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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
- (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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proper noun
- (constellation): A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a bull and containing the star Aldebaran.
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noun
- An optical instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
verb (telescop, ing)
- to extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
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proper noun
- (constellation) A small faint constellation of the southern winter sky, said to resemble a telescope. It lies south of the constellation of Corona Australis.
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noun
- An inhabitant of the Earth.
adjective
- Of or relating to, or inhabiting the Earth.
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| tellurion |
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noun
- An instrument used to show how the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its orbit around the Sun cause day and night and the seasons.
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| terminator |
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noun
- one who finishes.
- (biochemistry) a DNA sequence which causes RNA transcription to cease and an mRNA transcript to break off.
- (electronics) an electrical device that absorbs reflection at the end of a transmission line.
- (astronomy) the line between the day side and the night side of a planet. Also known as the "grey line")
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| Tethys |
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proper noun
- (italbrac-colon, Greek mythology) Personification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
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| Titan |
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proper noun
- One of the giant gods in Greek mythology who preceded the Olympian gods.
- The largest moon of the planet Saturn.
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| Titania |
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proper noun
- Character in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer-Night's Dream, the queen of the fairies.
- (astronomy): The fourteenth and largest satellite of the planet Uranus.
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| Triton |
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proper noun
- (Greek mythology) a god of the sea, son of Poseidon
- (astronomy) the seventh moon of Neptune
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| Tropic |
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noun (plural: Tropics)
- one of two specific lines of latitude that divide the Northern and Southern hemispheres, respectively; the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the tropics, the equatorial region between 23 degrees north and 23 degrees south.
- From or similar to a hot humid climate, eg, tropical fruit, tropical weather.
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proper noun
- (constellation) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a toucan. It lies south of the constellations Phoenix and Grus.
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