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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 fingernail on the thumb.
- A rough sketch.
- A small picture (e.g. the size of ones thumbnail), used as a compact representation of a larger image.
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noun
- A slight coloring.
- A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade}.
- A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
- A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
verb (tints, tinting, tinted, tinted)
- (context, transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.
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noun
- (obsolete) In the sense of gratuity, originally a small amount of beverage (i.e. tipple) left in a glass for the bartender.
- A small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation.
- A small amount of information (see hint, clue).
- The point of something; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
- An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple).
verb (tipp, ing)
- To inform police or investigators of a potential clue.
- To inform a trader of inside information regarding a company"s performance.
- To cause something to lean to a side, as tipping a sailboat over.
- To throw out, as in rubbish or trash.
| | title |
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noun
- A prefix or suffix added to a person's name to signify either veneration, official position or a professional or academic qualification.
- Legal right to ownership of a property; a deed or other certificate proving this.
- The name of a book, film, musical piece, etc.
- The subject of a writing; a short phrase that summarizes the entire topic.
- A division of an act of Congress or Parliament (e.g. Title II of the USA PATRIOT Act)
verb (titl, ing)
- The act of assigning someone or something a title.
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noun
- the page, near the front of a book, that gives its title and, normally, its author and publisher
| | tympan |
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noun
- a piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed
- (musici) the stretched membrane of a drum; a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end
- (architecture) a tympanum
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noun
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
- A block of metal or wood having a raised letter or character on its surface used for printing; also, a set of such blocks.
- (biology). An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group: the type of a genus, family, etc.
- (theology): an event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly Old Testament events linked to Christian times.
- (comptheory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining what values may be assigned to what variables.
verb (typ, ing)
- To put text on paper using a typewriter.
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
- To determine the blood type.
- The doctor ordered the lab to the patient for a blood transfusion.
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noun
- A font, or a group thereof.
- Generally, the manner in which a document is typeset.
| | | typesetter |
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noun
- A person who sets type. Formerly an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of moveable type and assembled them for printing.
| | typesetting |
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noun
- the setting or composition of written material into type
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verb (typewrites, typewriting, typewrote, typewritten)
- (transitive, or, intransitive) To type using a typewriter.
- 1925, William Frederick Book, Learning to Typewrite: With a Discussion of the Psychology and Pedagogy of Skill, The Gregg pub. co.,
- :These facts are set forth for learning to in Part II of this book.
- 1935, New Jersey Secondary School Teachers' Association, Lord Dufferin School. Old Boys Association, Yearbook, page 215,
- :IF THE businessman discovers that his new office worker cannot spell, , compute percentage or punctuate properly, he is immediately confronted with a series of in-training problems.
- 1944, Robert Luther Duffus, The Innocents at Cedro: A Memoir of Thorsein Veblen and Some Others, The Macmillan company, page 71,
- :I began to copy letters for him, and I have never been long free from the typewriter since.
- 1994, Kas Mazurek and Margret A. Winzer, Comparative Studies in Special Education, Gallaudet University Press, page 193,
- :Third, a major barrier for blind and physically handicapped children is removed by permitting them to their answers during public examinations.
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noun
- A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
- One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
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noun
- the act, or the skill, of using a typewriter
- the material produced by a typewriter; typescript
verb - (present participle of, typewrite)
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adjective
- Typographical.
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noun - A mistake made during the process of typing, especially one caused by a slip of the fingers resulting in the placement of a letter laying adjacent to the correct one into a word; often shortened to typo.
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noun - the art and technique of arrange, arranging and formatting text
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