tilde | (noun) a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
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tile | (noun) a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces | - |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc. | - |
(noun) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing | Synonyms: roofing tile |
tilefish | (noun) yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters | Synonyms: Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps |
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(noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: blanquillo |
tiler | (noun) a worker who lays tile | - |
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tiling | (noun) the application of tiles to cover a surface | - |
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till | (noun) a strongbox for holding cash | Synonyms: cashbox, money box |
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(noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, trough |
(noun) unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together | Synonyms: boulder clay |
tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
tiller | (noun) lever used to turn the rudder on a boat | - |
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(noun) a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture) | Synonyms: cultivator |
(noun) someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops) | - |
(noun) a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass | - |
tilling | (noun) cultivation of the land in order to raise crops | - |
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tilt | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: careen, rock, sway |
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(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, leaning, list |
(noun) a slight but noticeable partiality | - |
(noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation |
(noun) a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | Synonyms: joust |
tilter | (noun) a device for emptying a cask by tilting it without disturbing the dregs | - |
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(noun) someone who engages in a tilt or joust | - |
tilth | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land |
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(noun) the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth | - |
tiltyard | (noun) (formerly) an enclosed field for tilting contests | - |
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