📖 T — The English dictionary · page 48

trice — Everyday, meaning 1: A trice is a very short time, a moment. '↗ In a trice' means at once, very quickly.↗ Example: In a trice the dog was gone.↗ · Out of the carriage she jumped in a trice.↗ · Give me a trice to find my coat.↗

triceps — Everyday, meaning 1: The triceps is the big muscle at the back of your upper arm, which straightens your arm at the elbow.↗ Example: The triceps straightens your arm.↗ · When the biceps contracts, the triceps relaxes.↗ · Push-ups make your triceps stronger.↗ · Feel your triceps tighten when you push.↗ · The triceps is on the back of the upper arm.↗ · Stretch your triceps after exercise.↗

triceratops — Everyday, meaning 1: A large plant-eating dinosaur with three horns on its face and a big bony frill around the back of its head.↗ Example: A triceratops had three horns on its face.↗ · The triceratops ate plants, not meat.↗ · We saw a triceratops skeleton at the museum.↗ · Triceratops may have used its frill to scare enemies.↗ · Triceratops means «three-horned face».↗ · Five triceratops have fifteen horns altogether.↗ · My little brother's favourite dinosaur is triceratops.↗

trick — Everyday, meaning 1: Something done to fool or cheat someone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A clever or funny action that needs skill: a magic trick, a skateboard trick.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A clever way of doing something: a trick for remembering.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A joke played on someone: play a trick on.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Verb: to make someone believe something false.↗ Example: He did a magic trick with a coin.↗ · The fox tricked the crow into dropping the cheese.↗ · It was a trick question!↗ · We went trick-or-treating on Halloween.↗ · A stranger might use a trick like «help me find my puppy» — say no and tell an adult.↗ · My dog can do tricks.↗ · Here's a trick to remember the planets.↗ · A cold flannel did the trick.↗ · So the Farmer hit on a trick.↗

trickery — Everyday, meaning 1: Trickery is using tricks to deceive or cheat people, making them believe something false.↗ e.g. "He won the game by trickery."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Trickery can also mean clever illusions, as in magic shows or special effects, that fool the eye on purpose for fun.↗ Example: The fox got the cheese by trickery.↗ · Scammers use trickery to get people's passwords.↗ · The magician's trickery amazed the audience.↗ · The film used clever camera trickery to make the giant look huge.↗ · Winning by trickery is not really winning.↗ · Anansi the spider is famous for trickery in West African stories.↗ · The ref spotted the player's trickery and gave a yellow card.↗ · But he was on the watch for trickery, and examined it carefully, and saw that it had no power to heal.↗

trickle — Everyday, meaning 1: To trickle is for a liquid to flow slowly in a thin line or small drops.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To trickle is also for people or things to come or go slowly, a few at a time.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trickle is a thin slow flow of liquid.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A trickle is also a small number of people or things arriving slowly.↗ Example: A trickle of water ran down the window.↗ · Sweat trickled down his face in the heat.↗ · The pupils trickled into class after lunch.↗ · In summer the river is only a trickle.↗ · Sand trickled through her fingers.↗ · Letters from fans came in at a trickle.↗ · Rain trickled through the cracks in the roof.↗ · The water trickled down the naked sides of the rocks, and snow lay thickly all around.↗ · He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.↗ (Writings JOB.28.11, JPS 1917)↗

trickster — Everyday, meaning 1: A trickster is a person who tricks or cheats people, often to get their money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In myths and folk tales, a trickster is a clever, playful character who plays tricks on others, such as Anansi the spider, Coyote, or Loki.↗ Example: Anansi the spider is a famous trickster in African stories.↗ · The trickster sold fake tickets outside the stadium.↗ · Beware of tricksters who say you have won a prize.↗ · Loki is the trickster of Norse myths.↗ · The fox is often the trickster in fables.↗ · A trickster pretended to be from the bank on the phone.↗

tricky — Everyday, meaning 1: Tricky means difficult and needing care or skill («a tricky question»).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tricky person is clever at tricking or deceiving others.↗ Example: This maths problem is tricky; read it carefully.↗ · «Said» is a tricky word to spell.↗ · Parking in that narrow street is tricky.↗ · Watch out for tricky people who ask for help finding a puppy.↗ · The final level of the game is really tricky.↗ · It was a tricky situation, so I asked my teacher.↗ · The fox in the story is very tricky.↗ · Knots can be tricky to undo.↗ · Now, though the jackal was dead, he had left two sons behind him, every whit as cunning and tricky as their father.↗

tricycle — Everyday, meaning 1: A tricycle is a small bike with three wheels, one at the front and two at the back.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is easy to balance, so young children ride tricycles; some grown-ups ride big ones to carry goods.↗ Example: A tricycle has 3 wheels.↗ · There are 4 bicycles and 3 tricycles in the yard.↗ · Bikes and tricycles have 25 wheels in all.↗ · How many wheels do 6 tricycles have?↗ · My little brother rides his tricycle around the garden.↗ · A tricycle does not fall over when it stops.↗ · The preschool has five red trikes.↗ · «Tri» means three, as in triangle.↗

trident — Everyday, meaning 1: A trident is a spear with three sharp points, like a fork with three prongs.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In myths, Neptune (Roman) and Poseidon (Greek), the gods of the sea, carry a trident.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The trident is the coat of arms of Ukraine (the «tryzub»).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Trident is the name of the UK's nuclear missile system.↗ Example: Poseidon raised his trident and the sea grew wild.↗ · A trident has three sharp points.↗ · Britannia holds a trident and a shield.↗ · The trident, called the tryzub, is Ukraine's national symbol.↗ · Fishermen used tridents to spear fish.↗ · In the cartoon, King Triton waves a golden trident.↗ · Debates about Trident, Britain's nuclear weapons, are part of UK politics.↗ · Upon this Poseidon struck the ground with his trident, and the horse sprang forth in all his untamed strength and graceful beauty.↗

tried — Everyday, meaning 1: Past of «try»: made an effort to do something (I tried to lift the box).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tested or tasted something to see what it is like (I tried sushi).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Put on clothes to see if they fit (She tried on the shoes).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Judged a person in a law court (He was tried for theft).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Tried and tested / tried and true: proven to work well.↗ Example: I tried to lift the box, but it was too heavy.↗ · Have you tried the new ice cream flavour?↗ · She tried on three dresses before choosing.↗ · We tried 4 × 6, but the answer was too small, so we tried 4 × 7.↗ · He tried his best, and that's what matters.↗ · They tried out for the football team.↗ · This is a tried and tested recipe.↗ · Michael had tried on his spectacles.↗ · Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah.↗ (Torah DEU.6.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'↗ (Torah EXO.17.7, JPS 1917)↗ · But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tried God in the desert.↗ (Writings PSA.106.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy word is tried to the uttermost, and Thy servant loveth it.↗ (Writings PSA.119.140, JPS 1917)↗ · And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.↗ (Writings PSA.78.18, JPS 1917)↗

trieth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «trieth» means «tries», a form of «try»: To make an effort to do something.↗ e.g. "Try to finish."↗ Example: The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Proba- tion, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator trieth all righteous persons.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) · The Twenty-fifth Path is the Intelligence of Probation, or is Tentative, and is so called because it is the primary temptation, by which the Creator (blessed be He) trieth all righteous persons.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)

trifle — Everyday, meaning 1: A cold dessert made of layers of sponge cake, fruit or jelly, custard and cream, popular in the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something small and unimportant.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (in «a trifle») A little, slightly: «a trifle tired».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (in «trifle with») To treat someone or something without enough respect or seriousness.↗ Example: Grandma made a big trifle for the party.↗ · The trifle had layers of jelly, custard and cream.↗ · Don't worry about such trifles.↗ · The soup was a trifle too salty.↗ · The old king was not a man to be trifled with.↗ · It cost only a trifle, so I bought it.↗ · (informal) That's a trifle unfair, isn't it?↗ · But the dwarfs were not to be trifled with.↗ · ()f the Sefer Yetzirah II little need be said ; it abounds in trifles, contradictions and repetitions.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

trigger — Everyday, meaning 1: A trigger is the small lever on a gun or tool that you pull to make it work.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To trigger something means to make it start or happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A trigger is something that causes a reaction, such as a thing that sets off an alarm, an allergy or a strong feeling.↗ Example: Burnt toast triggered the smoke alarm.↗ · Dust can trigger my sister's asthma.↗ · Squeeze the trigger on the spray bottle to water the plants.↗ · The heavy rain triggered a flood.↗ · The water pistol has a bright orange trigger.↗ · Opening the door triggers the doorbell chime.↗ · Cold air is one of his asthma triggers.↗ · If you ever find a real gun, don't touch it and tell an adult.↗ · It began to dig up another tree, when he pulled the trigger and--bang!↗

trigon — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A triangular stringed musical instrument, a kind of small harp.↗ Example: that at what time ye hear the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up; (Writings DAN.3.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image; (Writings DAN.3.10, JPS 1917)↗

trike — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) A tricycle: a cycle with three wheels, often for small children.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A motorbike with three wheels.↗ Example: My little sister rides a red trike.↗ · A trike has three wheels.↗ · There are 4 trikes in the shed: how many wheels?↗ Twelve.↗ · He pedalled his trike round the garden.↗ · Grandad rode a motor trike to the beach.↗ · The trikes and bikes are parked by the gate.↗

trill — Everyday, meaning 1: A trill is a quick, high, repeated sound, like a bird singing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (music) A trill is when two notes next to each other are played or sung very quickly one after the other many times.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (language) A trill is a sound made by letting the tongue flutter, like the rolled «r» in Spanish or Scottish English.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To trill is to make such a sound, or to say something in a high, happy voice.↗ Example: A blackbird's trill came from the hedge.↗ · The flute player added a trill at the end.↗ · In Spanish, «perro» has a trilled r.↗ · «Good morning, darlings!» she trilled.↗ · The phone trilled on the table.↗ · Can you roll your r's into a trill?↗

trillion — Everyday, meaning 1: A trillion is a million millions: 1,000,000,000,000, or 10 to the power of 12 — a 1 followed by 12 zeros.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) «Trillions» means an enormous, uncountable number: «I've told you trillions of times!».↗ Example: A trillion is a thousand billion.↗ · The human body is made of trillions of cells.↗ · Write one trillion in digits: 1,000,000,000,000.↗ · Counting to a trillion, one number a second, would take over 30,000 years.↗ · Some countries' economies are worth trillions of dollars.↗ · There are trillions of tiny bacteria in your gut.↗ · I've asked you a trillion times to tidy your room!↗ (informal)↗