ten | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face | Synonyms: ten-spot |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, decade, tenner, X |
tenability | (noun) the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person | Synonyms: reasonableness, tenableness |
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tenableness | (noun) the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person | Synonyms: reasonableness, tenability |
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tenaciousness | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenacity |
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tenacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness |
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tenancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: occupancy |
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tenant | (noun) someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else | Synonyms: renter |
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(noun) any occupant who dwells in a place | - |
(noun) a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) | - |
tenantry | (noun) tenants of an estate considered as a group | - |
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tench | (noun) freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water | Synonyms: Tinca tinca |
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tendency | (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: inclination |
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(noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, inclination |
(noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, propensity |
(noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: trend |
tendentiousness | (noun) an intentional and controversial bias | - |
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tender | (noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
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(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
(noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
(noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
(noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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tenderisation | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderization |
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tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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tenderization | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderisation |
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tenderizer | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderiser |
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tenderloin | (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: undercut |
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(noun) a city district known for its vice and high crime rate | Synonyms: combat zone |
tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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(noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
(noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
(noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
tending | (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, attention, care |
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tendinitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendonitis, tenonitis |
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tendon | (noun) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment | Synonyms: sinew |
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tendonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tenonitis |
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tendosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tenosynovitis |
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tendrac | (noun) small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog | Synonyms: tenrec |
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tendril | (noun) slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support | - |
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tenebrionid | (noun) sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain | Synonyms: darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle |
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tenement | (noun) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | Synonyms: tenement house |
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tenesmus | (noun) painful spasm of the anal sphincter along with an urgent desire to defecate without the significant production of feces; associated with irritable bowel syndrome | - |
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tenet | (noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: dogma |
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tenge | (noun) the basic unit of money in Kazakhstan | - |
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(noun) 100 tenge equal 1 manat in Turkmenistan | - |
tenia | (noun) a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband | Synonyms: fillet, taenia |
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tenner | (noun) a United States bill worth 10 dollars | Synonyms: ten dollar bill |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, decade, ten, X |
tennis | (noun) a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court | Synonyms: lawn tennis |
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tenno | (noun) the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno | Synonyms: mikado |
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tenon | (noun) a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint | - |
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tenonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tendonitis |
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tenor | (noun) the pitch range of the highest male voice | - |
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(noun) the general meaning or substance of an utterance | Synonyms: strain |
(noun) a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life | - |
(noun) the adult male singing voice above baritone | Synonyms: tenor voice |
(noun) an adult male with a tenor voice | - |
tenorist | (noun) a musician who plays the tenor saxophone | Synonyms: tenor saxophonist |
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tenoroon | (noun) a tenor bassoon; pitched a fifth higher than the ordinary bassoon | - |
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tenosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tendosynovitis |
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tenpence | (noun) a decimal coin worth ten pennies | - |
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tenpin | (noun) one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling | - |
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tenpins | (noun) bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins | Synonyms: tenpin bowling |
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tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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tenrec | (noun) small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog | Synonyms: tendrac |
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tense | (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
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tenseness | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tension, tensity |
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(noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tension |
tensimeter | (noun) a manometer for measuring vapor pressure | - |
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tensiometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid | - |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam | - |
(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil | - |
tension | (noun) the action of stretching something tight | - |
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(noun) (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body | - |
(noun) feelings of hostility that are not manifest | Synonyms: latent hostility |
(noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tensity |
(noun) a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) | - |
(noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tenseness |
tensity | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tenseness, tension |
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tensor | (noun) any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm | - |
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(noun) a generalization of the concept of a vector | - |
tent | (noun) a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) | Synonyms: collapsible shelter |
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(noun) a web that resembles a tent or carpet | - |
tentacle | (noun) any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
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(noun) something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold | - |
tenter | (noun) a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth | - |
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tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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tenth | (noun) a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts | Synonyms: one-tenth, ten percent, tenth part |
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(noun) position ten in a countable series of things | - |
tenting | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, encampment |
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tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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tentorium | (noun) (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum | - |
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tenuity | (noun) a rarified quality | Synonyms: low density, rarity |
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(noun) the quality of lacking intensity or substance | Synonyms: feebleness |
(noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: slenderness, thinness |
tenure | (noun) the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands | Synonyms: land tenure |
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(noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: incumbency, term of office |