📖 T — The English dictionary · page 49

trilobite — Everyday, meaning 1: A trilobite was a sea animal with a hard, jointed shell and many legs that lived about 520 to 250 million years ago; trilobites are now extinct and known only from fossils.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trilobite is also a fossil of one of these animals.↗ Example: I found a trilobite fossil on the beach in Wales.↗ · Trilobites crawled along the sea floor long before the dinosaurs.↗ · A trilobite's body was split into three long parts.↗ · Some trilobites could roll up into a ball like a woodlouse.↗ · Trilobites had eyes made of crystal.↗ · All trilobites died out about 250 million years ago.↗ · The museum had a whole case of trilobites.↗

trim — Everyday, meaning 1: To trim means to cut a little off to make something neat: trim the hedge, trim your hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trim is a short haircut that just tidies the hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Trim is a strip of material used to decorate edges, like lace on a dress.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To trim means to decorate: trim the Christmas tree.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Trim means neat and slim.↗ Example: She trimmed 2 inches off her hair.↗ · He trims 5 bushes each hour.↗ · The trim goes around a table 4 meters long.↗ · How much ribbon trim is needed for the frame?↗ · Dad trims the hedge every summer.↗ · I need a trim, my fringe is in my eyes.↗ · We trimmed the tree with lights and tinsel.↗ · Trim the crusts off the sandwiches.↗ · Deirdre grew like the white sapling, straight and trim as the rash on the moss.↗

trimmed — Everyday, meaning 1: Trimmed means cut a little to make it neat or tidy, such as trimmed hair, hedges or nails.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Trimmed means made smaller by cutting away extra parts, such as fat from meat or words from an essay.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Trimmed with something means decorated along the edges: a coat trimmed with fur.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths, statistics) A trimmed mean is an average worked out after removing the highest and lowest values.↗ Example: Dad trimmed the hedge with big shears.↗ · I got my fringe trimmed at the hairdresser's.↗ · The dress was trimmed with blue ribbon.↗ · We trimmed the Christmas tree with tinsel and lights.↗ · The butcher trimmed the fat off the meat.↗ · My essay was too long, so I trimmed it down to 300 words.↗ · The judges used a trimmed mean, removing the top and bottom scores.↗ · Early one morning the queen went into the bath-room; it was built of marble, and had soft cushions, trimmed with the most beautiful tapestry.↗

trimmer — Everyday, meaning 1: A trimmer is a tool or machine for cutting hedges, grass edges, hair or beards neatly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trimmer is a person who trims things.↗ Example: Dad used the hedge trimmer on the bushes.↗ · The trimmer was very loud.↗ · Stay away from the grass trimmer while it is running.↗ · Grandpa shaves with an electric trimmer.↗ · The vet used a trimmer to cut the dog's claws.↗ · Unplug the trimmer before cleaning it.↗ · The trimmer cut neat edges along the path.↗

trimming — Everyday, meaning 1: Trimming means cutting a little off something to make it tidy: trimming a hedge, trimming hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Trimming (noun) is decoration added to the edge of something, like lace or ribbon on a dress.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The trimmings are the extra foods served with a main dish, especially at Christmas dinner: turkey with all the trimmings.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Trimmings are the small bits cut off.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Trimming can mean reducing something a little: trimming costs.↗ Example: Dad is trimming the hedge.↗ · I need my fringe trimming.↗ · We had turkey with all the trimmings.↗ · The dress had gold trimming on the hem.↗ · Put the grass trimmings in the compost.↗ · The school is trimming its spending this year.↗ · She is trimming the crusts off the sandwiches.↗ · While the old man was busy, cutting and trimming the great blocks of stone, the lad would play among the chips.↗

trinity — Everyday, meaning 1: (church) The Trinity is the Christian belief that there is one God who is three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A trinity is any group of three things or people that belong closely together.↗ Example: Christians believe in the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.↗ · Saint Patrick is said to have used a shamrock to explain the Trinity.↗ · Our church is called Holy Trinity Church.↗ · The priest preached about the Trinity on Trinity Sunday.↗ · Reading, writing and maths are the trinity of basic skills.↗ · The triangle on the window stands for the Trinity.↗ · Wind, rain and cold were the trinity that ruined our picnic.↗ · ShMA is in Chaldee a name for the Trinity (Parkhurst).↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

trinket — Everyday, meaning 1: A trinket is a small, cheap ornament or piece of jewellery.↗ Example: The merchant sold trinkets to the children.↗ · She wore a silver trinket on a chain.↗ · He bought a box of trinkets for his sister.↗

trio — Everyday, meaning 1: A trio is a group of three people or things.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (music) A trio is a group of three musicians or singers, or a piece of music for three players.↗ Example: The three friends made a trio of detectives.↗ · A jazz trio played at the wedding.↗ · We sang a song as a trio.↗ · Harry, Ron and Hermione are a famous trio.↗ · Arrange the 12 pupils into trios — that makes 4 trios.↗ · The shop sells a trio of cakes for £3.↗

trip — Everyday, meaning 1: A trip is a journey to a place and back, often short: a school trip.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To trip is to catch your foot on something and almost fall or fall.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To trip someone up is to make them fall, or to make them make a mistake.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A round trip is going and coming back.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Trip can also mean to walk or dance with quick, light steps.↗ Example: The trip to the zoo is 30 miles.↗ · The bus makes 4 trips a day.↗ · Each trip costs 3 dollars.↗ · A round trip is 2 times the distance one way.↗ · Our class went on a trip to the museum.↗ · Mind you don't trip over the cable.↗ · He tripped on the step and fell.↗ · Have a good trip!↗ · They tripped about in the cabbage garden.↗

triple — Everyday, meaning 1: Triple means three times as much or as many.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Triple means having three parts or happening three times, like a triple jump.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To triple is to become or make three times bigger.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) A triple can be a group of three numbers, like a Pythagorean triple.↗ Example: Triple 7 is 21.↗ · The price of the toy tripled from £4 to £12.↗ · I had a triple scoop ice cream!↗ · She won the triple jump at sports day.↗ · If you triple 10 metres, you get 30 metres.↗ · A triple-decker sandwich has three layers.↗ · Let's triple-check the answer before we hand it in.↗ · 3, 4 and 5 make a Pythagorean triple.↗

triplet — Everyday, meaning 1: One of three children born to the same mother at the same time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A group or set of three things.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (music) Three notes played in the time usually taken by two.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (maths) A set of three numbers, such as a Pythagorean triplet like 3, 4, 5.↗ Example: My neighbour has triplets — two boys and a girl.↗ · The triplets all had red hair.↗ · Identical triplets look almost the same.↗ · In maths, 3, 4 and 5 make a Pythagorean triplet.↗ · The music teacher showed us how to clap a triplet.↗ · Mum bought three cakes, one for each triplet.↗ · If the triplets are each 8, their ages add up to 24.↗

tripod — Everyday, meaning 1: A stand with three legs used to hold a camera, telescope or other equipment steady.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) A three-legged metal stand for holding a beaker or dish over a Bunsen burner.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Any object or creature with three legs, such as the alien machines in "The War of the Worlds".↗ Example: Put the beaker on the tripod and gauze.↗ · The photographer set her camera on a tripod.↗ · A tripod doesn't wobble, even on uneven ground.↗ · We watched the stars through a telescope on a tripod.↗ · In the old story, giant alien tripods walked across England.↗ · Be careful: the tripod gets hot over the Bunsen burner.↗ · Next, she placed the tripod over it, and the kettle on top.↗

tripping — Everyday, meaning 1: Tripping means catching your foot on something so that you stumble or fall.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tripping someone means making them fall by putting your foot or something in their way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tripping (a switch or alarm) means making it turn on or off suddenly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Tripping over each other» means getting in each other's way.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Tripping means moving along with quick, light steps.↗ Example: Tie your laces to stop tripping.↗ · Bags on the floor are a tripping hazard.↗ · He kept tripping over the dog.↗ · Tripping a player is a foul.↗ · The kettle keeps tripping the electricity.↗ · Stop tripping each other up!↗ · She was tripping over her words because she was nervous.↗ · One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along.↗

trireme — Everyday, meaning 1: A trireme was a long, fast wooden warship of ancient Greece, Phoenicia and Rome, rowed by about 170 men sitting in three rows, one above another.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It had a bronze ram at the front for smashing into enemy ships, and a sail for when the wind was good.↗ Example: The Athenians built two hundred triremes to fight the Persians.↗ · A trireme needed about 170 rowers working together.↗ · The trireme's bronze ram could punch a hole in an enemy ship.↗ · In our history book there is a drawing of a trireme with three rows of oars.↗ · The rowers in a trireme had to keep time to the beat of a flute.↗ · A model trireme stands in the museum near the Greek vases.↗ · We made a trireme out of cardboard and lollipop sticks for our project.↗

triton — Everyday, meaning 1: Triton is a sea god in the myths of ancient Greece, half man and half fish, who blows a conch shell like a trumpet.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune; it is icy and very cold.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A triton is also a large sea snail with a long, pointed shell (triton shell).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Europe) In some books, «triton» is used for a kind of newt.↗ Example: Triton is the biggest moon of Neptune.↗ · In the Greek myth, Triton blew his shell to calm the waves.↗ · The space probe took photos of Triton's icy surface.↗ · The museum had a huge triton shell.↗ · Triton orbits Neptune in the opposite direction to the planet's spin.↗ · Our fountain has a statue of Triton holding a conch.↗ · Triton is so cold that nitrogen freezes on it.↗ · Triton is always represented as half man, half fish, the body below the waist terminating in the tail of a dolphin.↗

triumph — Everyday, meaning 1: A triumph is a great victory or success: the concert was a triumph.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Triumph is the great joy or pride you feel when you win or succeed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To triumph is to win, succeed or beat something difficult: good triumphs over evil.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (history) In ancient Rome, a triumph was a grand parade through the city to honour a winning general.↗ Example: The school play was a triumph.↗ · She raised the cup in triumph.↗ · Good triumphed over evil in the end.↗ · Climbing the mountain was a personal triumph.↗ · He gave a shout of triumph.↗ · The Roman general rode through the city in a triumph.↗ · They triumphed against the odds.↗ · It was his hour of triumph.↗ · O clap your hands, all ye peoples; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.↗ (Writings PSA.47.2, JPS 1917)↗ · By this I know that Thou delightest in me, that mine enemy doth not triumph over me.↗ (Writings PSA.41.12, JPS 1917)↗ · That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?↗ (Writings JOB.20.5, JPS 1917)↗

triumphal — Everyday, meaning 1: Triumphal means done to celebrate a victory.↗ Example: The soldiers marched under a triumphal arch.↗ · The crowd cheered the triumphal parade.↗ · They held a triumphal feast after the battle.↗ · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal Intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal In- telligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

triumphant — Everyday, meaning 1: Triumphant means happy and proud because you have won or succeeded.↗ Example: The triumphant team lifted the cup.↗ · She gave a triumphant shout.↗ · He stood, triumphant, over the defeated dragon.↗ · Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy king cometh unto thee, he is triumphant, and victorious, lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.↗ (Prophets ZEC.9.9, JPS 1917)↗

trivia — Everyday, meaning 1: Trivia are small, unimportant facts or details.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) Trivia was a name for the goddess Diana, because her statues stood where three roads met.↗ Example: The quiz asked for trivia about the moon.↗ · He knows a lot of trivia about dinosaurs.↗ · Diana was called Trivia, the goddess of three roads.↗