| tuatara | (noun) only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand | Synonyms: Sphenodon punctatum |
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| tub | (noun) a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids | Synonyms: vat |
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| (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, bathtub |
| (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tubful |
| tuba | (noun) the lowest brass wind instrument | Synonyms: bass horn, sousaphone |
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| tubal | (adjective) of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube | - |
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| tubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: chubbiness, pudginess, rolypoliness |
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| tubby | (adjective) short and plump | Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly |
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| tube | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tubing |
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| (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, underground |
| (noun) electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope | Synonyms: electron tube, thermionic tube, thermionic vacuum tube, thermionic valve, vacuum tube |
| (noun) (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure | Synonyms: tube-shaped structure |
| (noun) a hollow cylindrical shape | Synonyms: pipe |
| (verb) place or enclose in a tube | - |
| (verb) convey in a tube | - |
| (verb) ride or float on an inflated tube | - |
| (verb) provide with a tube or insert a tube into | - |
| tubed | (adjective) of a tire; having an inner tube | - |
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| tubeless | (adjective) of a tire; not needing an inner tube | - |
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| (noun) pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight | Synonyms: tubeless tire |
| tubelike | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubular, vasiform |
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| tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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| tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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| (noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
| (noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
| tubercular | (adjective) relating to tuberculosis or those suffering from it | - |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a normal tuberosity or tubercle | - |
| (adjective) characterized by the presence of tuberculosis lesions or tubercles | - |
| (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tuberculous |
| (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
| tuberculate | (adjective) covered with tubercles | - |
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| tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculoid | (adjective) resembling tuberculosis | - |
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| tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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| tuberculous | (adjective) constituting or afflicted with or caused by tuberculosis or the tubercle bacillus | Synonyms: tubercular |
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| tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| tuberous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a tuber | - |
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| tubful | (noun) the amount that a tub will hold | Synonyms: tub |
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| tubing | (noun) conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases | Synonyms: tube |
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| tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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| tubular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: cannular, tube-shaped, tubelike, vasiform |
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| tubule | (noun) a small tube | - |
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| tuck | (noun) a narrow flattened pleat or fold that is stitched in place | - |
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| (noun) a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges | Synonyms: rapier |
| (noun) (sports) a bodily position adopted in some sports (such as diving or skiing) in which the knees are bent and the thighs are drawn close to the chest | - |
| (noun) eatables (especially sweets) | - |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: insert |
| (verb) make a tuck or several folds in | - |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, pucker |
| tuckahoe | (noun) perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries | Synonyms: green arrow arum, Peltandra virginica |
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| tucked | (adjective) having tucked or being tucked | - |
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| tucker | (noun) a detachable yoke of linen or lace worn over the breast of a low-cut dress | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who tucks | - |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, exhaust, tucker out, wash up |
| tuckerbag | (noun) a bag used for carrying food | Synonyms: tucker-bag |
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| tucket | (noun) (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments | Synonyms: fanfare, flourish |
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| tudung | (noun) a scarf worn around the head by Muslim women in Malaysia; conceals the hair but not the face | - |
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| tufa | (noun) a soft porous rock consisting of calcium carbonate deposited from springs rich in lime | Synonyms: calc-tufa |
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| (noun) hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash | Synonyms: tuff |
| tuff | (noun) hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash | Synonyms: tufa |
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| tuffet | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, footstool, ottoman |
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| tuft | (noun) a bunch of feathers or hair | - |
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| (noun) a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass | Synonyms: tussock |
| tufted | (adjective) having or adorned with tufts | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, cespitose |
| (adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination | Synonyms: crested, topknotted |
| tug | (noun) a sudden abrupt pull | Synonyms: jerk |
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| (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: towboat, tower, tugboat |
| (verb) struggle in opposition | - |
| (verb) pull hard | - |
| (verb) pull or strain hard at | - |
| (verb) move by pulling hard | - |
| (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: lug, tote |
| (verb) tow (a vessel) with a tug | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, push |
| tugboat | (noun) a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships | Synonyms: towboat, tower, tug |
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| tugger | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, puller |
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| tughrik | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mongolia | Synonyms: tugrik |
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| tugrik | (noun) the basic unit of money in Mongolia | Synonyms: tughrik |
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| tuille | (noun) armor plate that protects the hip and thigh | - |
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| tuition | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tutelage, tutorship |
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| (noun) a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education) | Synonyms: tuition fee |
| tularaemia | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularemia, yatobyo |
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| tularemia | (noun) a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals | Synonyms: deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, yatobyo |
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| tulip | (noun) any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower | - |
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| tulipwood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, white poplar, whitewood, yellow poplar |
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| (noun) the variegated or showily striped ornamental wood of various tulipwood trees | - |
| tulle | (noun) a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns | - |
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| tum | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, stomach, tummy |
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| tumble | (noun) an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end | - |
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| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, spill |
| (verb) do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully | - |
| (verb) fall suddenly and sharply | - |
| (verb) suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat | - |
| (verb) put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying | - |
| (verb) understand, usually after some initial difficulty | Synonyms: catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, twig |
| (verb) throw together in a confused mass | - |
| (verb) fall down, as if collapsing | Synonyms: topple |
| (verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, collapse, crumble, crumple |
| (verb) roll over and over, back and forth | - |
| (verb) cause to topple or tumble by pushing | Synonyms: tip, topple |
| (verb) fly around | Synonyms: whirl, whirl around |
| tumblebug | (noun) any of various dung beetles | - |
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| tumbler | (noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: roller, tumbler pigeon |
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| (noun) a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom | - |
| (noun) a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown | - |
| (noun) a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc. | - |
| tumbleweed | (noun) any plant that breaks away from its roots in autumn and is driven by the wind as a light rolling mass | - |
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| (noun) bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds | Synonyms: Cycloloma atriplicifolium, winged pigweed |
| (noun) bushy plant of western United States | Synonyms: Amaranthus albus, Amaranthus graecizans |
| (noun) prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States | Synonyms: Russian cactus, Russian thistle, Russian tumbleweed, Salsola kali tenuifolia |
| tumbling | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: acrobatics |
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| tumbrel | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbril |
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| tumbril | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbrel |
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| tumefaction | (noun) the process of tumefying; the organic process whereby tissue becomes swollen by the accumulation of fluid within it | - |
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| tumefy | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become very swollen | - |
| tumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy |
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| tumescence | (noun) tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues | - |
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| tumescent | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumid, turgid |
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| tumid | (adjective) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid | Synonyms: erect |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid |
| (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, distended, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, turgid |
| tumidity | (noun) slight swelling of an organ or part | Synonyms: tumidness |
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| tumidness | (noun) slight swelling of an organ or part | Synonyms: tumidity |
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| tummy | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, stomach, tum |
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| (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, corporation, pot, potbelly |
| tumor | (noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | Synonyms: neoplasm, tumour |
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| tumour | (noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | Synonyms: neoplasm, tumor |
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| tumult | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus |
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| (noun) violent agitation | Synonyms: turmoil |
| (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumultuousness, uproar |
| tumultuous | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, turbulent |
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| tumultuously | (adverb) in a tumultuous and riotous manner | Synonyms: riotously |
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| tumultuousness | (noun) a state of commotion and noise and confusion | Synonyms: garboil, tumult, uproar |
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| tumulus | (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: barrow, burial mound, grave mound |
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| tun | (noun) a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals | - |
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| tuna | (noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters | Synonyms: tunny |
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| (noun) New Zealand eel | Synonyms: Anguilla sucklandii |
| (noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | Synonyms: tuna fish, tunny |
| (noun) tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica | Synonyms: Opuntia tuna |
| tunaburger | (noun) a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef | - |
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| tundra | (noun) a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen | - |
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| tune | (noun) the adjustment of a radio receiver or other circuit to a required frequency | - |
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| (noun) the property of producing accurately a note of a given pitch | - |
| (noun) a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence | Synonyms: air, line, melodic line, melodic phrase, melody, strain |
| (verb) adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) | Synonyms: tune up |
| (verb) adjust for (better) functioning | Synonyms: tune up |
| tuneful | (adjective) having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune | Synonyms: melodious |
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| tunefully | (adverb) in a melodious manner | Synonyms: melodiously |
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| tunefulness | (noun) the property of having a melody | Synonyms: melodiousness |
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| tuneless | (adjective) not having a musical sound or pleasing tune | Synonyms: unmelodious, untuneful |
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| tunelessly | (adverb) in a tuneless fashion | - |
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| tuner | (noun) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals | Synonyms: radio, radio receiver, radio set, receiving set, wireless |
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| (noun) someone who tunes a musical instrument | - |
| tung | (noun) Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil | Synonyms: Aleurites fordii, tung-oil tree, tung tree |
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| tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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| tungsten | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram |
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| tunic | (noun) any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees | - |
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| (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: adventitia, tunica |
| tunica | (noun) an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue | Synonyms: adventitia, tunic |
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| tunicate | (noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: urochord, urochordate |
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| tuning | (noun) (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency | - |
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| tunnage | (noun) a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship | Synonyms: tonnage, tonnage duty |
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| tunnel | (noun) a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars) | - |
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| (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: burrow |
| (verb) force a way through | - |
| (verb) move through by or as by digging | Synonyms: burrow |
| tunny | (noun) any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters | Synonyms: tuna |
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| (noun) important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks | Synonyms: tuna, tuna fish |
| tup | (noun) uncastrated adult male sheep | Synonyms: ram |
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| tupek | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupik |
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| tupelo | (noun) any of several gum trees of swampy areas of North America | Synonyms: tupelo tree |
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| (noun) pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum | - |
| tupik | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupek |
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| tuppence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: twopence |
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