tachygraphy | (noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, stenography |
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tachylite | (noun) a basic or basalt glass | - |
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tachymeter | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tacheometer |
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tacit | (adjective) implied by or inferred from actions or statements | Synonyms: silent, understood |
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tacitly | (adverb) in a tacit manner; by unexpressed agreement | - |
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taciturn | (adjective) habitually reserved and uncommunicative | - |
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taciturnity | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary | Synonyms: reserve, reticence |
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taciturnly | (adverb) without speaking | Synonyms: mutely, silently, wordlessly |
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tack | (noun) sailing a zigzag course | - |
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(noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tacking |
(noun) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head | - |
(noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear |
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind | Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet |
(noun) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails | - |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
(verb) fasten with tacks | - |
(verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
(verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
(verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
(verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
tacker | (noun) a hand-held machine for driving staples home | Synonyms: staple gun, staplegun |
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(noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: baster |
(noun) a worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding) | - |
tackiness | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tat |
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(noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness |
tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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(noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
tackle | (noun) (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground | - |
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(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, typically opposite one of the offensive guards | - |
(noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: rigging |
(noun) gear used in fishing | Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig |
(noun) the person who plays offensive or defensive tackle on a football team | - |
(verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
(verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
(verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
tackler | (noun) a football player who tackles the ball carrier | - |
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tacky | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
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(adjective) (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch | - |
taco | (noun) a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling | - |
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(noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: greaser, wetback |
taconite | (noun) a variety of chert containing magnetite and hematite; mined as a low-grade iron ore | - |
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tact | (noun) consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense | Synonyms: tactfulness |
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tactful | (adjective) having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others | - |
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(adjective) showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people | Synonyms: kid-glove |
tactfully | (adverb) showing tact or tactfulness; in a tactful manner | - |
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tactfulness | (noun) consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense | Synonyms: tact |
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(noun) Behavior or actions characterized by careful consideration in dealing with others, to avoid giving offense. | - |
tactic | (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactics |
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tactical | (adjective) of or pertaining to tactic or tactics | - |
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tactically | (adverb) with regard to tactics | - |
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tactician | (noun) a person who is skilled at planning tactics | - |
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tactics | (noun) a plan for attaining a particular goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, tactic |
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(noun) the branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers to achieve objectives set by strategy | - |
tactile | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: haptic, tactual |
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(adjective) producing a sensation of touch | Synonyms: tactual |
tactility | (noun) the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain | Synonyms: skin perceptiveness, tactual sensation, touch perception |
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tactless | (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others | Synonyms: untactful |
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(adjective) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse | Synonyms: inept |
tactlessly | (adverb) without tact; in a tactless manner | - |
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tactlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking tact | - |
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tactual | (adjective) of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch | Synonyms: haptic, tactile |
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(adjective) producing a sensation of touch | Synonyms: tactile |
tactually | (adverb) by touch | Synonyms: haptically |
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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 | - |
tentacled | (adjective) having tentacles | - |
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tentacular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling tentacles | - |
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testacean | (noun) any of various rhizopods of the order Testacea characterized by having a shell | - |
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testaceous | (adjective) relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell | - |
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thumbtack | (noun) a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board | Synonyms: drawing pin, pushpin |
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(verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |
ticktack | (noun) system of signalling by hand signs used by bookmakers at racetracks | - |
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(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock |
ticktacktoe | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoo, tit-tat-toe |
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ticktacktoo | (noun) a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does | Synonyms: noughts and crosses, tic-tac-toe, tick-tack-toe, ticktacktoe, tit-tat-toe |
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tictac | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: ticktock, tocktact |
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tintack | (noun) tack or small nail of tinned iron | - |
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tocktact | (noun) steady recurrent ticking sound as made by a clock | Synonyms: ticktock, tictac |
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unattached | (adjective) not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: uncommitted |
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(adjective) not fastened together | - |
(adjective) (of animals) able to swim about; not attached | Synonyms: free-swimming |
unattackable | (adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, secure, strong, unassailable |
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unspectacular | (adjective) not spectacular | - |
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untactful | (adjective) lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others | Synonyms: tactless |
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