Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 85
Tump (v. t.) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed. [Local, U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back. [Local, U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Tum-tum (n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.
Tumular (a.) Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock. -- Pinkerton.
Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury. [Obs.]
Tumulate (v. i.) To swell. [Obs.] -- Wilkins.
Tumulose (a.) Tumulous. [R.] -- Bailey.
Tumulosity (n.) The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness. [R.] -- Bailey.
Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose. [R.] -- Bailey.
Tumult (n.) [C] [U] 吵鬧；喧譁；騷亂，騷動；混亂；（思想、情緒等的）波動，激動 The commotion or agitation of a multitude, usually accompanied with great noise, uproar, and confusion of voices; hurly-burly; noisy confusion.
What meaneth the noise of this tumult ? -- 1 Sam. iv. 14.
Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose. -- Pope.
Tumult (n.) Violent commotion or agitation, with confusion of sounds; as, the tumult of the elements. -- Addison.
Tumult (n.) Irregular or confused motion; agitation; high excitement; as, the tumult of the spirits or passions.
Syn: Uproar; ferment; disturbance; turbulence; disorder; confusion; noise; bluster; hubbub; bustle; stir; brawl; riot.
Tumult (v. i.) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion. [Obs.]
Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt. -- Milton.
Tumult (n.) A state of commotion and noise and confusion [syn: {tumult}, {tumultuousness}, {uproar}, {garboil}]
Tumult (n.) Violent agitation [syn: {tumult}, {turmoil}].
Tumult (n.) The act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: {commotion}, {din}, {ruction}, {ruckus}, {rumpus}, {tumult}].
Tumulter (n.) A maker of tumults. [Obs.]
He severely punished the tumulters. -- Milton.
Tumultuarily (adv.) In a tumultuary manner.
Tumultuariness (n.) The quality or state of being tumultuary.
Tumultuary (a.) Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." -- Eikon Basilike.
A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. -- Macaulay.
Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. -- De Quincey.
Tumultuary (a.) Restless; agitated; unquiet.
Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state. -- Atterbury.
Tumultuate (v. i.) To make a tumult. [Obs.] "He will murmur and tumultuate." -- South.
Tumultuation (n.) Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. [Obs.] -- Boyle.
Tumultuous (a.) 吵鬧的，紛亂的，騷亂的 Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
The flight became wild and tumultuous. -- Macaulay.
Tumultuous (a.) Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
Tumultuous (a.) Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. -- Milton.
Tumultuous (a.) Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Syn: Disorderly; irregular; noisy; confused; turbulent; violent; agitated; disturbed; boisterous; lawless; riotous; seditious. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tu*mul"tu*ous*ness, n.
Tumultuous (a.) Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent].
Tumultuous (a.) -Tumultuously (adv.) - Tumultuousness (n.) : Loud, excited, and emotional.
Tumultuous (a.) Involving a lot of violence, confusion, or disorder.
Tumultuous (a.) Marked by tumult : loud, excited, and emotional <tumultuous applause>.
Tumultuous (a.) Tending or disposed to cause or incite a tumult <the laws … were violated by a tumultuous faction -- Edward Gibbon>.
Tumultuous (a.) Marked by violent or overwhelming turbulence or upheaval <tumultuous passions>.
Tumultuous (a.) Characterized by uproar <a tumultuous welcome>.
Tumultuous (a.) (Formal) 吵鬧的，喧嘩的；騷亂的，混亂的 Very loud, or full of confusion, change, or uncertainty.
// The former president appeared to tumultuous applause and a standing ovation.
// After the tumultuous events of 1990, Europe was completely transformed.
Tumuli (n. pl.) of Tumulus.
Tumulus (n.) An artificial hillock, especially one raised over a grave, particularly over the graves of persons buried in ancient times; a barrow.
Tun (n.) A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
Tun (n.) (Brewing) A fermenting vat.
Tun (n.) A certain measure for liquids, as for wine, equal to two pipes, four hogsheads, or 252 gallons. In different countries, the tun differs in quantity.
Tun (n.) (Com.) A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton. [R.]
Tun (n.) An indefinite large quantity. -- Shak.
A tun of man in thy large bulk is writ. -- Dryden.
Tun (n.) A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt. -- Dryden.
Tun (n.) (Zool.) Any shell belonging to Dolium and allied genera; -- called also tun-shell.
Tunned (imp. & p. p.) of Tun.
Tunning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tun.
Tun (v. i.) To put into tuns, or casks. -- Boyle.
Tun (n.) A large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals.
Tun, () measure. A vessel of wine or oil, containing four hogsheads.
Tuna (n.) (Bot.) The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.
Tuna (n.) [Cf. Tunny.] (Zool.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the mackerel family Scombridae, especially bluefin tuna ({Thunnus thynnus"> the bluefin tuna ({Thunnus thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus or Albacora thynnus), called also the common tunny or great tunny, a native of the Mediterranean Sea and of temperate parts of the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is caught commercially in large quantity for use as food; -- also called, especially in Britain, tunny. It is also one of the favorite fishes used by the Japanese in preparing sushi. On the American coast, especially in New England, it is sometimes called the horse mackerel. Another well-known species is the yellowfin tuna ({Thunnus albacares) of warm seas. the See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse.
Note: The little tunny ({Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albacore ({Thunnus alalunga) (see Albacore), are related species of smaller size.
Tuna (n.) The bonito, 2.
Tuna (n.) The meat of the tuna, used as food; -- also called tuna fish.
Tunny (n.; pl. Tunnies.) (Zool.) The chiefly British equivalent of tuna; any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny ({Thunnus thynnus syn. Albacora thynnus, formerly Orcynus thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse. [Written also thynny.]
Note: The little tunny ({Gymnosarda alletterata) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore ({Thunnus alalunga, see Albacore), are related species of smaller size.
Tuna (n.) Tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica [syn: tuna, Opuntia tuna].
Tuna (n.) Important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks [syn: tuna, tuna fish, tunny].
Tuna (n.) Any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters [syn: tuna, tunny].
Tuna (n.) New Zealand eel [syn: tuna, Anguilla sucklandii].
Tunable (a.) Capable of being tuned, or made harmonious; hence, harmonious; musical; tuneful. -- Tun"a*ble*ness, n. -- Tun"a*bly, adv.
And tunable as sylvan pipe or song. -- Milton.
Tun-bellied (a.) Having a large, protuberant belly, or one shaped like a tun; pot-bellied.
Tun-dish (n.) A tunnel. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tundra (n.) [Russ.] One of the level or undulating treeless plains characteristic of northern arctic regions in both hemispheres; the term is most commony associated with the arctic plains of Siberia. The tundras mark the limit of arborescent vegetation; they consist of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, but support a dense growth of mosses and lichens, and dwarf herbs and shrubs, often showy-flowered.
Tundra (n.) A vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen.
Tune (n.) A sound; a note; a tone. "The tune of your voices". -- Shak.
Tune (n.) (Mus.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air.
Tune (n.) (Mus.) The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. -- Shak.
Tune (n.) Order; harmony; concord; fit disposition, temper, or humor; right mood.
A child will learn three times as much when he is in tune, as when he . . . is dragged unwillingly to [his task]. -- Locke.
Tuned (imp. & p. p.) of Tune.
Tuning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tune.
Tune (v. t.) To put into a state adapted to produce the proper sounds; to harmonize, to cause to be in tune; to correct the tone of; as, to tune a piano or a violin. "Tune your harps". -- Dryden.
Tune (v. t.) To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
For now to sorrow must I tune my song. -- Milton.
Tune (v. t.) To sing with melody or harmony.
Fountains, and ye, that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. -- Milton.
Tune (v. t.) To put into a proper state or disposition. -- Shak.
Tune (v. i.) To form one sound to another; to form accordant musical sounds.
Whilst tuning to the water's fall, The small birds sang to her. -- Drayton.
Tune (v. i.) To utter inarticulate harmony with the voice; to sing without pronouncing words; to hum. [R.]
Tune (n.) A succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase].
Tune (n.) The property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch; "he cannot sing in tune"; "the clarinet was out of tune".
Tune (n.) The adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency.
Tune (v.) Adjust for (better) functioning; "tune the engine" [syn: tune, tune up].
Tune (v.) Adjust the pitches of (musical instruments); "My piano needs to be tuned" [syn: tune, tune up] [ant: untune].
Tune (v. t.) [from automotive or musical usage] To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp. by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e.g., by changing #define lines in C. One may tune for time (fastest execution), tune for space (least memory use), or tune for configuration (most efficient use of hardware). See hot spot, {hand-hacking.
Tune, () (From musical, possibly via automotive, usage) To optimise a program or system for a particular environment, especially by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e.g. by changing "#define" lines in C. One may "tune for time" (fastest execution), "tune for space" (least memory use), or "tune for configuration" (most efficient use of hardware).
See bum, hot spot, hand-hacking.
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Tuneful (a.) Harmonious; melodious; musical; as, tuneful notes. " Tuneful birds." -- Milton. -- Tune"ful*ly, adv. -- Tune"ful*ness, n.
Tuneful (a.) Having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune [syn: tuneful, melodious] [ant: tuneless, unmelodious, untuneful].
Tuneless (a.) Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless serenade." -- Cowley.
How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! -- Goldsmith.
Tuneless (a.) Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
Tuneless (a.) Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]
Tuneless (a.) Not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn: tuneless, untuneful, unmelodious] [ant: melodious, tuneful].
Tuner (n.) One who tunes; especially, one whose occupation is to tune musical instruments.
Tuner (n.) Someone who tunes pianos [syn: tuner, piano tuner].
Tuner (n.) An electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals [syn: radio receiver, receiving set, radio set, radio, tuner, wireless].
Tun-great (a.) Having the circumference of a tun. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tungstate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of tungstic acid; a wolframate.
Tungstate (n.) A salt of tungstic acid.
Tungsten (n.) (Chem.) A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6. Specific gravity, 18.
Tungsten (n.) (Min.) Scheelite, or calcium tungstate. [Obs.]
Tungsten ocher, or Tungstic ocher (Min.), Tungstite.
Tungsten (n.) A heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite [syn: tungsten, wolfram, W, atomic number 74].
Tungsten
Symbol: W
Atomic number: 74
Atomic weight: 183.85
White or grey metallic transition element, formerly called wolfram.
Forms a protective oxide in air and can be oxidized at high temperature.
First isolated by Jose and Fausto de Elhuyer in 1783.
Tungstenic (a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores. [R.]
Tungstic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.
Tungstic acid, An acid of tungsten, H2WO4, analogous to sulphuric and chromic acids.
Tungstite (n.) (Min.) The oxide of tungsten, a yellow mineral occurring in a pulverulent form. It is often associated with wolfram.
Tunguses (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols. [Written also Tungooses.]
Tungusic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.
Tungusic (n.) Any member of a people speaking a language in the Tungusic family.
Tungusic (n.) A family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas [syn: Tungusic, Tungusic language].
Tunhoof (n.) (Bot.) Ground ivy; alehoof.
Tunic (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.
Tunic (n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.
Tunic (n.) (R. C. Ch.) Same as Tunicle.
Tunic (n.) (Anat.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
Tunic (n.) (Bot.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
Tunic (n.) (Zool.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
Tunic (n.) An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue [syn: tunic, tunica, adventitia].
Tunic (n.) Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees.
Tunicaries (n. pl. ) of Tunicary.
Tunicary (n.) (Zool.) One of the Tunicata.
Tunicata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.
Note: Most of the species when mature are firmly attached to foreign substances, but have free-swimming larvae which are furnished with an elongated tail and somewhat resemble a tadpole. In this state the larva has a urochord and certain other structures resembling some embryonic vertebrates. See Ascidian, Doliolum, Salpa, Urochord, and Illust. of Social ascidian, under Social. Tunicate
Tunicata (n.) Tunicates [syn: Urochordata, subphylum Urochordata, Urochorda, subphylum Urochorda, Tunicata, subphylum Tunicata].
Tunicate (a.) Alt. of Tunicated.
Tunicated (a.) (Bot.) Covered with a tunic; covered or coated with layers; as, a tunicated bulb.
Tunicated (a.) (Zool.) Having a tunic, or mantle; of or pertaining to the Tunicata.
Tunicated (a.) (Zool.) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects.
Tunicate (pr. n.) (Zool.) One of the Tunicata.
Tunicate (n.) Primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva [syn: tunicate, urochordate, urochord].
Tunicin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Animal cellulose; a substance present in the mantle, or tunic, of the Tunicates, which resembles, or is identical with, the cellulose of the vegetable kingdom.
Tunicle (n.) A slight natural covering; an integument.
The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye. -- Holland.
Tunicle (n.) (R. C. Ch.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.
Tuning () a. & n. from Tune, v.
Tuning fork (Mus.), A steel instrument consisting of two prongs and a handle, which, being struck, gives a certain fixed tone. It is used for tuning instruments, or for ascertaining the pitch of tunes.
Tuning (n.) (Music) Calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency.
Tunk (n.) A sharp blow; a thump. [Prov. Eng. or Colloq. U. S.]
Tunker (n.) (Eccl.) Same as Dunker.
Tunker (n.) An adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion) [syn: Dunker, Dunkard, Tunker].
Tunnage (n.) See Tonnage.
Tunnage (n.) A tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship [syn: tonnage, tunnage, tonnage duty].
Tunnel (n.) [C] 隧道，地道；（礦場的）坑道，石巷 A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
Tunnel (n.) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. -- Spenser.
Tunnel (n.) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
Tunnel (n.) (Mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
Tunnel head (Metal.), The top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in.
Tunnel kiln, A limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used.
Tunnel net, A net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other.
Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, A pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like.
Tunnel (v. i.) To make a tunnel; as, to tunnel under a river.
Tunneled (imp. & p. p.) of Tunnel.
Tunnelled () of Tunnel.
Tunneling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tunnel.
Tunnelling () of Tunnel.
Tunnel (v. t.) 在……挖掘隧道；挖，鑿（地道，洞穴等） To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests. -- Derham.