tea | (noun) a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water | - |
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(noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, teatime |
(noun) dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea | Synonyms: tea leaf |
(noun) a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves | Synonyms: Camellia sinensis |
teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
teacake | (noun) any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea | - |
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(noun) flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea | Synonyms: tea biscuit |
teacart | (noun) serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments | Synonyms: tea cart, tea trolley, tea wagon |
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teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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(noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
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(noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy |
(noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, precept |
teacup | (noun) a cup from which tea is drunk | - |
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(noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacupful |
teacupful | (noun) as much as a teacup will hold | Synonyms: teacup |
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teahouse | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, tearoom, teashop |
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teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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(noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
teakettle | (noun) kettle for boiling water to make tea | - |
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teakwood | (noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teak |
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teal | (noun) any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America | - |
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(noun) a blue-green color or pigment | Synonyms: blue green, bluish green |
team | (noun) a cooperative unit (especially in sports) | Synonyms: squad |
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(noun) two or more draft animals that work together to pull something | - |
teammate | (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: mate |
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teamster | (noun) someone who drives a truck as an occupation | Synonyms: truck driver, trucker |
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(noun) the driver of a team of horses doing hauling | - |
teamwork | (noun) cooperative work done by a team (especially when it is effective) | - |
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teapot | (noun) pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle | - |
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tear | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: teardrop |
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(noun) the act of tearing | - |
(noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, bust |
(noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, split |
tearaway | (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
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teardrop | (noun) a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: tear |
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(noun) anything shaped like a falling drop (as a pendant gem on an earring) | - |
tearfulness | (noun) sadness expressed by weeping | Synonyms: weepiness |
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teargas | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, lacrimator, tear gas |
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tearing | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, watering |
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tearjerker | (noun) an excessively sentimental narrative | - |
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tearoom | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, teashop |
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tears | (noun) the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) | Synonyms: crying, weeping |
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tease | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, teasing |
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(noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, teaser, vexer |
(noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, vamp, vamper |
teasel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasle, teazel |
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teaser | (noun) a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings | Synonyms: tormenter, tormentor |
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(noun) a device for teasing wool | - |
(noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, puzzler |
(noun) an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest | - |
(noun) an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show | - |
(noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, tease, vexer |
(noun) a worker who teases wool | - |
teashop | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom |
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teasing | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, tease |
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(noun) playful vexation | - |
(noun) the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb | Synonyms: comb-out |
teasle | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasel, teazel |
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teaspoon | (noun) a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram | - |
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(noun) as much as a teaspoon will hold | Synonyms: teaspoonful |
teaspoonful | (noun) as much as a teaspoon will hold | Synonyms: teaspoon |
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teat | (noun) the small projection of a mammary gland | Synonyms: mamilla, mammilla, nipple, pap, tit |
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teatime | (noun) a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes | Synonyms: afternoon tea, tea |
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teazel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasel, teasle |
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