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   T-bill
         n 1: a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is
               purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis
               for 91 days [syn: {Treasury bill}, {T-bill}]

English Dictionary: T-bill	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tabbouleh n a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat Synonym(s): tabbouleh, tabooli
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
table n a set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1" Synonym(s): table, tabular array a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table" a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant" flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" Synonym(s): mesa, table a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks" food or meals in general; "she sets a fine table"; "room and board" Synonym(s): board, table v hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off] arrange or enter in tabular form Synonym(s): table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tableau n a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) Synonym(s): tableau, tableau vivant any dramatic scene
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tabooli n a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat Synonym(s): tabbouleh, tabooli
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tea ball n a kitchen utensil consisting of a perforated metal ball for making tea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tepal n an undifferentiated part of a perianth that cannot be distinguished as a sepal or a petal (as in lilies and tulips)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tibial adj relating to or located near a tibia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tiepolo n Italian painter (1696-1770) [syn: Tiepolo, {Giovanni Battista Tiepolo}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tipple n a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft" Synonym(s): draft, draught, potation, tipple v drink moderately but regularly; "We tippled the cognac" Synonym(s): tipple, bib
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tivoli n a town twenty miles to the east of Rome (Tibur is the ancient name); a summer resort during the Roman empire; noted for its waterfalls Synonym(s): Tivoli, Tibur
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
top-hole adj excellent; best possible [syn: top-flight, top-hole, topping]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
topple v fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" Synonym(s): tumble, topple cause to topple or tumble by pushing Synonym(s): topple, tumble, tip
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tubal adj of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube; "tubal ligation"; "tubal pregnancy"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tube well n a well made by driving a tube into the earth to a stratum that bears water Synonym(s): driven well, tube well
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tubful n the amount that a tub will hold; "a tub of water" [syn: tub, tubful]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tubule n a small tube
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tupelo n pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America Synonym(s): tupelo, tupelo tree a town in northeast Mississippi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tuvalu n a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978 a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii Synonym(s): Tuvalu, Ellice Islands
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
two-ply adj having a thickness made up of two layers or strands
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inking \Ink"ing\, a. Supplying or covering with ink. {Inking roller}, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. {Inking trough} [or] {table}, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.] 1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble. --Sandys. 2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. a memorandum book. [bd]The names . . . written on his tables.[b8] --Chaucer. And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. --Ex. xxxiv. 1. And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl. 3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. [bd]Painted in a table plain.[b8] --Spenser. The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn. St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant. --Addison. 4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule. Specifically: (a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents. (b) (Chem.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tableed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tableing}.] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. 2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. --Bacon. 3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton. 4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. 5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle. 6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely. 7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. 8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] [bd]He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts.[b8] --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Platen \Plat"en\, n. [F. platine, fr. plat flat. See {Plate}, and cf. {Platin}.] (Mach.) (a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. (b) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. (c) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called {table}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inking \Ink"ing\, a. Supplying or covering with ink. {Inking roller}, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. {Inking trough} [or] {table}, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.] 1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble. --Sandys. 2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. a memorandum book. [bd]The names . . . written on his tables.[b8] --Chaucer. And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. --Ex. xxxiv. 1. And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl. 3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. [bd]Painted in a table plain.[b8] --Spenser. The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn. St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant. --Addison. 4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule. Specifically: (a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents. (b) (Chem.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tableed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tableing}.] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. 2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. --Bacon. 3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton. 4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. 5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle. 6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely. 7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. 8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] [bd]He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts.[b8] --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Platen \Plat"en\, n. [F. platine, fr. plat flat. See {Plate}, and cf. {Platin}.] (Mach.) (a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. (b) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. (c) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called {table}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inking \Ink"ing\, a. Supplying or covering with ink. {Inking roller}, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. {Inking trough} [or] {table}, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, n. [F., fr. L. tabula a board, tablet, a painting. Cf. {Tabular}, {Taffrail}, {Tavern}.] 1. A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. A bagnio paved with fair tables of marble. --Sandys. 2. A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet; pl. a memorandum book. [bd]The names . . . written on his tables.[b8] --Chaucer. And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. --Ex. xxxiv. 1. And stand there with your tables to glean The golden sentences. --Beau. & Fl. 3. Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing, or the like, may be produced. [bd]Painted in a table plain.[b8] --Spenser. The opposite walls are painted by Rubens, which, with that other of the Infanta taking leave of Don Philip, is a most incomparable table. --Evelyn. St. Antony has a table that hangs up to him from a poor peasant. --Addison. 4. Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule. Specifically: (a) (Bibliog.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents. (b) (Chem.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tableed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tableing}.] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines. 2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. --Bacon. 3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton. 4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. 5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle. 6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or the like) till called for, or indefinitely. 7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. 8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Table \Ta"ble\, v. i. To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] [bd]He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts.[b8] --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Platen \Plat"en\, n. [F. platine, fr. plat flat. See {Plate}, and cf. {Platin}.] (Mach.) (a) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. (b) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. (c) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called {table}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Tabula \[d8]Tab"u*la\, n.; pl. {Tabul[91]}. [L.] 1. A table; a tablet. 2. (Zo[94]l.) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. {Tabula rasa}[L.], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tepal \Tep"al\, n. [F. t[82]pale, fr. p[82]tale, by transposition.] (Bot.) A division of a perianth. [R.]
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Thible \Thi"ble\, n. A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ainsworth.
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Thiefly \Thief"ly\, a. & adv. Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Tibial \Tib"i*al\, a. [L. tibialis, fr. tibia the shin bone; also, a pipe or flute, originally made of a bone: cf. F. tibial.] 1. Of or pertaining to a tibia. 2. Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute. {Tibial spur} (Zo[94]l.), a spine frequently borne on the tibia of insects. See Illust. under {Coleoptera}.
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Tibial \Tib"i*al\, n. (Anat.) A tibial bone; a tibiale.
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d8Tibiale \[d8]Tib`i*a"le\, n.; pl. {Tibialia}. [NL.] (Anat.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.
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Tipple \Tip"ple\, n. [Cf. 3d {Tip}.] An apparatus by which loaded cars are emptied by tipping; also, the place where such tipping is done.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. t. 1. To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess. Himself, for saving charges, A peeled, sliced onions eats, and tipples verjuice. --Dryden. 2. To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.
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Tipple \Tip"ple\, n. Liquor taken in tippling; drink. Pulque, the national tipple of Mexico. --S. B. Griffin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tipple \Tip"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tippled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tippling}.] [From tip a small end, or a word akin to it; cf. Norw. tipla to tipple, to drip, Prov. E. tip, tiff, tift, a draught of liquor, dial. G. zipfeln to eat and drink in small parts. See {Tip} a point, and cf. {Tipsy}.] To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness. Few of those who were summoned left their homes, and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Tipula \[d8]Tip"u*la\, n.; pl. L. {Tipul[91]}, E. {Tipulas}. [L., the water spider, or water spinner.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of many species of long-legged dipterous insects belonging to {Tipula} and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See {Crane fly}, under {Crane}.
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Tivoli \Tiv"o*li\, n. [Prob. fr. Tivoli in Italy, a pleasure resort not far from Rome.] A game resembling bagatelle, played on a special oblong board or table ( {Tivoli} {board [or] table}), which has a curved upper end, a set of numbered compartments at the lower end, side alleys, and the surface studded with pins and sometimes furnished with numbered depressions or cups.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Boil \Boil\ (boil), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boiled} (boild); p. pr. & vb. n. {Boiling}.] [OE. boilen, OF. boilir, builir, F. bouillir, fr. L. bullire to be in a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr. [?], Lith. bumbuls. Cf. {Bull} an edict, {Budge}, v., and {Ebullition}.] 1. To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it to the boiling point; to be in a state of ebullition; as, the water boils. 2. To be agitated like boiling water, by any other cause than heat; to bubble; to effervesce; as, the boiling waves. He maketh the deep to boil like a pot. --Job xii. 31. 3. To pass from a liquid to an a[89]riform state or vapor when heated; as, the water boils away. 4. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid; as, his blood boils with anger. Then boiled my breast with flame and burning wrath. --Surrey. 5. To be in boiling water, as in cooking; as, the potatoes are boiling. {To boil away}, to vaporize; to evaporate or be evaporated by the action of heat. {To boil over}, to run over the top of a vessel, as liquid when thrown into violent agitation by heat or other cause of effervescence; to be excited with ardor or passion so as to lose self-control.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bowl \Bowl\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bowled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bowling}.] 1. To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. --Shak. 2. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road. 3. To pelt or strike with anything rolled. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth, And bowled to death with turnips[?] --Shak. {To bowl} (a player) {out}, in cricket, to put out a striker by knocking down a bail or a stump in bowling.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. {Fell}; p. p. {Fallen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Falling}.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. {Fail}, {Fell}, v. t., to cause to fall.] 1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. --Luke x. 18. 2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. --Rev. xix. 10. 3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. 4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. --Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. --Byron. 5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. 6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. --Shak. 7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. --Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. --Sir J. Davies. 8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. --Addison. 9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. --Heb. iv. 11. 10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. 11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. --Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. --Addison. 12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. 13. To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. 14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. --Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. --Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. --H. Spencer. 15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. --Holder. 16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. 18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. --Pope. 19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. {To fall abroad of} (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. {To fall among}, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. {To fall astern} (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. {To fall away}. (a) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. [bd]These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.[b8] --Luke viii. 13. (d) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. [bd]How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?[b8] --Addison. (e) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. [bd]One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.[b8] --Addison. {To fall back}. (a) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. {To fall back upon}. (a) (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops). (b) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support). {To fall calm}, to cease to blow; to become calm. {To fall down}. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. [bd]All kings shall fall down before him.[b8] --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. [bd]Down fell the beauteous youth.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. {To fall flat}, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. {To fall foul of}. (a) (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b) To attack; to make an assault upon. {To fall from}, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. {To fall from grace} (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. {To fall home} (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. {To fall in}. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. [bd]The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.[b8] --Macaulay. {To fall into one's hands}, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. {To fall in with}. (a) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b) (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d) To comply; to yield to. [bd]You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.[b8] --Addison. {To fall off}. (a) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. [bd]Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.[b8] --Shak. (c) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves. --Milton. (e) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. [bd]O Hamlet, what a falling off was there![b8] --Shak. (g) (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. {To fall on}. (a) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b) To begin suddenly and eagerly. [bd]Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.[b8] --Dryden. (c) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. [bd]Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.[b8] --Dryden. (d) To drop on; to descend on. {To fall out}. (a) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. --Addison. (b) To happen; to befall; to chance. [bd]There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.[b8] --L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. {To fall over}. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b) To fall beyond. --Shak. {To fall short}, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. {To fall through}, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. {To fall to}, to begin. [bd]Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.[b8] --Dryden. {To fall under}. (a) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. {To fall upon}. (a) To attack. [See {To fall on}.] (b) To attempt; to have recourse to. [bd]I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.[b8] --Holder. (c) To rush against. Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fool \Fool\, v. t. 1. To infatuate; to make foolish. --Shak. For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. --Dryden. 2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. --Shak. {To fool away}, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fiddle \Fid"dle\, n. [OE. fidele, fithele, AS. fi[?]ele; akin to D. vedel, OHG. fidula, G. fiedel, Icel. fi[?]la, and perh. to E. viol. Cf. {Viol}.] 1. (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit. 2. (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex pulcher}) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also {fiddle dock}. 3. (Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Fiddle beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a Japanese carabid beetle ({Damaster blaptoides}); -- so called from the form of the body. {Fiddle block} (Naut.), a long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block. --Knight. {Fiddle bow}, fiddlestick. {Fiddle fish} (Zo[94]l.), the angel fish. {Fiddle head}, an ornament on a ship's bow, curved like the volute or scroll at the head of a violin. {Fiddle pattern}, a form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin. {Scotch fiddle}, the itch. (Low) {To play} {first, [or] second}, {fiddle}, to take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean-to \Lean"-to`\, a. (Arch.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n. A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also {penthouse}, and {to-fall}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
To-fall \To-fall"\, n. (Arch.) A lean-to. See {Lean-to}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lean-to \Lean"-to`\, a. (Arch.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n. A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also {penthouse}, and {to-fall}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
To-fall \To-fall"\, n. (Arch.) A lean-to. See {Lean-to}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topful \Top"ful\, a. Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull. [bd]Topful of direst cruelty.[b8] --Shak. [He] was so topful of himself, that he let it spill on all the company. --I. Watts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topple \Top"ple\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toppled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toppling}.] [From {Top} summit.] To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down. Though castles topple on their warders' heads. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topple \Top"ple\, v. t. To throw down; to overturn. He topple crags from the precipice. --Longfellow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Toyful \Toy"ful\, a. Full of trifling play. [Obs.] --Donne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tub \Tub\, n. [OE. tubbe; of Dutch or Low German origin; cf. LG. tubbe, D. tobbe.] 1. An open wooden vessel formed with staves, bottom, and hoops; a kind of short cask, half barrel, or firkin, usually with but one head, -- used for various purposes. 2. The amount which a tub contains, as a measure of quantity; as, a tub of butter; a tub of camphor, which is about 1 cwt., etc. 3. Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. --South. 4. A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. A small cask; as, a tub of gin. 6. A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners. {Tub fast}, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] --Shak. {Tub wheel}, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the impact of one or more streams of water, conducted so as to strike against the floats in the direction of a tangent to the cylinder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tubal \Tub"al\, a. Of or pertaining to a tube; specifically, of or pertaining to one of the Fallopian tubes; as, tubal pregnancy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tubful \Tub"ful\, n.; pl. {Tubfuls}. As much as a tub will hold; enough to fill a tub.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tubule \Tu"bule\, n. [F. tubule, or L. tubulus, dim. of tubus a tube, a pipe.] 1. A small pipe or fistular body; a little tube. 2. (Anat.) A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tuefall \Tue"fall\, n. (Arch.) See {To-fall}. [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tupal \Tu*pal"\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of the tupaiids.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tupelo \Tu"pe*lo\, n. [Tupelo, or tupebo, the native American Indian name.] (Bot.) A North American tree ({Nyssa multiflora}) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also {black gum}, {sour gum}, and {pepperidge}. {Largo tupelo}, [or] {Tupelo gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Nyssa uniflora}) with softer wood than the tupelo. {Sour tupelo} (Bot.), the Ogeechee lime.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twibil \Twi"bil\, n. [AS. twibill; twi- (in comp.) two + bill, bil, an ax hoe, bill. See {Twice}, and {Bill} a cutting instrument.] 1. A kind of mattock, or ax; esp., a tool like a pickax, but having, instead of the points, flat terminations, one of which is parallel to the handle, the other perpendicular to it. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A tool for making mortises. [Obs.] 3. A reaping hook.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twifallow \Twi"fal`low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Twifallowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Twifallowing}.] [AS. twi- (see {Twice}) two + fallow.] To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Two-ply \Two"-ply`\, a. 1. Consisting of two thicknesses, as cloth; double. 2. Woven double, as cloth or carpeting, by incorporating two sets of warp thread and two of weft.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Typal \Typ"al\, a. Relating to a type or types; belonging to types; serving as a type; typical. --Owen.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
1 American 9 Bourgeois [bar] [bar] 1[frac12] German [bar] 2 Saxon 10 Long Primer [bar] [bar] 2[frac12] Norse [bar] 3 Brilliant 11 Small Pica [bar] [bar] 3[frac12] Ruby 12 Pica [bar] [bar] 4 Excelsior [bar] 4[frac12] Diamond 14 English [bar] [bar] 5 Pearl 16 Columbian [bar] [bar] 5[frac12] Agate [bar] 6 Nonpareil 18 Great Primer [bar] [bar] 7 Minion [bar] 8 Brevier 20 Paragon [bar] [bar] Diagram of the "points" by which sizes of Type are graduated in the "Point System". {Type founder}, one who casts or manufacture type. {Type foundry}, {Type foundery}, a place for the manufacture of type. {Type metal}, an alloy used in making type, stereotype plates, etc., and in backing up electrotype plates. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper. {Type wheel}, a wheel having raised letters or characters on its periphery, and used in typewriters, printing telegraphs, etc. {Unity of type} (Biol.), that fundamental agreement in structure which is seen in organic beings of the same class, and is quite independent of their habits of life. --Darwin.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
T Ville, KY Zip code(s): 42167
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Thawville, IL (village, FIPS 74847) Location: 40.67387 N, 88.11325 W Population (1990): 241 (111 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60968
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tivoli, NY (village, FIPS 74023) Location: 42.05928 N, 73.91108 W Population (1990): 1035 (474 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 12583 Tivoli, TX Zip code(s): 77990
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Toivola, MI Zip code(s): 49965
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Tupelo, AR (town, FIPS 70340) Location: 35.39155 N, 91.22994 W Population (1990): 208 (105 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Tupelo, MS (city, FIPS 74840) Location: 34.26349 N, 88.73199 W Population (1990): 30685 (12335 housing units) Area: 132.5 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38801 Tupelo, OK (city, FIPS 75050) Location: 34.60209 N, 96.42024 W Population (1990): 323 (207 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74572
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
table A collection of {records} in a {relational database}. (1997-06-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TBIL {Tiny Basic Interpreter Language}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Tbl 1. A language by M.E. Lesk for formatting tables, implemented as a {preprocessor} to {nroff}. (1994-11-01) 2. Table Building Language. A simple language by Robert Freiburghouse of {MIT} which combines user-defined actions into an {abstract machine}. It can be used to build table-driven predictive {parser}s and {code generator}s in the {MULTICS} {Fortran} compiler and several {PL/I} compilers, including {VAX}-11 PL/I. ["Engineering A Compiler: VAX-11 Code Generation and Optimisation", P. Anklam et al, Digital Press 1977]. (1994-11-01)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TDFL Dataflow language. "TDFL: A Task-Level Dataflow Language", P. Suhler et al, J Parallel Dist Comp 9(2):103-115 (Jun 1990).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TIPL 1. Teach IPL. An interpretive {IPL} teaching system. [Sammet 1969, p. 393]. 2. A dialect of {IGL}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TPL 1. Table Producing Language. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics Table Producing Language (TPL)", R.C. Mendelssohn, Proc ACM Annual Conf (1974). 2. Fleming Nielson. A concurrent {functional language}. 3. Terminal Programming Language. Texas Inst, late 70's. Used on the TI-990/1 Small Business Computer and the TI-771 Intelligent Terminal.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TUPLE Toyohashi University Parallel Lisp Environment. A parallel Lisp based on KCL. ["Memory Management and Garbage Collection of an Extended Common Lisp System for Massively Parallel SIMD Architecture", Taiichi Yuasa, in Memory Management, IWMM92, Springer 1992, 490-507]. (1994-11-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tuple In {functional language}s, a data object containing two or more components. Also known as a product type or pair, triple, quad, etc. Tuples of different sizes have different types, in contrast to lists where the type is independent of the length. The components of a tuple may be of different types whereas all elements of a list have the same type. Examples of tuples in {Haskell} notation are (1,2), ("Tuple",True), (w,(x,y),z). The degenerate tuple with zero components, written (), is known as the unit type since it has only one possible value which is also written (). The implementation of tuples in a language may be either "{lifted}" or not. If tuples are lifted then (bottom,bottom) /= bottom and the evaluation of a tuple may fail to terminate. E.g. in Haskell: f (x,y) = 1 --> f bottom = bottom f (bottom,bottom) = 1 With lifted tuples, a tuple pattern is refutable. Thus in Haskell, {pattern matching} on tuples is the same as pattern matching on types with multiple constructors ({algebraic data type}s) - the expression being matched is evaluated as far as the top level constructor, even though, in the case of tuples, there is only one possible constructor for a given type. If tuples are unlifted then (bottom, bottom) = bottom and evaluation of a tuple will never fail to terminate though any of the components may. E.g. in {Miranda}: f (x,y) = 1 --> f bottom = 1 f (bottom,bottom) = 1 Thus in Miranda, any object whose type is compatible with a tuple pattern is assumed to match at the top level without evaluation - it is an {irrefutable} pattern. This also applies to user defined data types with only one constructor. In Haskell, patterns can be made irrefutable by adding a "~" as in f ~(x,y) = 1. If tuple constructor functions were {strict} in all their arguments then (bottom,x) = (x,bottom) = bottom for any x so matching a refutable pattern would fail to terminate if any component was bottom.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TUPLE Toyohashi University Parallel Lisp Environment. A parallel Lisp based on KCL. ["Memory Management and Garbage Collection of an Extended Common Lisp System for Massively Parallel SIMD Architecture", Taiichi Yuasa, in Memory Management, IWMM92, Springer 1992, 490-507]. (1994-11-08)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
tuple In {functional language}s, a data object containing two or more components. Also known as a product type or pair, triple, quad, etc. Tuples of different sizes have different types, in contrast to lists where the type is independent of the length. The components of a tuple may be of different types whereas all elements of a list have the same type. Examples of tuples in {Haskell} notation are (1,2), ("Tuple",True), (w,(x,y),z). The degenerate tuple with zero components, written (), is known as the unit type since it has only one possible value which is also written (). The implementation of tuples in a language may be either "{lifted}" or not. If tuples are lifted then (bottom,bottom) /= bottom and the evaluation of a tuple may fail to terminate. E.g. in Haskell: f (x,y) = 1 --> f bottom = bottom f (bottom,bottom) = 1 With lifted tuples, a tuple pattern is refutable. Thus in Haskell, {pattern matching} on tuples is the same as pattern matching on types with multiple constructors ({algebraic data type}s) - the expression being matched is evaluated as far as the top level constructor, even though, in the case of tuples, there is only one possible constructor for a given type. If tuples are unlifted then (bottom, bottom) = bottom and evaluation of a tuple will never fail to terminate though any of the components may. E.g. in {Miranda}: f (x,y) = 1 --> f bottom = 1 f (bottom,bottom) = 1 Thus in Miranda, any object whose type is compatible with a tuple pattern is assumed to match at the top level without evaluation - it is an {irrefutable} pattern. This also applies to user defined data types with only one constructor. In Haskell, patterns can be made irrefutable by adding a "~" as in f ~(x,y) = 1. If tuple constructor functions were {strict} in all their arguments then (bottom,x) = (x,bottom) = bottom for any x so matching a refutable pattern would fail to terminate if any component was bottom.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
TYPOL A specialised {logic programming} language. ["TYPOL: A Formalism to Implement Natural Semantics", T. Despeyroux, RR 94, INRIA, 1988]. (1994-10-31)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tabeal goodness of God, the father of one whom the kings of Syria and Samaria in vain attempted to place on the throne of Ahaz (Isa. 7:6).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tabeel a Persian governor of Samaria, who joined others in the attempt to prevent the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:7).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tophel lime, a place in the wilderness of Sinai (Deut. 1:1), now identified with Tafyleh or Tufileh, on the west side of the Edomitish mountains.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tubal (1.) The fifth son of Japheth (Gen. 10:2). (2.) A nation, probably descended from the son of Japheth. It is mentioned by Isaiah (66:19), along with Javan, and by Ezekiel (27:13), along with Meshech, among the traders with Tyre, also among the confederates of Gog (Ezek. 38:2, 3; 39:1), and with Meshech among the nations which were to be destroyed (32:26). This nation was probably the Tiberini of the Greek historian Herodotus, a people of the Asiatic highland west of the Upper Euphrates, the southern range of the Caucasus, on the east of the Black Sea.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Tabeal, Tabeel, good God
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Tebaliah, baptism, or goodness, of the Lord
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Tubal, the earth; the world; confusion
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]:
Tuvalu Tuvalu:Geography Location: Oceania, island group consisting of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia Map references: Oceania Area: total area: 26 sq km land area: 26 sq km comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 24 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: none Climate: tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to November); westerly gales and heavy rain (November to March) Terrain: very low-lying and narrow coral atolls Natural resources: fish Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% note: Tuvalu's nine coral atolls have enough soil to grow coconuts and support subsistence agriculture Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: since there are no streams or rivers and groundwater is not potable, all water needs must be met by catchment systems with storage facilities; beachhead erosion because of the use of sand for building materials; excessive clearance of forest undergrowth for use as fuel; damage to coral reefs from the spread of the crown of thorns starfish natural hazards: severe tropical storms are rare international agreements: party to - Climate Change, Endangered Species, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Law of the Sea Tuvalu:People Population: 9,991 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 36% (female 1,787; male 1,852) 15-64 years: 59% (female 3,105; male 2,764) 65 years and over: 5% (female 258; male 225) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 1.58% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 24.82 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 9.01 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 27.9 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 63.15 years male: 61.87 years female: 64.34 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 3.11 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Tuvaluans(s) adjective: Tuvaluan Ethnic divisions: Polynesian 96% Religions: Church of Tuvalu (Congregationalist) 97%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1.4%, Baha'i 1%, other 0.6% Languages: Tuvaluan, English Literacy: NA% Labor force: NA by occupation: NA Tuvalu:Government Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Tuvalu former: Ellice Islands Digraph: TV Type: democracy; began debating republic status in 1992 Capital: Funafuti Administrative divisions: none Independence: 1 October 1978 (from UK) National holiday: Independence Day, 1 October (1978) Constitution: 1 October 1978 Legal system: NA Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952), represented by Governor General Tulaga MANUELLA (since NA June 1994) head of government: Prime Minister Kamuta LATASI (since 10 December 1993); Deputy Prime Minister Otinielu TAUSI (since 10 December 1993) cabinet: Cabinet; appointed by the governor general on recommendation of the prime minister Legislative branch: unicameral Parliament (Palamene): elections last held 25 November 1993 (next to be held by NA 1997); results - percent of vote NA; seats - (12 total) Judicial branch: High Court Political parties and leaders: none Member of: ACP, AsDB, C (special), ESCAP, IFRCS (associate), INTELSAT (nonsignatory user), SPARTECA, SPC, SPF, UNESCO, UPU, WHO Diplomatic representation in US: Tuvalu has no mission in the US US diplomatic representation: none Flag: light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side quadrant; the outer half of the flag represents a map of the country with nine yellow five-pointed stars symbolizing the nine islands Economy Overview: Tuvalu consists of a scattered group of nine coral atolls with poor soil. The country has no known mineral resources and few exports. Subsistence farming and fishing are the primary economic activities. The islands are too small and too remote for development of a tourist industry. Government revenues largely come from the sale of stamps and coins and worker remittances. Substantial income is received annually from an international trust fund established in 1987 by Australia, NZ, and the UK and supported also by Japan and South Korea. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $7.8 million (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: NA% National product per capita: $800 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.9% (1989) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues: $4.3 million expenditures: $4.3 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1989 est.) Exports: $165,000 (f.o.b., 1989) commodities: copra partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ Imports: $4.4 million (c.i.f., 1989) commodities: food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery, manufactured goods partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ External debt: $NA Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: capacity: 2,600 kW production: 3 million kWh consumption per capita: 330 kWh (1990) Industries: fishing, tourism, copra Agriculture: coconuts and fish Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-87), $1 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $101 million Currency: 1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar ($A) = 100 cents Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars ($A) per US$1 - 1.3058 (January 1995), 1.3667 (1994), 1.4704 (1993), 1.3600 (1992), 1.2835 (1991), 1.2799 (1990) Fiscal year: NA Tuvalu:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 8 km unpaved: gravel 8 km Ports: Funafuti, Nukufetau Merchant marine: total: 8 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 44,473 GRT/73,652 DWT ships by type: cargo 1, chemical tanker 4, oil tanker 1, passenger-cargo 1, refrigerated cargo 1 Airports: total: 1 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1 Tuvalu:Communications Telephone system: 108 telephones; 300 radiotelephones local: NA intercity: NA international: NA Radio: broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 radios: 4,000 Television: broadcast stations: 0 televisions: NA Tuvalu:Defense Forces Branches: no military forces; Police Force Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP