turban | (noun) a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head | - |
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(noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: pillbox, toque |
turbaned | (adjective) wearing a turban | - |
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turbid | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, murky |
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turbidity | (noun) muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended | Synonyms: turbidness |
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turbidness | (noun) muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended | Synonyms: turbidity |
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turbinal | (noun) any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates | Synonyms: turbinate, turbinate bone |
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turbinate | (adjective) of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages | - |
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(adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, volute, voluted, whorled |
(noun) any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates | Synonyms: turbinal, turbinate bone |
turbine | (noun) rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate | - |
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turbofan | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, fanjet engine, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
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(noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, turbojet |
turbogenerator | (noun) generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power | - |
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turbojet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet engine |
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(noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, turbofan |
turboprop | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: propjet, turbo-propeller plane |
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turbot | (noun) a large brownish European flatfish | Synonyms: Psetta maxima |
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(noun) flesh of a large European flatfish | - |
turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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(noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
(noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |
turbulency | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulence |
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turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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(adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
turbulently | (adverb) in a turbulent manner; with turbulence | - |
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(adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: passionately, stormily |