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noun (-, tabbies)
- (uncountable) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
- (countable) A brindled cat
- (countable)An old maid or gossip.
adjective - Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
- Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
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noun
- An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs.
- A flat tray which can be used as a table.
- A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns.
- A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table.
- The children were practising multiplication tables.
- Don"t you know your tables?
- Here is a of natural logarithms.
- (computing) A lookup table, most often a vector.
- (musical instruments) The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate.
verb (tabl, ing)
- To put on a table.
- (context, UK, Canadian English) To propose for discussion (from to put on the table)
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will start discussing it now.
- To delay, or permanently postpone a motion before a meeting.
- The motion was tabled ensuring that it would not be taken until a later date.
- To hold back to a later time; to postpone.
- The legislature tabled the amendment, so we will not be discussing it until later.
- To tabulate; to put into a table.
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noun
- small nail with a flat head
- loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth
- (nautical) part of a sail (w:tack, Wikipedia) specifically the lower corner on the leading edge of the sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- (nautical) direction, hence approach try a different tack. Specifically a course or direction that enables the vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.
- part of the harnessing for a draft animal or riding animal, e.g. a horse pulling a wagon, or a riding horse. Includes bit, bridle and reins.
verb
- to nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head)
- to sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth)
- (nautical) to manoeuver a sailing vessel upwind by alternating the course of the vessel in relation to the wind (w:tack, Wikipedia); antonym to wear, changing tack (direction), also figuratively
- expression, "tack (something) onto (something)", something added as an extra item (implied as with
- 1 or
- 2)
- to place riding tack on a horse
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noun
- (sports, countable) A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- (fb, countable) A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- (countable) Any instance in which one person forces another to the ground.
- (slang) penis, Penis.
- (context, fishing, uncountable) Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- (uncountable, informal) By extension, any piece of equipment, particularly gadgetry.
- 2004 June 24"30, "Jeff Gordon Never Gets Tired Of Seeing Face On Cheap Plastic Crap", w:The Onion, The Onion, available in Embedded in America, ISBN 1400054567, page 193,
- :... an illuminated license-plate frame bearing his likeness, signature, and yellow number 24. "That there's a real nice piece of . ..."
- (fb, uncountable) The offensive positions between each guard and end, offensive tackle.
- (fb, countable) A person playing that position.
- (fb, uncountable) The defensive positions between two ends, defensive tackle.
- (fb, countable) A person playing that position.
- (nautical) A system of ropes and blocks used to increase the force applied to the free end of the rope.
- (context, pokemon) A pokemon attack.
verb to tackle
- to face or deal with attempting to overcome or fight down
- The government's measures to crime were insufficient.
- (sports) to attempt to take away a ball
- to bring a ball carrier to the ground
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noun
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The tail-end of a creature (buttocks, even if tailless) or object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- When a grumpy client of the frat's annual carwash complained the of his menure-soiled tractor wasn't completely cleaned, the poor pledges had to drop trou and bend over to get their own tails paddled in public
- An object or part thereof resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails or other multi-tail whip.
- Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (Cricket) The last four or five batsman, batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- (Typography) The lower loop of the letters g, q, and y in the roman alphabet.
- (especially, in plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; the reverse.
- (slang) male member of a person animal.
- ''After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent
- (slang) sexual intercourse, Sexual intercourse.
verb
- (transitive) To surreptitiously follow and observe.
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noun
- the act of following someone
verb
- (present participle of, tail)
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noun
- The rising or ascent aircraft or rocket into flight.
- The flight was smooth, but the was a little rough.
- A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
- w:Weird Al Yankovic, Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".
- A quantification, esp. of building materials.
- I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.
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noun
- the sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal
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noun
- (rare) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
- (figurative) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
- The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- The tongue of a buckle.
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- A group of saltwater fish from the Zebrasoma genre, also known as the surgeon fish, see w:Tang (fish), Wikipedia
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noun
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- We don't have bottled water, you'll have to get it from the .
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- We drilled a hole and then cut the threads with the proper to match the valve's thread.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
- The system was barely keeping pressure due to all of the ill advised taps along its length.
verb (tapp, ing)
- To furnish with taps.
- on tap: To have something available; to open (a keg) with a .
- We have draft beer on tap.
- To access a resource or object.
- When he ran out of money, he decided to into his trust fund.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel
- He tapped a new barrel of beer.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection
- They can't the phone without a warrant.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- He was known to Cable TV and satellite dishes.
- (context, mechanical) To cut an internal screw thread.
- Tap an M3 thread all the way through the hole.
- (slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- I would tap that hot girl over there. or, more informally, I'd tap that
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noun
- flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides, adhesive tape.
- Hand me some tape. I need to fix a tear in this paper.
- Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll, video tape or audio tape.
- Did you get that on tape?
- Unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus
- Old couples sometimes will play tapes at each other during a fight.
- Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll.
- After the party there was tape all over the place.
- (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.
- Don"t fight the tape.
- (icehockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of hockey stick
- His pass was right on the .
verb (tapes, taping, taped)
- To bind with adhesive tape.
- Can you tape that together, please?
- To record, particularly onto magnetic tape.
- You shouldn"t have said that. The microphone was on and we were taping.
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noun
- A heavy paper, coated with tar, used to waterproof walls and roofs.
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noun
- (uncountable) Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover.
- (uncountable) Any heavy, waterproof material used as a cover.
- (countable) A heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover.
- Throw a over that woodpile before it gets wet.
- (context, slang, archaic) A sailor. Often abbreviated to tar.
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noun
- (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole
- (golf) Golf: a wooden or plastic peg from which a golf ball is hit on the first shot on a golf hole
- (curling) sports Curling: The target area of a curling rink
- Something shaped like the letter T
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noun
- A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.
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noun
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
- (in plural, mostly, British) The standing area at a football ground.
verb (terrac, ing)
- To provide something with a terrace.
- To form something into a terrace.
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noun
- The formation of terraces
- A terraced structure
- A series of terraces
- A stand with a series of tiers
verb
- (present participle of, terrace)
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noun
- A pitted, now usually metal, cap for the fingers, used in sewing to push the needle.
- A similarly shaped socket in machinery.
- A thimbleful.
- (nautical) A ring of metal or rope used in a ship's rigging
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noun
- A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weave, weaving or in the construction of string.
- A theme or idea.
- All of these essays have a common thread.
- I"ve lost the thread of what you"re saying.
- (internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, all but the first replies to previous messages in the thread.
- (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, generally expected to share memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently.
- A helical ridge or groove, as on a screw.
verb (threads, threading, threaded, (archaic) thrid, threaded, (archaic) thridden)
- (transitive) To put thread through.
- thread a needle
- (transitive) To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles).
- I think I can thread my way through here, but it"s going to be tight.
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noun
- The bottom-most part of a doorway that one crosses to enter; a sill.
- (context, by extension) An entrance
- The start of the landing area of a runway
- (engineering) The quantitative point at which an action is triggered, especially a lower limit
- The wage or salary at which income tax becomes due
- The outset of an action or project
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noun
- The flight of a thrown object; as, a fast throw.
- A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a .
verb (throws, throwing, threw, thrown)
- (transitive) To cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- a shoe
- a rod
- the horse threw its rider
- (transitive) To move to another position; to displace.
- the switch
- (context, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (context, transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (context, transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- If the file is readonly, the method throws an invalid operation exception.
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- <code>if(this.IsReadonly?)</code>
- :<code> new System.InvalidOperationException?("Cannot write to readonly file.");</code>-->
- (sports) to intentionally lose a game
- ''The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to the match.
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noun
- A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard
verb
- (transitive) To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.
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noun
- A slender metal rod used to support or reinforce part of a structure
- Either of a pair of rods that link the steering mechanism to the front wheel or axle of some vehicles
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noun
- A mostly rectangular shaped sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces, as in a roof-tile, stove tile, etc.
verb (tiles, tiling, tiled)
- To cover with tiles.
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noun
- The thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe
| | toggle |
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noun
- a switch that can assume either of two positions; an on/off switch.
- (nautical) A wooden or metal pin, short rod, crosspiece or similar used for securing a loop in a rope or chain, etc. (often temporarily) to another, e.g. a sea painter to a lifeboat. (FM 55-501)
verb to toggle
- to alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever.
- Clicking a button will alternately its light on OR off.
- to switch between alternate states.
- to lower/upper case
- You can quickly the case of selected text by pressing Shift+C
- Tou can between available languages using this drop-down list.
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noun
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- One of Hank's chores was to slop the pigs' each morning and evening.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
- (Canadian) A gutter under the eaves of a building; eaves trough.
- The troughs were filled with leaves and needed cleaning.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- There was a small that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges.
- The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
- The neurologist pointed to a troubling in the patter of his brain-waves.
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- In Australia and New Zealand, a trough may refer to a rectangular container used for washing clothing, clothes, a channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity, or any general 'U' or 'V' shaped channel conveying water for irrigation purposes.
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noun
- The (usually single) upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- A large suitcase, usually requiring two persons to lift and with a hinged lid.
- torso, Torso.
- The extended and articulated nose or nasal organ of an elephant.
- (context, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
- (context, US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
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noun (trusses)
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A framework of beams forming a rigid structure.
- A triangular bracket in architecture.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
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noun (wikipedia, tubing (material))
- tubes, considered as a group
- a length of tube, or a system of tubes
- the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube
(wikipedia, tubing (recreation))
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noun
- One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
- A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
- A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
- A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; " so called because originally it had a pointed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.
- A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
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noun
- A change of direction or orientation.
- Give the handle a , then pull it.
- A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation.
- A single loop of a coil.
- A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
- They took turns playing with the new toy.
- One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
- A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again.
- (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
- They quote a three-day on parts like those.
- A fit or a period of giddiness.
- I've had a funny turn.
- A change in temperament or circumstance.
- She took a for the worse.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight)
- (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
- (context, poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em
- (context, electricity) the basic coil element that forms a single conducting loop comprised of one insulated conductor.
verb
- (intransitive) Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself.
- the Earth turns
- on the spot
- (transitive) To change the direction or orientation of.
- Turn the knob clockwise.
- (intransitive) To change one's direction of travel.
- Turn right here.
- (transitive) To position (something) by folding it.
- Turn the bed covers.
- (transitive) To become.
- The leaves brown in autumn.
- When I asked him for the money, he turned nasty.
- To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated.
- The prisoners turned on the warden.
- (transitive) To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe.
- She turned the table legs with care and precision.
- (intransitive) To sour or spoil; to go bad.
- This milk has turned; it smells awful.
- (italbrac, usually with over) To complete.
- They say they can the parts in two days.
- (context, transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (context, intransitive, cricket) Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces.
- (context, professional wrestling, intransitive) To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa.
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proper noun - An English and Scottish occupational surname
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noun
- One of a pair of elongated pointed tooth, teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
- A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
verb
- To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
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noun
- A length of timber having this cross section. (Note: often this is dimensional lumber that was this size BEFORE being planed to finished form, which removes a quarter inch from each side.)
adjective
- measuring two inches by four inches
- (context, by extension) small or cramped
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