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- tabernacle noun
In the Bible, the portable sanctuary or tent in which the Israelites worshipped God in the desert. - tabernacles noun
Plural of tabernacle; here it means huts or booths, as in the festival Sukkot. - table noun (table, tables); verb (table, tables, tabled — rare)
A table is a piece of furniture with a flat top on legs, where you eat, work or put things. - tablet noun (a tablet, tablets)
A tablet is a small, flat, hard piece of medicine that you swallow; a pill. - tabor noun (tabors)
1) (old use) A tabor is a small drum, played with one hand, often with a pipe. - tail noun (a tail, tails); verb (tail, tails, tailed — to follow secretly)
The part at the back end of an animal's body that sticks out and can often move. - take verb (take, takes, took, taken, taking); noun (a take — a view or a try: «my take on it»)
To take is to get hold of something and move it or have it. - tale noun (tale, tales)
A tale is a story, often a made-up one with adventures. - talebearer noun
A person who spreads gossip or stories about others. - talent noun (a talent, talents; talent — uncountable)
A talent is a natural ability to do something well, like singing, drawing or sport. - talk verb (talk, talks, talked, talking); noun (a talk, talks; talk)
To say words; to speak: "The baby is learning to talk.". - talker noun (a talker, talkers)
A person who talks, especially in a certain way: a fast talker, a good talker. - talking verb form (-ing of talk: talk, talks, talked, talking); noun (talking — uncountable); adjective (a talking parrot)
Saying words to people; speaking (the -ing form of talk). - tall adjective (tall, taller, tallest)
Tall means high from the bottom to the top: a giraffe is very tall. - tally noun (a tally, tallies); verb (tally, tallies, tallied, tallying)
A tally is a record of a count, often made by drawing small lines: a tally chart. - tamarisk noun (a tamarisk, tamarisks)
1) A tamarisk is a shrub or small tree with feathery leaves and small pink or white flowers that grows well in dry, salty places such as… - tammuz noun
The name of a month in the Jewish calendar, in summer, about June or July. - tamper verb (tamper, tampers, tampered, tampering)
To tamper with a thing is to meddle with it or change it without permission, often so that it no longer works properly. - tangible adjective (tangible, more tangible, most tangible)
Tangible means real and able to be touched: a tangible object. - tangled adjective; verb (past of tangle: tangle, tangles, tangled, tangling)
Tangled means twisted together in a messy way that is hard to undo, like string, hair or wires. - tanned adjective (tanned); also past form of the verb tan (tan, tans, tanned, tanning)
Tanned skin has become darker after being in the sun. - target noun (a target, targets); verb (target, targets, targeted, targeting)
A target is a thing you aim at and try to hit, like the circle in archery or darts. - tarot noun
A set of picture cards used for fortune-telling and games, with special pictures such as the Fool and the Tower. - tarry verb (tarry, tarries, tarried, tarrying)
1) (old use) To tarry is to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on. 2) (old use) To tarry is to be slow to act, or to delay. - tartan noun (a tartan, tartans; also uncountable); adjective (tartan)
1) Tartan is a pattern of coloured stripes crossing each other at right angles, making squares; it is woven into woollen cloth, especially… - task noun (a task, tasks); verb (task, tasked — formal)
A task is a piece of work that someone has to do, often given by someone else. - taskmaster noun
A person who sets hard work for others and makes sure they do it. - taste noun (taste, tastes); verb (taste, tastes, tasted, tasting)
The flavour of food or drink in your mouth: "a sweet taste". - tau noun
The last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, also spelled Tav, or a letter of the Greek alphabet. - taunt verb (taunt, taunts, taunted, taunting); noun (taunts)
To taunt someone is to say unkind things to hurt their feelings or to make them angry. - taurus noun (Taurus)
Taurus is a group of stars (a constellation) that looks like the shape of a bull. - taw noun
Another way of spelling Tav, the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. - tax noun (a tax, taxes); verb (tax, taxes, taxed, taxing)
Money that people and businesses must pay to the government to pay for things like schools, roads, hospitals and police. - taxation noun (taxation — usually no plural)
Taxation is the system of taking money (taxes) from people and businesses to pay for things a government provides. - te noun (te — a music note; also spelt ti); also French and Māori word (te)
1) In tonic sol-fa singing (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, te), «te» is the seventh note of the major scale, just below the top do; it is spelt… - teach verb (teach, teaches, taught, teaching)
To teach means to help someone learn something by showing or explaining it. - teacher noun (teacher, teachers)
A teacher is a person whose job is to help pupils learn, at school or in a class. - teaching noun (teachings)
Teaching is the work of showing or explaining things so that others learn them. - tear noun (a tear, tears — rhymes with «ear»); noun (a tear, tears — rhymes with «air»); verb (tear, tears, tore, torn, tearing — rhymes with «air»)
A tear (rhymes with «ear») is a drop of salty water that comes from your eye, when you cry, laugh a lot or get something in your eye. - tebet noun
The name of a month in the Jewish calendar, in winter, about December or January, often spelled Tevet. - technical adjective (technical, more technical, most technical)
Technical means to do with science, machines, computers or practical skills. - technically adverb (technically)
1) Technically means according to the exact rules or facts, even if it doesn't seem that way in everyday life, as in "Technically, a… - ted noun (a ted, teds — informal, UK); verb (ted, teds, tedded, tedding — farming); also a name (Ted)
1) (informal, UK, Australia) A teddy bear: «my old ted». 2) (UK, history) A Teddy boy, a young man in the past who wore a special smart… - tell verb (tell, tells, told, telling); noun (a tell — a sign that gives you away, in games)
To tell is to say something to someone so they know it. - telling adjective (telling, more telling, most telling); also the present participle and gerund of «tell» (tell, tells, told, telling); noun (a telling, tellings)
Saying or reporting something: «She is telling a story». - temperate adjective (temperate)
A temperate climate or place is never extremely hot or extremely cold, with warm summers and cool winters. - temperature noun (temperature, temperatures)
Temperature tells how hot or cold something is. - tempest noun (tempests)
1) A tempest is a violent storm with strong wind and heavy rain. - tempestuous adjective
Stormy, with wild wind and rough waves. - temple noun (a temple, temples)
1) A temple is a building where people go to pray and worship in some religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Judaism, and in… - temptation noun (temptation, uncountable; a temptation, temptations)
Temptation is the feeling of wanting to do something, especially something you know is wrong or not good for you. - ten number (ten)
1) Ten is the number 10. It is one more than nine. 2) Ten is the base of our number system: 10 ones make 1 ten, and 10 tens make 100. 3)… - tenacity noun
Strong determination to keep going and not give up. - tenant noun (a tenant, tenants); verb (tenant, tenants, tenanted — rare, formal)
A tenant is a person who pays rent to live in a house or flat, or to use land or a building, that belongs to someone else (the landlord). - tend verb (tend, tends, tended, tending)
To usually do something or often be a certain way: "I tend to get tired in the afternoon.". - tender adjective (tender, tenderer, tenderest); verb (tender, tenders, tendered, tendering); noun (a tender, tenders)
1) Soft and easy to cut or chew (tender meat). 2) Painful when touched (a tender bruise). 3) Gentle, kind and loving (a tender smile). 4)… - tenderly adverb (more tenderly, most tenderly)
1) Tenderly means gently and with love or kindness. - tenderness noun (no plural in use)
1) Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling. 2) Tenderness can mean soreness of the body when touched. - tendril noun (a tendril, tendrils)
1) A tendril is a thin, curly, thread-like part of a climbing plant that wraps around things to help the plant climb, as on peas, grapes… - tenon noun
A piece of wood cut to stick out so that it fits into a slot, used to join two pieces of wood. - tenor noun
The general meaning or sense of something, or the way it goes. - tent noun (tent, tents)
A tent is a shelter made of cloth or nylon, held up by poles and ropes, that you put up when you go camping. - tentative adjective
Not certain or final, and done carefully as a first try. - tenth number, adjective, noun (tenth, tenths)
1) Tenth comes after ninth in order: number 10. 2) A tenth is one of ten equal parts of a whole, written 1/10 or 0.1. 3) The tenths place… - term noun (a term, terms); verb (term, termed — formal)
A term is one of the parts the school year is divided into, such as the autumn term. - terminate verb (terminate, terminates, terminated, terminating)
To terminate means to end something or to come to an end: "the contract was terminated". - terminology noun (terminology — uncountable; terminologies)
1) Terminology is the set of special words and phrases used in a subject or job, like the terminology of science, football or music. - terms noun, plural (terms); used in phrases
Terms are the conditions or rules of an agreement: «the terms of the deal». - terrestrial adjective (terrestrial); noun (a terrestrial, terrestrials — rare)
Living on land or growing on land, not in water or the air. - terrible adjective (terrible); adverb (terribly)
Terrible means very bad or unpleasant: a terrible storm, a terrible smell. - terribleness noun
The quality of causing great fear or awe. - terrified adjective; past form of verb «terrify» (terrify, terrifies, terrified, terrifying)
1) Terrified means very, very frightened. 2) (verb, past) Terrified is the past form of terrify: to make someone extremely scared. - terrify verb (terrify, terrifies, terrified, terrifying)
To terrify someone means to make them extremely frightened: "Thunder terrifies my dog.". - terror noun (terror — uncountable; a terror, terrors)
1) Very great fear: They screamed in terror. 2) Something or someone that causes great fear. 3) Violence used to frighten people, usually… - test noun (test, tests); verb (test, tests, tested, testing)
A test is a set of questions that checks what you know. - testament noun (a testament, testaments; the Old Testament, the New Testament)
1) (Bible) The Old Testament and the New Testament are the two main parts of the Christian Bible: the Old Testament has the Hebrew… - testify verb (testifies, testified, testifying)
To testify is to tell what you know or saw, especially in a court and on oath. - testimony noun (testimony, testimonies)
A formal statement of what someone saw or knows, given in a court of law. - tet noun (proper noun: Tết); also a letter name
1) Tết (Tet) is the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, the most important festival in Vietnam, celebrated in late January or February with family… - tetra noun (a tetra, tetras); also a prefix tetra- meaning four
A tetra is a small, often brightly coloured freshwater fish from South America or Africa, popular in home aquariums, such as the neon tetra. - tetrad noun
A group of four things. - tetragrammaton noun
The four-letter name of God in Hebrew, Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh. - text noun (a text, texts; text, uncountable); verb (text, texts, texted, texting)
Text is written words, like the words in a book or on a screen. - textual adjective (textual)
Textual means to do with a text, the actual written words of a book, poem or document. - th fragment (th — letters; also suffix -th)
Not a full word: the two letters "t" and "h" that together make one sound, as in "the" or "think". - than conjunction, preposition
Than is used when you compare two things: «taller than», «more than». - thank verb (thank, thanks, thanked, thanking); noun (thanks — plural only)
To tell someone you are grateful for something they did or gave: "Thank you!". - thanks noun (thanks — plural only); interjection (Thanks!); verb form (thanks, from thank)
Thanks is a short, friendly way of saying «thank you». - thanksgiving noun (Thanksgiving — a holiday; thanksgiving — uncountable)
1) Thanksgiving is a holiday in the USA (in late autumn) and in Canada (in mid autumn) when families eat a big meal, often turkey, and… - that pronoun, determiner (that, those); conjunction; adverb
That points to a thing that was named before or that is farther away: «that box over there». - thaw verb (thaw, thaws, thawed, thawing); noun (a thaw)
To thaw is to melt: ice or snow thaws when it gets warmer. - the article (definite)
The points to a thing you already know about or that has been named. - theft noun (theft, a theft, thefts)
Theft is the crime of stealing, taking something that belongs to someone else without permission and without meaning to give it back. - then adverb; adjective (the then teacher — rare)
1) Then means next, after that. 2) Then means at that time in the past or future: «I was little then». 3) Then means «so» or «in that… - thence adverb (thence — old, formal)
1) From that place; from there. 2) From that time; after that. 3) For that reason; therefore. - thenceforth adverb
From that time onward. - theologian noun (theologian, theologians)
A person who studies religion and God in a careful, learned way. - theological adjective (theological)
To do with the study of God and religion. - theophany noun
A visible appearance or showing of God to people. - theoretical adjective
Based on ideas and reasoning rather than practice.
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