| te | (noun) the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | Synonyms: si, ti |
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| 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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| teach | (verb) accustom gradually to some action or attitude | - |
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| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, learn |
| teachable | (adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: docile |
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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 | (adjective) of a bluish shade of green | Synonyms: blue-green, bluish green |
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| (noun) any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America | - |
| (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 | - |
| (verb) form a team | Synonyms: team up |
| 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 |
| (verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, rupture, snap |
| (verb) to separate or be separated by force | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, pull |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot, shoot down |
| (verb) fill with tears or shed tears | - |
| tearaway | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap |
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| (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
| 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) | - |
| tearful | (adjective) filled with or marked by tears | - |
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| (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, weeping |
| tearfully | (adverb) with tears; in a tearful manner | - |
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| 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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| (verb) attack with teargas; subject to teargas fumes | - |
| tearing | (adjective) marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid | Synonyms: fierce, trigger-happy, vehement, violent |
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| (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, watering |
| tearjerker | (noun) an excessively sentimental narrative | - |
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| tearless | (adjective) free from tears | Synonyms: dry-eyed |
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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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| teary | (adjective) with eyes full of tears | Synonyms: teary-eyed, watery-eyed |
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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 |
| (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, twit |
| (verb) mock or make fun of playfully | - |
| (verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: card |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: loosen, tease apart |
| (verb) raise the nap of (fabrics) | - |
| (verb) tear into pieces | - |
| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester |
| (verb) to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them | - |
| teased | (adjective) feeling mild pleasurable excitement | Synonyms: titillated |
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| 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 | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, quizzical |
| (adjective) arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it | - |
| (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, tease |
| (noun) playful vexation | - |
| (noun) the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb | Synonyms: comb-out |
| teasingly | (adverb) in a playfully teasing manner | Synonyms: tauntingly |
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| 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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| tebibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibits or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bits | Synonyms: Tibit |
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| tebibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes | Synonyms: TB, terabyte, TiB |
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| tec | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, investigator, police detective |
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| tech | (noun) a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences | Synonyms: technical school |
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| techie | (noun) a technician who is highly proficient and enthusiastic about some technical field (especially computing) | Synonyms: tekki |
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| technetium | (noun) a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium | Synonyms: atomic number 43, Tc |
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| technical | (adjective) characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: proficient |
| (adjective) of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles | Synonyms: technological |
| (adjective) according to strict interpretation of the law or set of rules | - |
| (adjective) relating to or concerned with machinery or tools | Synonyms: mechanical, mechanically skillful |
| (adjective) of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood | Synonyms: expert |
| (adjective) resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations | - |
| (noun) (basketball) a foul that can be assessed on a player or a coach or a team for unsportsmanlike conduct; does not usually involve physical contact during play | Synonyms: technical foul |
| (noun) a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it | - |
| technicality | (noun) a specific detail in a set of rules or terms belonging to a particular field | - |
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| (noun) the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods | - |
| technically | (adverb) with regard to technical skill and the technology available | - |
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| (adverb) with regard to technique | - |
| (adverb) according to the exact meaning; according to the facts | - |
| technician | (noun) someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process | - |
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| (noun) someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique | - |
| technicolor | (noun) a trademarked method of making color motion pictures | - |
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| technique | (noun) a practical method or art applied to some particular task | - |
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| (noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: proficiency |
| techno | (noun) a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals | - |
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| technobabble | (noun) technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects | - |
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| technocracy | (noun) a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control | - |
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| technocrat | (noun) an advocate of technocracy | - |
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| (noun) an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group | - |
| technological | (adjective) of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) based in scientific and industrial progress | - |
| technologically | (adverb) by means of technology | - |
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| technologist | (noun) a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | Synonyms: applied scientist, engineer |
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| technology | (noun) the application of the knowledge and usage of tools (such as machines or utensils) and techniques to control one's environment | - |
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| (noun) machinery and equipment developed from engineering or other applied sciences | - |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering, engineering science |
| technophile | (noun) a person who is enthusiastic about new technology | - |
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| technophilia | (noun) enthusiasm for new technology | - |
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| technophilic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophilia | - |
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| technophobe | (noun) a person who dislikes or avoids new technology | - |
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| technophobia | (noun) dislike for new technology | - |
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| technophobic | (adjective) of or relating to or showing technophobia | - |
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| techy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy |
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| tectonic | (adjective) pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to construction or architecture | Synonyms: architectonic |
| tectonics | (noun) the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust | Synonyms: plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics |
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| (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: architectonics |
| teddy | (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: chemise, shift, shimmy, slip |
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| (noun) plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials) | Synonyms: teddy bear |
| tedious | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, verbose, windy, wordy |
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| (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tiresome, wearisome |
| tediously | (adverb) in a tedious manner | Synonyms: boringly, tiresomely |
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| tediousness | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tedium, tiresomeness |
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| tedium | (noun) dullness owing to length or slowness | Synonyms: tediousness, tiresomeness |
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| (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, ennui |
| tee | (noun) a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground | Synonyms: golf tee |
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| (noun) support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff | Synonyms: football tee |
| (noun) the starting place for each hole on a golf course | Synonyms: teeing ground |
| (verb) place on a tee | Synonyms: tee up |
| (verb) connect with a tee | - |
| teem | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, stream, swarm |
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| (verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: pullulate, swarm |
| teeming | (adjective) abundantly filled with especially living things | - |
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| teemingness | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: abundance, copiousness |
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| teen | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teenage, teenaged |
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| (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teenager |
| teenage | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenaged |
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| teenaged | (adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenage |
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| teenager | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, stripling, teen |
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| teens | (noun) all the numbers that end in -teen | - |
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| (noun) the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20 | - |
| teensy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teentsy | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teeny | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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| teeoff | (noun) the act of hitting a golf ball from the teeing ground at the start of each hole | - |
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| teepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: tepee, tipi |
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| teeter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: seesaw, totter |
| teeterboard | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teetertotter, tilting board |
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| teetertotter | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, seesaw, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, tilting board |
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| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: seesaw, teeter-totter |
| teeth | (noun) the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | Synonyms: dentition |
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