transvestitism | (noun) the practice of adopting the clothes or the manner or the sexual role of the opposite sex | Synonyms: cross dressing, transvestism |
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tranylcypromine | (noun) an antidepressant drug that is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor; administered as a sulfate | - |
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trap | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lying in wait |
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(noun) a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned | - |
(noun) a light two-wheeled carriage | - |
(noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: bunker, sand trap |
(noun) a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters | - |
(noun) drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas | - |
(noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, yap |
(noun) something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares | Synonyms: snare |
(verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel |
(verb) hold or catch as if in a trap | - |
(verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin |
(verb) to sell marijuana on a street corner | - |
(verb) place in a confining or embarrassing position | Synonyms: pin down |
trapeze | (noun) a swing used by circus acrobats | - |
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trapezium | (noun) the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals | Synonyms: os trapezium, trapezium bone |
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(noun) a quadrilateral with no parallel sides | - |
trapezius | (noun) either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms | Synonyms: cowl muscle, musculus trapezius, trapezius muscle |
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trapezohedron | (noun) a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums | - |
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trapezoid | (noun) the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones | Synonyms: os trapezoideum, trapezoid bone |
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(noun) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides | - |
trapezoidal | (adjective) resembling a trapezoid | - |
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trapped | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, cornered, treed |
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trapper | (noun) someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs) | - |
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trapping | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: caparison, housing |
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trappings | (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: furnishing |
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trapshooter | (noun) a person who engages in shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled into the air by a trap | - |
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trapshooting | (noun) the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird | Synonyms: skeet, skeet shooting |
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trash | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu |
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(noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, codswallop, folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
(noun) worthless people | Synonyms: scum |
(noun) worthless material that is to be disposed of | Synonyms: rubbish, scrap |
(verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: pan, tear apart |
(verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, scrap |
trashiness | (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: shoddiness |
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trashy | (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry |
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(adjective) cheap and inferior; of no value | Synonyms: rubbishy |
trauma | (noun) an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects | Synonyms: psychic trauma |
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(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, hurt, injury |
traumatic | (adjective) of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body | - |
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(adjective) psychologically painful | - |
traumatise | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: shock, traumatize |
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traumatize | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: shock, traumatise |
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traumatology | (noun) the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents | Synonyms: accident surgery |
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traumatophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of battle or physical injury | - |
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travail | (noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat |
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(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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 |
(verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, move |
(verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, trip |
(verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: journey |
(verb) undergo transportation as in a vehicle | - |
(verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: journey |
(verb) travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge | Synonyms: move around |
travelable | (adjective) capable of being traversed | Synonyms: traversable |
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traveled | (adjective) traveled over or through; sometimes used as a combining term | - |
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(adjective) familiar with many parts of the world | Synonyms: travelled |
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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travelled | (adjective) familiar with many parts of the world | Synonyms: traveled |
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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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traversable | (adjective) capable of being traversed | Synonyms: travelable |
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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 |
(verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
(verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
(verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
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 |
(verb) make a travesty of | - |
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 |
(verb) fish with trawlers | - |
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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