sea, sometimes reaching far inland and causing great destruction, and usually caused by some event, such as an earthquake, far from the shore. In Japan, such a wave is called a {tsunami}.
Tidal wave (n.) [Fig.] An unusually large quantity of items or events requiring attention and causing strain on the capacity to handle them; as, a tidal wave of orders for a new product; a tidal wave of tourists.
Tidal (a.) Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters.
The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. -- Longfellow.
Tidal air (Physiol.), The air which passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty cubic inches.
Tidal basin, A dock that is filled at the rising of the tide.
Tidal wave. (a) See Tide wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore.
Tidal wave. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes.
It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.
Tide (n.) Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] "This lusty summer's tide." -- Chaucer.
And rest their weary limbs a tide. -- Spenser.
Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. -- Spenser.
At the tide of Christ his birth. -- Fuller.
Tide (n.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.
Note: The flow or rising of the water is called flood tide, and the reflux, ebb tide.
Tide (n.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood. "Let in the tide of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide." -- Shak.
Tide (n.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. -- Shak.
Tide (n.) Violent confluence. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Tide (n.) (Mining) The period of twelve hours.
Atmospheric tides, Tidal movements of the atmosphere similar to those of the ocean, and produced in the same manner by the attractive forces of the sun and moon.
Inferior tide. See under Inferior, a.
To work double tides. See under Work, v. t.
Tide day, The interval between the occurrences of two consecutive maxima of the resultant wave at the same place. Its length varies as the components of sun and moon waves approach to, or recede from, one another. A retardation from this cause is called the lagging of the tide, while the acceleration of the recurrence of high water is termed the priming of the tide. See Lag of the tide, under 2d Lag.
Tide dial, A dial to exhibit the state of the tides at any time.
Tide gate. (a) An opening through which water may flow freely when the tide sets in one direction, but which closes automatically and prevents the water from flowing in the other direction.
Tide gate (b) (Naut.) A place where the tide runs with great velocity, as through a gate.
Tide gauge, A gauge for showing the height of the tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. -- Brande & C.
Tide lock, A lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels, so that craft can pass either way at all times of the tide; -- called also guard lock.
Tide mill. (a) A mill operated by the tidal currents.
Tide mill. (b) A mill for clearing lands from tide water.
Tide rip, A body of water made rough by the conflict of opposing tides or currents.
Tide table, A table giving the time of the rise and fall of the tide at any place.
Tide water, Water affected by the flow of the tide; hence, broadly, the seaboard.
Tide wave, or Tidal wave, The swell of water as the tide moves. That of the ocean is called primitive; that of bays or channels derivative. See also tidal wave in the vocabulary. -- Whewell.
Tide wheel, A water wheel so constructed as to be moved by the ebb or flow of the tide.
Tidal wave (n.) An overwhelming manifestation of some emotion or phenomenon; "a tidal wave of nausea"; "the flood of letters hit him with the force of a tidal wave"; "a tidal wave of crime."
Tidal wave (n.) An unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide.
Tidal wave (n.) A wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun.
Tidal wave (n.) [ C ] (Sea) 海嘯 An extremely large wave caused by movement of the earth under the sea, often caused by an earthquake (= a shaking of the earth).
Tidal wave (n.) [ C ] (Large number) 高潮，浪潮 A sudden large number of things.
// A tidal wave of complaints.
Tsunami (n.) （源自日語）海嘯，地震海嘯（係海底地震或火山爆發所致） A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes".
Tsunami (n.) [ C ] 海嘯 An extremely large wave caused by a violent movement of the earth under the sea.
Tsunami (n.) [ C ] A very large and dangerous ocean wave that is caused by an earthquake under the sea.
// The fishing industry was hit particularly hard by the tsunami.
Tidal wave (n.) An unusually high wave from the sea, sometimes reaching far inland and causing great destruction, and usually caused by some event, such as an earthquake, far from the shore. In Japan, such a wave is called a tsunami.
Tidal wave (n.) [Fig.] An unusually large quantity of items or events requiring attention and causing strain on the capacity to handle them; as, a tidal wave of orders for a new product; a tidal wave of tourists.
Tsunami (n.) A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes."
Tuatera (n.) See Hatteria.
Compare: Hatteria
Hatteria (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, tuatara, and Tuatera.
Tuatara (n.) (Zool.) A large iguanalike reptile ({Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but by 1900 confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive-green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck. It is the only surviving member of the order Rhyncocephala. Also called tuatera and hatteria.
Tuatera (n.) Same as tuatara.
Tub (n.) 桶，浴盆 An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes.
Tub (n.) The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc.
Tub (n.) Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously.
All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. -- South.
Tub (n.) A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tub (n.) A small cask; as, a tub of gin.
Tub (n.) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
Tub fast, An old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tub wheel, () A horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.
Tubbed (imp. & p. p.) of Tub.
Tubbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tub.
Tub (v. t.) 裝入桶，洗澡 To plant or set in a tub; as, to tub a plant.
Tub (v. i.) 洗盆浴，被放在桶裏洗 To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.]
Don't we all tub in England ? -- London Spectator.
Tub (n.) A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body [syn: bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tub].
Tub (n.) A large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn: tub, vat].
Tub (n.) The amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water" [syn: tub, tubful].
TUB, () Technische Universitaet Berlin (org.)
TUB, () Technische Universita't Berlin. (Berlin technical university).
TUB, () Measures. In mercantile law, a tub is a measure containing sixty pounds weight of tea; and from fifty-six to eighty-six pounds of camphor. Jacob's Law Dict. h.t.
Tuba (n.) (Mus.) An ancient trumpet.
Tuba (n.) (Mus.) A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.
Tuba (n.) The lowest brass wind instrument [syn: bass horn, sousaphone, tuba].
TUBA, () TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (TCP, UDP, RFC 1347).
TUBA, () An Internet protocol, described in RFC 1347, RFC 1526 and RFC 1561, and based on the OSI
Connectionless Network Protocol (CNLP).
TUBA is one of the proposals for Internet Protocol Version 6. (1995-04-03)
Tubal (a.) Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.
Tubal (a.) Of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube; "tubal ligation"; "tubal pregnancy".
Tubal, () The fifth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2).
Tubal, () A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It is mentioned by Isaiah (66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel (27:13), along with Meshech, among the traders with Tyre, also among the confederates of Gog (Ezek. 38:2, 3; 39:1), and with Meshech among the nations which were to be destroyed (32:26). This nation was probably the Tiberini of the Greek historian Herodotus, a people of the Asiatic highland west of the Upper Euphrates, the southern range of the Caucasus, on the east of the Black Sea.
Tubal, () The earth; the world; confusion.
Tubbing (n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.
Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.
Tubby (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Tubby (a.) Short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly].
Compare: Subway
Subway (n.) An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.
Subway (n.) An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by electricity provided by an electric line running through the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the center portion of cities; -- called also tube, and in Britain, underground. In certain other countries (as in France or Russia) it is called the metro.
Tube (n.) A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
Tube (n.) A telescope. "Glazed optic tube." -- Milton.
Tube (n.) A vessel in animal bodies or plants, which conveys a fluid or other substance.
Tube (n.) (Bot.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla.
Tube (n.) (Gun.) A priming tube, or friction primer. See under Priming, and Friction.
Tube (n.) (Steam Boilers) A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.
Tube (n.) (Zool.) A more or less cylindrical, and often spiral, case secreted or constructed by many annelids, crustaceans, insects, and other animals, for protection or concealment. See Illust. of Tubeworm.
Tube (n.) (Zool.) One of the siphons of a bivalve mollusk.
Tube (n.) (Elec. Railways) A tunnel for a tube railway; also (Colloq.), a tube railway; a subway. [Chiefly Eng.]
Note: In the New York area, the subways running under the Hudson River are sometimes referred to as the tube.
Capillary tube, A tube of very fine bore. See Capillary.
Fire tube (Steam Boilers), A tube which forms a flue.
Tube coral. (Zool.) Same as Tubipore.
Tube foot (Zool.), One of the ambulacral suckers of an echinoderm.
Tube plate, or Tube sheet (Steam Boilers), A flue plate. See under Flue.
Tube pouch (Mil.), A pouch containing priming tubes.
Tube spinner (Zool.), Any one of various species of spiders that construct tubelike webs. They belong to Tegenaria, Agelena, and allied genera.
Water tube (Steam Boilers), A tube containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases.
Tubed (imp. & p. p.) of Tube.
Tubing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tube.
Tube (v. t.) To furnish with a tube; as, to tube a well.
Tube (n.) Conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases [syn: tube, tubing].
Tube (n.) Electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope [syn: tube, vacuum tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic tube, electron tube, thermionic valve].
Tube (n.) A hollow cylindrical shape [syn: pipe, tube].
Tube (n.) (Anatomy) Any hollow cylindrical body structure [syn: tube, tube-shaped structure].
Tube (n.) An electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city); "in Paris the subway system is called the `metro' and in London it is called the `tube' or the `underground'" [syn: metro, tube, underground, subway system, subway].
Tube (v.) Provide with a tube or insert a tube into.
Tube (v.) Convey in a tube; "inside Paris, they used to tube mail."
Tube (v.) Ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day."
Tube (v.) Place or enclose in a tube.
Tube (n.). A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Looney Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, Babylon 5, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie.
Tube, () [IBM] To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. ?Tube me that note??
Tube, () A CRT terminal. Never used in the mainstream sense of TV; real hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Trek Classic, the Simpsons, and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckler movie.
Tube, () Electron tube.
Tube, () (IBM) To send a copy of something to someone else's terminal. "Tube me that note." [{Jargon File] (1996-02-05)
Tubeform (a.) In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.
Tube-nosed (a.) (Zool.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
Tube-nosed (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to the Tubinares.
Tube-nosed (a.) Having a tubular nose
Tuber (n.) (Bot.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous.
Tuber (n.) (Bot.) A genus of fungi. See Truffle.
Tuber (n.) (Anat.) A tuberosity; a tubercle.
Tuber (n.) A fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage.
Tuber (n.) Type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles [syn: Tuber, genus Tuber].
Tubercle (n.) A small knoblike prominence or excrescence, whether natural or morbid; as, a tubercle on a plant; a tubercle on a bone; the tubercles appearing on the body in leprosy.