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   tachogram
         n 1: a graphical record of speed and distance produced by a
               tachograph

English Dictionary: tachygraphy by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tachograph
n
  1. a tachometer that produces a graphical record of its readings; used to record the speed and duration of trips in a motor vehicle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tachycardia
n
  1. abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute)
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tachygraphy
n
  1. a method of writing rapidly [syn: shorthand, stenography, tachygraphy]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tagus River
n
  1. a European river; flows into the North Atlantic [syn: Tagus, Tagus River]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take a crap
v
  1. have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
    Synonym(s): stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take care
v
  1. be careful, prudent, or watchful; "Take care when you cross the street!"
  2. be in charge of or deal with; "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements"
    Synonym(s): take care, mind
  3. take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business"
    Synonym(s): attend, take care, look, see
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
take charge
v
  1. assume control [syn: take hold, take charge, {take control}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Texas armadillo
n
  1. having nine hinged bands of bony plates; ranges from Texas to Paraguay
    Synonym(s): peba, nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Texas horned lizard
n
  1. of arid and semiarid open country [syn: {Texas horned lizard}, Phrynosoma cornutum]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Texas Ranger
n
  1. a member of the Texas state highway patrol; formerly a mounted lawman who maintained order on the frontier
    Synonym(s): Texas Ranger, Ranger
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touch a chord
v
  1. evoke a reaction, response, or emotion; "this writer strikes a chord with young women"; "The storyteller touched a chord"
    Synonym(s): strike a chord, touch a chord
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touch screen
n
  1. a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen
    Synonym(s): touch screen, touchscreen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touchscreen
n
  1. a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen
    Synonym(s): touch screen, touchscreen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachograph \Tach"o*graph\, n. [Gr. [?] speed + -graph.]
      A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic
      record.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachygraph \Tach"y*graph\, n.
      An example of tachygraphy; esp., an ancient Greek or Roman
      tachygraphic manuscript.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachygrapher \Ta*chyg"ra*pher\, n. [Gr. [?] a fast writer.]
      One who writes shorthand; a stenographer; esp., an ancient
      Greek or Roman notary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachygraphic \Tach`y*graph"ic\, Tachygraphical
   \Tach`y*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tachygraphique.]
      Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachygraphic \Tach`y*graph"ic\, Tachygraphical
   \Tach`y*graph"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. tachygraphique.]
      Of or pertaining to tachygraphy; written in shorthand.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tachygraphy \Ta*chyg"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. tachy`s quick + -graphy:
      cf. F. tachygraphie.]
      The art or practice of rapid writing; shorthand writing;
      stenography. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taxicorn \Tax"i*corn\, n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F.
      taxicorne.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of a family of beetles ({Taxicornes}) whose antenn[91]
      are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Taxicorn \Tax"i*corn\, n. [L. taxus a yew + cornu a horn: cf. F.
      taxicorne.] (Zo[94]l.)
      One of a family of beetles ({Taxicornes}) whose antenn[91]
      are largest at the tip. Also used adjectively.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tea-saucer \Tea"-sau`cer\, n.
      A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teguexin \Te*guex"in\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A large South American lizard ({Tejus teguexin}). It becomes
      three or four feet long, and is blackish above, marked with
      yellowish spots of various sizes. It feeds upon fruits,
      insects, reptiles, young birds, and birds' eggs. The closely
      allied species {Tejus rufescens} is called {red teguexin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   College \Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[8a]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega
      colleague. See {Colleague}.]
      1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in
            common pursuits, or having common duties and interests,
            and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges;
            as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college
            of bishops.
  
                     The college of the cardinals.            --Shak.
  
                     Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who,
                     to secure their inheritance in the world to come,
                     did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer.
                                                                              Taylor.
  
      2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated
            for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of
            knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge
            Universities, and many American colleges.
  
      Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe,
               college is used to include schools occupied with
               rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
  
      3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
            [bd]The gate of Trinity College.[b8] --Macaulay.
  
      4. Fig.: A community. [R.]
  
                     Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden.
  
      {College of justice}, a term applied in Scotland to the
            supreme civil courts and their principal officers.
  
      {The sacred college}, the college or cardinals at Rome.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Across \A*cross"\ (#; 115), prep. [Pref. a- + cross: cf. F. en
      croix. See Cross, n.]
      From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction
      opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a
      river. --Dryden.
  
      {To come across}, to come upon or meet incidentally.
            --Freeman.
  
      {To go across the country}, to go by a direct course across a
            region without following the roads.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cross \Cross\, prep.
      Athwart; across. [Archaic or Colloq.]
  
               A fox was taking a walk one night cross a village.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
      {To go cross lots}, to go across the fields; to take a short
            cut. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Share \Share\, n. [OE. share, AS. scearu, scaru, fr. sceran to
      shear, cut. See {Shear}, v.]
      1. A certain quantity; a portion; a part; a division; as, a
            small share of prudence.
  
      2. Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any
            property or interest owned by a number; a portion among
            others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend.
            [bd]My share of fame.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      3. Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into
            which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a
            ship owned in ten shares.
  
      4. The pubes; the sharebone. [Obs.] --Holland.
  
      {To go shares}, to partake; to be equally concerned.
  
      {Share and share alike}, in equal shares.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness;
            commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form.
  
                     Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and
                     secures them longer, than any thing else. --Hazlitt.
  
                     I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and
                     the grace of the gift.                        --Longfellow.
  
      7. pl. (Myth.) Graceful and beautiful females, sister
            goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the
            attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They
            were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely,
            Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the
            inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to
            wisdom, love, and social intercourse.
  
                     The Graces love to weave the rose.      --Moore.
  
                     The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. --Prior.
  
      8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and
            formerly of the king of England.
  
                     How fares your Grace !                        --Shak.
  
      9. (Commonly pl.) Thanks. [Obs.]
  
                     Yielding graces and thankings to their lord
                     Melibeus.                                          --Chaucer.
  
      10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks
            rendered, before or after a meal.
  
      11. pl. (Mus.) Ornamental notes or short passages, either
            introduced by the performer, or indicated by the
            composer, in which case the notation signs are called
            grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc.
  
      12. (Eng. Universities) An act, vote, or decree of the
            government of the institution; a degree or privilege
            conferred by such vote or decree. --Walton.
  
      13. pl. A play designed to promote or display grace of
            motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one
            player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of
            each. Called also {grace hoop} or {hoops}.
  
      {Act of grace}. See under {Act}.
  
      {Day of grace} (Theol.), the time of probation, when the
            offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted.
  
                     That day of grace fleets fast away.   --I. Watts.
  
      {Days of grace} (Com.), the days immediately following the
            day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are
            allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In
            Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are
            three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants
            being different.
  
      {Good graces}, favor; friendship.
  
      {Grace cup}.
            (a) A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after
                  grace.
            (b) A health drunk after grace has been said.
  
                           The grace cup follows to his sovereign's
                           health.                                       --Hing.
  
      {Grace drink}, a drink taken on rising from the table; a
            grace cup.
  
                     To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . we owe the
                     custom of the grace drink, she having established it
                     as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till
                     grace was said was rewarded with a bumper. --Encyc.
                                                                              Brit.
  
      {Grace hoop}, a hoop used in playing graces. See {Grace}, n.,
            13.
  
      {Grace note} (Mus.), an appoggiatura. See {Appoggiatura}, and
            def. 11 above.
  
      {Grace stroke}, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace.
           
  
      {Means of grace}, means of securing knowledge of God, or
            favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc.
  
      {To do grace}, to reflect credit upon.
  
                     Content to do the profession some grace. --Shak.
  
      {To say grace}, to render thanks before or after a meal.
  
      {With a good grace}, in a fit and proper manner grace fully;
            graciously.
  
      {With a bad grace}, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory
            manner; ungraciously.
  
                     What might have been done with a good grace would at
                     least be done with a bad grace.         --Macaulay.
  
      Syn: Elegance; comeliness; charm; favor; kindness; mercy.
  
      Usage: {Grace}, {Mercy}. These words, though often
                  interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar
                  meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is
                  spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy
                  is kindness or compassion to the suffering or
                  condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way
                  for the exercise of mercy toward men. See {Elegance}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Service \Serv"ice\, n. [OE. servise, OF. servise, service, F.
      service, from L. servitium. See {Serve}.]
      1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the
            performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at
            another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired
            helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or
            the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. [bd]O God .
            . . whose service is perfect freedom.[b8] --Bk. of Com.
            Prayer.
  
                     Madam, I entreat true peace of you, Which I will
                     purchase with my duteous service.      --Shak.
  
                     God requires no man's service upon hard and
                     unreasonable terms.                           --Tillotson.
  
      2. The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another;
            duty done or required; office.
  
                     I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . .
                     . and have nothing at his hands for my service but
                     blows.                                                --Shak.
  
                     This poem was the last piece of service I did for my
                     master, King Charles.                        --Dryden.
  
                     To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who
                     will understake it if it be not also a service of
                     honor?                                                --Macaulay.
  
      3. Office of devotion; official religious duty performed;
            religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial;
            as, a burial service.
  
                     The outward service of ancient religion, the rites,
                     ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
  
      4. Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
  
      5. Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or
            charge; official function; hence, specifically, military
            or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.
  
                     When he cometh to experience of service abroad . . .
                     ne maketh a worthy soldier.               --Spenser.
  
      6. Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes
            interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
  
                     The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the
                     service she did in picking up venomous creatures.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
      7. Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
            [bd]Pray, do my service to his majesty.[b8] --Shak.
  
      8. The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat
            it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of
            vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was
            tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.
  
                     There was no extraordinary service seen on the
                     board.                                                --Hakewill.
  
      9. (Law) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or
            constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law;
            as, the service of a subp[oe]na or an attachment.
  
      10. (Naut.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as
            spun yarn, small lines, etc.
  
      11. (Tennis) The act of serving the ball.
  
      12. Act of serving or covering. See {Serve}, v. t., 13.
  
      {Service book}, a prayer book or missal.
  
      {Service line} (Tennis), a line parallel to the net, and at a
            distance of 21 feet from it.
  
      {Service of a writ}, {process}, etc. (Law), personal delivery
            or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the
            party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its
            operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice
            is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested
            copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual
            place of abode.
  
      {Service of an attachment} (Law), the seizing of the person
            or goods according to the direction.
  
      {Service of an execution} (Law), the levying of it upon the
            goods, estate, or person of the defendant.
  
      {Service pipe}, a pipe connecting mains with a dwelling, as
            in gas pipes, and the like. --Tomlinson.
  
      {To accept service}. (Law) See under {Accept}.
  
      {To see service} (Mil.), to do duty in the presence of the
            enemy, or in actual war.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tussac grass \Tus"sac grass`\
      Tussock grass.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tussock \Tus"sock\, n. [From {Tuz}.] [Written also {tussuck}.]
      1. A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially,
            a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.
  
                     Such laying of the hair in tussocks and tufts.
                                                                              --Latimer.
  
      2. (Bot.) Same as {Tussock grass}, below.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of
            bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered
            with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species
            are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also
            {tussock caterpillar}. See {Orgyia}.
  
      {Tussock grass}. (Bot.)
            (a) A tall, strong grass of the genus {Dactylis} ({D.
                  c[91]spitosa}), valuable for fodder, introduced into
                  Scotland from the Falkland Islands.
            (b) A tufted grass ({Aira c[91]spitosa}).
            (c) Any kind of sedge ({Carex}) which forms dense tufts in
                  a wet meadow or boggy place.
  
      {Tussock moth} (Zo[94]l.), the imago of any tussock
            caterpillar. They belong to {Orgyia}, {Halecidota}, and
            allied genera.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   touch screen
  
      An input device that allows user to interact with
      computer by touching the display screen.
  
      Often this uses beams of infrared light that are projected
      across the screen surface.   Interrupting the beams generates
      an electronic signal identifying the location of the screen.
      Software interprets the signal and performs the required
      operation.
  
      (1995-04-13)
  
  
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