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English Dictionary: time lag	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
time lag n time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" Synonym(s): delay, hold, time lag, postponement, wait
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
timeless adj unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty" Synonym(s): dateless, timeless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
timeless existence n a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife Synonym(s): eternity, timelessness, timeless existence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
timelessness n a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife Synonym(s): eternity, timelessness, timeless existence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tonal system n the system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language Synonym(s): tone system, tonal system
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toneless adj lacking in tone or expression; "his toneless mechanical voice" Antonym(s): toned
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tonelessly adv in a monotone; "`Come in,' she said tonelessly"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tumulus n (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs Synonym(s): burial mound, grave mound, barrow, tumulus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tuneless adj not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn: tuneless, untuneful, unmelodious] Antonym(s): melodious, tuneful
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tunelessly adv in a tuneless fashion; "he whistled tunelessly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wren \Wren\ (r[ecr]n), n. [OE. wrenne, AS. wrenna, wr[91]nna, perhaps akin to wr[aemac]ne lascivious.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to {Troglodytes} and numerous allied of the family {Troglodytid[91]}. Note: Among the species best known are the house wren ({Troglodytes a[89]don}) common in both Europe and America, and the American winter wren ({T. hiemalis}). See also {Cactus wren}, {Marsh wren}, and {Rock wren}, under {Cactus}, {Marsh}, and {Rock}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits. Note: Among these are several species of European warblers; as, the reed wren (see {Reed warbler} (a), under {Reed}), the sedge wren (see {Sedge warbler}, under {Sedge}), the willow wren (see {Willow warbler}, under {Willow}), the golden-crested wren, and the ruby-crowned wren (see {Kinglet}). {Ant wren}, any one of numerous South American birds of the family {Formicarid[91]}, allied to the ant thrushes. {Blue wren}, a small Australian singing bird ({Malurus cyaneus}), the male of which in the breeding season is bright blue. Called also {superb warbler}. {Emu wren}. See in the Vocabulary. {Wren babbler}, any one of numerous species of small timaline birds belonging to {Alcippe}, {Stachyris}, {Timalia}, and several allied genera. These birds are common in Southern Asia and the East Indies. {Wren tit}. See {Ground wren}, under {Ground}. {Wren warbler}, any one of several species of small Asiatic and African singing birds belonging to {Prinia} and allied genera. These birds are closely allied to the tailor birds, and build their nests in a similar manner. See also {Pincpinc}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tameless \Tame"less\, a. Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. --Bp. Hall. -- {Tame"less*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tameless \Tame"less\, a. Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable. --Bp. Hall. -- {Tame"less*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Teemless \Teem"less\, a. Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. [Poetic] --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grayling \Gray"ling\, n. [From {Gray}, a.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A European fish ({Thymallus vulgaris}), allied to the trout, but having a very broad dorsal fin; -- called also {umber}. It inhabits cold mountain streams, and is valued as a game fish. And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. --Tennyson. 2. (Zo[94]l.) An American fish of the genus {Thymallus}, having similar habits to the above; one species ({T. Ontariensis}), inhabits several streams in Michigan; another ({T. montanus}), is found in the Yellowstone region.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
{Time bill}. Same as {Time-table}. [Eng.] {Time book}, a book in which is kept a record of the time persons have worked. {Time detector}, a timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations in his beat. {Time enough}, in season; early enough. [bd]Stanly at Bosworth field, . . . came time enough to save his life.[b8] --Bacon. {Time fuse}, a fuse, as for an explosive projectile, which can be so arranged as to ignite the charge at a certain definite interval after being itself ignited. {Time immemorial}, [or] {Time out of mind}. (Eng. Law) See under {Immemorial}. {Time lock}, a lock having clockwork attached, which, when wound up, prevents the bolt from being withdrawn when locked, until a certain interval of time has elapsed. {Time of day}, salutation appropriate to the times of the day, as [bd]good morning,[b8] [bd]good evening,[b8] and the like; greeting. {To kill time}. See under {Kill}, v. t. {To make time}. (a) To gain time. (b) To occupy or use (a certain) time in doing something; as, the trotting horse made fast time. {To move}, {run}, [or] {go}, {against time}, to move, run, or go a given distance without a competitor, in the quickest possible time; or, to accomplish the greatest distance which can be passed over in a given time; as, the horse is to run against time. {True time}. (a) Mean time as kept by a clock going uniformly. (b) (Astron.) Apparent time as reckoned from the transit of the sun's center over the meridian.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Timeless \Time"less\, a. 1. Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. --Pope. 2. Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave. [Obs.] Must I behold thy timeless, cruel death? --Shak. 3. Having no end; interminable; unending. [bd]Timeless night and chaos.[b8] --Young.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Timelessly \Time"less*ly\, adv. In a timeless manner; unseasonably. [R.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Timely \Time"ly\, a. [Compar. {Timelier}; superl. {Timeliest}.] 1. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. [bd]The timely dew of sleep.[b8] --Milton. 2. Keeping time or measure. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tin \Tin\, n. [As. tin; akin to D. tin, G. zinn, OHG. zin, Icel. & Dan. tin, Sw. tenn; of unknown origin.] 1. (Chem.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4. 2. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate. 3. Money. [Cant] --Beaconsfield. {Block tin} (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; -- called also {bar tin}. {Butter of tin}. (Old Chem.) See {Fuming liquor of Libavius}, under {Fuming}. {Grain tin}. (Metal.) See under {Grain}. {Salt of tin} (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant. {Stream tin}. See under {Stream}. {Tin cry} (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other. {Tin foil}, tin reduced to a thin leaf. {Tin frame} (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore. {Tin liquor}, {Tin mordant} (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing. {Tin penny}, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.] --Bailey. {Tin plate}, thin sheet iron coated with tin. {Tin pyrites}. See {Stannite}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Milk \Milk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Milking}.] 1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. [bd]Milking the kine.[b8] --Gay. I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. --Shak. 2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows. 3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London Spectator. {To milk the street}, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] {To milk a telegram}, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Milk \Milk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Milking}.] 1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. [bd]Milking the kine.[b8] --Gay. I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. --Shak. 2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows. 3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London Spectator. {To milk the street}, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] {To milk a telegram}, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mill \Mill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Milling}.] [See {Mill}, n., and cf. {Muller}.] 1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. 2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. 3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin. 4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] --Thackeray. 6. To roll into bars, as steel. {To mill chocolate}, to make it frothy, as by churning.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ton mileage \Ton mileage\ (Railroads) Ton miles collectively; esp., the total ton miles performed by a railroad in a given period.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Toneless \Tone"less\, a. Having no tone; unmusical.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Townless \Town"less\, a. Having no town. --Howell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tummals \Tum"mals\, n. (Mining) A great quantity or heap. --Weale.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tumulose \Tu"mu*lose`\, a. Tumulous. [R.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tumulosity \Tu`mulos"ity\, n. The quality or state of being tumulous; hilliness. [R.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tumulous \Tu"mu*lous\, a. [L. tumulosus, fr. tumulus a mound.] Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose. [R.] --Bailey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tuneless \Tune"less\, a. 1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. [bd] Thy tuneless serenade.[b8] --Cowley. How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! --Goldsmith. 2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps. 3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tunnel \Tun"nel\, n. . [F. tonnelle a semicircular, wagon-headed vault, a tunnel net, an arbor, OF. also tonnel; dim. of tonne a tun; -- so named from its resemblance to a tun in shape. See {Ton}.] 1. A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel. 2. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. --Spenser. 3. An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like. 4. (Mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. {Tunnel head} (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. {Tunnel kiln}, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. {Tunnel net}, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. {Tunnel pit}, {Tunnel shaft}, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tunnel \Tun"nel\, n. . [F. tonnelle a semicircular, wagon-headed vault, a tunnel net, an arbor, OF. also tonnel; dim. of tonne a tun; -- so named from its resemblance to a tun in shape. See {Ton}.] 1. A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel. 2. The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. --Spenser. 3. An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like. 4. (Mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. {Tunnel head} (Metal.), the top of a smelting furnace where the materials are put in. {Tunnel kiln}, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. {Tunnel net}, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. {Tunnel pit}, {Tunnel shaft}, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tunnel stern \Tun"nel stern\ A design of motor-boat stern, for use in shallow waters, in which the propeller is housed in a tunnel and does not extend below the greatest draft.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinlike \Twin"like`\, a. Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- {Twin"like`ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Twinlike \Twin"like`\, a. Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- {Twin"like`ness}, n.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Temelec, CA (CDP, FIPS 78126) Location: 38.25627 N, 122.50334 W Population (1990): 1594 (1018 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Twin Hills, AK (CDP, FIPS 79780) Location: 59.07946 N, 160.21016 W Population (1990): 66 (35 housing units) Area: 80.2 sq km (land), 2.1 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Twin Lake, MI (CDP, FIPS 81040) Location: 43.36904 N, 86.17990 W Population (1990): 1328 (572 housing units) Area: 6.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 49457
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Twin Lakes, CA (CDP, FIPS 81050) Location: 36.96130 N, 121.99104 W Population (1990): 5379 (2723 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 1.4 sq km (water) Twin Lakes, CO Zip code(s): 81251 Twin Lakes, MN (city, FIPS 65920) Location: 43.56089 N, 93.42334 W Population (1990): 154 (77 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56089 Twin Lakes, WI (village, FIPS 81250) Location: 42.51883 N, 88.25881 W Population (1990): 3989 (2296 housing units) Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 4.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53181
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
TINLC // Abbreviation: "There Is No Lumber Cartel". See {Lumber Cartel}. TINLC is a takeoff on {TINC}.