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Tamis \Tam"is\, n. [F., a kind of sieve.] 1. A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth. 2. The cloth itself; tammy. {Tamis bird} (Zo[94]l.), a Guinea fowl. | |
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Tammy \Tam"my\, n.; pl. {Tammies}. 1. A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, -- used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc. 2. A sieve, or strainer, made of this material; a tamis. | |
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Thammuz \Tham"muz\, Tammuz \Tam"muz\, n. [Heb. thamm[d4]z.] 1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Ph[d2]nician Adon, or Adonis. --Milton. 2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July. | |
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Tang \Tang\ (t[aum]ng), n. [Chin. T'ang.] A dynasty in Chinese history, from a. d. 618 to 905, distinguished by the founding of the Imperial Academy (the Hanlin), by the invention of printing, and as marking a golden age of literature. | |
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Tang \Tang\, v. i. To make a ringing sound; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. --Shak. | |
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Tang \Tang\, n. [Probably fr. OD. tanger sharp, tart, literally, pinching; akin to E. tongs. [fb]59. See {Tong}.] 1. A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask. 2. Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. {Tang} a twang. Such proceedings had a strong tang of tyranny. --Fuller. A cant of philosophism, and a tang of party politics. --Jeffrey. 3. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. tangi a projecting point; akin to E. tongs. See {Tongs}.] A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position. Specifically: (a) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. (b) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. (c) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened. (d) The tongue of a buckle. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Tang \Tang\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. {Twang}. This word has become confused with tang tatse, flavor.] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. | |
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Tang \Tang\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tanged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tanging}.] To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state. --Shak. {To tang bees}, to cause a swarm of bees to settle, by beating metal to make a din. | |
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Tang \Tang\ (t[acr]ng), n. [Of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. tang seaweed, Sw. t[86]ng, Icel. [thorn]ang. Cf. {Tangle}.] (Bot.) A coarse blackish seaweed ({Fuscus nodosus}). --Dr. Prior. {Tang sparrow} (Zo[94]l.), the rock pipit. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Tango \Tan"go\, n.; pl. {Tangos}. [Sp., a certain dance.] (a) A difficult dance in two-four time characterized by graceful posturing, frequent pointing positions, and a great variety of steps, including the cross step and turning steps. The dance is of Spanish origin, and is believed to have been in its original form a part of the fandango. (b) Any of various popular forms derived from this. | |
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Tangue \Tangue\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The tenrec. | |
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Tank \Tank\, n. A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. We stood in the afterglow on the bank of the tank and saw the ducks come homa. --F. Remington. The tanks are full and the grass is high. --Lawson. | |
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Tank \Tank\, n. A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. --Simmonds. | |
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Tank \Tank\, n. [Pg. tanque, L. stangum a pool; or perhaps of East Indian origin. Cf. {Stank}, n.] A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids. {Tank engine}, a locomotive which carries the water and fuel it requires, thus dispensing with a tender. {Tank iron}, plate iron thinner than boiler plate, and thicker than sheet iron or stovepipe iron. {Tank worm} (Zo[94]l.), a small nematoid worm found in the water tanks of India, supposed by some to be the young of the Guinea worm. | |
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Tanka \Tan"ka\, n. (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also {tankia}. --S. W. Williams. | |
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Tanka \Tan"ka\, n. (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also {tankia}. --S. W. Williams. | |
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Tankia \Tan"ki*a\, n. (Naut.) See {Tanka}. | |
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Tanka \Tan"ka\, n. (Naut.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also {tankia}. --S. W. Williams. | |
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Tankia \Tan"ki*a\, n. (Naut.) See {Tanka}. | |
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Tannage \Tan"nage\, n. A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. [R.] They should have got his cheek fresh tannage. --R. Browning. | |
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Tannic \Tan"nic\, a. Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. {Tannic acid}. (Chem.) (a) An acid obtained from nutgalls as a yellow amorphous substance, {C14H10O9}, having an astringent taste, and forming with ferric salts a bluish-black compound, which is the basis of common ink. Called also {tannin}, and {gallotannic acid}. (b) By extension, any one of a series of astringent substances resembling tannin proper, widely diffused through the vegetable kingdom, as in oak bark, willow, catechu, tea, coffee, etc. | |
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Tansy \Tan"sy\, n. [OE. tansaye, F. tanaise; cf. It. & Sp. tanaceto, NL. tanacetum, Pg. atanasia, athanasia, Gr. 'aqanasi`a immortality, fr. 'aqa`natos immortal; 'a priv. + qa`natos death.] 1. (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus {Tanacetum}. The common tansy ({T. vulgare}) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes. 2. A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.] --Pepys. {Double tansy} (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. {Tansy mustard} (Bot.), a plant ({Sisymbrium canescens}) of the Mustard family, with tansylike leaves. | |
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Taw \Taw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tawing}.] [OE. tawen, tewen, AS. t[be]wian to prepare; cf. D. touwen, Goth. t[c7]wa order, taujan to do, and E. tool. [fb]64. Cf. 1st {Tew}, {Tow} the coarse part of flax.] 1. To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. 2. To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. | |
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Tee \Tee\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Teed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Teeing}.] (Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee. | |
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Teenage \Teen"age\, n. The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Teens \Teens\, n. pl. [See {Ten}.] The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens. | |
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Teeong \Tee*ong"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The mino bird. | |
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Temse \Temse\, n. [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. {Tamine}.] A sieve. [Written also {tems}, and {tempse}.] [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Temse bread}, {Temsed bread}, {Temse loaf}, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Temse \Temse\, n. [F. tamis, or D. tems, teems. Cf. {Tamine}.] A sieve. [Written also {tems}, and {tempse}.] [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. {Temse bread}, {Temsed bread}, {Temse loaf}, bread made of flour better sifted than common fluor. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Tenace \Ten"ace\, n. [F. tenace tenacious, demeurer tenace to hold the best and third best cards and take both tricks, and adversary having to lead. See {Tenacious}.] (Whist) The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand. | |
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Tenacy \Ten"a*cy\, n. [L. tenacia obstinacy. See {Tenacious}.] Tenaciousness; obstinacy. [Obs.] --Barrow. | |
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Tench \Tench\, n. [OF. tenche, F. tanche, L. tinca.] (Zo[94]l.) A European fresh-water fish ({Tinca tinca}, or {T. vulgaris}) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life. | |
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Tennis \Ten"nis\, v. t. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.] --Spenser. | |
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Tennis \Ten"nis\, n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see {Tenable}).] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. --Shak. His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. --Macaulay. {Court tennis}, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. {Lawn tennis}. See under {Lawn}, n. {Tennis court}, a place or court for playing the game of tennis. --Shak. | |
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Tense \Tense\, n. [OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps time, tense. See {Temporal} of time, and cf. {Thing}.] (Gram.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. Note: The primary simple tenses are three: those which express time past, present, and future; but these admit of modifications, which differ in different languages. | |
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Tense \Tense\, a. [L. tensus, p. p. of tendere to stretch. See {Tend} to move, and cf. {Toise}.] Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. --Goldsmith. -- {Tense"ly}, adv. -- {Tense"ness}, n. | |
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d8Tenuis \[d8]Ten"u*is\, n.; pl. {Tenues}. [NL., fr. L. tenuis fine, thin. See {Tenuous}.] (Gr. Gram.) One of the three surd mutes [kappa], [pi], [tau]; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, [gamma], [beta], [delta], and their aspirates, [chi], [phi], [theta]. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages. | |
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Tenuious \Te*nu"i*ous\, a. [See {Tenuous}.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.] --Glanvill. | |
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Tenuous \Ten"u*ous\, a. [L. tenuis thin. See {Thin}, and cf. {Tenuis}.] 1. Thin; slender; small; minute. 2. Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids. | |
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Tew \Tew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tewing}.] [OE. tewen, tawen. [fb]64. See {Taw}, v.] 1. To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw. 2. Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Thammuz \Tham"muz\, Tammuz \Tam"muz\, n. [Heb. thamm[d4]z.] 1. A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Ph[d2]nician Adon, or Adonis. --Milton. 2. The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July. | |
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Thanage \Than"age\, n. The district in which a thane anciently had jurisdiction; thanedom. | |
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Thank \Thank\ (th[acr][nsmac]k), n.; pl. {Thanks}. [AS. [ed]anc, [ed]onc, thanks, favor, thought; akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G. dank thanks, Icel. [ed][94]kk, Dan. tak, Sw. tack, Goth. [ed]agks thanks; -- originally, a thought, a thinking. See {Think}.] A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. [bd]This ceremonial thanks.[b8] --Massinger. If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. --Luke vi. 33. What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin? --Milton. Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught. --Longfellow. {His thanks}, {Her thanks}, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good will; voluntary. [Obs.] Full sooth is said that love ne lordship, Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship. --Chaucer. {In thank}, with thanks or thankfulness. [Obs.] {Thank offering}, an offering made as an expression of thanks. | |
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Thank \Thank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thanked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thanking}.] [AS. [ed]ancian. See {Thank}, n.] To express gratitude to (anyone) for a favor; to make acknowledgments to (anyone) for kindness bestowed; -- used also ironically for blame. [bd]Graunt mercy, lord, that thank I you,[b8] quod she. --Chaucer. I thank thee for thine honest care. --Shak. Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss, And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss. --Dryden. | |
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Thank \Thank\ (th[acr][nsmac]k), n.; pl. {Thanks}. [AS. [ed]anc, [ed]onc, thanks, favor, thought; akin to OS. thank favor, pleasure, thanks, D. & G. dank thanks, Icel. [ed][94]kk, Dan. tak, Sw. tack, Goth. [ed]agks thanks; -- originally, a thought, a thinking. See {Think}.] A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural. [bd]This ceremonial thanks.[b8] --Massinger. If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. --Luke vi. 33. What great thank, then, if any man, reputed wise and constant, will neither do, nor permit others under his charge to do, that which he approves not, especially in matter of sin? --Milton. Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy friend, For the lesson thou hast taught. --Longfellow. {His thanks}, {Her thanks}, etc., of his or her own accord; with his or her good will; voluntary. [Obs.] Full sooth is said that love ne lordship, Will not, his thanks, have no fellowship. --Chaucer. {In thank}, with thanks or thankfulness. [Obs.] {Thank offering}, an offering made as an expression of thanks. | |
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Thaw \Thaw\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Thawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thawing}.] [AS. [ed][be]wian, [ed][be]wan; akin to D. dovijen, G. tauen, thauen (cf. also verdauen 8digest, OHG. douwen, firdouwen), Icel. [ed]eyja, Sw. t[94]a, Dan. t[94]e, and perhaps to Gr. [?] to melt. [fb]56.] 1. To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws. 2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. 3. Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. | |
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Themis \The"mis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] that which is laid down or established by usage, law, prob. fr. [?] to set, place.] (Gr. Myth.) The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights. | |
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Thence \Thence\, adv. [OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the adverbal -s; see {-wards}) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now written thence), AS. [eb]anon, [eb]anan, [eb]onan; akin to OHG. dannana, dann[be]n, dan[be]n, and G. von dannen, E. that, there. See {That}.] 1. From that place. [bd]Bid him thence go.[b8] --Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. --Mark vi. 11. Note: It is not unusual, though pleonastic, to use from before thence. Cf. {Hence}, {Whence}. Then I will send, and fetch thee from thence. --Gen. xxvii. 45. 2. From that time; thenceforth; thereafter. There shall be no more thence an infant of days. --Isa. lxv. 20. 3. For that reason; therefore. Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous, about him. --Milton. 4. Not there; elsewhere; absent. [Poetic] --Shak. | |
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Theomachy \The*om"a*chy\, n. [Gr. [?]; [?] a god + [?] a battle.] 1. A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods. 2. A battle or strife among the gods. --Gladstone. 3. Opposition to God or the divine will. --Bacon. | |
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Thing \Thing\, d8Ting \[d8]Ting\, n. [Dan. thing, ting, Norw. ting, or Sw. ting.] In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly; -- used, esp. in composition, in titles of such bodies. See {Legislature}, Norway. | |
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Thing \Thing\ (th[icr]ng), n. [AS. [thorn]ing a thing, cause, assembly, judicial assembly; akin to [thorn]ingan to negotiate, [thorn]ingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding a thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding a thing, formerly also, an assembly, court, Icel. [thorn]ing a thing, assembly, court, Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally used of the transaction of or before a popular assembly, or the time appointed for such an assembly; cf. G. dingen to bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before a court, negotiate, Goth. [thorn]eihs time, perhaps akin to L. tempus time. Cf. {Hustings}, and {Temporal} of time.] 1. Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. --Gen. i. 25. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. --Gen. xiv. 23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. --Keats. 2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. Ye meads and groves, unconscious things! --Cowper. 3. A transaction or occurrence; an event; a deed. [And Jacob said] All these things are against me. --Gen. xlii. 36. Which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what authority I do these things. --Matt. xxi. 24. 4. A portion or part; something. Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom. --Tillotson. 5. A diminutive or slighted object; any object viewed as merely existing; -- often used in pity or contempt. See, sons, what things you are! --Shak. The poor thing sighed, and . . . turned from me. --Addison. I'll be this abject thing no more. --Granville. I have a thing in prose. --Swift. 6. pl. Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.] Note: Formerly, the singular was sometimes used in a plural or collective sense. And them she gave her moebles and her thing. --Chaucer. Note: Thing was used in a very general sense in Old English, and is still heard colloquially where some more definite term would be used in careful composition. In the garden [he] walketh to and fro, And hath his things [i. e., prayers, devotions] said full courteously. --Chaucer. Hearkening his minstrels their things play. --Chaucer. 7. (Law) Whatever may be possessed or owned; a property; -- distinguished from person. 8. [In this sense pronounced t[icr]ng.] In Scandinavian countries, a legislative or judicial assembly. --Longfellow. {Things personal}. (Law) Same as {Personal property}, under {Personal}. {Things real}. Same as {Real property}, under {Real}. | |
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Think \Think\, n. Act of thinking; a thought. [Obs. or Colloq.] | |
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Think \Think\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Thinking}.] [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS. [thorn]yncean (cf. {Methinks}), but confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. [thorn]encean (imp. [thorn][d3]hte); akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, d[81]nken, Icel. [thorn]ekkja to perceive, to know, [thorn]ykkja to seem, Goth. [thorn]agkjan, [thorn]aggkjan, to think, [thorn]ygkjan to think, to seem, OL. tongere to know. Cf. {Thank}, {Thought}.] 1. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. | |
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Think \Think\, v. t. 1. To conceive; to imagine. Charity . . . thinketh no evil. --1 Cor. xiii. 4,5. 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.] So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son. --Beau. & Fl. 3. To believe; to consider; to esteem. Nor think superfluous other's aid. --Milton. {To think much}, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] [bd][He] thought not much to clothe his enemies.[b8] --Milton. {To think scorn}. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] [bd]He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone.[b8] --Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.] | |
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Thinness \Thin"ness\, n. The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word). | |
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Thinnish \Thin"nish\, a. Somewhat thin. | |
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Thionic \Thi*on"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] brimstone, sulphur.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to sulphur; containing or resembling sulphur; specifically, designating certain of the thio compounds; as, the thionic acids. Cf. {Dithionic}, {Trithionic}, {Tetrathionic}, etc. | |
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Tom \Tom\, n. 1. A familiar contraction of {Thomas}, a proper name of a man. 2. The male of certain animals; -- often used adjectively or in composition; as, tom turkey, tomcat, etc. | |
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Thong \Thong\, n. [OE. thong, [thorn]wong, thwang, AS. [thorn]wang; akin to Icel. [thorn]vengr a thong, latchet. [fb]57. Cf. {Twinge}.] A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything. And nails for loosened spears, and thongs for shields, provide. --Dryden. {Thong seal} (Zo[94]l.), the bearded seal. See the Note under {Seal}. | |
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Thymic \Thym"ic\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the thymus gland. | |
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Thymic \Thy"mic\, a. (Med. Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid. | |
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Timeous \Time"ous\, a. Timely; seasonable. [R. or Scot.] -- {Time"ous*ly}, adv. [R. or Scot.] | |
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Time \Time\, n.; pl. {Times}. [OE. time, AS. t[c6]ma, akin to t[c6]d time, and to Icel. t[c6]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. [fb]58. See {Tide}, n.] 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth [i. e. passes away] night and day. --Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim to be accounted simple and original than those of space and time. --Reid. 2. A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. --Heb. i. 1. 3. The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times. 4. The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. --Buckminster. 5. A proper time; a season; an opportunity. There is . . . a time to every purpose. --Eccl. iii. 1. The time of figs was not yet. --Mark xi. 13. 6. Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition. She was within one month of her time. --Clarendon. 7. Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. --Milton. 8. The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration. Till time and sin together cease. --Keble. 9. (Gram.) Tense. 10. (Mus.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. Some few lines set unto a solemn time. --Beau. & Fl. Note: Time is often used in the formation of compounds, mostly self-explaining; as, time-battered, time-beguiling, time-consecrated, time-consuming, time-enduring, time-killing, time-sanctioned, time-scorner, time-wasting, time-worn, etc. {Absolute time}, time irrespective of local standards or epochs; as, all spectators see a lunar eclipse at the same instant of absolute time. {Apparent time}, the time of day reckoned by the sun, or so that 12 o'clock at the place is the instant of the transit of the sun's center over the meridian. {Astronomical time}, mean solar time reckoned by counting the hours continuously up to twenty-four from one noon to the next. {At times}, at distinct intervals of duration; now and then; as, at times he reads, at other times he rides. {Civil time}, time as reckoned for the purposes of common life in distinct periods, as years, months, days, hours, etc., the latter, among most modern nations, being divided into two series of twelve each, and reckoned, the first series from midnight to noon, the second, from noon to midnight. {Common time} (Mil.), the ordinary time of marching, in which ninety steps, each twenty-eight inches in length, are taken in one minute. {Equation of time}. See under {Equation}, n. {In time}. (a) In good season; sufficiently early; as, he arrived in time to see the exhibition. (b) After a considerable space of duration; eventually; finally; as, you will in time recover your health and strength. {Mean time}. See under 4th {Mean}. {Quick time} (Mil.), time of marching, in which one hundred and twenty steps, each thirty inches in length, are taken in one minute. {Sidereal time}. See under {Sidereal}. {Standard time}, the civil time that has been established by law or by general usage over a region or country. In England the standard time is Greenwich mean solar time. In the United States and Canada four kinds of standard time have been adopted by the railroads and accepted by the people, viz., Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time, corresponding severally to the mean local times of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and 120th meridians west from Greenwich, and being therefore five, six, seven, and eight hours slower than Greenwich time. {Time ball}, a ball arranged to drop from the summit of a pole, to indicate true midday time, as at Greenwich Observatory, England. --Nichol. {Time bargain} (Com.), a contract made for the sale or purchase of merchandise, or of stock in the public funds, at a certain time in the future. | |
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Timous \Tim"ous\, a. [Cf. {Timeous}.] Timely; seasonable. [Obs.] --Bacon. -- {Tim"ous*ly}, adv. [Obs.] | |
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Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. {Whiskeys}or {Whiskies}. [See {Whisk}, v. t. & n.] A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also {tim-whiskey}. | |
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Tim-whiskey \Tim"-whis`key\, n. A kind of carriage. See {Whiskey}. --Southery. | |
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Whiskey \Whis"key\, Whisky \Whis"ky\, n.; pl. {Whiskeys}or {Whiskies}. [See {Whisk}, v. t. & n.] A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also {tim-whiskey}. | |
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Tim-whiskey \Tim"-whis`key\, n. A kind of carriage. See {Whiskey}. --Southery. | |
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Ting \Ting\, n. [An imitative word. Cf. {Tink}.] A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling. | |
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Ting \Ting\, v. i. To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle. [R.] --Holland. | |
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Tinge \Tinge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tinged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tingeing}.] [L. tingere, tinctum, to dye, stain, wet; akin to Gr. [?], and perhaps to G. tunken to dip, OHG. tunch[d3]n, dunch[d3]n, thunk[d3]n. Cf. {Distain}, {Dunker}, {Stain}, {Taint} a stain, to stain, {Tincture}, {Tint}.] To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron. His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance. --Addison. Syn: To color; dye; stain. | |
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Tinge \Tinge\, n. A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge from his notions respecting the government of the church. --Macaulay. | |
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Tink \Tink\, v. i. [OE. tinken; of imitative origin. Cf. {Ting} a tinkling, {Tinker}.] To make a sharp, shrill noise; to tinkle. --Wyclif (1 Cor. xiii. 1). | |
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Tink \Tink\, n. A sharp, quick sound; a tinkle. | |
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Tinnock \Tin"nock\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Effigy \Ef"fi*gy\, n.; pl. {Effigies}. [L. effigies, fr. effingere to form, fashion; ex + fingere to form, shape, devise. See {Feign}.] The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits. {To burn}, [or] {To hang}, {in effigy}, to burn or to hang an image or picture of a person, as a token of public odium. | |
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Shine \Shine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shone} ([?] [or] [?]; 277) (archaic {Shined}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shining}.] [OE. shinen, schinen, AS. sc[c6]nan; akin to D. schijnen, OFries. sk[c6]na, OS. & OHG. sc[c6]nan, G. scheinen, Icel. sk[c6]na, Sw. skina, Dan. skinne, Goth. skeinan, and perh. to Gr. [?][?][?] shadow. [root]157. Cf. {Sheer} pure, and {Shimmer}.] 1. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine. --Shak. God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist. --2 Cor. iv. 6. Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster. --Denham. 2. To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver. 3. To be effulgent in splendor or beauty. [bd]So proud she shined in her princely state.[b8] --Spenser. Once brightest shined this child of heat and air. --Pope. 4. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation. Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable. --Swift. {To make}, [or] {cause}, {the face to shine upon}, to be propitious to; to be gracious to. --Num. vi. 25. | |
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Point \Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L. punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See {Pungent}, and cf. {Puncto}, {Puncture}.] 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also {pointer}. 3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line. 4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick. 5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced. 6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge. When time's first point begun Made he all souls. --Sir J. Davies. 7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope. 8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. [bd]A point of precedence.[b8] --Selden. [bd]Creeping on from point to point.[b8] --Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. --Chaucer. 9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. --Chaucer. In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon. Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ? --Milton. 10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. [bd]Here lies the point.[b8] --Shak. They will hardly prove his point. --Arbuthnot. 11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser. 12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; as: (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune. [bd]Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. 13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See {Equinoctial Nodal}. 14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See {Escutcheon}. 15. (Naut.) (a) One of the points of the compass (see {Points of the compass}, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point. (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See {Reef point}, under {Reef}. 16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott. 17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below. 18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.] 19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.] 20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman. 21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See {Pointer}. 22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See {Point system of type}, under {Type}. 23. A tyne or snag of an antler. 24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board. 25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point. Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc. {At all points}, in every particular, completely; perfectly. --Shak. {At point}, {In point}, {At}, {In}, [or] On, {the point}, as near as can be; on the verge; about (see {About}, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. [bd]In point to fall down.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side.[b8] --Milton. {Dead point}. (Mach.) Same as {Dead center}, under {Dead}. {Far point} (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point). {Nine points of the law}, all but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority. {On the point}. See {At point}, above. {Point lace}, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow. {Point net}, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground). {Point of concurrence} (Geom.), a point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base. {Point of contrary flexure}, a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides. {Point of order}, in parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules. {Point of sight} (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator. {Point of view}, the relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered. {Points of the compass} (Naut.), the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under {Compass}. {Point paper}, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design. {Point system of type}. See under {Type}. {Singular point} (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc. {To carry one's point}, to accomplish one's object, as in a controversy. {To make a point of}, to attach special importance to. {To make}, [or] {gain}, {a point}, accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position. {To mark}, [or] {score}, {a point}, as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc. {To strain a point}, to go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience. {Vowel point}, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant. | |
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Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak[?]n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh[?]n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. [bd]And make the Libyan shores.[b8] --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. {To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. {To make account}. See under {Account}, n. {To make account of}, to esteem; to regard. {To make away}. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. {To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. {To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture. {To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. {To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose. {To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer. {To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. {To make free with}. See under {Free}, a. {To make good}. See under {Good}. {To make head}, to make headway. {To make light of}. See under {Light}, a. {To make little of}. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. {To make love to}. See under {Love}, n. {To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] {To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. {To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. {To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n. {To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. {To make no doubt}, to have no doubt. {To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. {To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. {To make of}. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. [bd]Makes she no more of me than of a slave.[b8] --Dryden. {To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. {To make out}. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. {To make over}, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. {To make sail}. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. {To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. {To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. {To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. {To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. {To make sure}. See under {Sure}. {To make up}. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. {To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. {To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. {To make water}. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. {To make way}, or {To make one's way}. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. {To make words}, to multiply words. | |
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{To make one's way}, to advance in life by one's personal efforts. {To make way}. See under {Make}, v. t. {Ways and means}. (a) Methods; resources; facilities. (b) (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue. {Way leave}, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng] {Way of the cross} (Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of the cross. See {Station}, n., 7 (c) . {Way of the rounds} (Fort.), a space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. {Way pane}, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See {Pane}, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] {Way passenger}, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. {Ways of God}, his providential government, or his works. {Way station}, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. {Way train}, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. {Way warden}, the surveyor of a road. Syn: Street; highway; road. Usage: {Way}, {Street}, {Highway}, {Road}. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray. --Spenser. There is but one road by which to climb up. --Addison. When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. --Milton. | |
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Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak[?]n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh[?]n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. [bd]And make the Libyan shores.[b8] --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. {To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. {To make account}. See under {Account}, n. {To make account of}, to esteem; to regard. {To make away}. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. {To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. {To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture. {To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. {To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose. {To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer. {To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. {To make free with}. See under {Free}, a. {To make good}. See under {Good}. {To make head}, to make headway. {To make light of}. See under {Light}, a. {To make little of}. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. {To make love to}. See under {Love}, n. {To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] {To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. {To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. {To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n. {To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. {To make no doubt}, to have no doubt. {To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. {To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. {To make of}. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. [bd]Makes she no more of me than of a slave.[b8] --Dryden. {To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. {To make out}. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. {To make over}, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. {To make sail}. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. {To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. {To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. {To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. {To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. {To make sure}. See under {Sure}. {To make up}. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. {To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. {To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. {To make water}. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. {To make way}, or {To make one's way}. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. {To make words}, to multiply words. | |
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Toe \Toe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toeing}.] To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark. | |
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Tomahawk \Tom"a*hawk\, n. [Of American Indian origin; cf. Algonkin tomehagen, Mohegan tumnahegan, Delaware tamoihecan.] A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron. | |
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Tomahawk \Tom"a*hawk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tomahawked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tomahawking}.] To cut, strike, or kill, with a tomahawk. | |
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Tong \Tong\, n. [Chinese t'ang, lit., hall.] In China, an association, secret society, or organization of any kind; in the United States, usually, a secret association of Chinese such as that of the highbinders. | |
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Tong \Tong\, Tonge \Tonge\, n. Tongue. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Tonga \Ton"ga\, n. [Hind. t[be]ng[be], Skr. tama[ndot]gaka.] A kind of light two-wheeled vehicle, usually for four persons, drawn by ponies or bullocks. [India] | |
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Tonga \Ton"ga\, n. (Med.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus {Epipremnum}. | |
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Tong \Tong\, Tonge \Tonge\, n. Tongue. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Tongo \Ton"go\, n. The mangrove; -- so called in the Pacific Islands. | |
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Tongs \Tongs\, n. pl. [OE. tonge, tange, AS. tange; akin to D. tang, G. zanga, OHG. zanga, Don. tang, Sw. t[aring]ng, Icel. t[oum]ng, Gr. da`knein to bite, Skr. da[ntil]i[cced], da[cced]. [root]59. Cf. {Tang} a strong taste, anything projecting.] An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a {pair of tongs}. | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, n. [OE. tunge, tonge, AS. tunge; akin to OFries. tunge, D. tong, OS. tunga, G. zunge, OHG. zunga, Icel. & Sw. tunga, Dan tunge, Goth. tugg[omac], OL. dingua, L. lingua. [root]243 Cf.{Language}, {Lingo}. ] 1. (Anat.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. Note: The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids in the prehension of food, in swallowing, and in modifying the voice as in speech. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. 2. The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. --Dryden. 3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. --L. Estrange. 4. Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. --Beau. & Fl. 5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. --Chaucer. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. --Deut. xxviii. 49. To speak all tongues. --Milton. 6. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. --1 John iii. 18. 7. A people having a distinct language. A will gather all nations and tongues. --Isa. lxvi. 18. 8. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. (b) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. (c) The lingua of an insect. 9. (Zo[94]l.) Any small sole. 10. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: (a) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance. | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tongued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tonguing}.] 1. To speak; to utter. [bd]Such stuff as madmen tongue.[b8] --Shak. 2. To chide; to scold. How might she tongue me. --Shak. 3. (Mus.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. 4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together. | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, v. i. 1. To talk; to prate. --Dryden. 2. (Mus.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. | |
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d8Radula \[d8]Rad"u*la\, n.; pl. {Radul[91]}. [L., a scraper, fr. radere to scrape.] (Zo[94]l.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also {lingual ribbon}, and {tongue}. See {Odontophore}. | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, n. [OE. tunge, tonge, AS. tunge; akin to OFries. tunge, D. tong, OS. tunga, G. zunge, OHG. zunga, Icel. & Sw. tunga, Dan tunge, Goth. tugg[omac], OL. dingua, L. lingua. [root]243 Cf.{Language}, {Lingo}. ] 1. (Anat.) an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch. Note: The tongue is usually muscular, mobile, and free at one extremity, and in man other mammals is the principal organ of taste, aids in the prehension of food, in swallowing, and in modifying the voice as in speech. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. 2. The power of articulate utterance; speech. Parrots imitating human tongue. --Dryden. 3. Discourse; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. --L. Estrange. 4. Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. --Beau. & Fl. 5. A language; the whole sum of words used by a particular nation; as, the English tongue. --Chaucer. Whose tongue thou shalt not understand. --Deut. xxviii. 49. To speak all tongues. --Milton. 6. Speech; words or declarations only; -- opposed to thoughts or actions. My little children, let us love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth. --1 John iii. 18. 7. A people having a distinct language. A will gather all nations and tongues. --Isa. lxvi. 18. 8. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk. (b) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. (c) The lingua of an insect. 9. (Zo[94]l.) Any small sole. 10. That which is considered as resembing an animal's tongue, in position or form. Specifically: (a) A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance. | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tongued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tonguing}.] 1. To speak; to utter. [bd]Such stuff as madmen tongue.[b8] --Shak. 2. To chide; to scold. How might she tongue me. --Shak. 3. (Mus.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. 4. To join means of a tongue and grove; as, to tongue boards together. | |
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Tongue \Tongue\, v. i. 1. To talk; to prate. --Dryden. 2. (Mus.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments. | |
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d8Radula \[d8]Rad"u*la\, n.; pl. {Radul[91]}. [L., a scraper, fr. radere to scrape.] (Zo[94]l.) The chitinous ribbon bearing the teeth of mollusks; -- called also {lingual ribbon}, and {tongue}. See {Odontophore}. | |
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Tonguy \Tongu"y\, a. Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [Written also {tonguey}.] [Colloq.] | |
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Tonguy \Tongu"y\, a. Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [Written also {tonguey}.] [Colloq.] | |
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Tonic \Ton"ic\, a. (Med.) Characterized by continuous muscular contraction; as, tonic convulsions. | |
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Tonic \Ton"ic\, a. [Cf. F. tonigue, Gr. [?]. See {Tone}.] 1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) [bd] from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation.[b8] 2. Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power. 3. (Med.) Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions. {Tonic spasm}. (Med.) See the Note under {Spasm}. | |
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Tonic \Ton"ic\, n. [Cf. F. tonique, NL. tonicum.] 1. (Phon.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong. 2. (Mus.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale. 3. (Med.) A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system. {Tonic sol-fa} (Mus.), the name of the most popular among letter systems of notation (at least in England), based on key relationship, and hence called [bd]tonic.[b8] Instead of the five lines, clefs, signature, etc., of the usual notation, it employs letters and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See {Sol-fa}. | |
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Tony \To"ny\, n.; pl. {Tonies}. [Abbrev. from Anthony.] A simpleton. --L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. --Dryden. | |
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Tonnage \Ton"nage\ (?; 48), n. [From {Ton} a measure.] 1. The weight of goods carried in a boat or a ship. 2. The cubical content or burden of a vessel, or vessels, in tons; or, the amount of weight which one or several vessels may carry. See {Ton}, n. (b) . A fleet . . . with an aggregate tonnage of 60,000 seemed sufficient to conquer the world. --Motley. 3. A duty or impost on vessels, estimated per ton, or, a duty, toll, or rate payable on goods per ton transported on canals. 4. The whole amount of shipping estimated by tons; as, the tonnage of the United States. See {Ton}. Note: There are in common use the following terms relating to tonnage: (a) Displacement. (b) Register tonnage, gross and net. (c) Freight tonnage. (d) Builders' measurement. (e) Yacht measurement. The first is mainly used for war vessels, where the total weight is likely to be nearly constant. The second is the most important, being that used for commercial purposes. The third and fourth are different rules for ascertaining the actual burden-carrying power of a vessel, and the fifth is for the proper classification of pleasure craft. Gross tonnage expresses the total cubical interior of a vessel; net tonnage, the cubical space actually available for freight-carrying purposes. Rules for ascertaining these measurements are established by law. | |
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d8Tonneau \[d8]Ton`neau"\, n.; pl. {Tonneaux}. [F.] 1. In France, a light-wheeled vehicle with square or rounded body and rear entrance. 2. (Automobiles) Orig., the after part of the body with entrance at the rear (as in vehicle in def. 1); now, one with sides closing in the seat or seats and entered by a door usually at the side, also, the entire body of an automobile having such an after part. 3. = {Tonne}. | |
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Tonnish \Ton"nish\ (t[ocr]n"n[icr]sh), a. In the ton; fashionable; modish. -- {Ton"nish*ness}, n. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tonous \Ton"ous\, a. Abounding in tone or sound. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tow \Tow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Towed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Towing}.] [OE. towen, to[?]en; akin to OFries. toga to pull about, OHG. zog[d3]n, Icel. toga, AS. tohline a towline, and AS.te[a2]n to draw, p. p. getogen. See {Tug}] To draw or pull through the water, as a vessel of any kind, by means of a rope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Town \Town\, n. [OE. toun, tun, AS. tun inclosure, fence, village, town; akin to D. tuin a garden, G. zaun a hadge, fence, OHG. zun, Icel. tun an inclosure, homestead, house, Ir. & Gael. dun a fortress, W. din. Cf. {Down}, adv. & prep., {Dune}, {tine} to inclose.] 1. Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls. [Obs.] --Palsgrave. 2. Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop. [Eng.] --Johnson. 3. Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. God made the country, and man made the town. --Cowper. 4. The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways. 5. A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country. [U. S.] 6. The court end of London;-- commonly with the. 7. The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country. Always hankering after the diversions of the town. --Addison. Stunned with his giddy larum half the town. --Pope. Note: The same form of expressions is used in regard to other populous towns. 8. A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Note: Town is often used adjectively or in combination with other words; as, town clerk, or town-clerk; town-crier, or town crier; townhall, town-hall, or town hall; townhouse, town house, or town-house. Syn: Village; hamlet. See {Village}. {Town clerk}, an office who keeps the records of a town, and enters its official proceedings. See {Clerk}. {Town cress} (Bot.), the garden cress, or peppergrass. --Dr. Prior. {Town house}. (a) A house in town, in distinction from a house in the country. (b) See {Townhouse}. {Town meeting}, a legal meeting of the inhabitants of a town entitled to vote, for the transaction of public bisiness. [U. S.] {Town talk}, the common talk of a place; the subject or topic of common conversation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Townhouse \Town"house`\, n. A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Townish \Town"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town. [R.] --Turbervile. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Toy \Toy\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {toyed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {toying}.] To dally amorously; to trifle; to play. To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tunic \Tu"nic\, n. [L. tunica: cf. F. tunique.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle. 2. Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others. 3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as {Tunicle}. 4. (Anat.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye. 5. (Bot.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed. 6. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mantle}, n., 3 (a) . | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tunk \Tunk\, n. A sharp blow; a thump. [Prov. Eng. [or] Colloq. U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tunnage \Tun"nage\ (?; 48), n. [From {Tun}; cf. {Tonnage}.] See {Tonnage}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tunny \Tun"ny\ (t[ucr]n"n[ycr]), n.; pl. {Tunnies}. [L. thunnus, thynnus, Gr. qy`nnos, qy^nos: cf. It. tonno, F. & Pr. thon.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny ({Orcynus [or] Albacora thynnus}) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called {horse mackerel}. See Illust. of {Horse mackerel}, under {Horse}. [Written also {thynny}.] Note: The little tunny ({Gymnosarda alletterata}) of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, and the long-finned tunny, or albicore (see {Albicore}), are related species of smaller size. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twang \Twang\, n. A tang. See {Tang} a state. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twang \Twang\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Twanged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Twanging}.] [Of imitative origin; cf. {Tang} a sharp sound, {Tinkle}.] To sound with a quick, harsh noise; to make the sound of a tense string pulled and suddenly let go; as, the bowstring twanged. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twang \Twang\, v. t. To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly. Sounds the tough horn, and twangs the quivering string. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twang \Twang\, n. 1. A harsh, quick sound, like that made by a stretched string when pulled and suddenly let go; as, the twang of a bowstring. 2. An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound. He has such a twang in his discourse. --Arbuthnot. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twank \Twank\, v. t. To cause to make a sharp twanging sound; to twang, or twangle. --Addison. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twankay \Twan"kay\, n. See Note under {Tea}, n., 1. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twinge \Twinge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Twinged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Twinging}.] [OE. twengen, AS. twengan; akin to OE. twingen to pain, afflict, OFries. thwinga, twinga, dwinga, to constrain, D. dwingen, OS. thwingan, G. zwingen, OHG. dwingan, thwingan, to press, oppress, overcome, Icel. [thorn]vinga, Sw. tvinga to subdue, constrain, Dan. twinge, and AS. [thorn][81]n to press, OHG. d[umac]hen, and probably to E. thong. Perhaps influenced by twitch. Cf. {Thong}.] 1. To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows. --Hudibras. 2. To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. The gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him. --L'Estrange. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twinge \Twinge\, v. i. To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twinge \Twinge\, n. 1. A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. A master that gives you . . . twinges by the ears. --L' Estrange. 2. A sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side. [bd] A twinge for my own sin.[b8] --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twink \Twink\, v. i. [OE. twinken. See {Twinkle}.] To twinkle. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Twink \Twink\, n. 1. A wink; a twinkling. [Obs.] 2. (Zo[94]l.) The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tie \Tie\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tied}(Obs. {Tight}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tying}.] [OE. ti[?]en, teyen, AS. t[c6]gan, ti[82]gan, fr. te[a0]g, te[a0]h, a rope; akin to Icel. taug, and AS. te[a2]n to draw, to pull. See {Tug}, v. t., and cf. {Tow} to drag.] 1. To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. [bd]Tie the kine to the cart.[b8] --1 Sam. vi. 7. My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. --Prov. vi. 20,21. 2. To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. [bd]We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument.[b8] --Bp. Burnet. 3. To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. In bond of virtuous love together tied. --Fairfax. 4. To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind. --Dryden. 5. (Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them. 6. To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with. {To ride and tie}. See under {Ride}. {To tie down}. (a) To fasten so as to prevent from rising. (b) To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action. {To tie up}, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tying \Ty"ing\, p. pr. of {Tie}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tying \Ty"ing\, n. (Mining) The act or process of washing ores in a buddle. | |
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Tamaqua, PA (borough, FIPS 76032) Location: 40.80524 N, 75.93485 W Population (1990): 7943 (3594 housing units) Area: 25.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18252 | |
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Tamassee, SC Zip code(s): 29686 | |
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Tamms, IL (village, FIPS 74457) Location: 37.23916 N, 89.26763 W Population (1990): 748 (328 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62988 | |
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Teaneck, NJ (CDP, FIPS 72390) Location: 40.88965 N, 74.01211 W Population (1990): 37825 (13334 housing units) Area: 15.7 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07666 | |
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Tennessee, IL (village, FIPS 74665) Location: 40.41170 N, 90.83588 W Population (1990): 127 (75 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62374 | |
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Thomas, OK (town, FIPS 73450) Location: 35.74731 N, 98.74910 W Population (1990): 1246 (638 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73669 Thomas, WV (city, FIPS 80020) Location: 39.14737 N, 79.49910 W Population (1990): 573 (298 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 26292 | |
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Tomahawk, WI (city, FIPS 80125) Location: 45.47341 N, 89.72415 W Population (1990): 3328 (1527 housing units) Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 3.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54487 | |
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Tonica, IL (village, FIPS 75718) Location: 41.21406 N, 89.06779 W Population (1990): 715 (291 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61370 | |
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Tonkawa, OK (city, FIPS 74150) Location: 36.68283 N, 97.30781 W Population (1990): 3127 (1492 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74653 | |
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Tunas, MO Zip code(s): 65764 | |
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Tunica, MS (town, FIPS 74760) Location: 34.68823 N, 90.38152 W Population (1990): 1175 (518 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38676 | |
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Twin Oaks, MO (village, FIPS 74284) Location: 38.56648 N, 90.50049 W Population (1990): 506 (216 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Twin Oaks, OK Zip code(s): 74368 | |
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
tense adj. Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly {bum}med, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU: "This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes." A tense programmer is one who produces tense code. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
thinko /thing'koh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. {braino}; see also {brain fart}. Compare {mouso}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
thunk /thuhnk/ n. 1. [obs.]"A piece of coding which provides an address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in Algol-60 procedure calls. If a procedure is called with an expression in the place of a formal parameter, the compiler generates a thunk which computes the expression and leaves the address of the result in some standard location. 2. Later generalized into: an expression, frozen together with its environment, for later evaluation if and when needed (similar to what in techspeak is called a `closure'). The process of unfreezing these thunks is called `forcing'. 3. A {stubroutine}, in an overlay programming environment, that loads and jumps to the correct overlay. Compare {trampoline}. 4. People and activities scheduled in a thunklike manner. "It occurred to me the other day that I am rather accurately modeled by a thunk -- I frequently need to be forced to completion." -- paraphrased from a {plan file}. Historical note: There are a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating about the origin of this term. The most common is that it is the sound made by data hitting the stack; another holds that the sound is that of the data hitting an accumulator. Yet another suggests that it is the sound of the expression being unfrozen at argument-evaluation time. In fact, according to the inventors, it was coined after they realized (in the wee hours after hours of discussion) that the type of an argument in Algol-60 could be figured out in advance with a little compile-time thought, simplifying the evaluation machinery. In other words, it had `already been thought of'; thus it was christened a `thunk', which is "the past tense of `think' at two in the morning". | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
TINC // [Usenet] Abbreviation: "There Is No Cabal". See {backbone cabal} and {NANA}, but note that this abbreviation did not enter use until long after the dispersal of the backbone cabal. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
TWENEX /twe'neks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by {DEC} -- the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not {{ITS}} or {{WAITS}} partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as Bolt, Beranek & Newman's TENEX operating system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of the systems on the ARPANET ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that `krans' meant `funeral wreath' in Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply `wreath'; this part of the story may be apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of `twenty TENEX'), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard "TWENEX", but the term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation `20x' was also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS -- but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to {VMS}, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
twink /twink/ n. 1. [Berkeley] A clue-repellant user; the next step beyond a clueless one. 2. [UCSC] A {read-only user}. Also reported on the Usenet group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream `chick'). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
twonkie /twon'kee/ n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang with a small t) the male equivalent of `chick'); a useless `feature' added to look sexy and placate a {marketroid} (compare {Saturday-night special}). The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menace of a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942 "Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much anthologized. = U = | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
tense Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly {bum}med, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU: "This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes." A tense programmer is one who produces tense code. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Think C An extension of {ANSI C} for the {Macintosh} by {Symantec Corporation}. It supports {object-oriented} programming techniques similar to {C++}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
thinko momentary, correctable {glitch} in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. See also {brain fart}. Compare {mouso}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Thomas {Dylan}(TM). Thomas is NOT {Dylan}(TM). The first public release of a translator to {Scheme} by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at {Digital Equipment Corporation}'s {Cambridge Research Laboratory} runs (slowly) on {MIT}'s {CScheme}, DEC's {Scheme->C}, Marc Feeley's {Gambi}, {Macintosh}, {PC}, {Vax}, {MIPS}, {Alpha}, {680x0}. {(ftp://gatekeeper.pa.dec.com/pub/DEC/Thomas)}. Mailing list: ["Dylan(TM) an object-oriented dynamic language", {Apple Computer}, Eastern Research and Technology, April 1992]. (1992-09-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
thunk address", according to P. Z. Ingerman, who invented thunks in 1961 as a way of binding {actual parameters} to their formal definitions in {ALGOL 60} {procedure} calls. If a procedure is called with an expression in the place of a {formal parameter}, the compiler generates a thunk which computes the expression and leaves the address of the result in some standard location. 2. The term was later generalised to mean an expression, frozen together with its {environment} (variable values), for later evaluation if and when needed (similar to a "{closure}"). The process of unfreezing these thunks is called "forcing". 3. A {stubroutine}, in an {overlay} programming environment, that loads and jumps to the correct overlay. Compare {trampoline}. There are a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating about the origin of this term. The most common is that it is the sound made by data hitting the {stack}; another holds that the sound is that of the data hitting an {accumulator}. Yet another suggests that it is the sound of the expression being unfrozen at argument-evaluation time. In fact, according to the inventors, it was coined after they realised (in the wee hours after hours of discussion) that the type of an argument in {ALGOL 60} could be figured out in advance with a little {compile-time} thought, simplifying the evaluation machinery. In other words, it had "already been thought of"; thus it was christened a "thunk", which is "the past tense of "think" at two in the morning". 4. ({Microsoft Windows} programming) {universal thunk}, {generic thunk}, {flat thunk}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-10-11) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TINC {There Is No Cabal} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TMG TransMoGrifier. An early language for writing {recursive descent} compilers. It was {macro}ed from the {IBM 1604} to the {IBM 709} to the {IBM 7094} to the {GE635}, where it was used by McIlroy and Morris to write the {EPL} compiler for {Multics}. ["TMG - A Syntax-Directed Compiler", R.M. McClure, Proc ACM 20th Natl Conf (1965)]. [Sammet 1969, p.636]. (1994-12-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TMS 9900 One of the first true 16-bit {microprocessor}s, released by {Texas Instruments} in June 1976 (the first are probably {National Semiconductor} {IMP-16} or {AMD-2901} {bit slice processor}s in 16-bit configuration). It was designed as a single chip version of the {TI 990} {minicomputer} series, much like the {Intersil 6100} was a single chip {PDP-8}, and the {Fairchild 9440} and {Data General mN601} were both one chip versions of {Data General}'s {Nova}. Unlike the IMS 6100, however, the TMS 9900 had a mature, well thought out design. It had a 15-bit {address space} and two internal 16 bit {register}s. One unique feature was that all user {register}s were actually kept in memory - this included {stack pointer}s and the {program counter}. A single workspace {register} pointed to the 16 {register set} in {RAM}, so when a subroutine was entered or an {interrupt} was processed, only the single workspace register had to be changed - unlike some {CPU}s which required dozens or more register saves before acknowledging a {context switch}. This was feasible at the time because {RAM} was often faster than the {CPU}s. A few modern designs, such as the {INMOS} {transputer}, use this same design using {cache}s or {rotating buffer}s, for the same reason of faster {context switch}es. Other chips of the time, such as the {650x} series had a similar philosophy, using {index register}s, but the TMS 9900 went the farthest in this direction. That wasn't the only positive feature of the chip. It had good {interrupt} handling features and very good instruction set. Serial I/O was available through address lines. In typical comparisons with the {Intel 8086}, the TMS9900 had smaller and faster programs. The only disadvantage was the small {address space} and need for fast {RAM}. Despite very poor support from Texas Instruments, the TMS 9900 had the potential at one point to surpass the {Intel 8086} in popularity. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TNC (1996-12-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TNX million. (1996-05-19) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TNXE6 Thanks a million. "E" is used in many programming languages to separate the mantissa and exponent of a {floating-point} constant so a number ending in "E6" means "times ten to the power six", i.e. times a million. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TWENEX by {DEC} - the second proprietary OS for the {PDP-10} - preferred by most PDP-10 hackers over TOPS-10 (that is, by those who were not {ITS} or {WAITS} partisans). TOPS-20 began in 1969 as {Bolt, Beranek & Newman}'s {TENEX} operating system using special paging hardware. By the early 1970s, almost all of the systems on the {ARPANET} ran TENEX. DEC purchased the rights to TENEX from BBN and began work to make it their own. The first in-house code name for the operating system was VIROS (VIRtual memory Operating System); when customers started asking questions, the name was changed to SNARK so DEC could truthfully deny that there was any project called VIROS. When the name SNARK became known, the name was briefly reversed to become KRANS; this was quickly abandoned when someone objected that "krans" meant "funeral wreath" in Swedish (though some Swedish speakers have since said it means simply "wreath"; this part of the story may be apocryphal). Ultimately DEC picked TOPS-20 as the name of the operating system, and it was as TOPS-20 that it was marketed. The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX (a contraction of "twenty TENEX"), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained (analogously to the differences between AT&T V6 Unix and BSD). DEC people cringed when they heard "TWENEX", but the term caught on nevertheless (the written abbreviation "20x" was also used). TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period in the early 1980s when it commanded as fervent a culture of partisans as Unix or ITS - but DEC's decision to scrap all the internal rivals to the VAX architecture and its relatively stodgy VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in the sun. DEC attempted to convince TOPS-20 users to convert to {VMS}, but instead, by the late 1980s, most of the TOPS-20 hackers had migrated to Unix. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
twink /twink/ [UCSC] Equivalent to {read-only user}. Also reported on the {Usenet} group soc.motss; may derive from gay slang for a cute young thing with nothing upstairs (compare mainstream "chick"). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
twonkie /twon'kee/ The software equivalent of a Twinkie (a variety of sugar-loaded junk food, or (in gay slang) the male equivalent of "chick"); a useless "feature" added to look sexy and placate a {marketroid}. Compare {Saturday-night special}. The term may also be related to "The Twonky", title menace of a classic SF short story by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), first published in the September 1942 "Astounding Science Fiction" and subsequently much anthologised. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-20) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Taanach a sandy place, an ancient royal city of the Canaanites, on the south-western border of the plain of Esdraelon, 4 miles south of Megiddo. Its king was conquered by Joshua (12:21). It was assigned to the Levites of the family of Kohath (17:11-18; 21:25). It is mentioned in the song of Deborah (Judg. 5:19). It is identified with the small modern village of Ta'annuk. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tammuz a corruption of Dumuzi, the Accadian sun-god (the Adonis of the Greeks), the husband of the goddess Ishtar. In the Chaldean calendar there was a month set apart in honour of this god, the month of June to July, the beginning of the summer solstice. At this festival, which lasted six days, the worshippers, with loud lamentations, bewailed the funeral of the god, they sat "weeping for Tammuz" (Ezek. 8:14). The name, also borrowed from Chaldea, of one of the months of the Hebrew calendar. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Tanis (Ezek. 30:14, marg.). See {ZOAN}. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Thomas twin, one of the twelve (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18, etc.). He was also called Didymus (John 11:16; 20:24), which is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name. All we know regarding him is recorded in the fourth Gospel (John 11:15, 16; 14:4, 5; 20:24, 25, 26-29). From the circumstance that in the lists of the apostles he is always mentioned along with Matthew, who was the son of Alphaeus (Mark 3:18), and that these two are always followed by James, who was also the son of Alphaeus, it has been supposed that these three, Matthew, Thomas, and James, were brothers. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Timaeus defiled, the father of blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Taanach, who humbles thee; who answers thee | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tammuz, abstruse; concealed; consumed | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Tanach, same as Taanach | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Thomas, a twin | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Timeus, perfect; admirable; honorable | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Tonga Tonga:Geography Location: Oceania, archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand Map references: Oceania Area: total area: 748 sq km land area: 718 sq km comparative area: slightly more than four times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 419 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: tropical; modified by trade winds; warm season (December to May), cool season (May to December) Terrain: most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base Natural resources: fish, fertile soil Land use: arable land: 25% permanent crops: 55% meadows and pastures: 6% forest and woodland: 12% other: 2% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: deforestation results as more and more land is being cleared for agriculture and settlement; some damage to coral reefs from starfish and indiscriminate coral and shell collectors; overhunting threatens native sea turtle populations natural hazards: cyclones (October to April); earthquakes and volcanic activity on Fonuafo'ou international agreements: party to - Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban Note: archipelago of 170 islands (36 inhabited) Tonga:People Population: 105,600 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: NA 15-64 years: NA 65 years and over: NA Population growth rate: 0.78% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 24.37 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 6.75 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: -9.87 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 20.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 68.16 years male: 65.8 years female: 70.62 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 3.56 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Tongan(s) adjective: Tongan Ethnic divisions: Polynesian, Europeans about 300 Religions: Christian (Free Wesleyan Church claims over 30,000 adherents) Languages: Tongan, English Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write simple message in Tongan or English (1976) total population: 100% male: 100% female: 100% Labor force: NA by occupation: agriculture 70%, mining (600 engaged in mining) Tonga:Government Names: conventional long form: Kingdom of Tonga conventional short form: Tonga former: Friendly Islands Digraph: TN Type: hereditary constitutional monarchy Capital: Nuku'alofa Administrative divisions: three island groups; Ha'apai, Tongatapu, Vava'u Independence: 4 June 1970 (emancipation from UK protectorate) National holiday: Emancipation Day, 4 June (1970) Constitution: 4 November 1875, revised 1 January 1967 Legal system: based on English law Suffrage: 21 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: King Taufa'ahau TUPOU IV (since 16 December 1965) head of government: Prime Minister Baron VAEA (since 22 August 1991); Deputy Prime Minister S. Langi KAVALIKU (since 22 August 1991) cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the king Privy Council: consists of the king and the cabinet Legislative branch: unicameral; consists of twelve cabinet ministers sitting ex-officio, nine nobles selected by the country's thirty-three nobles, and nine people's representatives elected by the populace Legislative Assembly (Fale Alea): elections last held 3-4 February 1993 (next to be held NA February 1996); results - percent of vote NA; seats - (30 total, 9 elected) 6 proreform, 3 traditionalist Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Tonga People's Party, Viliami FUKOFUKA Member of: ACP, AsDB, C, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IMF, INTELSAT (nonsignatory user), INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, SPARTECA, SPC, SPF, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WHO Diplomatic representation in US: Ambassador Sione KITE, resides in London consulate(s) general: San Francisco US diplomatic representation: the US has no offices in Tonga; the ambassador to Fiji is accredited to Tonga Flag: red with a bold red cross on a white rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner Economy Overview: The economy's base is agriculture, which employs about 70% of the labor force and contributes 40% to GDP. Squash, coconuts, bananas, and vanilla beans are the main crops, and agricultural exports make up two-thirds of total exports. The country must import a high proportion of its food, mainly from New Zealand. The manufacturing sector accounts for only 11% of GDP. Tourism is the primary source of hard currency earnings, but the country also remains dependent on sizable external aid and remittances to offset its trade deficit. The economy continued to grow in 1993-94 largely because of a rise in squash exports, increased aid flows, and several large construction projects. The government is now turning its attention to further development of the private sector and the reduction of the budget deficit. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $214 million (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: 5% (1994 est.) National product per capita: $2,050 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3% (1993) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $36.4 million expenditures: $68.1 million, including capital expenditures of $33.2 million (1991 est.) Exports: $11.3 million (f.o.b., FY92/93) commodities: squash, vanilla, fish, root crops, coconut oil partners: Japan 34%, US 17%, Australia 13%, NZ 13% (FY90/91) Imports: $56 million (c.i.f., FY92/93) commodities: food products, machinery and transport equipment, manufactures, fuels, chemicals partners: NZ 33%, Australia 22%, US 8%, Japan 8% (FY90/91) External debt: $47.5 million (FY90/91) Industrial production: growth rate 1.5% (FY91/92); accounts for 11% of GDP Electricity: capacity: 6,000 kW production: 30 million kWh consumption per capita: 231 kWh (1993) Industries: tourism, fishing Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; dominated by coconut, copra, and banana production; vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee, ginger, black pepper Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $16 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $258 million Currency: 1 pa'anga (T$) = 100 seniti Exchange rates: pa'anga (T$) per US$1 - 1.2653 (January 1995), 1.3202 (1994), 1.3841 (1993), 1.3471 (1992), 1.2961 (1991), 1.2800 (1990) Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June Tonga:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 366 km paved: 272 km (198 km on Tongatapu; 74 km on Vava'u) unpaved: 94 km (usable only in dry weather) Ports: Neiafu, Nuku'alofa, Pangai Merchant marine: total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,440 GRT/8,984 DWT ships by type: cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1 Airports: total: 6 with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 with paved runways under 914 m: 2 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2 Tonga:Communications Telephone system: 3,529 telephones local: NA intercity: NA international: 1 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 radios: 66,000 Television: broadcast stations: 0 televisions: NA Tonga:Defense Forces Branches: Tonga Defense Services, Maritime Division, Royal Tongan Marines, Tongan Royal Guards, Police Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Tunisia Tunisia:Geography Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Libya Map references: Africa Area: total area: 163,610 sq km land area: 155,360 sq km comparative area: slightly larger than Georgia Land boundaries: total 1,424 km, Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km Coastline: 1,148 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Libya; land boundary dispute with Algeria settled in 1993; Malta and Tunisia are discussing the commercial exploitation of the continental shelf between their countries, particularly for oil exploration Climate: temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; desert in south Terrain: mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, iron ore, lead, zinc, salt Land use: arable land: 20% permanent crops: 10% meadows and pastures: 19% forest and woodland: 4% other: 47% Irrigated land: 2,750 sq km (1989) Environment: current issues: toxic and hazardous waste disposal is ineffective and presents human health risks; water pollution from raw sewage; limited natural fresh water resources; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification natural hazards: NA international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Marine Life Conservation Note: strategic location in central Mediterranean Tunisia:People Population: 8,879,845 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 35% (female 1,507,866; male 1,563,411) 15-64 years: 60% (female 2,665,586; male 2,672,712) 65 years and over: 5% (female 226,201; male 244,069) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 1.69% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 22.52 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 4.86 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: -0.74 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 32.3 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73.25 years male: 71.16 years female: 75.44 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 2.73 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Tunisian(s) adjective: Tunisian Ethnic divisions: Arab-Berber 98%, European 1%, Jewish less than 1% Religions: Muslim 98%, Christian 1%, Jewish 1% Languages: Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce) Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1989) total population: 57% male: 69% female: 45% Labor force: 2.25 million by occupation: agriculture 32% note: shortage of skilled labor Tunisia:Government Names: conventional long form: Republic of Tunisia conventional short form: Tunisia local long form: Al Jumhuriyah at Tunisiyah local short form: Tunis Digraph: TS Type: republic Capital: Tunis Administrative divisions: 23 governorates; Beja, Ben Arous, Bizerte, Gabes, Gafsa, Jendouba, Kairouan, Kasserine, Kebili, L'Ariana, Le Kef, Mahdia, Medenine, Monastir, Nabeul, Sfax, Sidi Bou Zid, Siliana, Sousse, Tataouine, Tozeur, Tunis, Zaghouan Independence: 20 March 1956 (from France) National holiday: National Day, 20 March (1956) Constitution: 1 June 1959; amended 12 July 1988 Legal system: based on French civil law system and Islamic law; some judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court in joint session Suffrage: 20 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Zine el Abidine BEN ALI (since 7 November 1987); election last held 20 March 1994 (next to be held NA 1999); results - President Zine el Abidine BEN ALI was reelected without opposition head of government: Prime Minister Hamed KAROUI (since 26 September 1989) cabinet: Council of Ministers; appointed by the president Legislative branch: unicameral Chamber of Deputies (Majlis al-Nuwaab): elections last held 20 March 1994 (next to be held NA 1999); results - RCD 97.7%, MDS 1.0%, others 1.3%; seats - (163 total) RCD 144, MDS 10, others 9; note - the government changed the electoral code to guarantee that the opposition won seats Judicial branch: Court of Cassation (Cour de Cassation) Political parties and leaders: Constitutional Democratic Rally Party (RCD), President BEN ALI (official ruling party); Movement of Democratic Socialists (MDS), Mohammed MOUAADA; five other political parties are legal, including the Communist Party Other political or pressure groups: the Islamic fundamentalist party, An Nahda (Rebirth), is outlawed Member of: ABEDA, ACCT, AfDB, AFESD, AL, AMF, AMU, CCC, ECA, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, INMARSAT, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ISO, ITU, MINURSO, NAM, OAPEC (withdrew from active membership in 1986), OAS (observer), OAU, OIC, UN, UNAMIR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNMIH, UNPROFOR, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Ambassador Mohamed Azzouz ENNAIFER chancery: 1515 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005 telephone: [1] (202) 862-1850 US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Ambassador Mary Ann CASEY embassy: 144 Avenue de la Liberte, 1002 Tunis-Belvedere mailing address: use embassy street address telephone: [216] (1) 782-566 FAX: [216] (1) 789-719 Flag: red with a white disk in the center bearing a red crescent nearly encircling a red five-pointed star; the crescent and star are traditional symbols of Islam Economy Overview: Tunisia has a diverse economy, with important agricultural, mining, energy, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Detailed governmental control of economic affairs has gradually lessened over the past decade, including increasing privatization of trade and commerce, simplification of the tax structure, and a cautious approach to debt. Real growth has averaged roughly 5% in 1991-94, and inflation has been moderate. Growth in tourism and IMF support have been key elements in this solid record. Further privatization and further improvements in government administrative efficiency are among the challenges for the future. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $37.1 billion (1994 est.) National product real growth rate: 4.4% (1994 est.) National product per capita: $4,250 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (1993 est.) Unemployment rate: 16.2% (1993 est.) Budget: revenues: $4.3 billion expenditures: $5.5 billion, including capital expenditures to $NA (1993 est.) Exports: $4.6 billion (f.o.b., 1993) commodities: hydrocarbons, agricultural products, phosphates and chemicals partners: EC countries 75%, Middle East 10%, Algeria 2%, India 2%, US 1% Imports: $6.5 billion (c.i.f., 1993) commodities: industrial goods and equipment 57%, hydrocarbons 13%, food 12%, consumer goods partners: EC countries 70%, US 5%, Middle East 2%, Japan 2%, Switzerland 1%, Algeria 1% External debt: $7.7 billion (1993 est.) Industrial production: growth rate 5% (1989); accounts for 22% of GDP, including petroleum Electricity: capacity: 1,410,000 kW production: 5.4 billion kWh consumption per capita: 595 kWh (1993) Industries: petroleum, mining (particularly phosphate and iron ore), tourism, textiles, footwear, food, beverages Agriculture: accounts for 16% of GDP and one-third of labor force; output subject to severe fluctuations because of frequent droughts; export crops - olives, dates, oranges, almonds; other products - grain, sugar beets, wine grapes, poultry, beef, dairy; not self-sufficient in food Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $730 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89) $52 million; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $684 million; Communist countries (1970-89), $410 million Currency: 1 Tunisian dinar (TD) = 1,000 millimes Exchange rates: Tunisian dinars (TD) per US$1 - 0.9849 (January 1995), 1.0116 (1994), 1.0037 (1993), 0.8844 (1992), 0.9246 (1991), 0.8783 (1990) Fiscal year: calendar year Tunisia:Transportation Railroads: total: 2,260 km standard gauge: 492 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 1,758 km 1.000-m gauge dual gauge: 10 km 1.000-m and 1.435-m gauges Highways: total: 29,183 km paved: bituminous 17,510 km unpaved: improved, unimproved earth 11,673 km Pipelines: crude oil 797 km; petroleum products 86 km; natural gas 742 km Ports: Bizerte, Gabes, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, Zarzis Merchant marine: total: 19 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 129,035 GRT/168,032 DWT ships by type: bulk 6, cargo 5, chemical tanker 4, oil tanker 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2, short-sea passenger 1 Airports: total: 31 with paved runways over 3,047 m: 3 with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3 with paved runways under 914 m: 8 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 2 with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 7 Tunisia:Communications Telephone system: 233,000 telephones; 28 telephones/1,000 persons; the system is above the African average; key centers are Sfax, Sousse, Bizerte, and Tunis local: NA intercity: facilities consist of open-wire lines, coaxial cable, and microwave radio relay international: 5 submarine cables; 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) and 1 ARABSAT earth station with back-up control station; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria and Libya Radio: broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 8, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 19 televisions: NA Tunisia:Defense Forces Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary forces, National Guard Manpower availability: males age 15-49 2,294,912; males fit for military service 1,317,642; males reach military age (20) annually 93,601 (1995 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $549 million, 3% of GDP (1994) |