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noun
- a game or sport (similar to tennis) that involves the hitting of a light plastic ball across a table (fashioned like a mini tennis court) by two racquets (a.k.a. paddles, a.k.a bats in Britain)
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noun
- (sports, countable) A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- (fb, countable) A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- (countable) Any instance in which one person forces another to the ground.
- (slang) penis, Penis.
- (context, fishing, uncountable) Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- (uncountable, informal) By extension, any piece of equipment, particularly gadgetry.
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- (fb, uncountable) The offensive positions between each guard and end, offensive tackle.
- (fb, countable) A person playing that position.
- (fb, uncountable) The defensive positions between two ends, defensive tackle.
- (fb, countable) A person playing that position.
- (nautical) A system of ropes and blocks used to increase the force applied to the free end of the rope.
- (context, pokemon) A pokemon attack.
verb to tackle
- to face or deal with attempting to overcome or fight down
- The government's measures to crime were insufficient.
- (sports) to attempt to take away a ball
- to bring a ball carrier to the ground
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noun
- A small label.
- A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the others, who then becomes "it".
- (also skin tag) An excrescence of skin.
- (also dung tag or dag) A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung.
- A type of cardboard.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylised signature particular to the person who makes the graffiti.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the runner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- The was applied at second for the final out.
- (Chiefly US) a vehicle number plate.
- (computing) An element of HTML code which starts with "<...>" and ends "</...>".
- <title> Hello </title> - title tag
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noun
- (idiom) Two or more people or groups acting alternately to accomplish some task.
| | tailback |
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noun
- A line of motor vehicles caught up in traffic congestion; a traffic jam
| | take |
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noun
- An act of taking.
- Something that is taken.
- A profit or reward.
- He wants half of the if he helps with the job.
- An interpretation or view.
- What"s your on this issue, Fred?
- (film) An attempt to record a scene.
- It"s a .
- Act seven, scene three, two.
- (rugby) A catch.
- (acting) A facial gesture in response to an event.
- I did a when I saw the new car in the driveway.
- (cricket) a catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper
verb (takes, taking, took, taken)
- To grasp with the hands.
- To grab and move to oneself.
- I"ll that plate off the table.
- To get into one's possession.
- (military) To gain a position by force.
- After a bloody battle, they were able to the city.
- To have sex with forcefully, possibly without consent.
- The rapist took his victims in dark alleys.
- To carry, particularly to a particular destination.
- I'll the plate with me.
- To choose.
- I'll the blue plates.
- To support or carry without failing or breaking.
- That truck bed will only two tons.
- To endure or cope with.
- I can the noise, but I can't take the smell.
- (baseball) To not swing at a pitch
- He"ll probably this one.
- To ingest medicine, drugs, etc.
- I aspirin every day to thin my blood.
- (italbrac, Usually with "for") To assume or interpret to be.
- Do you me for a fool?
- I it you're not going?''
- To enroll (in a class, or a course of study)
- I plan to math, physics, literature and flower arrangment this semester.
- To participate in, undergo (a test or exam).
- Aren't you supposed to your math final today?
- (climbing) To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively.
- Take.
- To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)
- Don't try to that guy. He's bigger than you.
- To stick, persist, thrive or remain.
- I started some tomato seeds last spring, but they didn't .
- (cricket) To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (impersonal) To require.
- Looks like it's gonna a taller person to get that down.
- It takes a village to raise a child.
- (transitive) To require.
- You'll need to your textbook with you to every class.
- To last an amount of time.
- I estimate the trip will about ten minutes.
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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
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noun .]]
- (Armor) A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- Quotations
- 1598: These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus. — William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200.
- (Armor) (Obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
- Quotations
- 1786: The target or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had it's bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in it's breadth. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark; as, he made a good target.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- (Railroad) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (Language) The tenor of a metaphor.
- A goal or objective.
- They have a to finish the project by November.
verb
- To aim something (especially a weapon) at a target.
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initialism
- Touch Down
- Tardive Dyskinesia
| | technical knockout |
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noun or TKO or T.K.O.
- (sports) A knockout declared by a referee in cases where a participant is sufficiently injured, unbalanced, or confused and unable to continue the fight;
| | tee |
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noun
- (golf) A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole
- (golf) Golf: a wooden or plastic peg from which a golf ball is hit on the first shot on a golf hole
- (curling) sports Curling: The target area of a curling rink
- Something shaped like the letter T
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noun
- (sport) A sport played by either two or four players with strung raquets, a 2-1/2" (6.4 cm) ball, and a net approximately 3 feet high on a clay, grass, or cement court.
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noun
- A male hawk or falcon, used in falconry.
| | Test match |
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noun
- (Cricket) A five-day first class match between sides representing the official Test nations.
- (Rugby Union): An international match between the teams of two nations.
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noun (plural: thirds)
- (not used in the plural) The person or thing in the third position.
- Jones came in .
- One of three equal parts of a whole.
- He ate a of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.
- (not used in the plural) The third gear of an engine.
- Now put it into .
- (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- They sing in thirds.
- (baseball) third base
- The play ended with Jones standing on .
adjective
- The ordinal number, ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
- The tree from the left is my favorite.
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noun - (baseball) The base after second base in a counter-clockwise path around a baseball infield
- The runner reached with a stand-up triple.
- (colloquial) Touching a man's or woman's genitals in a sexual manner; mutual masturbation
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noun (third basemen, sg=third baseman)
- (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands near third base.
- The charged in to field the bunt.
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noun
- The flight of a thrown object; as, a fast throw.
- A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- Football tickets are expensive at fifty bucks a .
verb (throws, throwing, threw, thrown)
- (transitive) To cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- a shoe
- a rod
- the horse threw its rider
- (transitive) To move to another position; to displace.
- the switch
- (context, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (context, transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (context, transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- If the file is readonly, the method throws an invalid operation exception.
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- <code>if(this.IsReadonly?)</code>
- :<code> new System.InvalidOperationException?("Cannot write to readonly file.");</code>-->
- (sports) to intentionally lose a game
- ''The tennis player was accused of taking bribes to the match.
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noun
- A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
- (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
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noun
- (context, fauna) A tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina.
- a mark ((unicode, �)) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement; checkmark
- Indicate that you are willing to receive marketing material by putting a in the box
- sheet that wraps around a mattress.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- The steady of the clock provided a comforting background for the conversation.
- (trading) The minimum increment in which prices are quoted for a given instrument.
- At midday, the long bond is up a .
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- I'll be back in a .
- (context, UK, colloquial) short for 'ticket'. Credit, trust.
- I bought my groceries at the corner shop on .
verb
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock.
- To make a tick mark.
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noun
- An item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck, often under the collar of a shirt. See also bow tie, black tie.
- The situation in which one or more participants in a competition are placed equally. (Synonym: draw).
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all four innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different to a draw).
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- A piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- (context, rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together railway lines.
verb (ties, tying, tied)
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- Tie this rope in a knot for me, please.
- Tie the rope to this tree.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) by tying a string or the like.
- Tie a knot in this rope for me, please.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by tying a string or the like.
- Tie him to the tree.
- (transitive) To secure (something) by tying a string or the like.
- ''Tie your shoes.
- (intransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- They tied for third place.
- (transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- He tied me for third place.
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noun
- A male hawk or falcon, used in falconry.
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adjective (tighter, tightest)
- Pushed or pulled together.
- My socks are too tight.
- Of a space, etc, narrow, so that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- The passageway was so we could barely get through.
- They flew in a formation.
- Under high tension.
- Make sure to pull the rope .
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- Their marching band is extremely .
- (colloquial) Intimately friendly.
- We've grown tighter over the years.
- (slang) (archaic) Intoxicated; drunk.
- We went drinking and got .
- (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- That is one bicycle!
- (context, slang, usually, _, derogatory) Miserly or frugal.
- He's a bit with his money
- (colloquial) scarce, Scarce, hard to come by.
- I grew up in a poor neighborhood; money was very , but we made do.
- (poker) A player who plays very few hands
- (poker) A strategy which involves playing very few hands
adverb
- Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
- Make sure the lid is closed .
- Soundly.
- Good night, sleep tight.
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noun
- (uncountable) tree, Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
- (uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction. lumber.
- (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for things such as roof; also (historically) in the plural, as in ship's timbers.
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noun
- (uncountable) The inevitable passing of events from future to present then past.
- Time stops for nobody.
- the ebb and flow of
- (uncountable) A quantity of availability in time.
- More is needed to complete the project.
- You had plenty of , but you waited until the last minute.
- Are you finished yet? Time"s up!
- Our instructor didn't give us enough to complete the test.
- The two of us can never find to see each other any more.
- (countable) A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical indication of a length of time.
- Record the individual times for the processes in each batch.
- Only your best is compared with the other competitors.
- (uncountable, slang) The serving of a prison sentence.
- The judge leniently granted a sentence with no hard .
- (uncountable) The time of day; the moment in time, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- Excuse me, have you got the ?
- What is it, do you guess? Ten o"clock?
- A computer keeps using a clock battery.
- (countable) The measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time.
- Let's synchronize our watches so we're not on different .
- Coordinated Universal Time avoids the complications of Daylight Saving Time.
- (countable) A numerical indication of a particular moment in time.
- At what times do the trains arrive?
- These times were erroneously converted between zones.
- (countable) An instance or occurrence.
- When was the last we went out? I don"t remember.
- See you another .
- That"s three times he"s made the same mistake.
- Okay, but this is the last . No more after that!
- (uncountable) A particular occasion.
- It"s for bed. It"s to sleep.
- Ready for our performance? It"s ! Here we go!
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verb (times, timing, timed)
- To measure time, especially using a clock of some kind.
- To choose the time for.
- The President timed his speech badly, coinciding with the Superbowl.
- The bomb was timed to explode at 9:20 p.m.
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noun
- The regulation of the pace of an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
- The time when something happens.
- The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
verb
- (present participle of, time)
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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
- (rock climbing) A foothold small enough to support just the toe
- (context, by extension) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress
| | triple |
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noun
- A drink with three portions of alcohol.
- I've had a hard day, make that a .
- A hamburger with three patty, patties.
- I'd like a with cheese.
- (baseball) A three-base hit
- The shortstop hit a to lead off the ninth.
- (curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
- (mathematics) A sequence of three elements; 3-tuple.
verb (tripl, ing)
- To multiply by three
- The company tripled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- (baseball) To get a three-base hit
- The batter tripled into the gap.
adjective
- Made up of three related elements, often matching
- The markings on this vase are quite unique.
- Three times the quantity
- Give me a serving of mashed potatoes.
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noun
- (golf) A score of three over par (for one hole)
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noun - (baseball) A defensive play in which three outs are recorded
- There has only ever been one un-assisted recorded in the World Series.
- A service offering where three services are offered together, especially telephone, television and broadband
- The local cable company is offering a service.
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noun
- a gait of horses between walk and canter, a diagonal gait, i.e., in which diagonal pairs of legs move together.
- a gait of a person faster than a walk
- a toddler
- (informal)the trots: Diarrhea
- (dance): A moderately rapid dance.
verb (trot, t, ed)
- To walk rapidly.
- (context, of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.
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noun (trusses)
- A bandage and belt used to hold a hernia in place.
- A framework of beams forming a rigid structure.
- A triangular bracket in architecture.
- An old English farming measurement. One truss of straw equalled 36 pounds, a truss of old hay equalled 56 pounds, a truss of new hay equalled 60 pounds, and 36 trusses equalled one load.
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noun (tries)
- An attempt.
- I gave unicycling a but I couldn"t do it.
- An act of tasting or sampling.
- I gave sushi a but I didn"t like it.
- (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
- Today I scored my first .
verb (tr, i, ed)
- To attempt. Followed by infinitive, the attempt fails or is expected to fail.
- I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn"t.
- To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
- I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade.
- To work on something.
- You are trying too hard.
- To put to test
- I shall my skills on this
- To taste, sample, etc.
- Try this"you"ll love
- Verb, love it.
- To put on trial.
- He was tried and executed.
- To tire.
- It was a trying experience.
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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.
| | Turkey |
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proper noun
- Country at the intersection of Europe and Asia on the Mediterranean. Official name: Republic of Turkey.
| | Turner |
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proper noun - An English and Scottish occupational surname
| | twin killing |
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noun
- (baseball) A double play.
- By grounding to the shortstop, the ended the inning.
| | twirler |
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noun
- something that twirls
- someone who twirls something
| | twosome |
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noun
- A group of two
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