📖 T — The English dictionary

ta — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Ta means «thank you»: «Ta, mate.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Ta-ta» (informal, UK) means «goodbye», often said to small children.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a fragment, «ta» can be part of a longer word, or short for «teaching assistant» (TA) in schools.↗ Example: «Here's your pencil.»↗ «Ta!»↗ · Ta for the lift, Mum.↗ · Ta very much, that's lovely.↗ · Say ta-ta to Granny!↗ · Ta, mate, I owe you one.↗ · Our TA helps us with reading every morning.↗

tab — Everyday, meaning 1: A tab is a small flap or strip sticking out of something, used for pulling, holding or labelling it, like the tab on a can or a folder.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: On a computer, a tab is one of the pages open in a web browser, shown as a little label along the top.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Tab key on a keyboard moves the cursor forward to the next space or box.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) A tab is a bill for food or drinks that you pay later, as in «put it on my tab».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Keep tabs on» someone means to watch them carefully to know what they are doing.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (UK, slang) A tab can mean a cigarette in some parts of England.↗ Example: I had twelve tabs open, and the computer slowed down.↗ · Press Tab to jump to the next box.↗ · Pull the tab to open the can.↗ · Our teacher keeps tabs on who has finished their reading.↗ · Grandad picked up the tab for the whole family's dinner.↗ · Each folder has a coloured tab with a name on it.↗ · Close that tab and go back to the maths website.↗ · The coat had a little tab for hanging it on a hook.↗

tabby — Everyday, meaning 1: A tabby is a cat with a striped, swirled or spotted coat, often grey, brown or ginger, with an «M» shape on its forehead.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tabby describes this kind of striped pattern: «a tabby kitten».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) A tabby can be a female cat.↗ Example: Our tabby cat sleeps on the windowsill.↗ · The tabby kitten had a white tip on its tail.↗ · A ginger tabby followed us home.↗ · Tabbies have an «M» shape on their foreheads.↗ · Mog is a famous tabby in a picture book.↗ · My tabby chases leaves in the garden.↗

tabernacle — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In the Bible, the portable sanctuary or tent in which the Israelites worshipped God in the desert.↗ Example: Thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.↗ (Torah EXO.36.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.↗ (Torah EXO.40.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up.↗ (Torah EXO.36.20, JPS 1917)↗ · LORD, who shall sojourn in Thy tabernacle?↗ (Writings PSA.15.1, JPS 1917)↗ · In Salem also is set His tabernacle, and His dwelling-place in Zion.↗ (Writings PSA.76.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men; (Writings PSA.78.60, JPS 1917)↗

tabernacles — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Plural of tabernacle; here it means huts or booths, as in the festival Sukkot.↗ Example: Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress.↗ (Torah DEU.16.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.23.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses commanded them, saying: 'At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, (Torah DEU.31.10, JPS 1917)↗ · How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!↗ (Writings PSA.84.2, JPS 1917)↗ · This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.↗ (Prophets ZEC.14.19, JPS 1917)↗ · And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required; (Writings EZR.3.4, JPS 1917)↗

table — Everyday, meaning 1: A table is a piece of furniture with a flat top on legs, where you eat, work or put things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A table is also a set of numbers or words in rows and columns, like a times table or a timetable.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The table can mean the people sitting at it: «the whole table laughed».↗ Example: I put three spoons on the table.↗ · There are 4 stamps on the table and 10 stamps in the box.↗ · Mia takes 2 apples off the table.↗ · Please set the table for dinner.↗ · We learned the 7 times table today.↗ · Write your results in the table.↗ · The bus table shows when the next bus comes.↗ · The whole table cheered when the cake arrived.↗ · The copyists sat at their tables.↗ · the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread; (Torah EXO.39.36, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me alway.↗ (Torah EXO.25.30, JPS 1917)↗ · the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread; (Torah EXO.35.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore he is not come unto the king's table.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.20.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.↗ (Writings PRO.7.3, JPS 1917)↗ · While the king sat at his table, my spikenard sent forth its fragrance.↗ (Writings SNG.1.12, JPS 1917)↗

tablecloth — Everyday, meaning 1: A tablecloth is a large piece of cloth that covers a table, especially during meals, to protect it and make it look nice.↗ Example: Put the tablecloth on before we lay the table.↗ · I spilled juice on the white tablecloth.↗ · Grandma's tablecloth has lace edges.↗ · The magician pulled the tablecloth away and the plates stayed still.↗ · Don't let the baby pull on the tablecloth; the teapot could fall.↗ · We spread a tablecloth on the grass for our picnic.↗ · After dinner, shake the crumbs off the tablecloth outside.↗ · The tablecloth has a red and white checked pattern.↗ · In the middle of the room there stood a little table, covered with a white tablecloth, and seven little plates and forks and spoons and knives and tumblers.↗

tablespoon — Everyday, meaning 1: A tablespoon is a large spoon used for serving food or for measuring in cooking.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tablespoon (tablespoonful) is the amount it holds, used as a measure in recipes.↗ Example: Add two tablespoons of sugar.↗ · One tablespoon is the same as three teaspoons.↗ · Mum served the peas with a tablespoon.↗ · The recipe says 1 tbsp of oil.↗ · Use a level tablespoon of flour, not a heaped one.↗ · How many millilitres are in 4 tablespoons?↗ (60 ml in the UK)↗ · Don't confuse tbsp with tsp!↗

tablet — Everyday, meaning 1: A tablet is a small, flat, hard piece of medicine that you swallow; a pill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tablet is a thin, flat computer with a touch screen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tablet is a flat piece of stone or clay with writing on it, used long ago.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A tablet of soap is a bar of soap.↗ Example: Take one tablet twice a day after meals.↗ · Never take tablets that are not yours.↗ · Keep tablets away from small children.↗ · We use tablets to read e-books in class.↗ · My tablet needs charging.↗ · The ancient tablet had writing in pictures.↗ · Put the tablet down — it's bedtime.↗ · The Roman tablets told about the soldiers.↗ · Look here, this is what is written on the tablet of the statue by the lower gate.↗ · To obtain the full value of this Treatise, it should be studied hand in hand with Hermetic Rituals, the " Isiac Tablet ", and with a complete set of the Tarot designs.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth; (Prophets ISA.8.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.↗ (Prophets ISA.30.8, JPS 1917)↗ · The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond; it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.↗ (Prophets JER.17.1, JPS 1917)↗

tableware — Everyday, meaning 1: Tableware is all the things used for serving and eating a meal at a table: plates, bowls, cups, glasses, knives, forks and spoons.↗ Example: The shop sells pretty tableware.↗ · We used paper tableware at the picnic.↗ · Roman tableware was found in the field.↗ · Please put the tableware in the dishwasher.↗ · The party tableware had dinosaurs on it.↗ · Grandma keeps her best tableware for Christmas.↗

tabloid — Everyday, meaning 1: A newspaper with smaller pages, many photos and short, eye-catching stories, often about famous people, crime and gossip.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Sensational, shocking or gossipy, like tabloid news.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A size of newspaper page, smaller than a broadsheet.↗ Example: The tabloids printed a story about the singer's wedding.↗ · Tabloid headlines are big, bold and short.↗ · We compared a tabloid with a broadsheet in English class.↗ · Don't believe everything you read in the tabloids.↗ · The story was full of tabloid gossip.↗ · Some serious newspapers now print in tabloid size.↗

taboo — Everyday, meaning 1: A taboo is a rule of a group that says something must not be done, touched or said.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Taboo means forbidden by such a rule.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To taboo something is to forbid it.↗ Example: It is taboo to eat alone there.↗ · Speaking the king's name was taboo.↗ · The people taboo that tree and never cut it.↗

tabor — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) A tabor is a small drum, played with one hand, often with a pipe.↗ Example: The piper played a tune on the tabor.↗ · She snatched the tabor from the boy and gave it to her master.↗ · And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.↗ (Prophets JDG.4.12, JPS 1917)↗ · The north and the south, Thou hast created them; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in Thy name.↗ (Writings PSA.89.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Dobrath, and went up to Japhia.↗ (Prophets JOS.19.12, JPS 1917)↗

tabulate — Everyday, meaning 1: To tabulate information is to arrange it in a table, in rows and columns, so it is easy to read and compare.↗ Example: We tabulated the results of our plant experiment.↗ · Tabulate how many pets each pupil has.↗ · The scientist tabulated the temperatures for each day.↗ · First tabulate the data, then draw a bar chart.↗ · The survey answers were tabulated by the computer.↗ · She tabulated her pocket money spending in a notebook.↗

tabulation — Everyday, meaning 1: A tabulation is a list of facts arranged in neat rows and columns, such as a table of numbers.↗ Example: Make a tabulation of how many pets each child has.↗ · Our tabulation of votes has five rows.↗ · It is hard to use long tabulations without a shorthand.↗

tack — Everyday, meaning 1: A tack is a small nail with a flat head; a drawing pin or thumbtack holds paper on a board.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tack something is to fix it with tacks, or to sew it loosely with big temporary stitches.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (sailing) To tack is to change a sailing boat's direction by turning its front through the wind, so it can zigzag against the wind.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A tack is a way or plan of doing something: try a different tack.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Tack is the saddle, bridle and other equipment for riding a horse.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To tack something on is to add it at the end, often as an afterthought.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: Tack can also be the sharp ticking sound a clock makes.↗ Example: Pin the poster up with a tack.↗ · Mum tacked the hem before sewing it properly.↗ · The sailors had to tack back and forth against the wind.↗ · That didn't work, so let's try a different tack.↗ · She cleaned the saddle and the rest of the tack.↗ · He tacked a joke on to the end of his speech.↗ · Ouch, I stepped on a tack!↗ · Use a thumbtack to hold the map on the wall.↗ · The clock said “tick! tack!” and the finger moved round; but as they entered, they remarked that they were now grown up.↗

tackle — Everyday, meaning 1: To try to take the ball from a player, or to bring a player to the ground, in games like football, rugby and hockey.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To start dealing with a problem or a hard job: tackle your homework.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As an uncountable noun, tackle is the equipment for a sport, especially fishing tackle (rods, lines, hooks).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To grab and stop someone, for example a police officer tackles a thief.↗ Example: The defender made a clean tackle and won the ball.↗ · In rugby you may only tackle the player who has the ball.↗ · Let's tackle the maths homework before dinner.↗ · We need to tackle the litter problem at our school.↗ · Grandpa keeps his fishing tackle in the shed.↗ · The police officer tackled the man and stopped him.↗ · She tackled the hardest puzzle first.↗ · A late tackle can hurt someone, so the referee blew the whistle.↗

taco — Everyday, meaning 1: A taco is a Mexican food made of a folded corn or wheat tortilla (a thin flat bread) filled with meat, beans, cheese, salad or other food.↗ Example: We have tacos for dinner on Tuesdays.↗ · I put cheese, beans and lettuce in my taco.↗ · The taco shell broke when I bit it.↗ · Fish tacos are popular by the sea.↗ · There are 4 people and each eats 3 tacos, so we need 12 tacos.↗ · Can I have another taco, please?↗