📖 T — The English dictionary · page 41

tragically — Everyday, meaning 1: Tragically means in a very sad way, usually because someone died or something terrible happened.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It can also introduce a sad fact: «Tragically, nobody survived.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal, joking) People sometimes use it to make a small disappointment sound huge: «Tragically, the shop had run out of chocolate.».↗ Example: The young explorer tragically died on the way home.↗ · Tragically, the ship hit an iceberg and sank.↗ · The famous singer's life was tragically short.↗ · Many people were tragically hurt in the earthquake.↗ · Tragically, the fire spread before help arrived.↗ · Tragically, my sandwich fell face down in the mud.↗ (joking)↗ · Romeo and Juliet's story ends tragically.↗

trail — Everyday, meaning 1: A trail is a path through the countryside, a forest or mountains.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trail is a line of marks or signs left by someone or something, like footprints.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To trail is to follow behind someone, or to drag along the ground behind.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To trail in a game is to be losing.↗ Example: We walked the nature trail around the lake.↗ · The snail left a shiny trail.↗ · Stay on the trail so you don't get lost.↗ · The detective followed a trail of clues.↗ · Her long scarf trailed on the ground.↗ · Our team was trailing by three goals at half time.↗ · Hansel and Gretel left a trail of crumbs.↗ · Some carried their tails over their arms, while others trailed them proudly along.↗ · Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from Gilead.↗ (Writings SNG.6.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thine eyes are as doves behind thy veil; thy hair is as a flock of goats, that trail down from mount Gilead.↗ (Writings SNG.4.1, JPS 1917)↗

trailer — Everyday, meaning 1: A trailer is a wheeled box or platform pulled behind a car, truck or tractor to carry things or animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trailer is a short video showing bits of a film, show or game to make people want to watch it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (US, Canada) A trailer is a caravan or a mobile home that people live or holiday in.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb, rare) To trailer something is to carry it on a trailer or to advertise it with a short clip.↗ Example: Dad hooked the trailer onto the back of the car.↗ · The horse stepped carefully into the trailer.↗ · We watched the trailer for the new cartoon film.↗ · The trailers before the movie lasted twenty minutes.↗ · My cousin in Texas lives in a trailer near the lake.↗ · The tractor pulled a trailer full of hay.↗ · A truck weighs 3 tonnes and its trailer weighs 2 tonnes, so together they weigh 5 tonnes.↗

train — Everyday, meaning 1: A train is a line of railway carriages or wagons pulled by an engine along tracks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To train means to practise to get better at something, like a sport.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To train a person or animal is to teach them a skill: train a dog to sit.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A train of thought is a line of ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: The train of a long dress is the part that trails on the floor.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A train can also be the long trailing tail of an animal or bird.↗ Example: A train has 8 cars with 40 seats each.↗ · The train travels 60 miles an hour.↗ · 25 people got off the train.↗ · She trains for 2 hours every day.↗ · We caught the early train to the city.↗ · The puppy is being trained to sit and stay.↗ · The football team trains on Tuesday evenings.↗ · Mind the gap between the train and the platform.↗ · What a long train he has!↗ · And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.↗ (Torah GEN.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Though I have trained and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise evil against Me.↗ (Prophets HOS.7.15, JPS 1917)↗ · Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.↗ (Prophets ISA.47.2, JPS 1917)↗ · What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee?↗ (Prophets JER.13.21, JPS 1917)↗

trainee — Everyday, meaning 1: A trainee is a person who is being taught how to do a job.↗ Example: Our class has a trainee teacher this term.↗ · The trainee chef chopped the onions.↗ · Every trainee pilot practises in a simulator first.↗ · The trainee wore a badge that said "In training".↗ · Be patient with trainees; they are still learning.↗ · She started as a trainee and is now the manager.↗

trainer — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who teaches people or animals to do something, especially a sport or a skill, like a football trainer or a dog trainer.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In British, Irish and Australian English, trainers are soft sports shoes for running and games (Americans say sneakers).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A thing used for practice, like training wheels (stabilisers) or a trainer cup for a baby.↗ Example: Put your trainers on for PE.↗ · I need new trainers because mine have a hole.↗ · The trainer made us run three laps of the field.↗ · The dog trainer taught Rex to sit and stay.↗ · My big sister has a personal trainer at the gym.↗ · The horse trainer gave the pony an apple.↗ · Tie your trainer laces so you do not trip.↗ · Our football trainer says practice makes progress.↗

trait — Everyday, meaning 1: A trait is a quality that is part of someone's character, like being brave, shy or kind.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, a trait is a feature passed down from parents to children, such as eye colour or the shape of a leaf.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trait can also be a typical feature of something, like a trait of a style of music.↗ Example: Kindness is Mia's best trait.↗ · Brown eyes are a trait she got from her dad.↗ · Write down three character traits of the wolf in the story.↗ · Curly hair is a family trait in our house.↗ · Giraffes passed on the trait of long necks.↗ · Being stubborn is not always a bad trait.↗ · Plants also inherit traits from their parent plants.↗ · One could mention many lovable traits in Smee.↗

traitor — Everyday, meaning 1: A traitor is a person who betrays their country, for example by helping its enemies.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A traitor is someone who betrays friends, a team or a group they belonged to, by giving away secrets or changing sides.↗ Example: The traitor gave the secret plans to the enemy.↗ · Guy Fawkes was called a traitor for his plot against the king.↗ · "Traitor!"↗ Jake joked when his friend joined the other team.↗ · She felt like a traitor for telling Mum the secret.↗ · In the story, the knight's best friend turned out to be a traitor.↗ · Traitors were once taken through Traitors' Gate at the Tower of London.↗ · He was no traitor; he only told the truth to stop someone getting hurt.↗ · 'Ah, traitor!' cried the wolf, howling with rage.↗ · Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, arouse Thyself to punish all the nations; show no mercy to any iniquitous traitors.↗ (Writings PSA.59.6, JPS 1917)↗

traitress — Everyday, meaning 1: A woman who betrays a friend, a family or her country (old use for a female traitor).↗ Example: The traitress told the wolf where the children were hiding.↗ · "You traitress!" shouted the prince when he found the letter.↗

trajectory — Everyday, meaning 1: A trajectory is the curved path that a thrown, kicked or fired object follows through the air or space.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trajectory is also the direction in which something develops over time, like the trajectory of a career or of prices.↗ Example: The football followed a high trajectory into the net.↗ · Scientists worked out the rocket's trajectory to Mars.↗ · Gravity bends a ball's trajectory into a curve.↗ · The arrow's trajectory was too low and it hit the ground.↗ · Draw the trajectory of the paper plane on the graph.↗ · The team's results are on an upward trajectory.↗ · A strong wind changed the kite's trajectory.↗

tram — Everyday, meaning 1: A tram is a public passenger vehicle that runs on rails along city streets, usually powered by electricity from wires above.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Trams are also called streetcars or trolleys in North America.↗ Example: We went to the museum by tram.↗ · Wait at the tram stop until the tram stops completely.↗ · Trams run on rails in the middle of the road.↗ · Melbourne has lots of trams.↗ · Look both ways before you cross the tram lines.↗ · The tram rang its bell.↗ · Bikes can slip on wet tram tracks.↗

tramp — Everyday, meaning 1: A person with no home or job who wanders from place to place (older word; now people say «homeless person»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To walk with heavy, loud steps.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A long walk, especially in the countryside.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (NZ) To hike in the bush or mountains: «tramping».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (old-fashioned, rude, mainly US) An insulting word for a woman, used to say she has many boyfriends — avoid it.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A ship that carries goods to any port, not on a fixed route (tramp steamer).↗ Example: We tramped through the muddy field in our wellies.↗ · In New Zealand we went tramping on the Tongariro track.↗ · The boys tramped up the stairs.↗ · An old tramp slept under the bridge in the story.↗ · It was a long tramp to the top of the hill.↗ · Kind people gave the tramp a hot meal.↗ · (NZ) Our class went on a three-day tramp.↗ · In the meantime Niels and the others tramped on towards Rome.↗

trample — Everyday, meaning 1: To trample something is to step heavily on it and crush or damage it: don't trample the flowers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To trample on someone's feelings or rights is to treat them as if they do not matter.↗ Example: The cows trampled the farmer's crops.↗ · Please don't trample the flower beds.↗ · The elephants trampled the tall grass.↗ · People were trampled when the crowd rushed for the door.↗ · Don't trample on other people's feelings.↗ · The footballers trampled mud all over the floor.↗ · A Bull trampled him with his heavy hoofs.↗ · And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may trample them.↗ (Writings JOB.39.15, JPS 1917)↗ · When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample My courts?↗ (Prophets ISA.1.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.↗ (Writings PSA.91.13, JPS 1917)↗

trampoline — Everyday, meaning 1: A trampoline is a strong piece of stretchy material held tight by springs on a frame, which you jump up and down on.↗ Example: We bounced on the trampoline all afternoon.↗ · Only one person on the trampoline at a time.↗ · The trampoline has a safety net around it.↗ · The springs push you back up into the air.↗ · We went to a trampoline park for my birthday.↗ · Take your shoes off before you get on the trampoline.↗

trance — Everyday, meaning 1: A state like being half asleep or dreaming, when you are awake but do not notice what is around you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A state when someone is deeply lost in thought, music or wonder and does not hear you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (also trance music) A kind of fast electronic dance music.↗ Example: She stared at the fire as if in a trance.↗ · The music put the animals into a kind of trance.↗ · «Wake up!↗ You're in a trance!» laughed my friend.↗ · The hypnotist claimed he could put people in a trance.↗ · The Rat walked on in a trance, listening to the distant piping.↗ · My brother watches cartoons like he's in a trance.↗ · Around it he saw several knights sitting in a trance; then he pulled off their rings and put them on his own fingers.↗

tranquil — Everyday, meaning 1: Calm, quiet and peaceful.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Not troubled or upset.↗ Example: The lake was tranquil in the early morning.↗ · After the storm the sea became tranquil again.↗ · She felt tranquil once she had said her prayers.↗ · A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; but envy is the rottenness of the bones.↗ (Writings PRO.14.30, JPS 1917)↗

tranquillity — Everyday, meaning 1: Tranquillity is a calm, quiet, peaceful state, with no noise, hurry or worry.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tranquillity can also mean a calm feeling inside a person.↗ Example: We enjoyed the tranquillity of the lake at sunrise.↗ · The library is a place of peace and tranquillity.↗ · A dog's bark broke the tranquillity of the night.↗ · Grandma loves the tranquillity of her garden.↗ · The astronauts landed on the Sea of Tranquillity.↗ · After the busy fair, the tranquillity of home felt lovely.↗ · Breathing slowly can give you a sense of tranquillity.↗ · After two years, when they were all beginning to get used to their new life, something happened to disturb their tranquillity.↗

tranquilly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a calm, quiet, unworried way.↗ Example: "Have it your way," she said tranquilly.↗ · The cat slept tranquilly by the fire.↗ · He sat tranquilly and waited for the bus.↗