| trave | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, traverse |
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| travel | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: traveling, travelling |
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| (noun) self-propelled movement | Synonyms: locomotion |
| (noun) a movement through space that changes the location of something | Synonyms: change of location |
| traveler | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveller |
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| traveling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, travelling |
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| traveller | (noun) a person who changes location | Synonyms: traveler |
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| travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
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| travelog | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelogue |
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| travelogue | (noun) a film or illustrated lecture on traveling | Synonyms: travelog |
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| traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
| traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
| (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| travesty | (noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations | Synonyms: farce, farce comedy |
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| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff |
| trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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| (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
| trawler | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: dragger |
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| (noun) a fisherman who use a trawl net | - |
| tray | (noun) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food | - |
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| trayful | (noun) as much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray. | - |
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| trazodone | (noun) oral antidepressant (trade name Desyrel) that is a nontricyclic drug used as a sedative | Synonyms: Desyrel, trazodone hydrochloride |
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| treacherousness | (noun) The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils. | - |
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| treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
| treacle | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, slop |
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| (noun) a pale cane syrup | Synonyms: golden syrup |
| tread | (noun) a step in walking or running | Synonyms: pace, stride |
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| (noun) structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step | - |
| (noun) the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground | - |
| (noun) the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire | - |
| treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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| treadmill | (noun) a job involving drudgery and confinement | Synonyms: salt mine |
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| (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadwheel |
| (noun) an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place | - |
| treadwheel | (noun) a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps | Synonyms: tread-wheel, treadmill |
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| treason | (noun) a crime that undermines the offender's government | Synonyms: high treason, lese majesty |
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| (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treachery |
| (noun) disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior | Synonyms: subversiveness, traitorousness |
| treasonist | (noun) someone who betrays his country by committing treason | Synonyms: traitor |
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| treasure | (noun) art highly prized for its beauty or perfection | Synonyms: gem |
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| (noun) a collection of precious things | - |
| (noun) accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc. | Synonyms: hoarded wealth |
| (noun) any possession that is highly valued by its owner | - |
| treasurer | (noun) an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds | Synonyms: financial officer |
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| treasurership | (noun) the position of treasurer | - |
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| treasury | (noun) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely | - |
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| (noun) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues | - |
| (noun) the funds of a government or institution or individual | Synonyms: exchequer |
| treat | (noun) an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight | - |
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| (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw |
| treater | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, negotiator |
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| treatise | (noun) a formal exposition | - |
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| treatment | (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: handling |
| (noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) | Synonyms: therapy |
| (noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically | - |
| (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, discussion |
| treaty | (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: accord, pact |
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| treble | (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: soprano |
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| trebuchet | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebucket |
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| trebucket | (noun) catapult that uses a swinging arm to throw a projectile | Synonyms: trebuchet |
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| tree | (noun) a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms | - |
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| (noun) a figure that branches from a single root | Synonyms: tree diagram |
| treehopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs | - |
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| treelet | (noun) a small tree | - |
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| treenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: trenail, trunnel |
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| treetop | (noun) the upper branches and leaves of a tree or other plant | Synonyms: crown |
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| trefoil | (noun) an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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| (noun) a plant of the genus Trifolium | Synonyms: clover |
| (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, medick |
| treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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| trek | (noun) any long and difficult trip | - |
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| (noun) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) | - |
| trekker | (noun) a traveler who makes a long arduous journey (as hiking through mountainous country) | - |
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| trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
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| trematode | (noun) parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host | Synonyms: fluke, trematode worm |
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| tremble | (noun) a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement | Synonyms: shake, shiver |
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| trembler | (noun) one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | Synonyms: quaker |
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| trembles | (noun) disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot | Synonyms: milk sickness |
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| trembling | (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, vibration |
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| tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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| tremolite | (noun) a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos | - |
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| tremolo | (noun) vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one | - |
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| (noun) (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones | - |
| tremor | (noun) an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) | Synonyms: shudder |
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| (noun) a small earthquake | Synonyms: earth tremor, microseism |
| (noun) shaking or trembling (usually resulting from weakness or stress or disease) | - |
| trenail | (noun) a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast | Synonyms: treenail, trunnel |
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| trench | (noun) a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth | - |
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| (noun) any long ditch cut in the ground | - |
| (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: deep, oceanic abyss |
| trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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| trencher | (noun) a wooden board or platter on which food is served or carved | - |
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| (noun) someone who digs trenches | - |
| trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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| trend | (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, movement |
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| (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, vogue |
| (noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: course |
| (noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: tendency |
| trepan | (noun) a drill for cutting circular holes around a center | - |
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| (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trephine |
| trepang | (noun) of warm coasts from Australia to Asia; used as food especially by Chinese | Synonyms: Holothuria edulis |
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| trephination | (noun) an operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull | - |
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| trephine | (noun) a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull | Synonyms: trepan |
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| trepidation | (noun) a feeling of alarm or dread | - |
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| treponema | (noun) spirochete that causes disease in humans (e.g. syphilis and yaws) | - |
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| trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
| trespasser | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: interloper, intruder |
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| tress | (noun) a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair | Synonyms: braid, plait, twist |
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| trestle | (noun) sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop | - |
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| (noun) a supporting tower used to support a bridge | - |
| trestlework | (noun) a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g. | - |
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| trews | (noun) (used in the plural) tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan | - |
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| trey | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips | Synonyms: three |
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| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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| triad | (noun) a three-note major or minor chord; a note and its third and fifth tones | Synonyms: common chord |
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| (noun) three people considered as a unit | Synonyms: threesome, trinity, trio |
| (noun) a set of three similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: trio, triple, triplet |
| (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
| triage | (noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food | - |
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| trial | (noun) the act of testing something | Synonyms: run, test |
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| (noun) (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law | - |
| (noun) the act of undergoing testing | Synonyms: test |
| (noun) trying something to find out about it | Synonyms: test, trial run, tryout |
| (noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: tribulation, visitation |
| (noun) (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications | - |
| triamcinolone | (noun) a synthetic corticosteroid (trade names Aristocort or Aristopak or Kenalog) used as an anti-inflammatory agent | Synonyms: Aristocort, Aristopak, Kenalog |
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| triangle | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle | - |
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| (noun) any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles | - |
| (noun) a three-sided polygon | Synonyms: trigon, trilateral |
| (noun) something approximating the shape of a triangle | - |
| triangularity | (noun) the property of being shaped like a triangle | - |
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| triangulation | (noun) a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated | - |
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| (noun) a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points of a known distance apart; useful in navigation | - |
| triazine | (noun) any of three isomeric compounds having three carbon and three nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring | - |
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| triazolam | (noun) a form of benzodiazepine (trade name Halcion) frequently prescribed as a sleeping pill; usually given to people who have trouble falling asleep | Synonyms: Halcion |
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| tribade | (noun) a female homosexual | Synonyms: gay woman, lesbian |
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| tribadism | (noun) a form of lesbianism that simulates heterosexual intercourse | - |
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| tribalisation | (noun) the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | Synonyms: tribalization |
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| tribalism | (noun) the beliefs of a tribal society | - |
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| (noun) the state of living together in tribes | - |
| tribalization | (noun) the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis | Synonyms: tribalisation |
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| tribe | (noun) a social division of (usually preliterate) people | Synonyms: folk |
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| (noun) a federation (as of American Indians) | Synonyms: federation of tribes |
| (noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group |
| (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily | - |
| tribesman | (noun) someone who lives in a tribe | - |
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| tribologist | (noun) a specialist in tribology | - |
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| tribology | (noun) the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication | - |
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| tribromoethanol | (noun) an intravenous anesthetic | Synonyms: tribromoethyl alcohol |
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| tribromomethane | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: bromoform |
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| tribulation | (noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: trial, visitation |
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| tribunal | (noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: court, judicature |
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| tribune | (noun) the apse of a Christian church that contains the bishop's throne | - |
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| (noun) (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests | - |