📖 T — The English dictionary · page 7

tarot — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A set of picture cards used for fortune-telling and games, with special pictures such as the Fool and the Tower.↗ Example: To obtain the full value of this Treatise, it should be studied hand in hand with Hermetic Rituals, the " Isiac Tablet ", and with a complete set of the Tarot designs.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

tarpan — Everyday, meaning 1: The tarpan was a wild horse that lived in Europe and western Asia, including the steppes of Ukraine and Russia; it is now extinct.↗ The last known tarpan died in a zoo in Russia in 1909.↗ Example: The tarpan was a wild horse of Europe.↗ · Tarpans once ran across the steppes of southern Ukraine.↗ · The last tarpan died in 1909.↗ · Hunting and farming helped make the tarpan extinct.↗ · Konik ponies look a bit like the tarpan.↗ · The tarpan had a dark stripe down its back.↗ · We read about the tarpan in our lesson on extinct animals.↗

tarry — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) To tarry is to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) To tarry is to be slow to act, or to delay.↗ Example: Tarry with me for a while.↗ · The knight did not tarry at the gate.↗ · Why did you tarry so long?↗ · and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; (Torah GEN.27.44, JPS 1917)↗ · Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will speak unto me more.'↗ (Torah NUM.22.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Hasten ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him: Thus saith thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord of all Egypt; come down unto me, tarry not.↗ (Torah GEN.45.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?↗ (Prophets JDG.5.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.3, JPS 1917)↗ · They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to try mixed wine.↗ (Writings PRO.23.30, JPS 1917)↗

tarsier — Everyday, meaning 1: A tarsier is a tiny primate from islands in South-East Asia, such as the Philippines and Borneo, with huge round eyes, long back legs and a long thin tail.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Each tarsier eye is about as big as its brain.↗ Example: The tarsier has eyes as big as its brain.↗ · Tarsiers hunt insects at night.↗ · A tarsier can turn its head almost right round.↗ · The tarsier leaps from tree to tree on its long legs.↗ · Tarsiers live on islands in South-East Asia.↗ · Loud noise and camera flashes can stress tarsiers, so visitors must be quiet.↗

tarsus — Everyday, meaning 1: The tarsus is the group of small bones in the ankle and upper foot (science).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In birds and insects, the tarsus is a part of the leg near the foot.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tarsus is also the name of an old city (now in Turkey); in the Bible, Saint Paul came from Tarsus.↗ Example: The tarsus is made of seven small bones.↗ · The heel bone is part of the tarsus.↗ · A bird's tarsus is the thin part of its leg above the toes.↗ · An insect's tarsus helps it grip leaves.↗ · Christians read that Paul was born in Tarsus.↗ · The doctor said the X-ray of my tarsus was fine.↗

tart — Everyday, meaning 1: A tart is an open pie made of pastry with a sweet or savoury filling, like jam or fruit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Tart means sour or sharp in taste, like a lemon or a green apple.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) A tart reply is short and unkind.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, UK) To tart something up is to decorate it or make it look nicer quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (rude, offensive) Tart is an insulting word for a woman; do not use it.↗ Example: We made jam tarts in cooking club.↗ · The apple tart was cut into eight equal slices.↗ · These green apples taste a bit tart.↗ · Lemon juice gives the sauce a tart flavour.↗ · «I'm busy,» she said in a tart voice.↗ · They tarted up the old shop with fresh paint.↗ · The baker sold 24 tarts and had 6 left.↗ · In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white puddings, sausages, tarts, and all sorts of sweetmeats, or with pieces of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls.↗

tartan — Everyday, meaning 1: Tartan is a pattern of coloured stripes crossing each other at right angles, making squares; it is woven into woollen cloth, especially in Scotland.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tartan is one particular pattern belonging to a Scottish clan (family group), region or organisation.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tartan describes things made of this cloth: a tartan kilt, a tartan scarf.↗ Example: He wore a tartan kilt at the wedding.↗ · Every Scottish clan has its own tartan.↗ · Grandma wrapped a tartan rug around her knees.↗ · The tartan pattern has lines that cross at right angles.↗ · Our class designed a new tartan for our school.↗ · The Tartan Army sang loudly at the football match.↗ · The shortbread tin was covered in red tartan.↗ · Tartan was once banned in the Scottish Highlands for a time.↗ · And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem.↗ (Prophets 2KI.18.17, JPS 1917)↗ · In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it; (Prophets ISA.20.1, JPS 1917)↗

tartar — Everyday, meaning 1: Tartar is a hard yellowish coating that builds up on teeth if they are not cleaned well.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tartar sauce (also tartare) is a creamy sauce with pickles, often eaten with fish.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Cream of tartar is a white powder used in baking.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (history) A Tartar (more correctly Tatar) is a member of a Turkic people of Russia and Central Asia; Crimean Tatars are a people of Crimea in Ukraine.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (old-fashioned) A tartar is a fierce, bad-tempered person.↗ Example: The dentist scraped the tartar off my teeth.↗ · Brushing twice a day helps stop tartar building up.↗ · I like tartar sauce with my fish fingers.↗ · Add a pinch of cream of tartar to the egg whites.↗ · Many Crimean Tatars were forced from their homes long ago.↗ · The old housekeeper was a real tartar.↗ · "Get me a surety," says the Tartar.↗

tartaric — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Tartaric describes tartaric acid, a natural acid found in grapes, bananas and tamarinds; it is used in cooking, baking powder (as cream of tartar) and making wine.↗ Example: Tartaric acid is found in grapes.↗ · Cream of tartar comes from tartaric acid.↗ · Sherbet fizzes because the tartaric or citric acid meets the bicarbonate of soda.↗ · Tartaric acid gives some sweets a sour taste.↗ · We listed acids in food: citric, tartaric and malic.↗ · Winemakers measure tartaric acid in grapes.↗

tartly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a sharp way, with a little unkind edge, as when someone is annoyed and speaks briefly.↗ Example: «You are late again,» she said tartly.↗ · He answered tartly that the dog was not his fault.↗

tarzan — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name) Tarzan is a made-up character created by the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs in the novel "Tarzan of the Apes" (1912): a boy raised by apes in the African jungle who grows up very strong and swings through the trees on vines.↗ Disney made a cartoon film of him in 1999.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A Tarzan is a very strong, muscly man, often said as a joke.↗ Example: Tarzan swung through the jungle on long vines.↗ · My brother did a Tarzan yell from the climbing frame.↗ · In the story, Tarzan is raised by apes.↗ · Disney's "Tarzan" has songs by Phil Collins.↗ · "Okay, Tarzan, put the sofa down," laughed Mum.↗ · We tied a Tarzan swing to the big oak tree.↗ · Tarzan and Jane meet in the jungle.↗

task — Everyday, meaning 1: A task is a piece of work that someone has to do, often given by someone else.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be tasked with something is to be given a job to do (formal).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Take someone to task» means to tell them off for something they did.↗ Example: Your first task is to read the story.↗ · Feeding the cat is my task every morning.↗ · Stay on task, please.↗ · This task is harder than the last one.↗ · Break a big task into smaller parts.↗ · The class finished the task in ten minutes.↗ · Each group had a different task.↗ · The third task was the hardest.↗ · And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'↗ (Torah EXO.5.13, JPS 1917)↗ · For he saw a resting-place that it was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant under task-work (Torah GEN.49.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were set on mischief, when they said: 'Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your daily task.'↗ (Torah EXO.5.19, JPS 1917)↗ · I have seen the task which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.↗ (Writings ECC.3.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when Israel was waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to task-work, but did in no wise drive them out.↗ (Prophets JDG.1.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven; it is a sore task that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.↗ (Writings ECC.1.13, JPS 1917)↗

taskmaster — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who sets hard work for others and makes sure they do it.↗ Example: Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.↗ (Torah EXO.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying: (Torah EXO.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'↗ (Torah EXO.5.13, JPS 1917)↗ · There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.↗ (Writings JOB.3.18, JPS 1917)↗

tasmanian — Everyday, meaning 1: Tasmanian means from or about Tasmania, the island state in the south of Australia.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A Tasmanian is a person from Tasmania.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The Tasmanian devil is a small, fierce black marsupial that lives only in Tasmania.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) was a striped marsupial that is now extinct.↗ Example: The Tasmanian devil screeched in the dark.↗ · We met a Tasmanian family on the ferry.↗ · Tasmanian apples are sold all over Australia.↗ · The Tasmanian tiger is extinct, but people still claim to see one.↗ · My cousin is Tasmanian and loves bushwalking.↗ · Tasmanian forests have some of the tallest trees in the world.↗

tassel — Everyday, meaning 1: A tassel is a bunch of threads or strings tied together at the top and hanging loose at the bottom, used for decoration on cushions, curtains, hats or bookmarks.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tassel is also the tuft of flowers at the top of a maize (corn) plant.↗ Example: Her scarf has tassels at each end.↗ · We made tassels from wool in craft club.↗ · At graduation he moved his tassel to the left.↗ · The curtains were tied back with gold tassels.↗ · The bookmark has a red tassel.↗ · The tassels on top of the corn shed pollen.↗ · He had a cap with a long tassel on his head, and Russian boots with red tops on his feet.↗

taste — Everyday, meaning 1: The flavour of food or drink in your mouth.↗ e.g. "a sweet taste".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The sense that lets you notice flavours, mainly with your tongue.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a verb, to try a little food or drink to find its flavour.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: As a verb, to have a certain flavour.↗ e.g. "It tastes salty."↗ Everyday, meaning 5: What a person likes.↗ e.g. "She has good taste in music."↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A small try.↗ e.g. "a taste of life in Canada".↗ Example: The lemon tastes sour.↗ · Taste the soup and add salt if needed.↗ · We taste with our tongue.↗ · Never taste berries you don't know.↗ · I like the taste of strawberries.↗ · She has great taste in clothes.↗ · That joke was in bad taste.↗ · Your taste buds are on your tongue.↗ · The witch took a spoonful and tasted it.↗ · And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.↗ (Torah EXO.16.31, JPS 1917)↗ · He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned it, combined and formed with it Aquarius in the Year, and the gullet in Man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He produced Tzaddi, predominant in Taste, crowned, combined, and formed Aquarius in the world, Sebat in the year, and the gullet in man.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?↗ (Writings JOB.6.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted of good.↗ (Writings JOB.21.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.↗ (Writings SNG.2.3, JPS 1917)↗

tasteless — Everyday, meaning 1: Tasteless food has little or no flavour.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something tasteless is rude, unkind or not suitable, like a tasteless joke.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tasteless can describe clothes or decorations that look cheap or ugly.↗ Example: Pure water is colourless, odourless and tasteless.↗ · The soup was tasteless, so we added salt.↗ · When I had a cold, everything was tasteless.↗ · Making fun of someone's illness is a tasteless joke.↗ · The hospital food was a bit tasteless.↗ · Some poisonous gases are tasteless and odourless, so we use alarms.↗ · ‘No,’ he replied, ‘the dishes are carefully cooked and sent up, but they are all so dreadfully tasteless.’↗