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tarsia Tweet Definition of tarsia Like Definition of tarsia on Facebook
noun 
  1. intarsia
     
temper Tweet Definition of temper Like Definition of temper on Facebook
noun 
  1. A tendency to anger or lose patience easily.
He has quite a when dealing with salespeople.
  1. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
verb 
  1. To moderate or control.
Temper your language around children.
  1. To heat-treat a material, particularly a metal.
Next, the steel by dropping the white hot metal into cold water.
  1. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency
     
tempera Tweet Definition of tempera Like Definition of tempera on Facebook
noun 
  1. A medium used to bind pigments in painting, as well as the associated artistic techniques.
     
tint Tweet Definition of tint Like Definition of tint on Facebook
noun 
  1. A slight coloring.
  2. A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade}.
  3. 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.
  4. A shaded effect produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
verb (tints, tinting, tinted, tinted)
  1. (context, transitive, intransitive) To shade, to color.
     
Trinity Tweet Definition of Trinity Like Definition of Trinity on Facebook
proper noun 
  1. (given name, female) used since the 1970s, from the religious term Holy Trinity, or translated from its long-established Spanish equivalent.
     
triptych Tweet Definition of triptych Like Definition of triptych on Facebook
noun 
  1. A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablet, tablets connected by hinge, hinges.
    1. (philately) A set of three se-tenant postage stamp, postage stamps that form a composite picture.
     
trompe l'oeil Tweet Definition of trompe l Like Definition of trompe l
noun tromper, trompe l"oeil (countable and uncountable; plural trompe l"oeils)
  1. (uncountable) A genre of still life painting that exploits human vision to create the illusion that the subject of the painting is real.
  2. (countable) A painting of this kind.
     
two-dimensional Tweet Definition of two-dimensional Like Definition of two-dimensional on Facebook
adjective (abbreviated as 2D)
  1. Existing in two dimensions.
  2. Not creating the illusion of depth.
     

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