📖 T — The English dictionary · page 47

trespass — Everyday, meaning 1: To go onto someone's land or into a building without permission.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible, church, old) A wrong or sin; to trespass means to do wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) To trespass on someone's time or kindness means to take more than you should.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A wrong done against someone, or a sin against God.↗ Example: Don't trespass on the railway line — it's very dangerous.↗ · The sign said: No trespassing.↗ · The farmer caught boys trespassing in his field.↗ · The weasels trespassed in Toad Hall.↗ · «Forgive us our trespasses,» the congregation prayed.↗ · I don't want to trespass on your kindness.↗ · Trespassers will be prosecuted.↗ · And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?↗ (Torah GEN.31.36, JPS 1917)↗ · Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that soul be guilty; (Torah NUM.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · If any one sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and deal falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of pledge, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbour; (Torah LEV.6.2, JPS 1917)↗ · O God, Thou knowest my folly; and my trespasses are not hid from Thee.↗ (Writings PSA.69.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass concerning the devoted thing.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.7, JPS 1917)↗ · As a vulture he cometh against the house of the LORD; because they have transgressed My covenant, and trespassed against My law.↗ (Prophets HOS.8.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?↗ (Torah GEN.31.36, JPS 1917) · Speak unto the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to commit a trespass against the LORD, and that soul be guilty;↗ (Torah NUM.5.6, JPS 1917) · If any one sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and deal falsely with his neighbour in a matter of deposit, or of pledge, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbour;↗ (Torah LEV.6.2, JPS 1917)

trespassing — Everyday, meaning 1: Going onto someone's land or into a building without permission.↗ Example: The sign said "No Trespassing".↗ · They were caught trespassing in the farmer's field.↗ · Trespassing on railway lines is dangerous and against the law.↗ · We turned back because we would be trespassing.↗ · Building sites are dangerous, so trespassing is not allowed.↗ · The dog barked at the boy trespassing in the garden.↗

tress — Everyday, meaning 1: A tress is a long lock or strand of hair, especially one that hangs down.↗ Example: She combed her long golden tresses.↗ · A tress of hair fell across her face.↗ · The girl cut off just one tress.↗ · Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.↗ (Writings SNG.7.6, JPS 1917)↗

trestle — Everyday, meaning 1: A trestle is a frame with legs, often a beam on two pairs of sloping legs, used to hold up a table top or plank.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trestle table is a long table made of a board on trestles, easy to fold away.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trestle is also a framework of beams that holds up a railway bridge.↗ Example: We set out the cakes on trestle tables in the hall.↗ · The painter stood on a plank between two trestles.↗ · The old train crossed a wooden trestle bridge.↗ · Fold the trestles away after the fair.↗ · The banquet was laid on long trestle tables.↗ · Dad built a workbench on two trestles.↗

trey — Everyday, meaning 1: A trey is a card, dice face or domino with three spots.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US, slang) In basketball, a trey is a shot scored from far away that is worth three points.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Trey is also a boy's name (a name), often used in the USA.↗ Example: I need a trey to win this round of cards.↗ · The dice showed a trey.↗ · He hit a trey just before the buzzer (US, slang).↗ · The trey of hearts was the last card in the pack.↗ · My friend Trey lives next door (a name).↗

triad — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A group of three things or persons.↗ Example: The Seven are divided; three are over against three, and one stands between the triads.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Seven are divided ; three are over against three, and one stands between the triads.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The triad, fire, water, and air; the fire above, the water below, and the air in the midst.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

triage — Everyday, meaning 1: Triage is deciding the order in which sick or injured people are treated, based on who needs help most urgently, as in a hospital emergency department or after a disaster.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (general) Triage means sorting any problems or jobs into order of importance so the most urgent are dealt with first.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (verb) To triage means to sort patients or jobs in this way.↗ Example: At A and E, a triage nurse checked how ill I was.↗ · Triage means the most urgent patients are seen first.↗ · After the earthquake, doctors set up triage tents.↗ · Someone with a broken leg may wait while a heart attack patient is treated; that's triage.↗ · The help desk triaged all the computer problems.↗ · Mum triaged the chores: dinner first, washing later.↗ · The paramedics did triage at the scene of the crash.↗

trial — Everyday, meaning 1: A trial is when a court, with a judge and often a jury, decides if someone is guilty of a crime.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trial is a test to see how good, useful or safe something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trial is a try-out for a sports team.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A trial is something difficult or annoying you have to put up with.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «Trial and error» means trying different ways until one works.↗ Example: The thief went on trial today.↗ · We did three trials and took the average.↗ · She went to the football trials and got in the team.↗ · We found the answer by trial and error.↗ · The new medicine is being tested in trials.↗ · The app has a free seven-day trial.↗ · Looking after the puppy was a real trial.↗ · The jury listened carefully during the trial.↗ · Now the trial was to take place.↗ · the great trials which thine eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders; (Torah DEU.29.3, JPS 1917)↗ · For there is a trial; and what if it contemn even the rod?↗ (Prophets EZK.21.18, JPS 1917)↗

triangle — Everyday, meaning 1: A triangle is a flat shape with three straight sides and three corners (angles).↗ A triangle has 3 sides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A triangle is a musical instrument: a metal bar bent into a triangle that you hit with a small rod.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A triangle is anything shaped like a triangle, like a slice of pizza or a warning sign.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A triangle can also be a group of three people or things that are linked and cause conflict, such as a love triangle.↗ Example: A triangle has 3 sides.↗ · Each side of the triangle is 5 cm.↗ · She drew 6 triangles.↗ · How many sides do 4 triangles have?↗ · The angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.↗ · He played the triangle in the school band.↗ · Cut the sandwich into triangles.↗ · A triangle road sign warns drivers of danger ahead.↗ · "The swans fly in an oblique line; the cranes, in the form of a triangle; and the plovers, in a curved line like a snake."↗

triangular — Everyday, meaning 1: Triangular means shaped like a triangle, with three sides and three corners.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A triangular number is a number of dots that can make a triangle: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15 ….↗ Example: A triangular garden has sides 5, 6 and 7 m.↗ · Find the perimeter of the triangular field.↗ · A triangular flag.↗ · How many corners has a triangular piece?↗ · Warning road signs are triangular.↗ · She cut the sandwiches into triangular halves.↗ · A triangular prism has 2 triangular faces.↗ · 1, 3, 6 and 10 are triangular numbers.↗ · He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes; his mouth was made of an old broken rake, and was, of course, furnished with teeth.↗ · arranged in a triangular form and the sphere of void encompassing them was symbolized by a circle.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

tribal — Everyday, meaning 1: Belonging to a tribe – a group of families or communities who share ancestors, language, customs and often land, with their own leaders.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Showing strong loyalty to your own group and dislike of others: «tribal football fans».↗ Example: The museum showed tribal art from many parts of Africa.↗ · Tribal elders met to decide what to do.↗ · Many tribal lands were taken by settlers in the past.↗ · Football fans can be very tribal about their team.↗ · The tribal dance told the story of the first people.↗ · Māori groups called iwi have their own lands and leaders.↗ · This is an essentially Indian trait; almost all Hindus have some tribal or caste mark on their bodies or faces.↗

tribe — Everyday, meaning 1: A tribe is a group of families and people who share the same ancestors, language, customs and way of life, often with their own leader.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) The tribes of Israel were the twelve family groups said to come from the twelve sons of Jacob.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A tribe is any big group of people who belong together or like the same things, such as fans or a large family.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (science) In biology, a tribe is a group of related plants or animals.↗ Example: The Iceni were a tribe in ancient Britain led by Queen Boudica.↗ · Each tribe had its own chief and customs.↗ · The Bible tells of the twelve tribes of Israel.↗ · Our cousins arrived like a whole tribe, loud and hungry.↗ · Football fans are a tribe of their own.↗ · Many Native American peoples prefer to be called nations rather than tribes.↗ · Lions, tigers and other big cats belong to the same tribe of cats in biology.↗ · Let us now go back to our tribe.↗ · Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.↗ (Torah NUM.13.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.↗ (Torah NUM.13.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.↗ (Torah NUM.13.7, JPS 1917)↗ · These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.↗ (Writings 1CH.27.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Return for Thy servants' sake, the tribes of Thine inheritance.↗ (Prophets ISA.63.17, JPS 1917)↗ · But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.↗ (Writings PSA.78.68, JPS 1917)↗

tribulation — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Great trouble, suffering or hardship.↗ Example: He delivereth the afflicted by His affliction, and openeth their ear by tribulation.↗ (Writings JOB.36.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.26.24, JPS 1917)↗

tribunal — Everyday, meaning 1: (law) A special kind of court or group of officials who decide on a particular kind of problem, such as work disputes or tax arguments.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) A court set up to judge serious crimes, such as war crimes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Any group with the power to judge someone.↗ Example: Uncle Dan took his old boss to an employment tribunal.↗ · The tribunal decided he had been dismissed unfairly.↗ · After the war, a tribunal judged the leaders.↗ · Three judges sat on the tribunal.↗ · The tribunal will give its decision next week.↗ · In the story the hero had to stand before a tribunal of elders.↗ · For this deed, Poseidon summoned Ares to appear before the tribunal of the Olympic gods, which was held upon a hill in Athens.↗

tributary — Everyday, meaning 1: A tributary is a river or stream that flows into a bigger river or a lake.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tributary can also be a state or kingdom that pays tribute to a stronger ruler.↗ Example: The stream is a tributary of the River Thames.↗ · Many tributaries join the Amazon.↗ · The place where a tributary meets the main river is called a confluence.↗ · The tributary was flooded after the rain.↗ · Label the tributaries on the map.↗ · The river gets bigger as more tributaries join it.↗ · Balsora was the capital of a kingdom long tributary to the caliph.↗ · And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary unto thee, and shall serve thee.↗ (Torah DEU.20.11, JPS 1917)↗ · She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!↗ (Writings LAM.1.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Zebulun drove not out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributary.↗ (Prophets JDG.1.30, JPS 1917)↗ · But the Amorites were resolved to dwell in Harheres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributary.↗ (Prophets JDG.1.35, JPS 1917)↗

tribute — Everyday, meaning 1: A tribute is something said, done or given to show respect, thanks or admiration for someone: «a tribute to the nurses».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In history, a tribute was money, food or goods that a weaker country or people had to pay to a stronger ruler.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tribute act or tribute band copies the music of a famous band.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «To be a tribute to» means to show how good something is: «The garden is a tribute to her hard work».↗ Example: The school planted a tree as a tribute to our old caretaker.↗ · Fans left flowers in tribute to the singer.↗ · The king demanded tribute from the villages.↗ · Everyone paid tribute to the brave firefighters.↗ · We went to see a Beatles tribute band.↗ · Her neat work is a tribute to her patience.↗ · “Have you collected my tribute from Denmark?”↗ · And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.↗ (Torah NUM.31.37, JPS 1917)↗ · And the persons were sixteen thousand, of whom the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.↗ (Torah NUM.31.40, JPS 1917)↗ · And the beeves were thirty and six thousand, of which the LORD'S tribute was threescore and twelve.↗ (Torah NUM.31.38, JPS 1917)↗ · The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful shall be under tribute.↗ (Writings PRO.12.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.↗ (Writings EST.10.1, JPS 1917)↗ · There were also that said: 'We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.↗ (Writings NEH.5.4, JPS 1917)↗