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- tortoiseshell noun (tortoiseshell — uncountable; a tortoiseshell, tortoiseshells); adjective (tortoiseshell)
1) Tortoiseshell is the hard, brown-and-yellow mottled shell material that comes from the hawksbill sea turtle (not from tortoises), once… - torture noun (torture — uncountable; a torture); verb (torture, tortures, tortured, torturing)
Causing great pain to someone on purpose, to punish them or make them say something. - toss verb, noun (toss, tosses, tossed, tossing)
To toss means to throw something lightly: toss the ball to me. - tot noun (a tot, tots); verb (tot up, tots up, totted up, totting up)
1) A very small child, a toddler. 2) A small amount of an alcoholic drink, like a tot of rum (old, sailors). 3) (UK) tot up: to add up… - total noun (total, totals); adjective; verb (total, totals, totalled/totaled); adverb (casual: totally)
The total is the whole amount you get when you add everything up. - totalled verb form (past of «total»: total, totals, totalled, totalling — UK; totaled, totaling — US); adjective (totalled — informal)
Totalled means added up to a number: «the bill totalled ten pounds». - totally adverb
1) Totally means completely, in every way. 2) In casual speech, «totally» is used to agree strongly or to make something stronger, like… - tote verb (totes, toted, toting)
To tote something is to carry it, especially a heavy load, by hand or on your back. - totter verb (totters, tottered, tottering)
To totter is to walk or stand unsteadily, as if about to fall over, because you are weak, old or tired. - toucan noun (a toucan, toucans)
A toucan is a tropical bird from Central and South America with black feathers and a huge, brightly coloured beak. - touch verb (touch, touches, touched, touching); noun (a touch, touches; touch — the sense)
To put your hand or another part of your body on something. - touchdown noun (a touchdown, touchdowns)
A touchdown is the moment when a plane or spacecraft lands on the ground. - touched verb, past form of touch (touch, touches, touched, touching); adjective
Touched means put a hand or part of the body on something, or came into contact with it. - touching verb, -ing form of touch (touch, touches, touched, touching); adjective (touching); preposition (touching — rare)
As part of the verb, touching means putting your hand or another part on something, or being in contact: «Stop touching the paint». - touchline noun (a touchline, touchlines)
The touchline is one of the two long side lines of a football, rugby or hockey pitch; when the ball goes over it, it is out of play. - touchstone noun (touchstones)
1) A dark stone that people once rubbed gold on to test whether it was real. 2) Something you use as a standard to judge other things by. - touchy adjective (touchy, touchier, touchiest)
A touchy person gets upset or annoyed very easily. - tough adjective (tough, tougher, toughest); noun (a tough — informal); verb (tough it out)
Tough means strong and not easily broken, cut or damaged: «tough boots». - toughen verb (toughen, toughens, toughened, toughening)
To toughen something is to make it stronger and harder to break or damage. - toughness noun (uncountable)
Toughness is being strong and hard to break, bend or damage. - tour noun (tour, tours); verb (tour, tours, toured, touring)
A tour is a trip visiting several places, like a tour of a city. - tourism noun (tourism — uncountable)
Tourism is the business of people travelling to places for holidays and of providing them with hotels, trips and things to see. - tourist noun (tourist, tourists); adjective (a tourist town)
A tourist is a person who travels to a place for fun, to see it and visit its sights. - tournament noun (tournament, tournaments)
A tournament is a competition with many games or matches, where players or teams try to win. - tousled adjective (tousled); from the verb tousle (tousle, tousles, tousled, tousling)
1) Untidy and messy, especially of hair: tousled hair looks as if you have just woken up. - tout verb (tout, touts, touted, touting); noun (a tout, touts) (UK); (French) adjective (tout)
To tout means to try hard to sell something or to praise it loudly, so people will buy or believe it. - tow verb (tow, tows, towed, towing); noun (a tow, tows)
To tow something is to pull it behind a vehicle or boat, using a rope, chain or bar. - towel noun (a towel, towels); verb (towel, towels, towelled/toweled, towelling/toweling)
A towel is a piece of thick soft cloth or paper used to dry your body, hands or dishes. - towelling noun (towelling — uncountable; US toweling)
Towelling is a thick, soft, absorbent cotton cloth with little loops, used to make towels, bathrobes and baby bibs. - tower noun, verb (tower, towers, towered, towering)
A tower is a tall, narrow building or part of a building, like a castle tower or a clock tower. - town noun (town, towns)
A town is a place where many people live and work, bigger than a village and smaller than a city. - townsfolk noun (townsfolk — plural)
1) Townsfolk are the people who live in a particular town, or town people in general as opposed to country people. - townspeople noun (townspeople — plural)
1) The people who live in a town, especially when thought of all together. - towny adjective (towny, townier, towniest); noun (a towny, townies — informal)
Towny describes someone or something that belongs to the town, not the countryside, or that likes town life (informal). - towpath noun (a towpath, towpaths)
A path along the bank of a river or canal, where horses once walked pulling barges and boats with ropes. - toxic adjective (toxic, more toxic)
Toxic means poisonous, able to harm or kill living things if swallowed, breathed in or touched. - toxicity noun (toxicity, toxicities)
Toxicity is how poisonous or harmful a substance is. - toxin noun (a toxin, toxins)
1) A toxin is a poison, especially one made by a living thing such as a plant, animal, fungus or germ. - toy noun, verb (toy, toys, toyed, toying)
A toy is a thing children play with, like a doll, a ball, a teddy or a toy car. - trace verb (trace, traces, traced, tracing); noun (a trace, traces)
To trace a picture is to copy it by drawing over its lines through thin paper. - traceable adjective
1) Able to be found or followed back to where it started. 2) Able to be copied by drawing over it (rare). - track noun, verb (track, tracks, tracked, tracking)
A track is a path or course for running or racing: a running track. - tracker noun (a tracker, trackers)
A person who follows the tracks or signs of animals or people to find them. - tract noun (a tract, tracts)
1) A tract is a large area of land or water. 2) In the body, a tract is a long system of connected parts, like the digestive tract or the… - traction noun (traction — uncountable)
Traction is the grip that stops a wheel, shoe or tyre from slipping on a surface. - tractor noun (a tractor, tractors)
A tractor is a strong farm vehicle with big back wheels, used to pull ploughs, trailers and other machines. - trade noun (trade, trades); verb (trade, trades, traded, trading)
Trade is the buying and selling of goods between people, shops or countries. - trader noun (a trader, traders)
A trader is a person who buys and sells goods to make money, such as a market trader. - tradesman noun (a tradesman, tradesmen)
A tradesman is a person with skilled practical work, such as a plumber, electrician or builder. - tradition noun (a tradition, traditions; tradition — uncountable)
A custom, belief or way of doing things that has been passed down from older people to younger people for a long time. - traditional adjective (traditional, more traditional, most traditional)
Traditional means done the same way for a long time and passed down from older people to younger people. - traditionally adverb
Traditionally means in the way that has been done for a long time by a family, group or country. - traffic noun (traffic — uncountable)
The cars, buses, lorries, bikes and other vehicles moving on roads. - tragedy noun (a tragedy, tragedies)
A tragedy is a very sad event that causes great suffering, damage or death, like a terrible accident or disaster. - tragic adjective (tragic, more tragic, most tragic)
Tragic means very sad, usually because someone has died or suffered something terrible. - tragically adverb (tragically)
Tragically means in a very sad way, usually because someone died or something terrible happened. - trail noun (a trail, trails); verb (trail, trails, trailed, trailing)
A trail is a path through the countryside, a forest or mountains. - trailer noun (a trailer, trailers); verb (trailer, trailers, trailered, trailering — rare)
A trailer is a wheeled box or platform pulled behind a car, truck or tractor to carry things or animals. - train noun, verb (train, trains, trained, training)
A train is a line of railway carriages or wagons pulled by an engine along tracks. - trainee noun (a trainee, trainees); adjective-like before a noun (a trainee teacher)
1) A trainee is a person who is being taught how to do a job. - trainer noun (a trainer, trainers)
A person who teaches people or animals to do something, especially a sport or a skill, like a football trainer or a dog trainer. - trait noun (a trait, traits)
A trait is a quality that is part of someone's character, like being brave, shy or kind. - traitor noun (a traitor, traitors)
A traitor is a person who betrays their country, for example by helping its enemies. - traitress noun (traitresses)
A woman who betrays a friend, a family or her country (old use for a female traitor). - trajectory noun (a trajectory, trajectories)
A trajectory is the curved path that a thrown, kicked or fired object follows through the air or space. - tram noun (a tram, trams)
A tram is a public passenger vehicle that runs on rails along city streets, usually powered by electricity from wires above. - tramp noun (a tramp, tramps); verb (tramp, tramps, tramped, tramping)
A person with no home or job who wanders from place to place (older word; now people say «homeless person»). - trample verb (trample, tramples, trampled, trampling); noun (trampling)
To trample something is to step heavily on it and crush or damage it: don't trample the flowers. - trampoline noun (a trampoline, trampolines); verb (trampoline — rare)
1) A trampoline is a strong piece of stretchy material held tight by springs on a frame, which you jump up and down on. - trance noun (a trance, trances)
A state like being half asleep or dreaming, when you are awake but do not notice what is around you. - tranquil adjective (tranquil, more tranquil, most tranquil)
1) Calm, quiet and peaceful. 2) Not troubled or upset. - tranquillity noun (tranquillity — uncountable); US spelling tranquility
Tranquillity is a calm, quiet, peaceful state, with no noise, hurry or worry. - tranquilly adverb (tranquilly)
In a calm, quiet, unworried way. - transact verb (transacts, transacted, transacting)
To carry out a piece of business, such as buying, selling or paying (a formal word). - transaction noun (a transaction, transactions)
1) A transaction is an act of buying or selling something, or of moving money, such as paying in a shop, withdrawing cash or sending money… - transactions noun (a transaction, transactions — this is the plural)
Transactions are acts of buying, selling, paying or moving money, like paying at a till or moving money between bank accounts. - transatlantic adjective (transatlantic)
Transatlantic means crossing the Atlantic Ocean, such as a flight or voyage between Europe and America. - transcribed verb, past tense and past participle of «transcribe» (transcribe, transcribes, transcribed, transcribing)
Wrote down exactly what someone said, or what was recorded. - transcript noun (a transcript, transcripts)
A written or printed copy of words that were spoken, such as a speech, interview or recording. - transcription noun (a transcription, transcriptions; transcription — uncountable)
A transcription is a written copy of something that was spoken, recorded or written somewhere else. - transfer verb (transfer, transfers, transferred, transferring); noun (a transfer, transfers)
To move someone or something from one place, person or group to another. - transferable adjective (transferable)
Transferable means able to be moved or handed from one person, place or thing to another. - transfix verb (transfixes, transfixed, transfixing)
1) To pierce something through with a sharp point, such as a spear. 2) To hold someone still with fear or wonder, so that they cannot move. - transfixed adjective (more transfixed, most transfixed; also the past form of transfix)
Held completely still by fear, wonder or surprise. - transform verb (transform, transforms, transformed, transforming); noun (a transform — maths, rare)
To transform something is to change it completely, often making it better: the garden was transformed. - transformation noun (a transformation, transformations)
A transformation is a big change in how someone or something looks, works or behaves. - transformed verb form (past and past participle of «transform»: transform, transforms, transformed, transforming); adjective (transformed)
Transformed means changed completely in shape, look or nature. - transformer noun (a transformer, transformers)
A transformer is a device that changes the voltage of electricity, making it higher or lower. - transgression noun (a transgression, transgressions; transgression — uncountable)
An action that breaks a rule, law or moral code; a wrongdoing. - transient adjective (transient, more transient); noun (a transient, transients)
1) Transient means lasting only a short time. 2) A transient person stays in a place only for a short time before moving on. 3) As a noun… - transit noun (transit — usually uncountable); verb (transit — formal, rare)
Transit is the act of carrying people or goods from one place to another: the parcel was lost in transit. - transition noun (a transition, transitions); verb (transition, transitions, transitioned, transitioning)
A transition is a change from one state, place or stage to another. - translate verb (translate, translates, translated, translating)
To translate is to change words from one language into another. - translation noun (a translation, translations; translation — uncountable)
Changing words from one language into another. - translator noun (a translator, translators)
A person whose job is to change writing from one language into another. - translocate verb (translocate, translocates, translocated, translocating)
To translocate is to move something from one place to another, especially to move wild animals or plants to a new home to keep them safe. - translucent adjective (translucent)
1) Letting some light pass through, but you cannot see clearly through it: "Frosted glass is translucent." - transmissible adjective (transmissible)
Transmissible means able to be passed from one person, animal or thing to another, especially a disease: "Measles is very transmissible.". - transmission noun (transmission — uncountable; a transmission, transmissions)
The passing of something from one person, place or thing to another: the transmission of disease. - transmit verb (transmit, transmits, transmitted, transmitting)
1) To send out radio, TV or electronic signals. 2) To pass something, like a disease, from one person or thing to another. 3) To let…
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