📖 T — The English dictionary · page 11

teenage — Everyday, meaning 1: Aged between 13 and 19, or connected with people of that age.↗ e.g. "my teenage brother", "teenage years".↗ Example: My teenage sister sleeps until lunchtime.↗ · The book is about a teenage detective.↗ · Our bodies change a lot in the teenage years.↗ · Teenage boys often grow very fast.↗ · The shop has a teenage clothing section.↗ · My cousin got a teenage part-time job.↗

teenager — Everyday, meaning 1: A person between 13 and 19 years old.↗ Example: My cousin is a teenager; he's fifteen.↗ · When you turn thirteen, you become a teenager.↗ · Teenagers often like to sleep late.↗ · Our babysitter is a responsible teenager.↗ · The film is for teenagers and adults, not young children.↗ · In ten years, I'll be a teenager no more.↗ · Teenagers go to high school or secondary school.↗ · My sister became a teenager last month.↗

teens — Everyday, meaning 1: Your teens are the years of your life when your age ends in «-teen», from 13 to 19.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Teens are teenagers, young people aged 13 to 19.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The teens can also mean numbers from 13 to 19, or temperatures in that range.↗ Example: My cousin is in her teens now.↗ · This library has a special section for teens.↗ · Teens need lots of sleep.↗ · Count the teen numbers from thirteen to nineteen.↗ · Temperatures will be in the mid-teens tomorrow.↗ · He started playing guitar in his early teens.↗ · Don't confuse thirteen (13) with thirty (30).↗

teeny — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Very small; tiny.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In «teeny-weeny» or «teeny-tiny» (informal, childish): extremely small.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Teeny can also mean a tiny bit, as in "a teeny bit more frightened.".↗ Example: Look at the teeny little ladybird!↗ · I only want a teeny piece of cake.↗ · The mouse had teeny pink paws.↗ · «It's a teeny scratch,» she said, but it was bleeding a lot — tell an adult.↗ · The baby wore teeny socks.↗ · There was a teeny-weeny spider in the bath.↗ · That's a teeny bit unfair!↗ · This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes.↗

teepee — Everyday, meaning 1: A teepee is a cone-shaped tent of poles covered with skins or cloth, used by some Native American peoples.↗ (Also spelled tepee.).↗ Example: Iktomi sat alone in his teepee.↗ · The family slept warm inside the teepee.↗ · We drew a teepee in our history book.↗

teethe — Everyday, meaning 1: When a baby teethes, its first teeth are growing through the gums, which can make the baby sore, grumpy and dribbly.↗ Example: My baby brother is teething, so he cries a lot.↗ · Babies usually start teething at around six months.↗ · She chewed on a cold teething ring.↗ · Teething can make babies dribble and have red cheeks.↗ · The new website had a few teething problems.↗ · Our puppy is teething and chews everything.↗

teething — Everyday, meaning 1: The time when a baby's first teeth are growing through the gums, which can be sore.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Teething problems» or «teething troubles» (informal): small problems at the start of something new.↗ Example: The baby is teething, so she cries a lot.↗ · We bought a teething ring for my little brother.↗ · Teething babies like to chew on cold things.↗ · The new website had a few teething problems.↗ · The school's new lunch system had teething troubles in the first week.↗ · Teething can make babies' cheeks red.↗

telegram — Everyday, meaning 1: A telegram is a short written message sent by wire or radio, once paid for by the word.↗ Example: The postman brought a telegram.↗ · The telegram said Grandad was ill.↗ · In the old film a telegram arrived with bad news.↗

telegraph — Everyday, meaning 1: The telegraph was an old way of sending messages over long distances along wires, using electric signals like Morse code.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A telegraph pole is a tall wooden pole that holds up phone or electricity wires.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To telegraph a message is to send it by telegraph.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) To telegraph something is to show clearly, without meaning to, what you are going to do.↗ Example: The telegraph let people send messages across the country in minutes.↗ · A bird sat on the telegraph pole.↗ · Messages by telegraph were sent in Morse code.↗ · The news was telegraphed to the city.↗ · The goalkeeper saw the kick coming because the striker telegraphed it.↗ · Each word cost money to send by telegraph.↗ · The telegraph office was busy all day.↗ · The car hit a telegraph pole in the storm.↗ · Here and there, amidst the trees of the silent valley, stood poles which supported the wires of the electric telegraph.↗

telegraphic — Everyday, meaning 1: Telegraphic means to do with the telegraph, the old machine that sent messages along wires as electric signals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Telegraphic speech or writing is very short and leaves out little words, like an old telegram.↗ e.g. "Arrive Monday stop."↗ Example: In the 1800s, telegraphic messages crossed oceans along cables under the sea.↗ · His notes were telegraphic: "Lunch.↗ Park.↗ Rain.↗ Home."↗ · Toddlers use telegraphic speech, like "Me want juice."↗ · The old station still has a telegraphic office.↗ · Text messages can sound telegraphic because people leave out words.↗ · The teacher said my story summary was too telegraphic and needed full sentences.↗

telephone — Everyday, meaning 1: A telephone is a machine for talking to someone far away by sending sounds as electrical or radio signals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To telephone someone means to call them on the phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A telephone number is the number you dial to reach someone.↗ Example: Learn your mum's telephone number by heart.↗ · The telephone rang during dinner.↗ · In an emergency, telephone 999 for an ambulance.↗ · Alexander Graham Bell worked on early telephones.↗ · We made a string telephone with two paper cups.↗ · Grandma telephoned to say happy birthday.↗ · Old red telephone boxes are still found in Britain.↗

teleport — Everyday, meaning 1: To teleport is to move from one place to another instantly, without travelling through the space between; it happens only in science fiction, games and stories.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teleport (in games) is a pad or doorway that sends a player to another place.↗ Example: In the game, you can teleport back to your base.↗ · I wish I could teleport to school instead of walking in the rain.↗ · The wizard teleported out of the tower.↗ · Step on the glowing teleport to reach the next level.↗ · No real machine can teleport a person.↗ · "Beam me up" is how characters teleport in an old space show.↗

telescope — Everyday, meaning 1: A tube with lenses or mirrors that makes far-away things, like stars and planets, look bigger and closer.↗ Example: We looked at the Moon through a telescope.↗ · Galileo used a telescope to see Jupiter's moons.↗ · The Hubble Space Telescope takes photos of faraway galaxies.↗ · My telescope makes the stars look brighter.↗ · Pirates used a small telescope to look for ships.↗ · Astronomers work with huge telescopes.↗ · Now the Wicked Witch of the West had but one eye, yet that was as powerful as a telescope, and could see everywhere.↗

televise — Everyday, meaning 1: To televise something is to show it on television, often live as it happens: the match will be televised.↗ Example: The cup final will be televised live.↗ · The king's coronation was televised around the world.↗ · Is the school concert being televised?↗ No, just filmed!↗ · Parliament's debates are televised.↗ · The 1969 Moon landing was televised to millions.↗ · Not every match is televised.↗

television — Everyday, meaning 1: A television (TV) is a machine with a screen that shows programmes with pictures and sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Television is the system of sending programmes and the programmes themselves: watching television.↗ Example: We watched a film on television.↗ · Turn off the television, it's bedtime.↗ · Our new television is very big.↗ · She was on television for winning a prize.↗ · Don't sit too close to the television.↗ · Adverts on television want you to buy things.↗ · Television was invented about a hundred years ago.↗

tell — Everyday, meaning 1: To tell is to say something to someone so they know it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tell a story or a joke is to say it out loud for others.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To tell can mean to know or see a difference: «I can't tell the twins apart».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tell someone to do something is to order them.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To tell the time is to read a clock.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To tell on someone is to report them to a grown-up (kids also say «dob in» in Australia and NZ, «snitch» or «grass» in rude slang).↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «I'm telling you», «tell me about it» mean «I agree, it's true».↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (rude) To tell someone off is to scold them; «tell him where to go» means be rude to him.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (formal) Exams say «state», «indicate», «specify», «inform» or «determine» for tell.↗ Example: The words «more», «in all», «altogether» and «in total» tell us to add.↗ · Tell how many apples are left.↗ · Grandpa told us a story about a bear.↗ · Can you tell the time on this clock?↗ · Always tell an adult if a stranger asks you to go with them.↗ · I can't tell which twin is Sam.↗ · Mum told me off for eating 5 biscuits.↗ · I'm telling ya, it's 12, I counted twice.↗ · «This bus is always late.»↗ «Tell me about it.»↗ · Tell anyone and you're dead, ya snitch.↗ · State the number of items remaining.↗ · You can tell he's tired: he's yawning.↗ · And he told Laban all these things.↗ (Torah GEN.29.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And He said: 'Who told thee that thou wast naked?↗ (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917)↗ · So Moses went down unto the people, and told them.↗ (Torah EXO.19.25, JPS 1917)↗ · But he told not his father.↗ (Prophets 1SA.14.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore they came back, and told him.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.36, JPS 1917)↗ · And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.↗ (Writings EST.4.12, JPS 1917)↗

teller — Everyday, meaning 1: A teller is a person who works at a bank counter, taking in and paying out money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A teller is a person who tells something, especially in words like «storyteller» or «fortune-teller».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A teller is a person who counts the votes in an election or meeting.↗ Example: The bank teller counted out the money.↗ · Dad took cash from the automated teller machine.↗ · The storyteller held the children spellbound.↗ · A fortune-teller says she can see the future.↗ · The tellers counted the votes.↗ · My aunt works as a teller at the bank.↗ · Tell the teller how much you want to deposit.↗ · "Maybe I wouldn't," said the story-teller.↗

tellest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «tellest» means «you tell», a form of «tell».↗ e.g. To tell is to say something to someone so they know it.↗ Example: I'll do whatever thou tellest me, only leave off beating me."--"Then I have taught thee sense, eh?" said the man.--"Oh, yes, yes, good husband!" cried she.↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales)

telling — Everyday, meaning 1: (verb form) Saying or reporting something: «She is telling a story».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Showing something important, often more than people meant to show: «a telling remark».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Having a strong effect: «a telling blow».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) The act of telling a story: «In this telling of the tale, the wolf is kind».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (phrase) «telling off» = a scolding (UK, Australia); «that's telling him» = a sharp reply; «there's no telling» = no way to know.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: "Did not need twice telling" means a person did what they were asked straight away.↗ Example: Grandad is telling us a story about the war.↗ · She said nothing, but her silence was telling.↗ · The muddy footprints were a telling clue.↗ · I got a telling-off from Mum for leaving my bike out.↗ · There's no telling what the cat will do next.↗ · In this telling of Cinderella, the stepsisters are nice.↗ · We are learning telling the time in class.↗ · The man did not need twice telling.↗ · However, only one, ספ״ר SPR, is capable of describing all three: counting (סָפַר safar 'he counted', מִסְפָּר mispar 'number, count'), writing (סֵפֶר sefer 'book, scroll'), and speaking (סִפֵּר sipper 'he told, accounted', סִפּוּר sippur 'telling, account').↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · and he charged the messenger, saying: 'When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king, (Prophets 2SA.11.19, JPS 1917)↗ · We will not hide from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done.↗ (Writings PSA.78.4, JPS 1917)↗

telltale — Everyday, meaning 1: A telltale sign is a small clue that shows something is true or has happened: telltale crumbs on his face.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ; children's word) A telltale (or tell-tale) is a child who tells adults about other children's naughty behaviour, a tattletale (US).↗ Example: The chocolate on his chin was a telltale sign.↗ · Muddy paw prints were the telltale clues.↗ · Don't be a telltale!↗ · Telling a teacher about bullying is not being a telltale.↗ · Yawning is a telltale sign you need sleep.↗ · The telltale smoke showed where the fire was.↗

telly — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, UK) Telly is a television set.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, UK) Telly is the programmes shown on television.↗ Example: Can I watch telly after my homework?↗ · What's on the telly tonight?↗ · Nan fell asleep in front of the telly.↗ · Turn the telly off and come for tea.↗ · We saw our school on the telly!↗ · We bought a new telly for the living room.↗ · I watched 2 hours of telly on Saturday and 3 on Sunday, 5 in all.↗