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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
| | | tarnish |
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noun
- oxidation, Oxidation or discoloration, especially of a decorative metal exposed to air.
verb (tarnish, es)
- To oxidize or discolor due to oxidation.
- Careful storage of silver will prevent it from tarnishing.
- To soil, sully, damage or compromise
- He is afraid that he will his reputation if he disagrees.
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noun
- A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.
- He has quite a when dealing with salespeople.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
verb
- To moderate or control.
- Temper your language around children.
- To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.
- Next, the steel by dropping the white hot metal into cold water.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency
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verb
- (past of, temper)
adjective
- Of one's disposition.
- The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet- little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale. " Edgar Allen Poe, The House of the Seven Gables, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=346264183&tag=Hawthorne,+Nathaniel,+1804-1864:+The+House+of+the+Seven+Gables,+1851&query=tempered&id=Haw3Gab Chapter 19.
- Pertaining to the metallurgical process for finishing metals.
- 1851 "Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming -- "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!" " Herman Melville, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=475125179&textreg=1&query=tempered&id=Mel2Mob Moby Dick.
- Of something moderated or balanced by other considerations.
- 1792 The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not by reflection " Mary Wollstonecraft, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=748286979&tag=Wollstonecraft,+Mary,+1759-1797:+A+vindication+of+the+rights+of+woman,+1892&query=tempered&id=WolVind A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- (music) Pertaining to the well-tempered scale, where the twelve notes per octave of the standard keyboard are tuned in such a way that it is possible to play music in any major or minor key and it will not sound perceptibly out of tune.
| | Test |
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noun - (cricket) (sometimes test) a Test match
| | thermite |
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noun - (chemistry) a mixture of aluminium metal and ferric oxide; used in incendiary devices
| | tin |
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noun
- (context, uncountable, element) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
- (context, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.
- (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.
- muffin
- roasting
verb (tin, n, ing)
- (transitive) To place into a tin in order to preserve.
- (transitive) To cover with tin.
- (transitive) To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.
adjective
- Made of tin.
| | tinfoil |
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noun (wikipedia, tin foil)
- a thin, pliable sheet of tin or an alloy of tin and lead, used as a protective wrapping
- (as a misnomer) aluminium foil
| | tinned |
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verb
- (past of, tin)
adjective
- Coated, or plated with tin.
- Packed in a tin can; canned.
| | tin plate |
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noun
- a thin sheet of steel coated with tin to prevent rusting; used to make cans etc
| | | tinsel |
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noun
- A shine, shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like.
- w:John Dryden, John Dryden:
- : Who can discern the from the gold?
- Very thin strips of a glittering, metallic material used as a decoration, and traditionally, draped at Christmas time over streamers, paper chains and the branches of Christmas trees.
- Anything shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable.
- w:William Cowper, William Cowper:
- : O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere , hers the rich reward.
verb (tinsels, tinselling (UK) or tinseling (US), tinselled (UK) or tinseled (US))
- (transitive) To adorn with tinsel; to deck out with cheap but showy ornaments; to make gaudy.
- w:Alexander Pope, Alexander Pope:
- : She, tinseled o'er in robes of varying hues.
- (context, metaphorical, transitive) To give something a false sparkle.
adjective
- Showy to excess; gaudy; specious; superficial.
- w:John Milton, John Milton:
- : Tinsel trappings.
| | trompe |
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noun - A trumpet; a trump.
| | tundish |
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noun - a funnel (usually) used in smelting, foundry work etc.
| | tuyere |
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noun
- A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge. Corruptly written also {tweer}, and {twier}.
- Quotations
- 1957: Remains of a clay tuyere are present through which the blast was conducted into the furnace. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 21.
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