📖 T — The English dictionary · page 40

traceable — Everyday, meaning 1: Able to be found or followed back to where it started.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Able to be copied by drawing over it (rare).↗ Example: All the meat in this shop is traceable to local farms.↗ · The problem was traceable to a broken wire.↗ · Online messages are often traceable.↗ · Her family is traceable back many generations.↗ · The parcel is traceable with a tracking number.↗ · The smell was traceable to a rotten apple.↗ · The travels of the "Fables of Bidpai" from India to Europe are well known and distinctly traceable.↗

track — Everyday, meaning 1: A track is a path or course for running or racing: a running track.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tracks are the metal rails that trains run on.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tracks are marks left on the ground by an animal, person or vehicle: footprints.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To track means to follow the marks of something, or to follow where it goes.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To keep track of something is to keep count or know where it is.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A track is one song or piece on an album.↗ Example: The track is 400 meters around.↗ · She ran 3 laps of the track.↗ · He keeps track of his savings.↗ · The train track is 20 km long.↗ · We found deer tracks in the snow.↗ · Never walk on the railway tracks.↗ · I lost track of time and was late.↗ · Use a tally chart to keep track of the votes.↗ · He knew well how to track the deer and buffalo.↗

tracker — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who follows the tracks or signs of animals or people to find them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A device or app that shows where something or someone is, or records information: a GPS tracker, a fitness tracker.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A chart or list for following progress: a reading tracker, a habit tracker.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (internet) A hidden piece of code on a website that records what you do online.↗ Example: The tracker followed the bear's footprints in the snow.↗ · Dad's fitness tracker says he walked 10,000 steps today.↗ · We put a GPS tracker on the dog's collar.↗ · Fill in your reading tracker every night.↗ · The parcel tracker says our delivery will arrive this afternoon.↗ · Some websites use trackers to see what you click.↗ · He shall become a great tracker.↗

tract — Everyday, meaning 1: A tract is a large area of land or water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the body, a tract is a long system of connected parts, like the digestive tract or the respiratory tract.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tract is also a short booklet or leaflet that tries to persuade people, often about religion or politics.↗ Example: Huge tracts of rainforest have been cut down.↗ · Food passes through the digestive tract.↗ · A cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract.↗ · The settlers bought a tract of land near the river.↗ · A man at the station was handing out religious tracts.↗ · Vast tracts of Australia are desert.↗ · So one day, when they happened to be passing through a pleasant and solitary tract of country, he sat himself down on a heap of moss.↗

traction — Everyday, meaning 1: Traction is the grip that stops a wheel, shoe or tyre from slipping on a surface.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Traction is the pulling force used to move something along, like an engine pulling a train.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In hospital, traction is a set of weights and pulleys that gently pulls a broken bone or injured back into the right place.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal) An idea or plan gains traction when more and more people start to support it.↗ Example: My trainers have good traction on the gym floor.↗ · The car lost traction on the icy road and slid.↗ · Put sand on the ice to give the wheels more traction.↗ · Steam engines gave the traction that pulled the first trains.↗ · After the fall, Grandad's leg was in traction for two weeks.↗ · The idea of a longer lunch break gained traction with the whole class.↗ · Mud gives bike tyres very little traction.↗

tractor — Everyday, meaning 1: A tractor is a strong farm vehicle with big back wheels, used to pull ploughs, trailers and other machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tractor can also be a large truck cab that pulls a trailer (a «tractor-trailer»).↗ Example: The farmer drove the red tractor across the field.↗ · A tractor pulled the plough through the soil.↗ · We had a tractor ride at the farm show.↗ · Tractors have huge back wheels for muddy ground.↗ · Never play near a working tractor.↗ · The tractor carried bales of hay to the barn.↗ · My little brother loves toy tractors.↗

trade — Everyday, meaning 1: Trade is the buying and selling of goods between people, shops or countries.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To trade is to swap one thing for another.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trade is a job that needs skill with the hands, like a plumber or electrician.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A trade is a single swap or deal.↗ Example: I traded my apple for her biscuit.↗ · Ancient ships carried trade across the sea.↗ · The Vikings traded furs and silver.↗ · Do you want to trade cards?↗ · My uncle is a builder by trade.↗ · That was a fair trade.↗ · Fair trade chocolate gives farmers a better price.↗ · Dad traded in his old car for a new one.↗ · You yourself asked me my trade.↗ · And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.'↗ (Torah GEN.34.10, JPS 1917)↗ · They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.13, JPS 1917)↗

trader — Everyday, meaning 1: A trader is a person who buys and sells goods to make money, such as a market trader.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (money) A trader is a person who buys and sells shares, money or other goods on a stock market.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) Traders carried goods like spices, silk and furs between faraway lands.↗ Example: The market trader sold apples three for a pound.↗ · Viking traders sailed far to sell furs.↗ · A trader buys low and sells high to make a profit.↗ · The fruit trader gave me an extra orange.↗ · Traders on the Silk Road carried silk from China.↗ · Dad is a sole trader who runs his own plumbing business.↗ · "What is the price of this cloth?" one trader will ask another.↗ · beside that which came of the merchants, and of the traffic of the traders, and of all the kings of the mingled people and of the governors of the country.↗ (Prophets 1KI.10.15, JPS 1917)↗

tradesman — Everyday, meaning 1: A tradesman is a person with skilled practical work, such as a plumber, electrician or builder.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, old) A tradesman is also a shopkeeper or someone who delivers goods.↗ Example: We called a tradesman to fix the boiler.↗ · My uncle is a tradesman; he is an electrician.↗ · The tradesmen arrived early to build the wall.↗ · In the old house there was a tradesman's entrance.↗ · A good tradesman uses the right tools.↗ · Many tradesmen learn their skills as apprentices.↗ · Less than six years afterwards the baron passed out of his castle-gate a poor beggar, while the baronial seat had been bought by a rich tradesman.↗

tradition — Everyday, meaning 1: A custom, belief or way of doing things that has been passed down from older people to younger people for a long time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A thing a family or group always does at a certain time (a birthday tradition).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The general way things have been done for a long time (by tradition).↗ Example: It's a tradition in our family to have pancakes on Sunday mornings.↗ · Carving pumpkins at Halloween is a tradition.↗ · Every culture has its own traditions.↗ · By tradition, the youngest child opens the first present.↗ · Lighting candles at Diwali is an old tradition.↗ · Our school has a tradition of planting a tree each year.↗ · Grandma taught us traditions from her country.↗ · This is probably another case of adapting one tradition to another.↗ · There exist alternative traditions where this term in the SY is vocalized instead as אַמּוֹת ammot 'cubits' or אֻמּוֹת ummot 'nations'.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Although Resh is usually thought to belong to the letters which cannot normally receive a dagesh, this was apparently not the case for these traditions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Nonetheless, English translators have usually shied away from the this-worldly symbolism of the ‘Holy Wind’, much preferring immaterial ‘Spirit’ either out of theological embarrassment or deference to tradition.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

traditional — Everyday, meaning 1: Traditional means done the same way for a long time and passed down from older people to younger people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Traditional also means old-fashioned or usual, not new or modern.↗ Example: We read a traditional tale about a clever fox.↗ · Haggis is a traditional Scottish food.↗ · She wore traditional dress for the festival.↗ · Morris dancing is a traditional English dance.↗ · Grandma makes the cake the traditional way.↗ · The Maori haka is a traditional dance from New Zealand.↗ · Many families have a traditional meal on holidays.↗ · Our school has a traditional sports day every summer.↗

traditionally — Everyday, meaning 1: Traditionally means in the way that has been done for a long time by a family, group or country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also mean «usually, as people have long expected».↗ Example: Traditionally, people eat turkey at Thanksgiving in the USA.↗ · Pancakes are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday in the UK.↗ · Kilts are traditionally worn in Scotland.↗ · The bread is traditionally baked in a stone oven.↗ · Traditionally, the youngest child lights the first candle.↗ · In Australia, a meat pie is traditionally eaten at the footy.↗

traffic — Everyday, meaning 1: The cars, buses, lorries, bikes and other vehicles moving on roads.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The amount of movement of people, ships, planes or data: air traffic, internet traffic.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Illegal buying and selling (traffic in drugs — adult use).↗ Example: Wait for the green man at the traffic lights.↗ · The traffic was very heavy this morning.↗ · We were stuck in a traffic jam.↗ · Look out for traffic before you cross.↗ · In the UK traffic drives on the left.↗ · In the USA traffic drives on the right.↗ · Never play ball near traffic.↗ · Air traffic controllers guide planes.↗ · An old house stood there; it was in the large town with its busy traffic.↗ · And bring your youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are upright men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.'↗ (Torah GEN.42.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast moreover multiplied thy harlotry with the land of traffic, even with Chaldea; and yet thou didst not have enough herewith.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.29, JPS 1917)↗ · In thy great wisdom by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches — (Prophets EZK.28.5, JPS 1917)↗

trafficker — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who trades or does business, buying and selling goods.↗ Example: Dedan was thy trafficker in precious cloths for riding.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.20, JPS 1917)↗ · As for the trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand.↗ (Prophets HOS.12.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.23, JPS 1917)↗

tragedy — Everyday, meaning 1: A tragedy is a very sad event that causes great suffering, damage or death, like a terrible accident or disaster.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tragedy is a serious play or story that ends sadly, often with the death of the main character, as in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Tragedy can be used jokingly for something small that seems sad, like dropping your ice cream.↗ Example: The sinking of the Titanic was a great tragedy.↗ · The town held a minute's silence after the tragedy.↗ · Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.↗ · Tragedy struck when the bridge collapsed.↗ · The day out ended in tragedy.↗ · I dropped my ice cream — what a tragedy!↗ (joking)↗ · And then one night came the tragedy.↗

tragic — Everyday, meaning 1: Tragic means very sad, usually because someone has died or suffered something terrible.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In literature, tragic means to do with a tragedy, a serious play or story that ends in disaster for the main character.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, slang) Tragic can mean embarrassingly bad.↗ e.g. "His dancing is tragic."↗ Example: The ship sank in a tragic accident.↗ · It is tragic that so many animals lose their homes in fires.↗ · The story has a tragic ending.↗ · The tragic hero makes one big mistake that ruins him.↗ · (slang) "That haircut is tragic," my brother joked.↗ · We heard the tragic news on the radio.↗ · She let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy.↗