📖 T — The English dictionary · page 6

tanzanian — Everyday, meaning 1: Tanzanian means from or to do with Tanzania, a country in East Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Tanzanian is a person from Tanzania.↗ Example: Kilimanjaro is a Tanzanian mountain.↗ · Our pen pal is Tanzanian and speaks Swahili.↗ · Tanzanian children learn in Swahili at primary school.↗ · The Serengeti is a famous Tanzanian national park.↗ · We cooked a Tanzanian dish of rice and beans.↗ · Many Tanzanians live by the coast.↗

taoiseach — Everyday, meaning 1: (Ireland) The title of the prime minister, the head of the government, of the Republic of Ireland.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Irish language) The word means "chief" or "leader" in Irish.↗ Example: The Taoiseach spoke to the Dáil about schools.↗ · The Taoiseach is the head of the Irish government.↗ · The President of Ireland and the Taoiseach are two different people.↗ · The Taoiseach visited the White House on Saint Patrick's Day.↗ · "Taoiseach" is an Irish word meaning leader.↗ · The new Taoiseach was elected by the Dáil.↗

tap — Everyday, meaning 1: A tap (UK) is a thing you turn to let water come out (US: faucet).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tap means to touch something lightly and quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tap is a light knock: a tap on the door.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tap a screen is to touch it to choose something.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Tap dancing is dancing with metal plates on your shoes.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Tap water is water from the tap.↗ Example: The tap fills 5 liters each minute.↗ · A leaking tap drips 2 drops per second.↗ · The bath fills in 10 minutes with the tap on.↗ · She tapped the drum 3 times.↗ · Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth.↗ · Tap the icon to open the game.↗ · Someone tapped me on the shoulder.↗ · Is the tap water safe to drink here?↗ · He knocked at the door--tap, tap.↗

tape — Everyday, meaning 1: Tape is a thin sticky strip used to stick things together: sticky tape.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tape measure is a long strip with marks used to measure length.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tape is a thin strip of cloth or plastic: red tape, finishing tape.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tape is to stick with tape.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: In the past, a tape was a cassette for recording sound or video; to tape is to record.↗ Example: She used 30 cm of tape for each box.↗ · A roll has 20 meters of tape.↗ · He taped 4 posters to the wall.↗ · Measure the table with a tape measure.↗ · Wrap the present and close it with tape.↗ · The winner ran through the tape at the finish line.↗ · Police tape kept people away.↗ · Dad taped the game to watch later.↗ · Soon after this it chanced that the poor widow sent her children to the town to purchase cotton, needles, ribbon, and tape.↗

taper — Everyday, meaning 1: A taper is a long thin candle, used for lighting other candles or lamps.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To taper is to become gradually narrower towards one end, like a pointed pencil.↗ Example: The taper flickered in the dark hall.↗ · She lit the tapers on the table.↗ · The tower tapers to a point at the top.↗

tapestry — Everyday, meaning 1: A heavy piece of cloth with a picture or pattern made by weaving or sewing coloured threads, hung on a wall.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (literary) A rich mixture of many different things: «a tapestry of cultures».↗ Example: The Bayeux Tapestry shows the Battle of Hastings.↗ · The castle walls were covered with old tapestries.↗ · Tapestries helped keep cold stone rooms warm.↗ · Our class made a tapestry from scraps of wool.↗ · London is a rich tapestry of cultures and languages.↗ · The tapestry shows hunters, dogs and a deer.↗ · See, I and my maidens have been weaving their figures into this piece of tapestry."↗

tapioca — Everyday, meaning 1: Tapioca is a starch made from the root of the cassava plant; it comes as flour, flakes or small white balls (pearls).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tapioca (pudding) is a sweet milky pudding made with tapioca pearls.↗ Example: Grandma made tapioca pudding with milk.↗ · Bubble tea has tapioca pearls at the bottom.↗ · Tapioca comes from the cassava root.↗ · Some children used to call tapioca «frogspawn».↗ · The tapioca balls turned clear as they cooked.↗ · Tapioca flour is used in gluten-free bread.↗

tapir — Everyday, meaning 1: A tapir is a large, plant-eating animal shaped a bit like a pig, with a short, bendy nose (snout) like a tiny trunk.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tapirs live in forests of Central and South America and South-East Asia, and are good swimmers.↗ Example: A tapir uses its bendy snout to grab leaves.↗ · Baby tapirs have stripes like a watermelon.↗ · The tapir hid in the river to escape the jaguar.↗ · Tapirs are related to horses and rhinos.↗ · The Malayan tapir is black and white.↗ · Tapirs are in danger because the rainforest is shrinking.↗ · Then there is the story of how the tortoise pretended that he was stronger than the tapir.↗

tapped — Everyday, meaning 1: Hit something lightly and quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Touched a screen or button with a finger.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Used something useful, like water, energy or talent: «tapped into».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Secretly listened to a phone line.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Drew liquid out of something, such as a tree or barrel.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (slang, «tapped out») Having no money left or being very tired; (slang, «tapped») a bit mad.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: Tapped can also mean opened something, such as a barrel, to get out what is inside.↗ Example: Someone tapped on my shoulder.↗ · She tapped the screen to open the game.↗ · He tapped his foot to the music.↗ · The farmers tapped water from deep underground.↗ · The maple trees were tapped for syrup.↗ · The spy's phone was tapped.↗ · (slang) I'm tapped out — I spent all my pocket money.↗ · The teacher tapped the board with a pen.↗ · Then she tapped the next cask, and out came a bushel of gold pieces.↗

tapping — Everyday, meaning 1: Tapping is hitting something lightly and quickly, often again and again, like tapping on a window.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tapping is touching a phone or tablet screen lightly to choose something.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tapping is using a supply of something, like tapping a tree for sap or tapping water.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Phone tapping is secretly listening to someone's phone calls.↗ Example: Someone was tapping on the window.↗ · She kept tapping her pencil on the desk.↗ · We were tapping our feet to the music.↗ · Tapping the icon opens the game.↗ · The woodpecker was tapping on the tree.↗ · He was tapping me on the shoulder to get my attention.↗ · Farmers in Canada collect maple syrup by tapping trees.↗ · Stop tapping; it's distracting.↗ · It was a soft cautious tapping on the door of his tree.↗

taproom — Everyday, meaning 1: A taproom is a room in an old inn or pub where drinks are served from barrels.↗ Example: The travellers went into the taproom to get warm.↗ · The old taproom smelt of beer and wood smoke.↗

taproot — Everyday, meaning 1: A taproot is a large main root that grows straight down into the ground, with smaller roots growing off it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Carrots, parsnips, radishes and dandelions have taproots.↗ Example: A carrot is a taproot that stores food.↗ · Dandelions are hard to pull up because of their long taproot.↗ · Grass has fibrous roots, but a carrot has a taproot.↗ · The oak tree's taproot grows deep to find water.↗ · Draw a taproot and label the side roots.↗ · Parsnips and radishes are taproots too.↗

tar — Everyday, meaning 1: Tar is a thick, black, sticky liquid made from coal, wood or oil, which goes hard when it cools.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tar is used to make roads, to waterproof roofs and boats.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tar is also the harmful sticky stuff in cigarette smoke that damages the lungs.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To tar something is to cover it with tar.↗ Example: The workers spread hot tar on the road.↗ · I got tar on my feet at the beach.↗ · Smoking puts tar into your lungs.↗ · The roof was covered with tar to keep the rain out.↗ · Long ago, sailors were called «Jack Tars» because of the tar on their clothes.↗ · The road was tarred last summer.↗ · Hot tar can burn your skin, so keep away.↗ · ‘Oh, don’t tar and feather me, please!↗

tarantula — Everyday, meaning 1: A tarantula is a large, hairy spider that lives in warm places, such as deserts and rainforests in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some people keep tarantulas as pets.↗ Example: A tarantula has eight hairy legs.↗ · The tarantula hid in its burrow during the day.↗ · My cousin has a pet tarantula called Fuzzy.↗ · Tarantulas are spiders, so they are arachnids, not insects.↗ · The tarantula moved slowly across the glass tank.↗ · Some tarantulas flick itchy hairs when they are scared.↗ · Never pick up a wild spider you don't know.↗ · [67] Mizgir, a venomous spider, like the Tarantula, found in the Kirghiz Steppes.↗

tardigrade — Everyday, meaning 1: A tardigrade is a tiny, eight-legged animal, usually less than 1 millimetre long, that lives in water, moss and soil and can survive extreme conditions.↗ Example: A tardigrade is smaller than a full stop.↗ · Tardigrades are also called water bears.↗ · We looked for tardigrades in wet moss with a microscope.↗ · Tardigrades survived a trip into outer space.↗ · A dried-out tardigrade can come back to life in water.↗ · Tardigrades have eight stubby legs with claws.↗

tardiness — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Tardiness is being late, especially arriving late to school, work or a meeting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tardiness can mean being slow to do something.↗ Example: The school sent a letter home about my tardiness.↗ · Tardiness means missing the start of lessons.↗ · Her tardiness made the whole team wait.↗ · The teacher said tardiness must improve this term.↗ · Traffic is no excuse for tardiness every day.↗ · The coach does not accept tardiness at practice.↗

tardy — Everyday, meaning 1: Tardy means late, arriving after the right time: «Don't be tardy for class».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tardy means slow to act or happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (USA, school) A tardy is a mark against you for arriving late, as in «I got three tardies».↗ Example: If you are tardy, sign in at the office.↗ · The tardy bell rang and the hall was empty.↗ · I got a tardy because the bus broke down.↗ · He was tardy three times this week.↗ · The tardy reply came weeks after the letter.↗ · Three tardies mean a detention at our school.↗

target — Everyday, meaning 1: A target is a thing you aim at and try to hit, like the circle in archery or darts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A goal or result you try to reach: a target of 20 books.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A person or thing that is attacked or criticised.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb) To target is to aim at or choose someone or something for an action.↗ Example: She hit the middle of the target.↗ · My target is to read 20 books this year.↗ · Throw the beanbag at the target.↗ · We are on target to finish by lunch.↗ · Use the four numbers to make the target number.↗ · Scammers target people who are online a lot.↗ · The advert targets children.↗ · The shooters were thronging round the target, and Rudy was soon amongst them.↗ · And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.↗ (Prophets 1KI.10.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target; (Writings 2CH.9.15, JPS 1917)↗

tariff — Everyday, meaning 1: A tariff is a tax that a country makes people pay on goods brought in from another country.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK) A tariff is a list of prices or charges, for example for electricity, phone calls, hotel rooms or trains.↗ Example: The country put a tariff on imported steel.↗ · Tariffs make foreign goods more expensive in the shops.↗ · Mum switched to a cheaper phone tariff.↗ · The hotel tariff is on the board by the door.↗ · A 10% tariff on a 200 dollar bike adds 20 dollars.↗ · The electricity tariff is 30p for each unit.↗

tarmac — Everyday, meaning 1: Tarmac is a hard black material for road and path surfaces, made of crushed stones mixed with tar.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «The tarmac» often means the area of an airport where planes park and take off.↗ Example: The playground is covered in tarmac.↗ · Workers laid new tarmac on our road.↗ · The plane sat on the tarmac for an hour.↗ · Tarmac gets very hot in summer, so dogs shouldn't walk on it at midday.↗ · He grazed his knee on the tarmac.↗ · The rain made the tarmac shiny and slippery.↗

tarnish — Everyday, meaning 1: To tarnish is when metal like silver, brass or copper loses its shine and gets dull or dark, because of the air.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To tarnish someone's name or reputation is to make people think less well of them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Tarnish is the dull, dark layer that forms on metal.↗ Example: Grandma's silver spoons have tarnished.↗ · We cleaned the tarnished pennies with vinegar and salt.↗ · The brass doorknob is covered in tarnish.↗ · Cheating tarnished the team's good name.↗ · Gold does not tarnish easily.↗ · The scandal tarnished the king's reputation.↗ · The old woman returned in the night and knew by the tarnished thread what had happened in her absence.↗

taro — Everyday, meaning 1: Taro is a tropical plant grown for its large, starchy root (corm), which is cooked and eaten like a potato.↗ Its big leaves are heart-shaped and can also be cooked.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Taro is also the food made from this root, and its purple-grey flavour in bubble tea and desserts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Taro is also a Japanese first name, as in Urashima Taro.↗ Example: Taro is an important food in the Pacific Islands.↗ · In Hawaii, taro is mashed to make poi.↗ · I tried purple taro bubble tea.↗ · Taro must be cooked before you eat it.↗ · The taro plant has huge heart-shaped leaves.↗ · Mum fried some taro chips.↗ · We learned that taro grows in wet, warm places.↗ · “This is Urashima Taro, from the country of Japan.↗