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proper noun
- (alternative spelling of, Taekwondo)
category:Martial arts
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| takedown |
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noun
- (slang) an arrest by a police officer of a suspect
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| traverse |
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noun
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing.
verb (traverses, traversing, traversed)
- (transitive) To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- He will have to the mountain before he gets to the other side.
- (transitive) (computing) To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly; as, to traverse all nodes in a network.
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| triathlete |
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noun
- An athlete who competes in the triathlon.
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| triathlon |
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noun
- an athletics event in which contestants compete in swimming, cycling and running in turn
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| triple jump |
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noun
- An athletics field event where one has to travel as far as possible after taking one hop, a step, then a jump
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| Tube |
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proper noun - (informal) The London Underground
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| tubing |
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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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| tuck |
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noun
- (slang) snack food. Derived from the expression "to tuck in food" meaning "to eat up", "to guzzle".
- A curled position.
verb
- to push in one material under another - as in "tuck in your shirt" or "I tucked in my shirt" etc
- to eat food
- to curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.
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| turnover |
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noun
- The act of overturning something
- The amount of business transacted in a specified time period
- The company had an annual turnover of $500.000.
- The number of times a stock is replaced after being used or sold, a worker is replaced after leaving, or a property changes hands
- Those apartments have a high turnover because they are so close to the railroad tracks.
- A pastry consisting of pastry or pie crust around sweet, often fruit filling.
- They served apple turnovers for breakfast.
- (sports) A loss of possession of the ball without scoring.
- The Nimrods committed a dismaying 23 turnovers en route to another humiliating loss.
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| twist |
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noun
- a force (producing twisting).
- anything twisted, or the act of twisting; the degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- a type of thread or cotton traditionally used for buttonholes.
- a sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- a sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- a distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- an unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- a type of dance characterised by rotating one"s hips.
- a rotation of the body when diving.
- a sprain, especially to the ankle.
verb
- to turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force
- to join together by twining one part around another
- to turn a knob etc.
- to distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating
- to form a twist (in any of the above meanings)
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