Tn.
/tiː/, U.S. /ti/ I. Senses relating to the letter, its sound, or shape.
1.
a. The letter and its sound. The plural is variously written t's, t's, ts /tiːz/. See also tee n.1
/tiːz/. See also tee n.1ΘΠ
society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > Latin character
Tc1000
Latin letter1535
c1000 Ælfric Gram. iii. (Zup. 6) Þá óðre nigon consonantes synd gecwedene mvtae, þæt synd dumbe. hí ne synd ná mid ealle dumbe, ac hí habbað lytle clypunge..þás ongynnað of him sylfum and geendjað on þám clypjendlícum stafum. b, c, d, g, p, t geendjað on e.
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. pr. i. 2 Abouen þat lettre in the heyeste bordure a grekyssh t þat singnifieth the lyf contemplatyf.
1487 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 13 Every Person so convicted..for any other Felony..to be marked with a T in the same Place of the Thumb.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ II. (at cited word) With a design to hang T on her own gibbet, as Lucian jocosely says.
1847 Proc. Philol. Soc. (1848) 3 45 Thus the Aztecs of Mexico, though able to pronounce an l in the middle of a word, at the commencement find it necessary to prefix a t-sound to the liquid.
1859 Life E. Henderson vi. 353 Before the little inmate of the Linn could have known a T from a craw's tae.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. xvi. 263 Everything producible that began with a T, from tar to toast.
b. In phrase to cross the t's: to make the horizontal stroke of t (often omitted in hasty writing); figurative to be minutely exact or particular in one's account; to make the meaning more distinct; to particularize and emphasize the points. Cf. to dot the i's (and cross the t's) at dot v.1 Phrases.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [verb (intransitive)] > form specific letter
to cross the t's1849
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > care or heed [verb (intransitive)] > be carefully exact
to cross the t's1885
1849 W. M. Thackeray in Scribner's Mag. 1 557/1 I have..crossed the t's and dotted the i's.
1865 E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune II. 220 To ascertain whether it was..properly spelt, and had all the i's dotted, and the t's crossed.
1882 Mrs. Houstoun Recommended to Mercy xx Please not to cross the t's.
1885 H. Dunckley in Manch. Examiner 15 June 6/2 To dot his i's and cross his t's and polish up his manuscript.
c. to a T (also to a tee): exactly, properly, to a nicety. [The original sense of T here has not been ascertained. Suggestions that it was the tee at Curling, or at Golf, or a T square, appear on investigation to be untenable; it has also been suggested that it referred to the proper completion of a t by crossing it (see 1b); or that it was the initial of a word; in reference to this it is notable that to a tittle (i.e. to a prick, dot, jot) was in use nearly a century before ‘to a T’, and in exactly the same constructions: see tittle n.]
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] > strictly
strait1338
smally1340
at point devicec1390
point-devicec1425
precisely1526
to the point device1542
just1549
rigorously1561
by the square1570
curiously1573
by point device1575
in print1576
to a tittle1597
nicelya1616
to a hair's breadtha1616
point-vice1641
to a nicka1680
to a cow's thumb1681
to a tee1693
narrowly1708
scrupulously1712
to a dot1728
perjinkly1775
to a nicety1795
astringently1866
to a fit1890
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 102 All the under Villages and Towns-men come to him for Redress; which he does to a T.
1700 Labour in Vain viii, in Harl. Misc. (1810) X. 473 Harry cajoled my inquirer, and fitted his humour to a t——.
1771 J. Giles Misc. Poems 155 I'll tell you where You may be suited to a tee.
1815 Zeluca I. 385 I knew my man to a T.
1828 Marly: Planter's Life in Jamaica 161 I understand the practice to a tee.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxii. 66 The yards were squared ‘to a T’ by lifts and braces.
1856 H. B. Stowe Dred ii All these old-fashioned goings on would suit you to a T.
1873 K. H. Digby Last Year's Leaves viii. 302 Then should you scorn such feasts, like me, We've what will suit you to a tee.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 56 Simon Dedalus takes him off to a tee with his eyes screwed up.
1966 Listener 29 Sept. 480/1 John Hollis had Walter off to a tee.
1973 Brit. Printer May 62/3 Edwin Snell of Yeovil has the direct mail touch to a tee.
2.
a. The shape of the letter; an object having the shape T. See also tee n.1, tau n. Also short for T beard n. at Compounds 2, T iron n. at Compounds 1a, T rail n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [noun] > others
sunc1400
T1621
floscule1669
cauliflower1803
leaf shape1804
map1822
sphendone1847
thistle1891
turkey-foot1932
1621 [see T beard n. at Compounds 2]. a1640 [see T beard n. at Compounds 2].
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) II. 262 Slit the Bark or Rind about an Inch long, in form of a T.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 155 Made..with a Head like a T.
1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 69 Then see whereabouts to put them through the upright part or T of the bracket.
1891 Daily News 27 Apr. 2/5 Plate iron, angles, T's, and bars for railway waggon building are in large request.
1891 Sc. Leader 21 Sept. 3 Inquiries for old material are reviving, rails being chiefly in demand. Some holders are now asking 21 dols. for old T's.
1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 237 The tongue of this inverted T, i.e., the entrenchments, had been carried out some two miles.
b. An electrical network of three impedances that can be represented diagrammatically as a T in which the stem and each arm is an impedance. Frequently attributive; so T-connected adj.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > [adjective] > having specific network
T-connected1909
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > [noun] > network > type of network
T1909
quadripole1928
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [noun] > network configurations
T1909
lattice network1931
lattice1934
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > electronic circuit > [adjective] > network configuration
T1909
1909 F. Bedell & C. A. Pierce Direct & Altern. Current Mann. vii. 248 Transforming from a 2-phase primary circuit to two sets of T-connected secondaries.
1909 F. Bedell & C. A. Pierce Direct & Altern. Current Mann. vii. 249 The line voltage, thus obtained by the T-connection, is accordingly the same as would be obtained by three 3-phase generator coils..in delta.
1934 A. T. Starr Electr. Circuits & Wave Filters vi. 198 The lattice needs twice as many components as the bridged-T network.
1947 R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits vi. 150 In the ‘low pass’ filter T-section of Fig. 115, the inductance arms shown as L/2 and the capacitance C are made with losses as low as possible.
1973 J. R. Neuenswander Mod. Power Syst. iii. 32 For a line of medium length, a better approximation is arrived at through either the π or the T connection.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xiii. 30 While many null network configurations are useful (including the bridged-T and twin-T), the Wien bridge design predominates.
c. Nautical. In to cross the T: of a fleet or ship, to cross ahead of another (enemy) fleet's or ship's line of advance approximately at right angles, thus securing tactical advantages.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (intransitive)] > cross line of advance at right angles
to cross the T1916
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin xvii. 323 Sir David Beatty..altered course to the east and crossed the enemy's T,..inflicting terrible damage with his heavy fire.
1953 Hist. Today Feb. 114/1 The Japanese main force was able to steam across the head of the Russian line... This manoeuvre, known as ‘crossing the T’, has been the dream of all admirals once steam tactics were introduced.
1968 D. Thomas Battle of Java Sea x. 143 The destroyer Oshio..had crossed the Dutch cruisers' T and exchanged a rapid but ineffectual fire with Java.
1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 213/2 The fleet ‘crossing the T’ has a considerable gunnery advantage.
II. The letter used to denote serial order, and in symbolic uses.
3.
a. Used like the other letters of the alphabet to denote serial order: applied e.g. to the twentieth (or more usually the nineteenth) of any series, to the nineteenth sheet of a book, etc.
b. T-model n. (also T-model Ford) = Model T n. at model n. and adj. Compounds 1b.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific model
Olds1907
Model T1909
Ford1914
Rolls1915
Merc1930
T-model1932
beetle1958
T-bird1958
VW1958
Mini1959
Moke1959
deux-chevaux1962
Mini-Moke1962
Liftback1973
Beemer1978
Roller1979
foreign2010
1932 A. Huxley Brave New World ii. 27 Twenty-three years after Our Ford's first T-Model was put on the market.
1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 232 Way after a while a T-model Ford came along full of Negroes.
1962 John o' London's 11 Jan. 43/3 Driving a T-model Ford over the roof-tops.
4. A medieval symbol for the numeral 160, and with a stroke over it (?) for 160,000.
5. Used as a symbol.
a. Physics. [Adopted as being the next letter after S alphabetically (compare S n.1 7).] T is the symbol of the quantum number of iso-spin; = I n.1 7b.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > [noun] > vector quantity > symbol of quantum number of
T1937
I1953
1937 E. Wigner in Physical Rev. 51 110/1 The quantum numbers S2, Tζ,ζY can be called magnetic quantum numbers. They determine..the μ uniquely.
1937 E. Wigner in Physical Rev. 51 117/1 A total isotopic spin T will be a term with the same binding energy for all nuclei with isotopic numbers from −T to T.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIII. 339/2 Isospin-equal-one states can exist in the three isobars 62 He, 63 Li, and in 64 Be, whereas the T = 0 state can exist only in 63 Li.
b. Bacteriology. [Initial letter of type.] T followed by a numeral is the designation of certain strains of phages of the bacterium Escherichia coli that have been much used experimentally. So T-even, designating the strains for which the numeral is even.
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the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > virus > phage > [noun] > types of
T1944
lambda1950
heterozygote1952
lambdoid1958
vector1958
the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > virus > phage > [adjective] > forms of
T-even1944
1944 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 30 398 The viruses used were the strains α and γ described by Delbrück and Luria and a new strain..which has been determined to be identical with strain T7 of Demerec and Fano [reference given to paper ‘in press’, quoted next.]
1945 Demerec & Fano in Genetics 30 119 The materials used in our experiments consisted of the same bacterial strain—E. coli B—previously used by Luria and Delbrück.., of seven phage strains active on B, and of various strains of bacteria..resistant to one or more of the phages. The phage strains were indicated as type 1 to type 7 (T1 to T7).
1960 New Biol. 31 78 One group of the larger phages..has become the best understood of any kind of virus. These are the closely related T2, T4 and T6, known collectively as the T-even phages.
1968 H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm iii. 46 It was known at the time that this work was undertaken that when E. coli cells were infected with the T-even bacteriophages net synthesis of bacterial RNA was rapidly inhibited.
1973 R. G. Krueger et al. Introd. Microbiol. xiv. 410/2 Studies of T4 mutants have gone a long way towards elucidating the steps by which biological structures, such as the head and tail of the virus, are assembled.
c. Astronautics. [Initial letter of time.] T represents the time at which a spacecraft is due to be launched.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > an appointed or fixed time, day, or date > for something to begin or be released
release date1904
effective date1909
zero hour1915
zero day1917
start date1920
countdown1953
T1959
society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [noun] > a space shot or flight > launching of spacecraft > time of launch
T1959
1959 Manch. Guardian 3 Jan. 5 ‘T-time’ is the moment the firing switch is closed to set off a missile.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon ii. 32 Only in the latter stages of the final countdown does the nomenclature change to T minus hours and minutes.
III. Morphological uses.
6. T at the end of a word has sometimes been attached to the word following when this begins with a vowel: hence the to adj., the tone pron. and adj., the tother pron. and adj.; see also discussion of α. forms at it pron., adj., and n.1 The final t of Saint has in several cases been popularly prefixed to the name, as in Tandrew, Tandry = St. Andrew; Tann = St. Ann, hence Tanswell; Tantolin = St. Antholin; Tooly = St. Olave; see also tanton n., tantony n., tawdry n. and adj.
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c1450 Mankind 75 in Macro Plays 4 I gyff no force, by Sent Tanne!
1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 264 Our Tantlin Lectures.
1726 F. Howgrave Ess. Stamford 53 The Corruption that has been made of St. Anthony into Tantony, and St. Olave into Tooly.
1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 269 Cakes baked for the lace-makers' feasts in honour of St. Andrew..are locally termed ‘Tandry Cakes’.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 'T Andrew's dance, St. Vitus' dance.
7. In early Middle English, t took the place of initial þ, th, after a word ending in a dental or s, esp. in the demonstratives the, that, this, tha, there, then, thus, etc., and the 2nd personal pronoun thou and its cases. Already in Old English, þæt þe became þætte, that pron.1, adj.1, adv., and n.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12762 Nu shallt tu ben nemmnedd cefas.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 325 Þiss streon þatt tuss wass sibb. Wiþþ preostess. & wiþþ kingess.
a1240 Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 271 Hwa is ta largere þen þu.
c1400 Rule St. Benet 23 Þis sais sain benet, þat ta þat ere of elde and vnderstandis, þai sal haue þaire mesur.
IV. In chemical contexts.
8. 2,4,5-T n. a selective herbicide used esp. for controlling brushwood; 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, C6H2Cl3·O·CH2COOH.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer of nature > [noun] > herbicide
weedkiller1745
weedicide1897
herbicide1899
algicide1902
algaecide1903
pesticide1933
2,4,5-T1947
silvicide1950
dalapon1953
silvex1954
sterilant1955
simazine?1957
mecoprop1959
propazine1959
diquat1960
TCA1960
picloram1965
propachlor1966
1947 Bot. Gaz. 109 194/2 The use of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) has been emphasized in nearly all investigations.., although the possible use of 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) for similar purposes was recognized by Hamner and Tukey.
1956 Nature 3 Mar. 418/1 An investigation into the effect of the arboricide 2,4,5-T on freshly cut stumps of thicket suggests that this substance may be of practical value in preventing regeneration.
1977 New Yorker 25 July 37/2 The military had withdrawn huge stocks of Agent Orange—a fifty-fifty mixture of 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D, which was principally used in its herbicidal operations—from Vietnam.
Compounds
C1.
a. attributive (sometimes hyphenated): Shaped like the letter T; having a cross piece at the top. See also tee n.1, tee-piece at tee n.1 Compounds, etc.
T bandage n.
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1783 Bentley in Med. Communications (1784) 1 257 The canula..was left in the puncture, secured with a double T bandage.
1885 W. H. Coleman Hist. Sketch Bk. New Orleans xviii. 187 The Chevalier appeared in the streets wearing what the surgeons call a T bandage about his face and jaw.
T bar n.
T chain n.
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1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 84 Secured by a T chain.
T end n.
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1896 S. H. Wells Text-bk. Engin. Drawing & Design (ed. 4) ii. xxviii. 291 The curves at the T end of the rod.
T fish n.
T handle n.
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1775 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 20 Apr. (1778) A light beam of seven feet long, drawn by a T handle, by one man, walking backwards.
T head n.
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1910 N.E.D. at T T head.
1913 W. E. Dommett Motor Car Mech. 42 The arrangement shown at E is the most extensively used, the cylinder being said to have a T-head.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 179/3 A new Oil Jetty running 217 m..out into Harwich Harbour.., and having a minimum depth of 33 ft alongside the T-head.
T hinge n.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 198 The inside doors should be hung with T hinges, 18 inches long.
T iron n.
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1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 126/1 The roof..is further supported and braced by strutts of T iron and suspension rods.
T joint n.
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1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) *T-joint.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 16 Mar. 8/1 The main cable..is always connected with the consumer's house by means of a T-joint, which is enclosed in a box filled with bitumen.
T key n.
T pattern n.
T piece n.
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1895 E. A. Parkes Care Health 54 Lead T pieces, as they are called [in water-pipes] must be used.
T spot n.
T tap n.
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1896 Farrier's Price List T taps and other tools.
T tube n.
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1881 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air iii. xviii. 188 One end..of a glass T-tube was connected with an air-pump.
T wharf n.
b. Also in combinations.
T-formed adj.
Π
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 465/2 The T-formed or arrow-shaped bone [of the Saurians].
T-headed adj.
Π
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 849 They are always attached..by a T headed nail and spike.
T-shaped adj.
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1860 Biog. & Crit. fr. ‘The Times’ 235 T-shaped traps for the wheatear.
C2. Special Combinations. (sometimes hyphenated). See also T-shirt n.† T beard n. Obsolete a beard worn in the 17th cent., grown or cut in the form of a T. † T-light n. Theatre Obsolete a type of gas lighting-device utilizing a pipe in the shape of a letter T (obsolete).
T account n. U.S. Book-keeping a standard form of ledger account (see quot. 1976), or a simplified version of this.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > book-keeping > methods of
double entry1721
single entrya1831
self-balancing1854
T account1936
LIFO1945
fifo1975
1936 Owens & Kennedy Accounting v. 49 Sometimes ‘skeleton’ or ‘T’ accounts are used instead of the regular accounts.
1941 L. O. Foster Introd. Accounting x. 181 T accounts are accounts without rulings and are used in classroom discussions because of the simplicity of their structure.
1976 D. W. Moffat Econ. Dict. 270/1 T account. In double-entry book-keeping, each account has the name of the account on a horizontal across the top, and then a vertical line separates the debit entries from the credit entries. The lines form a T.
T-bar n. a metal bar with a T-shaped cross-section; a T-shaped fastening on a shoe (cf. T-strap n. below); spec. a type of ski-lift consisting of a series of T-shaped bars whereby skiers are towed uphill.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skiing > [noun] > ski-lift
T-bar1889
tow1937
chair-lift1940
ski-lift1940
ski tow1942
skimobile1946
platter pull1949
Poma1954
telecabine1954
gondola lift1957
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > cast metal > in other specific form
spray1831
T-bar1889
punt1895
head metal1902
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > fastenings > lace, thong, or strap > types of
stilt-bond?a1500
sandal1829
toe-string1882
toe-strap1884
T-bar1889
bootstrap1891
T-strap1963
toe loop1964
1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) *T-bar.
1940 F. Elkins Compl. Ski Guide ii. 161 New 3500-foot ‘T-bar’ lift to connect with top of chair lift.
1956 A. K. Osborne Encycl. Iron & Steel Industry 412/2 Structural shapes. (Sections.) Hot rolled steel bars of various cross-sectional contours such as channels, angles, bulb angles, I and H beams, T and Z bars, joists and other complicated contours.
1964 Woman 18 Jan. 13 Today's chair-lifts and T-bars mean you'll be sitting as much as ski-ing.
1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 78 (caption) T-bar sach cramp.
1972 Daily Tel. 24 Jan. 11/7 The little girl's T-bar beach-shoe.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 648 Excellent skiing facilities including a chair lift,..T-bar, beginners' lift, and various snack bars.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of beard
goat's beard1440
bodkin-bearda1529
pique-devant1587
crates1592
peak1592
spade-peak1592
beard1598
Cads-beard1598
spade-beard1598
punto beard1633
cathedral beard1635
stiletto1638
T bearda1640
trencher-bearda1668
tile beard1816
imperial beard1832
Charley1833
imperial1835
royale1838
goatee1841
goat1849
Newgate frill1851
Newgate fringe1853
Vandyke beard1894
torpedo beard1899
Vandyke1909
pencil beard1966
1621 J. Taylor Superbiæ Flagellum sig. C8 Of mens Beards strange and variable cut..Some with the hammer cut, or Romane T.]
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbbbb4/1 Strokes his beard, Which now he puts i' th' posture of a T. The Roman T. your T. beard is the fashion.
T-bone steak n. originally U.S. a beef-steak cut from the sirloin and containing a T-shaped bone; also elliptical as T-bone.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > steak or fillet
beef-steak1711
entrecôte1840
filet de bœuf1841
porterhouse steak1842
porterhouse1854
bifteck1861
fillet steak1877
tournedos1877
pope's eye1885
filet mignon1906
minute steak1910
T-bone1916
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
strip steak1962
shell steak1968
hanger steak1988
1916 Dial. Notes 4 270 T-steak or T-bone-steak,..so called from the shape of the bone.
1923 N. Anderson Hobo i. iii. 34 These bills of fare..displayed..T-Bone Steak.
1934 E. Newhouse You can't sleep Here xii. 144 When it's a toss-up between buzzards' gizzards and a t-bone.., me for the t-bone.
1959 Times 27 Apr. 7/4 Fillet and T-bone steaks were the order of the hour.
1979 R. Rendell Make Death love Me xi. 98 He got Marty to fetch in three great hunks of T-bone because Joyce said she liked steak.
T branch n. in piping, a right-angled joint of a small pipe to a main; a T joint.
T cart n. an open phaeton, so called from its groundplan resembling the letter T.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > open > types of
droshky1809
T cart1873
1873 R. Broughton Nancy II. 24 The butler took the housekeeper a driving-tour in my T-cart, and threw down one of my best horses.
1882 Daily News 30 May 3/1 Stanhope phaetons (generally called by the absurd name of T cart).
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius xvi A very gorgeous conveyance, called in America a T-cart, and resembling a mail phaeton in build.
T cloth n. a plain cotton cloth exported to India, China, Africa, etc., so called from the large letter T stamped on it.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > other
bustian1424
cotton tissed1585
Manchester1589
cannequin1598
madapollam1685
burdet1710
antherine1739
canque1750
jaconet1769
medium1777
bump1794
American sheeting1840
American cloth1851
American leather1858
gala1858
Merikani1860
T cloth1865
dhurrie1880
Americani1881
Tarantulle1890
Aertex1896
Tobralco1910
limbric1930
Ventile1954
1865 Manch. Guard. 2 Mar. T cloths, 9d. and long-cloths, 6d. to 1s. per piece.
1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 72 ‘T cloths’ are lengths of 20 yards of calico, specially used as barter with native tribes in Africa.
T-formation n. American Football a T-shaped offensive formation of players (see quot. 1978).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > formations
T-formation1930
umbrella defence1950
pocket1955
shotgun formation1967
O-line1971
wishbone1972
1930 R. C. Zuppke Coaching Football vii. 208 The ‘T’ formation..is at its core a strong formation.
1942 L. O. Waldorf How to play Football ix. 112 In 1940, Stanford University used the T formation with great success.
1978 G. Wright Illustr. Handbk. Sporting Terms 85/3 T-formation, one of the basic offensive formations with the quarterback behind the center and the other three backs behind in a row parallel to the line of scrimmage.
T-junction n. a T-shaped intersection (of pipes, etc.); spec. a T-shaped road junction.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [noun] > object or shape resembling specific letter
Y1513
tee1610
Ha1616
Z1680
W1798
V1832
Z-bar1877
zed1891
vee1933
T-junction1954
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction
clover-leaf1933
interchange1944
T-junction1954
Y junction1961
spaghetti1963
box junction1964
box1966
spaghetti junction1971
ring junction1972
gyratory1983
1954 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 56 T junction, a junction shaped like a T.
1956 Nature 24 Mar. 561/1 The study of the stresses in the T-junction of a branched pipe.
1958 Listener 20 Nov. 835/3 The first T-junction that comes along without a signpost of any kind.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 380/2 The method of making a right-angle turn, or a T junction, is shown in Plate 408, where the tapered short section is driven into a cone socket in the side of the longer length of elm pipe.
1982 S. Spender China Diary 104 He jumped out of the car..and walked..till he came to a T-junction where the [traffic] blockage seemed to originate.
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1898 A. W. Pinero Trelawny of ‘Wells’ iv. 171 Just below the footlights is a T-light, burning gas.
1911 M. Beerbohm Let. 6 Dec. (1964) 211 You who are so very du théâtre and love being behind the scenes among T-lights and properties.
1933 J. Martin-Harvey Autobiogr. iv. 43 The gloomy underground stage unlit by anything but the ‘T’ light on which a single jet of gas literally made darkness visible.
T rail n. a railway metal or rail having a T section.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > types of rail
bridge rail1759
rack rail1829
light rail1836
saddle rail1837
T rail1837
rack1847
foot rail1856
tooth-rail1862
U-rail1868
strap-rail1874
check-rail1876
cog-rail1884
1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 39/2 The pattern..is by American engineers called the inverted T rail.
18.. W. Whitman To Working Men vi The strong, clean-shaped T-rail for railroads.
T square n. a square of the form of a T or rather ⊦ (with a long stem), used by mechanics and draughtsmen for drawing lines parallel, or at right angles, to each other (see also tee n.1).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for marking out work > [noun] > squares
squarea1300
trying-square1579
mitre square1676
mitre1678
centre square1683
box square?1710
square rule1726
T square1785
set square1854
try-square1877
society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > drawing instruments > for parallel lines
T square1785
1701 T. Tuttell Descr. Math. Instruments in J. Moxon Math. made Easie (ed. 3) 19 Tee, a double Square in the form of a T.]
1785 J. Peacock in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 369 A common T square..will answer most purposes.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 76 His trace, his T square, his augers, his gouges, and his engraving tools.
T-strap n. a T-shaped instep strap on a shoe; frequently attributive; also absol., a shoe with such a strap; cf. T-bar n. above.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with straps
Mary Jane1909
sling-back1948
T-strap1963
strappy1977
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with straps or thongs
strap shoe1903
Mary Jane1909
monk strap1936
monk shoe1938
sling pump1941
sling-back1948
T-strap1963
monk1968
monk's shoe1969
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > fastenings > lace, thong, or strap > types of
stilt-bond?a1500
sandal1829
toe-string1882
toe-strap1884
T-bar1889
bootstrap1891
T-strap1963
toe loop1964
1963 Times 1 Feb. 14/5 Some shoes had..slender T-straps.
1963 Harper's Bazaar Apr. 75 The T-strap sandal shown here in patent leather.
1969 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 7 Dashing T-strap with sparkling patent vinyl upper.
1974 Country Life 21 Mar. 687/2 A brogued court with T-strap.
1978 Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. a19 (advt.) Popular T-strap slings with open or closed backs and espadrilles.
t-totum n. see teetotum n.1
Initialisms
I1.
a. Abbreviations: for various proper names, as Thomas, Timothy, Titus, Theresa, etc. See also TAM n.2, TANU n., Tass n.3, TEWT n., TIM n.2, TOPS n., T.U.C. n., TV n.1
T n. Music tasto, tempo, tenor, tutti.
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1724 Short Explic. Foreign Words Musick Bks. The Letter T. is often used as an Abbreviation of the Word Tutti.
T n. officially stamped on a letter, taxed, i.e. postage to be paid.
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1894 Westm. Gaz. 12 Oct. 3/2 ‘England’ stamps these cards with a ‘T’, an initial which, with St. Martin's-le-Grandiose conciseness stands for ‘taxed’.
T n. Astronomy of temporary magnitude.
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1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 819/2 The star T in Corona Borealis.
T n. Physics = tera- comb. form.
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1951 Symbols, Signs & Abbrev. (Royal Soc.) 15 Tera (× 1012) T.
1978 Guardian Weekly 27 Aug. 13/3 Sweden's energy requirements..—125 Twh in 1985.
T n. Physics = Tesla n. 2.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > [noun] > magnetic flux > unit of flux
weber1891
Maxwell1900
Tesla1960
T1964
1964 Internat. System (SI) Units (B.S.I.) 8 The tesla (symbol T) is the name given to this unit in Continental literature.
1973 Physics Bull. Sept. 555/3 He used pulsed magnetic fields as high as 30 T.
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T n. (in a ship's logbook) thunder.
T n. Mathematics time, terms, etc.
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1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions 15 t = Number of Terms in V..Continu'd to t Terms.
1871 P. G. Tait & W. J. Steele Dynamics of Particle (ed. 3) iii. §80 Let P be the position of the particle at any time *t.
1871 P. G. Tait & W. J. Steele Dynamics of Particle (ed. 3) iii. §86 If T be the time of descent down AC.
T n. [symbolic abbreviation for tritium n.] Physics and Chemistry = tritium n.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > hydrogen > [noun] > isotopes
D1933
deuterium1933
diplogen1933
protium1933
tritium1933
T1948
1948 S. Glasstone Textbk. Physical Chem. (ed. 2) ii. 172 The 3H isotope, called tritium, symbol T, has also been obtained by the bombardment of nitrogen by neutrons.
1973 Nature 3 Aug. 257/1 The square-root law of mass-dependence does not apply to isotopic variants HDO and HTO.
t n. Physics top or truth, a quark flavour.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic physics > particle physics > quark > [noun] > differentiating property > top or truth
truth1976
top1977
t1978
1978 Nature 2 Feb. 407/1 This new quark pair is labelled t and b for ‘top’ and ‘bottom’.
1978 Nature 2 Feb. 407/2 The prudish may care to note that t and b are said to stand for truth and beauty, rather than top and bottom, by some physicists.
1984 Daily Tel. 5 July 36/4 Discovery of a sub-atomic particle labelled the ‘T-top’ quark has been announced by scientists at Cern.
T n. Turkish (pounds).
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXVIII. 507/2 About 6,000,000 modern Turkish pounds (£ T1 = about 18s. 2d. in sterling).
TA n. U.S. teaching assistant.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > assistant teacher
submasterc1450
usher1512
undermaster1561
under-usher1561
pedagogue?1566
underteacher1581
janitor1584
hypodidascal1625
under-doctora1649
assistant master1872
usheress1879
TA1969
1969 C. Davidson in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 357 These considerations make the organization of a radical trade union of TAs a crucial part of any strategy for change.
1980 Berkeley Graduate Oct. 3/4 Matthew Soyster, a Comparative Literature graduate student, is currently a TA in the Rhetoric Department.
T.A. n. Territorial Army (see also note s.v. TAVR n. below).
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > special reserves or Territorial Army
army of reserve1607
reserves1826
Special Reserve1907
Territorial Army1907
home guard1908
T.A.1924
TAVR1967
1924 Regul. Territorial Army i. iii. 33 An officer appointed to command a brigade..will..be granted such rank in the T.A. temporarily.
1924 Regul. Territorial Army i. iv. 53 The senior T.A. officer in the locality.
1939 W. S. Churchill Let. 30 Aug. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1976) V. liii. 1106 Would it not be helpful to call up the reserves and mobilize the TA?
1980 Whitaker's Almanack 473/2 The Territorial Army (TA) is designed to provide a reserve of highly trained and well equipped units and individuals.
T.A. n. Psychology transactional analysis.
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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > psychotherapy > based on attitudes revealed in transactions
transactional analysis1961
T.A.1972
1972 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 Nov. 42 Initial capitals are common in the vocabulary of Transactional Analysis, or T.A.
1976 S. Wales Echo 25 Nov. 16/7 In the group therapy of TA members can see a wider range of ego states than they could on their own, and the collective framework is thought to aid analysis and change.
T.A.B. n. Australian and New Zealand Totalizator Agency Board.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > official organization
Totalizator Agency Board1950
T.A.B.1957
1957 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 19 Nov. 16/1 If people want things like the T.A.B., alcohol and cigarettes.
1969 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 27/1 (heading) The Moorebank Handicap, second leg of the TAB double.
1977 Herald (Melbourne) 17 Jan. 6/8 A spokesman for the TAB head office.
T.A.B. n. Medicine a vaccine against typhoid, paratyphoid A, and paratyphoid B; usually attributive.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > vaccine or antiserum > [adjective] > specific vaccine
T.A.B.1929
1929 Lancet 9 Feb. 288/1 These T.A.B. vaccine injections..caused remission in the course of general paralysis.
1970 Guardian 24 Jan. 17/3 The Department of Health advises all travellers abroad to take the precaution of a TAB vaccination.
1981 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 1313/1 We all lined up, hand on hip, to receive the dreaded TAB.
T. & A. n. (also T and A) U.S. tonsils and adenoids; tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on glands of the throat or mouth
adenotomy1777
tonsillotomy1876
thyrotomy1880
thyroidectomy1889
thyroidotomy1890
parotidectomy1893
adenoidectomy1899
parathyroidectomy1899
tonsillectomy1899
thymectomy1905
thyrochondrotomy1911
adenotonsillectomy1916
thyroparathyroidectomy1920
T. & A.1942
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > glands of throat > tonsils and adenoids
T. & A.1942
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §532/1 T.&A., tonsils and adenoids.
1960 in Arch. Otolaryngology Aug. 183/1 Tonsilloadenoidectomy (T and A) is often classified as minor surgery.
1960 in Arch. Otolaryngology Aug. 186/1 Immediate hemorrhage in the first 24 hours post T and A continued to be approximately 3%–4%.
1976 Amer. Speech 1973 48 204 Relatively simple operations like a T and A..are considered routine procedures on the hospital's OR (operating room) schedule.
t. and g. adj. (also t. & g.) (Woodworking), tongued and grooved.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] > joined > with specific joint
mortised1538
dovetailed1656
scarfed1704
tenoned1770
tongued and grooved1773
mitred1775
mitre-jointed1791
matched1833
stub-mortised1833
dadoed1859
lap-jointed1874
t. and g.1948
1948 Archit. Rev. 103 133 Exterior walls are of two by four studs, four by four posts, faced externally with wood sheathing and t. and g. vertical boarding.
1949 Gloss. Terms Timber (B.S.I.) 41 t. & g., tongued and grooved.
TAT n. Psychology thematic apperception test.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > testing of personality > [noun] > projective test
Thematic Apperception Test1935
projection test1946
TAT1946
projective1950
1946 Jrnl. Presonality 15 70 The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)..is a projective device which purports to reveal the basic personality characteristics of individuals.
1952 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. May 101 There are..other and more satisfactory objective methods for investigating..the temperamental and general behavioural traits... A ‘global’ picture can be obtained from the use of such techniques as Rorschach or T.A.T.
1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. iv. 49 There are various ways of scoring TAT stories for aggressiveness.
1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 191 The standard Murray TATs..were not considered appropriate.
TAVR n. Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve (the name given to the restructured Territorial Army in 1967, but replaced by the name ‘Territorial Army’ in 1979).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > special reserves or Territorial Army
army of reserve1607
reserves1826
Special Reserve1907
Territorial Army1907
home guard1908
T.A.1924
TAVR1967
1967 Army Q. 94 36 T.A.V.R. I and II will be adequately equipped with modern weapons and equipment.
1977 R.A.F. News 22 June 18 (caption) The Wapinschaw..attracts entries from many regular and TAVR units in the North of Scotland.
T.B. n. torpedo-boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > torpedo boat
torpedo boat1810
torpedo-vessel1877
torpedo craft1885
torpedo destroyer1896
T.B.1897
mosquito boat1911
oily wad1925
MTB1936
PT boat1941
torpilleur1950
1897T.B. [see T.B.D. n.].
a1912 W. T. Rogers Dict. Abbrev. (1913) 187/1 T.B.,..torpedo boat.
1925 R. H. Bacon Naval Scrap-bk. x. 144 In the 1895 manœuvres, when I was a Lieutenant of just under twelve years' seniority, I was appointed in command of No. 94 T.B.
1938 Jane's Fighting Ships 140 A number of the M.T.B.'s of the Thornycroft type are still in existence.
1977 Preston & Brown tr. Jentschura's Warships Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869–1945 ix. 124 TBs. 1–4 were modelled by Sir Edward Reed on the RN 100ft type. They were assembled in Japan.
T.B. n. Treasury Bill (cf. T-Bill n. at Initialisms 2 below).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1936 Financial Times 20 Nov. 1/1 3 months *T.B.—*£0 10 6·24 pc.
1971 Financial Mail (Johannesburg) 26 Feb. 661/1 National has about R25m of TBs on its book.
T.B. n. (also t.b.) tuberculosis; T.B.-tested adj., (of an animal) tested to establish the absence of tuberculosis; also (U.S. slang), a confidence trickster (see quot. 1930).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > tuberculosis
decline1783
tubercle1795
tuberculation1822
tuberculization1823
tubercularization1839
tuberculosis1839
tuberculocele1858
white plague1860
tuberculid1868
tuberculoderma1881
white scourge1895
tubercule1901
white death1901
T.B.1912
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster
magsman1822
confidence man1849
con artist1878
con man1889
T.B.1912
payoff man1927
pay-off1928
samfie1929
the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from disease > specific
cleanc1384
unpaining1634
unpalsied?a1656
unhypochondriacous1683
unmortified1732
ungangrened1753
uninflameda1793
uncrippleda1800
unbilified1823
unparalysed1888
uncramped1899
T.B.-tested1951
1912 D. Lowrie My Life in Prison iv. 33 He's doin' 35 years an' has the T.B.
1921 A. Mason Flying Bo'sun ii. 19 Their mother died two years ago... The doctor said it was T.B.
1930 J. Lait Big House i. 7 A confidence (or ‘con’) man is a ‘T.B.’, (‘con’ is short and slang for consumption, and ‘T.B.’ is ditto for tuberculosis).
1932 U. Sinclair Candid Reminisc. x. 88 The old captain was ill of TB.
1942 C. Himes in Crisis Oct. 314/1 Men..of all stages of deterioration—drifters and hop-heads and tb's and beggars and bums and bindle-stiffs and big sisters.
1951 J. Cannan And All I Learned x. 180 We've our own cows, T.B. tested and so beautifully kept.
1957 ‘S. Smith’ Not Waving but Drowning 38 I lay with my young bride in my arms, A girl with t.b.
1974 M. Butterworth Man in Sopwith Camel ii. 26 They wouldn't take me 'cos I'd had a touch of TB.
T.B.D. n. (also t.b.d.) torpedo boat destroyer.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > anti-torpedo vessel
torpedo-catcher1877
catcher1885
torpedo-boat destroyer1893
torpedo destroyer1896
T.B.D.1897
1897 R. Kipling Let. Aug. in C. E. Carrington Rudyard Kipling (1955) xi. 268 Ref: t.b.d. trials. My attention is at present taken up by one small craft recently lauched from my own works.
1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. (1904) 182 The chief engineer o' the Djinn, 31-knot T.B.D.
1919 C. P. Thompson Cocktails 249 I passed an enjoyable day giving a T.B.D. lieutenant a headache.
1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xx. 200 The TBD is a lot slower.
TBS n. talk between ships, a short-wave radio apparatus used for verbal communication between ships at sea.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > radio set > two-way > types of
pedal set1926
pedal radio1930
pedal wireless1932
walkie-talkie1939
handy-talkie1942
TBS1944
1944 Harper's Mag. June 38/1 The tired, imperturbable man aboard the carrier flagship called his orders over the gravelly-voiced TBS (talk between ships).
1946 Sat. Evening Post 26 Oct. 66/3 The astounded admiral grabbed the TBS radio and shouted.
1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xv. 153 Rear Admiral Spruance, issuing order after order on the TBS, finally regained a semblance of control.
tbs. n. (also tbsp.) tablespoon(ful).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > spoon as unit
spoonfulc1290
cochleare1708
teaspoonful1732
tablespoonful1755
tea-spoon1791
tablespoon1805
tbs.1950
tsp.1950
1950 Good Housek. Picture Cookery 170/2 Coffee Glacé Icing. 8 oz. icing sugar 2 tbsps. water. Coffee essence to taste.
1974 J. Paxton Everyman's Dict. Abbrev. 338/1 tbs., tbsp., tablespoon; tablespoonful.
1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 391/2 I only wish my dog liked his food sprinkled with the recommended 2 tbs of the product every day.
TCA n. trichloroacetic acid (a herbicide).
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the world > life > death > killing > killer of nature > [noun] > herbicide
weedkiller1745
weedicide1897
herbicide1899
algicide1902
algaecide1903
pesticide1933
2,4,5-T1947
silvicide1950
dalapon1953
silvex1954
sterilant1955
simazine?1957
mecoprop1959
propazine1959
diquat1960
TCA1960
picloram1965
propachlor1966
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 22 Mar. 136/3 After T.C.A. treatment 8 weeks should elapse before planting potatoes.
1971 Arable Farmer Feb. 15/2 A pre-planting application of TCA to peas may reduce the waxiness of the crop foliage, leading to unexpected damage from dinoseb applied subsequently.
TCB v. U.S. Black slang (to) take care of business.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs > deal with a matter
shifta1400
TCB1969
1969 S. E. Henderson in Cook & Henderson Militant Black Writer 78 These poems were not intended for white readers and white audiences..their purpose was direct address to the black community, to get us together to TCB.
1973 New Times (N.Y.) 2 Nov. 41/1 Where he is always to be found TCB'ing (takin' care of business, an old ghetto phrase which originally meant to copulate).
T.C.D. n. Trinity College, Dublin.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [noun] > university > specific university
Oxon.c1439
Oxford1455
Sorbonne1560
aunt1625
T.C.D.1831
other place1899
open university1902
U.C.L.a1912
University of the Air1922
U.C.L.A.1941
U.C.D.1955
OU1969
open1970
College of the Air1977
1831 M. C. Taylor Let. 22 June in J. J. Auchmuty Sir T. Wyse (1939) ix. 134 The Scholars of T.C.D. do not afford a Protestant, a learned or an independent constituency.
1916 H. Plunkett Jrnl. 29 Apr. in M. Digby Plunkett (1949) ix. 212 The firing from the other side of the T.C.D. guards was so fierce that we had to turn back.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 424 Go o'er the sea, haythen, from me and leave your libber to TCD.
1979 J. Sheehan in J. J. Lee Ireland 1945–70 67 A UCD/TCD merger or co-ordination of some sort.
TCDD n. = tetrachlorodibenzodioxin n. at tetra- comb. form 2a(c)(ii).
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > halogenated hydrocarbons > specific
tetrachlorethane1871
pentachloroethane1872
trichloroethylene1889
Freon1932
tetrafluoroethylene1933
fluorocarbon1937
perfluorocarbon1947
heptachlor1949
tetrachlorodibenzodioxin1959
TCDD1971
CFC1976
1971 New Yorker 14 Aug. 57 The only real question concerning the safety of 2,4,5-T has to do with the TCDD dioxin with which it is contaminated.
1981 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 199/2 It is impossible to substantiate the charge that TCDD has led to an increase in the number of malformed children in Vietnam.
TCNQ n. [ < T- (in tetra- comb. form) + CN, chemical formula of the cyano group + Q- (in quinone n.).] Chemistry 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-p-quinodimethane, an organic compound forming salts of unusually low resistivity.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic salts > [noun] > cyanides
sulphocyanide1841
platinocyanide1845
valeronitrile1847
rhodan1849
Everitt's salt1890
acrylonitrile1893
Zyklon B1939
TCNQ1960
propenenitrile1963
1960 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 82 6408/1 7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) has been synthesized and found to yield a series of stable anion-radical derivatives.
1979 Sci. Amer. Oct. 48/2 Many salts in which TCNQ is combined with other atoms or molecules form linear-chain solids.
T.C.P. n. the proprietary name of a disinfectant.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > antiseptic > [noun] > specific
naphthalene1821
carbolic acid1835
creosote1835
Sanitas1878
chlorocresol1886
salol1887
Listerine1889
salufer1894
Airol1895
fluorol1895
thymoform1899
xeroform1901
triformol1907
thymoloform1911
hexamine1914
Eusol1915
flavine1917
proflavine1917
Dakin1920
naphtha1920
methenamine1926
T.C.P.1934
Zephiran1935
leptazol1946
cetrimide1948
nalidixic acid1962
clioquinol1967
crystal violet1996
1934 Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 Aug. 1084/1 T.C.P...Antiseptic and germicide solutions (being disinfectants). British Alkaloids Limited, 104, Winchester House, Old Broad Street, London, E.C.2; manufacturing chemists.
1947 J. Lees-Milne Diary 22 Jan. (1983) 128 Cut my mole shaving this morning and thought it would never stop bleeding. T.C.P. finally staunched it.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 171 Earnestly applying T.C.P...in the privacy of their bedrooms.
1981 G. Kaye Day after Yesterday ii. 22 You cried when you only scraped your knee..a little scrape and a bit of TCP.
TCP n. Physics time (reversal), charge (conjugation), and parity (conservation).
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the world > matter > physics > quantum theory > quantum mechanics > quantum field theory > [noun] > time reversal > time, charge and parity
TCP1957
1957 Physical Rev. 106 385/1 According to a general theorem, invariance with respect to the product TCP follows for a wide class of field theories from invariance with respect to the proper Lorentz group alone.
1974 H. Frauenfelder & E. M. Henley Subatomic Physics ix. 223 When violation of parity became a possibility the TCP theorem suddenly acquired more meaning.
1979 J. C. Polkinghorne Particle Play iii. 47 We do not know how to write down any theories which are not invariant under TCP.
T.D. n. [ < Irish Teachtaí Dála] a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in Ireland > member of lower house
T.D.1947
1947 S. Malone Notes Procedure Oireachtas p. vii Members of Daíl Eirann (Teachtai Dála)—referred to as T.D.'s or Deputies.
1959 B. Chubb in D. E. Butler et al. Elections Abroad iii. 187 TD—Teachta Dála; the Irish equivalent of Member of Parliament. TDs are addressed as ‘Deputy’.
1979 M. Manning in J. J. Lee Ireland 1945–70 51 Its TDs tended to act more as independents than as members of a political party.
T.D. n. Territorial Decoration (in the Territorial Army).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders
Order of St Michael1530
Legion of Honour1802
clasp1813
Iron Cross1813
medal1813
star1844
Victoria Cross1856
V.C.1859
Medal of Honour1861
bar1864
yellow jacket1864
V.D.1901
Croix de Guerre1915
Military Cross1915
C.G.M.1916
Military Medal1916
pip1917
M.M.1918
purple heart1918
Maconochie Cross1919
Maconochie Medal1919
wound-stripe1919
T.D.1924
rooty gong1925
Silver Star1932
Ritterkreuz1940
Africa Star1943
ruptured duck1945
Spam medal1945
screaming eagle1946
1924 Regul. Territorial Army i. x. 145 The letters ‘T.D.’ will be inserted in the Army List after the name of the officer on whom the decoration is conferred.
1981 Whitaker's Almanack 248 Alport Cuthbert James McCall Alport, p.c., t.d.
TD n. American Football and Canadian Football a touchdown.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > scoring
touchdown1876
field goal1883
TD1953
1953 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang (1954) §692/2 Touchdown,..TD, touch.
1969 Eugene (Oregon) Register-Guard 3 Dec. 2 d/1 Nyseth scored three TDs en route to 137 yards.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 33/3 Another fumble set up Riverdale's second TD when Bob Nichols recovered the ball in Lions' end zone.
1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 10– d/4 TD passes, home runs, goals or point averages.
T.D.C. n. Temporary Detective Constable.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > law enforcement > investigation of crime > [noun] > detective > of specific rank
T.D.C.1970
1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard ii. 45 TDC Sneed and DC Lambert to watch on Sloane Square to investigate shoplifting complaint.
1978 B. Norman To nick Good Body ii. 9 A temporary detective constable..had just brought in the Guv'nor's tea... The Guv'nor waved away the T.D.C.
TDC n. Mechanics top dead centre.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > internal-combustion engine > [noun] > distance of parts
top dead centre1924
TDC1938
1938 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 42 888 T.D.C. or any other reference marks are marked by the discharge flash of a thyratron circuit, controlled by suitable contacts on the engine crankshaft.
1976 New Motorcycling Monthly Oct. 34/2 With piston at TDC, pull barrel up mounting studs.
TDE n. [ < T- (in two adj.) + dichlorethane] an organochlorine insecticide (see quot. 1946) formerly used on fruit and vegetables.
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1946 Nature 6 July 22/1 ‘D.D.D.’ or ‘T.D.E.’ The compound 2.2-bis(p-chlorphenyl)1,1-dichlorethane..has been shown to be about as toxic as D.D.T. to mosquito larvæ in laboratory tests.
1970 New Scientist 1 Jan. 16/1 Much of this case also applies..to the other ‘hard’ organochlorine insecticides: aldrin,..BHC and TDE (Rhothane).
T.D.R. n. Treasury Deposit Receipt.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1948 G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ii. 37 There are four main types of bank assets, which are..bills.., Treasury Deposit Receipts (usually known as TDRs), investments and loans.
1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 383/1 By 1945 T.D.R.s had reached a total of over £1,800 million.
t.d.s. n. [Latin ter die sumendus] Medicine to be taken three times a day.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adverb] > prescribed frequency of administering drugs
stat1875
t.i.d.1885
t.d.s.1899
q.i.d.1905
q.d.s.1936
1899 P. G. Lewis Nursing ii. 18 Medicines are ordered to be taken either statim (immediately), or t.d.s. = ter die sumenda (to be taken three times a day).
1919 Jrnl. Royal Naval Med. Service v. 93 He was given quinine 15 gr. t.d.s.
1961 Lancet 29 July 238/1 The response of our patients to a course of 20 electroshock treatments or to chlorpromazine 100–400 mg. t.d.s.
TEE n. Trans Europ (also Europe, European) Express (train).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > express or non-stop > specific
Flying Dutchman1813
Scotsman1871
Flying Scotchman1872
Orient Express1883
Twentieth Century1902
Royal Scot1927
Rheingold1928
Red Arrow1934
trans-Siberian1939
TEE1963
1963 Times 23 May 13/7 TEE trains now link 90 European cities.
1967 R. Sawkins Snow in Paradise iii. 29 The TEE is just about as quick as the plane.
1977 J. Paxton Dict. European Econ. Community 246 Trans-Europ-Express (T.E.E.). Trans-Europ-Expresses connect major cities in nine European countries by a network of very fast and comfortable trains for which frontier formalities have been reduced to a minimum.
TEFL n. /tɛf(ə)l/ (also Tefl) Teaching of English as a Foreign Language.
/tɛf(ə)l/ (also Tefl) Teaching of English as a Foreign Language.ΘΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > teaching as a foreign or second language
TEFL1963
TESL1967
1963 Language Learning (Univ. Michigan) 13 225 (heading) Reflections on Preparation for TEFL.
1968 Language 44 206 Any gathering of TEFL leaders today will be sure to include a large number who received their initial experience at Michigan.
1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching Eng. v. 56 The American terms TEFL, TESL, TESOL, TESOLD have no precise counterparts in British usage.
1981 Guardian 14 Apr. 21/4 (advt.) Applications are invited from candidates who have experience in..Tefl.
TESL n. /tɛs(ə)l/ Teaching of English as a Second Language.
ΘΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > teaching as a foreign or second language
TEFL1963
TESL1967
1967 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 16 Sept. 83 Though a major curriculum emphasis is developing fluency in the English language using the linguistic approach of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language), the knowledge of Navaho is still essential to many jobs on the reservation.
1980 Verbatim Spring 20/1 A dictionary of international English might have remembered TESL and TEFL ‘teaching of English as a Second (or Foreign) Language’, however.
TESOL n. /ˈtɛsəl/ Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.
/ˈtɛsəl/ Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.ΘΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > teaching as a foreign or second language > one who
TESOL1969
1969 Language 45 171 The two halves of the collection, articles on the description of English and articles on TESOL, reflect the sad dichotomy between descriptive linguists and language-teaching methodologists the world over.
TeV n. tera-electron volt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > electrical potential > [noun] > unit of electromotive force > measurements
kilovolt1861
millivolt1861
megavolt1868
volt1873
kilovolt-ampere1909
mV1926
kilovoltage1933
MV1937
TeV1956
tera-electron-volt1974
1956 Proc. CERN Sympos. 1 64/2 These machines would have equivalent energies of 1340 Gev, or 1·3 Tev.
1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 32/3 Completion of the full lower ring is now expected toward the end of 1981, and protons at 1 TeV should be delivered to the experimental areas in 1982.
T.G. n. temporary gentleman (see temporary adj. 1d).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > commissioned officer > for duration of war only
T.G.1916
1916 N. Mitchison Jrnl. in All change Here (1975) xv. 147 Last night about half a dozen [officers] came into the salon and started a conversation... They were awful TGs mostly... Here am I, sitting..in the middle of the stuffy salon of a third-rate French hotel, being as charming as I can to an audience of TGs, all to give them the memory of a pleasant evening to take back to the trenches at Givenchy.
T.G. int. thank God (cf. D.G. n. at D n. Initialisms 3a).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > state of being consoled or relieved > expressing relief [interjection]
thank goodnessc1330
T.G.1934
thank fuck1973
the mind > emotion > gratitude > thanks [interjection] > thanks to divine providence
thank Godc1330
God-a-mercya1500
God-a-thank1657
thank goodness1811
thank heaven1840
thank God for that1918
thanks be1924
T.G.1934
1934 ‘J. Rhys’ Voy. in Dark i. i. 17 ‘Only three more weeks of this damned tour, T.G.,’ Maudie said. ‘It's no life.’
1978 D. Murphy Place Apart xi. 226 Isn't it a tough world to be tryin' to raise twelve boys in? But T.G. so far they're good lads.
TG n. Linguistics transformational-generative (grammar) (see transformational adj.).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > schools or theories of grammar > [noun] > transformational grammar
TG1968
transformationalism1969
1968 B. M. H. Strang Mod. Eng. Struct. (ed. 2) 200 The most eminent TG thinkers are still evolving and modifying parts of their theory.
1971 Archivum Linguisticum 3 64 Of recent years it is transformational-generative grammer (TG) that has undoubtedly called the tune.
1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 8 General linguists unsympathetic to TG.
1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 52/1 On the other hand, we should not jump indiscriminately into transformational-generative grammar. A full-blown TG grammar is complex.
TGV n. [French train à grande vitesse] a type of high-speed French passenger train.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > passenger train > high-speed
bullet train1966
advanced passenger train1967
APT1967
Shinkansen1968
Metroliner1969
TGV1980
sprinter1984
1980 N.Y. Times 19 Nov. 17/1 Among the trains being studied as possible models for Ohio is the French TGV.
T.G.W.U. n. Transport and General Workers' Union.
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society > occupation and work > working > association of employers or employees > [noun] > trade union > other specific trade unions
NUT1889
AWU1904
Nalgo1909
NUJ1909
Aslef1914
NUR1914
AEU1921
NUPE1931
U.A.W.1936
USDAW1946
NUM1948
T.G.W.U.1955
ACTT1957
C.B.I.1965
ASTMS1967
AUEW1971
Apex1972
UDM1985
1924 G. D. H. Cole Organised Labour ii. i. 20 The Transport Workers' Federation, which..has lost much of its importance since the formation of the T. and G.W.U.]
1955 Times 2 May 12/6 He became general secretary of the T.G.W.U. in 1945.
1957 Economist 26 Oct. 292/1 Last July the TGWU, together with the other unions involved, called an official strike of the provincial busmen.
1977 M. Walker National Front vi. 157 It was an American executive who flew to secret talks with the TGWU union negotiators at Llandudno.
THC n. tetrahydrocannabinol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > benzene derivatives > phenols
carbolic acid1835
phenol1849
phenic acid1852
phenylous acid1852
phenylic acid1853
phenol1857
phlorol1868
THC1968
1968 Time 19 Apr. 79 At a Chicago conference on psychedelic drugs, Dr. Donald R. Jasinski..reported that he had produced LSD-like symptons with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients of cannabis.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Mar. 240/5 Marijuana smokers in the United States are ‘playing at cannabis use’—in that their daily ingestion of THC is only one-fifth of that of users in India, Egypt or Morocco.
t.i.d. n. [Latin ter in die] Medicine three times a day.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adverb] > prescribed frequency of administering drugs
stat1875
t.i.d.1885
t.d.s.1899
q.i.d.1905
q.d.s.1936
1885 C. S. Weeks Textbk. Nursing vii. 105/2 T.i.d., ter in dies, three times a day.
1941 Jrnl. Royal Naval Med. Service 27 301 The course of atebrin tablets, one t.i.d.
1976 Amer. Speech 1973 48 198 Referring to the exact times a patient must have a certain medication are b.i.d. for bis in die ‘twice daily’, t.i.d. for ter in die ‘three times a day’, [etc.].
T.I.G. n. (also Tig) Engineering tungsten inert gas (with reference to welding with a tungsten electrode in an atmosphere of an inert gas).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > types of
butt welding1878
lead burning1886
arc welding1890
thermite process1905
thermite welding1906
resistance welding1908
spot welding1908
seam welding1917
fusion welding1918
projection welding1918
stud welding1918
metal arc welding1926
pressure welding1926
metallic arc welding1927
flash-butt welding1933
flash welding1933
stitch welding1934
rightward welding1936
block welding1943
submerged-arc welding1945
friction welding1946
T.I.G.1960
microwelding1962
1960 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. XIV. 467/2 Inert gas shielding is essential with tungsten electrodes, hence the term Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding.
1969 D. K. Allen Metall. Theory & Pract. xix. 612 (caption) Photomicrograph of a Tig weld with low voltage electron beam weld in center of Tig nugget to show relative width of heat affected zone in each process.
1975 G. Bram & C. Downs Manuf. Technol. ii. 55 The T.I.G. process differs from the manual metal-arc technique in as much as the electrode is virtually non-consumable.
TIR n. [French transport international routier] international road transport (with reference to an international customs agreement: see quot. 1969).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > [noun] > by motor lorry > international
TIR1968
1968 E. Pugh Dict. Acronyms & Abbrev. 169 TIR, Transports Internationale Routiers [sic].
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 141/1 For road transport, the so-called ‘TIR’ Convention, concluded under the auspices of the ECE, allows the transport of goods under Customs seal in lorries from the Customs office of departure to the Customs office of arrival.
1980 K. Hagenbach Fox Potential xii. 119 We passed a couple of big TIR trucks, each pulling a trailer.
TKO n. (also t.k.o.) Boxing (chiefly North American) a technical knock-out; also figurative and as v. transitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > knock-out or technical knockout
technical knockout1909
TKO1942
kill1950
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §704/1 Technical knockout,..T.K.O.
1956 ‘T. Betts’ Across Board xxi. 296 Endocrinology TKO's Freud in the second round.
1968 M. Richler in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories 2nd Ser. 164 ‘You lost by a TKO,’ my father said. ‘Thanks,’ my mother said.
1971 Weekend World (Johannesburg) 9 May 1/3 Tulwana's fly weight title which Dlamini took on a third round t.k.o.
1975 J. Gores Hammett (1976) iii. 28 Revani TKO'd his Filipino opponent after..using his gut as a workout bag in the fourth [round].
TL n. thermoluminescent (dating technique); also TL-dating.
ΘΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > dating methods
fluorine test1895
cross-dating1939
age dating1941
carbon–14 dating1950
radiocarbon dating1950
carbon dating1952
radiodating1962
radiometric dating1963
TL-dating1972
1972 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. CII. Suppl. ii. 12 Development and application of TL at the National Museum, Edinburgh.
1978 Times 11 Nov. 3 TL-dating was developed in the 1960s for dating pottery and other fired materials from archaeological sites.
TLC n. colloquial tender loving care.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > [noun] > especially solicitous care
tender loving care1960
TLC1960
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > affectionate or tender care
cherishing1540
cherishment1561
TLC1960
1960 I. A. Stanton Dict. for Med. Secretaries 149/1 T.L.C., abbreviation for tender, loving care.
1973 Publishers Weekly 19 Nov. 55/1 The contagious potential of his TLC when he launches a yarn.
1977 Listener 12 May 605/3 It is in a nurse's nature and in her tradition to give to the sick what is well called ‘TLC’, ‘tender loving care’.
TLC n. (also t.l.c.) Chemistry thin-layer chromatography.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > chemistry > chemical assay or analytical chemistry > [noun] > acetimetry > chromatography > types
partition chromatography1943
paper chromatography1947
ionography1950
gas chromatography1952
thin-layer chromatography1957
TLC1961
affinity chromatography1968
1961 Jrnl. Amer. Oil Chemists Soc. 38 316/1 TLC has a number of features which make it an ideal technique for the analysis of these compounds.
1975 B. L. Williams & K. Wilson Biologist's Guide to Princ. & Techniques Pract. Biochem. iii. 58 Adsorbents used in t.l.c. differ from column adsorbents in that they may contain a binding agent such as calcium sulphate.
1980 Nature 8 May 105/1 To determine the sequence of the two amino acids, the active sample was dansylated, hydrolysed and the dansyl derivative examined by TLC.
TLR n. Photography twin-lens reflex (camera).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > [noun] > general types of
box camera1828
daguerreotype1839
view camera1851
pistolgraph1859
pinhole camera1861
panoramic camera1862
pantoscopic camera1865
pistolograph1866
pantoscope1879
detective camera1881
filmograph1881
photographometera1884
photochronograph1887
snap-shooter1890
stand camera1890
tele-objective camera1891
film camera1893
magazine camera1893
panoram1893
telephoto1894
mutograph1897
tele-camera1899
telephote1903
press camera1912
reflex1922
candid camera1929
minicam1935
single-lens reflex1936
plate camera1937
magic eye1938
subminiature1947
miniature1952
all-sky camera1955
microfilmer1959
stereo-camera1959
streak camera1962
gallery camera1964
SLR1964
TLR1965
spy-camera1968
pinhole1976
multi-mode1981
digicam1989
point-and-shoot1991
1965 M. J. Langford Basic Photogr. Index 376/1 TLR.
1978 SLR Camera Sept. 61/1 Rollei..originally only manufactured top quality TLR cameras.
1979 Amateur Photographer 10 Jan. 110/2 I'd recommend the TLR every time if monochrome prints are the objective, more so when the prints are to over 10 × 8in.
T.L.S. n. The Times Literary Supplement.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > supplement or pull-out section > title of specific supplement
T.L.S.1953
1953 R. Crawshay-Williams Let. 1 Aug. in B. Russell Autobiogr. (1969) III. ii. 91 There are a nice lot of sly digs..the T.L.S. pastiche.
1967 E. Coxhead Thankless Muse i. 18 A little advance something in the TLS never comes amiss, does it?
1977 Bookseller 4 June 2704/2 The Times Literary Supplement (never called the T.L.S. then [in 1952]).
TM n. trademark.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark identifying goods
merchant mark1540
merchant's mark1557
shop mark1592
skin mark1703
brand1728
chop1828
trademark1839
tally1851
scribing1859
trade name1890
word mark1902
TM1961
UPC1974
countermark-
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. TM, trademark.
1964 Trademarks in Marketplace (U.S. Trademark Assoc.) 64 We use the term ‘trademark’ right under the selected word, or we put a little ‘TM’ in the place where you normally would put the r.
1980 Sci. Amer. Oct. 138/1 (advt.) The Clan of the Cave Bear, Earth's Children tm, a novel by Jean M. Auel.
TM n. transcendental meditation.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun]
contemplation?c1225
meditation?c1225
recollection1576
meditating1609
recollectednessa1699
mantra1794
recueillement1845
transcendental meditation1966
TM1967
society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Hinduism > systems of philosophy > [noun] > yoga > transcendental meditation
transcendental meditation1966
TM1967
1967 Listener 7 Sept. 299/1 I hear you're hostile to drugs now and have taken to TM.
1977 ‘E. V. Cunningham’ Case of One-penny Orange (1978) ix. 110 Topanga Canyon..had..sensitivity centers and nudist camps and TM temples.
1980 Times 27 May 1/8 The Home office does not approve the use of TM in borstals or prisons.
T.M. n. trench mortar (cf. toc emma n.).
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > mortar > trench mortar
trench mortar1871
minenwerfer1914
mine-thrower1914
Minnie1915
Stokes1915
toc emma1916
T.M.1925
Moaning Minnie1944
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 275 T.M. batteries were created for trench warfare and T.M. schools of instruction were established.
1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 173 When a T.M. battery had fired a few shots it departed with speed.
TMV n. tobacco mosaic virus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > virus > [noun] > types of
latent virus1750
influenza virus1880
poxvirus1891
filter-passer1906
mosaic virus1914
bacteriophage1921
herpes virus1925
Rous sarcoma virus1925
Rous virus1925
papillomavirus1935
poliovirus1939
Semliki Forest virus1944
actinophage1947
mycophage1947
mengovirus1949
tumour virus1950
Zika1952
mycobacteriophage1953
Sindbis virus1953
myxovirus1954
echovirus1955
RNA virus1955
adenovirus1956
SV1956
arborvirus1957
enterovirus1957
foamy virus1957
respiratory syncytial virus1957
polyoma1958
parainfluenza1959
reovirus1959
arbovirus1960
cytomegalovirus1960
TMV1960
vacuolating agent or virus1960
Coxsackie virus1961
rhinovirus1961
RSV1961
papovavirus1962
paramyxovirus1962
picornavirus1962
mycophage1963
parvovirus1965
rhabdovirus1966
Ross River virus1966
coronavirus1968
EBV1968
Epstein–Barr virus1968
leukovirus1968
CMV1969
arenovirus1970
oncornavirus1970
togavirus1970
alphavirus1971
calicivirus1971
Dane particle1971
flavivirus1971
flavovirus1971
maedi1971
orbivirus1971
mycovirus1972
visna-maedi virus1972
flu virus1973
maedi-visna virus1973
corona1974
orthopoxvirus1974
rotavirus1974
whitepox1974
retravirus1975
Ebola virus1976
morbillivirus1976
retrovirus1976
Ebola1977
lentivirus1979
reassortant1979
HTLV1980
morbilli1981
filovirus1982
LAV1983
CV1985
HIV1986
HIV virus1987
C-192020
Covid2020
Covid-192020
CV-192020
1960 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 46 636 (heading) The amino acid composition and C-terminal sequence of a chemically evoked mutant of TMV.
1974 W. K. Joklik in Carlile & Steehel Evolution in Microbial World 298 The fascinating work of Klug and his colleagues with TMV.
T.N.T. n. = trinitrotoluene n.
ΘΠ
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > other specific explosives
powdera1393
gunpowder1411
saltpetre1501
petre1586
halinitre1608
sal-prunella1664
petre-salt1708
xyloidin1838
gun-cotton1846
pyroxyle1847
pyroxylin1847
pyroglycerin1850
xylidine1850
nitroglycerine1852
gun-sawdust1853
picrate1854
trinitroglycerin1864
nitroleum1866
trinitrin1866
dynamite1867
giant-powder1872
dualin1874
fulgurite1874
rendrock1874
glyoxilin1875
lithofracteur1875
trinitro-cellulose1875
white gunpowder1875
gelatin1878
cotton-powder1879
vigorite1879
blasting gelatine1881
Hercules powder1881
saxifragine1881
tonite1881
dynamogen1882
forcite1883
haloxylin1883
jelly powdera1884
nitro-gelatinea1884
panclastite1883
potentite1883
sebastinea1884
kolloxylin1884
hellhoffite1885
rackarock1885
securite1886
kinetite1887
roburite1887
carbo-dynamite1888
fortis1889
gelatine dynamite1889
gelignite1889
seranine1889
straw-dynamite1889
carbonite1890
amberite1891
nitro powder1892
Schnebelite1893
westfalite1894
thorite1899
soup1902
ammonal1903
cheddite1908
trinitrotoluene1908
Samsonite1909
tolite1909
trinitrotoluol1910
trotyl1910
glyceryl trinitrate1912
T.N.T.1915
nitro1916
amatol1918
cyclonite1923
hexogen1923
lox1923
pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923
hexite1931
aurantia1940
jelly1941
RDX1941
1915 D. O. Barnett Let. 4 July in In Happy Memory 203 The yellow muck doesn't choke you, though, like the black greasy smoke (T.N.T.) which they generally have in the 6 and 8-inch shells.
1921 Daily Mail Year Bk. 73/1 An explosive charge of 550 lb., of T.N.T. blended with a still more powerful substance, hexanitrodiphenylamine.
1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xxix. 217 A responsible Western physicist's estimate that the world then possessed a nuclear weapons stockpile roughly the equivalent of forty tons of TNT for each person alive.
1979 O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 53 The casing contains a pound of TNT and it can be attached to a timing device.
T.O. n. turn over (cf. P.T.O. n. at P n. Initialisms).
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1852 E. C. Gaskell Cranford in Househ. Words 13 Mar. 590/1 However, at the foot of the page was a small ‘T.O.’, and on turning it over, sure enough, there was a letter to ‘my dear, dearest Molly’.
1889 E. Dowson Let. c23 Jan. (1967) 29 When we will proceed to Pinoli or where you will. T.O. Act à votre discretion in the matter of booking seats.
1981 Oxf. Dict. for Writers & Editors 412/2 TO, turn over.
TOEFL n. Test(ing) of English as a Foreign Language.A proprietary name.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > testing of English as a foreign language
TOEFL1964
1964 Overseas Jan. 22 On February 17, 1964, a new English-proficiency test for foreign students will be administered overseas. Called TOEFL for short, this Test of English as a Foreign Language is designed to help..assess the language competence of foreign students.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. 272 It is of primary importance that all such materials, like all TOEFL materials, take the student's native language (here, dialect) into full account.
TOFC n. originally U.S. trailer on flatcar (with reference to a type of freight container).
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society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > conveyance by rail or train > specific system of freight transport
piggybacking1936
TOFC1954
trailer-on-flatcar1954
kangaroo1967
1954 Economist 13 Mar. 779/1 These ‘piggy-backs’ or ‘trailers-on-flat-cars (TOFC)’..have now become a major preoccupation of the railways.
1964 Economist 26 Sept. 1243/1 The [US] railways have introduced TOFC service—trailer-on-flatcar, better known as Piggyback.
1969 Jane's Freight Containers 1968–9 p. iii/2 Rolling stock and terminals designed for containers should be owned or operated, or..TOFC (‘piggyback’ or ‘kangaroo’) equivalent should be owned or operated.
TOW n. tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided (missile).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [adjective] > guided
self-guided1927
guided1945
teleguided1963
TOW1972
wire-guided1993
1972 Guardian 22 Aug. 3/1 The missiles [are] called TOWs... TOW stands for tube-launched, optically tracked, and wire-guided.
1976 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. 1 The TOW missile can be used offensively from jeeps or armed cars.
T.P.R. n. Medicine temperature, pulse, and respiration.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun]
arteriography1833
pulmometry1835
pneumometry1853
sphygmography1859
spirometry1859
sphygmometry1867
pneumatometry1876
stethography1876
stethometry1876
cephalometry1881
haemautography1885
haemoglobinometry1887
pelvigraphy1890
plethysmography1890
sphygmomanometry1905
electrocardiography1910
phlebography1912
phonocardiography1913
T.P.R.1917
Fick('s) principle1920
pneumography1921
polygraphy1923
electromyography1926
oscillometry1927
pneumotachography1930
electroencephalography1935
oximetry1944
vectorcardiography1946
ballistocardiography1950
tympanometry1956
thermography1957
cystometry1959
spirography1959
rheograph1960
magnetocardiography1967
Fick method1968
magnetoencephalography1968
biofeedback1970
tympanography1977
1917 V. Brittain Let. 5 Dec. in Testament of Youth (1933) viii. 395 Morning work—i.e. beds, T.P.R.s (temperatures, pulses, respirations), washings, medicines, etc.
1976 Amer. Speech 1973 48 197 His vitals ‘vital signs’ such as temperature, pulse, and respiration (TPR).
TR n. Electronics transmit-receive; usually attributive.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > transmit-receive
TR1945
1945 Electronic Industries Sept. 226 T R switch, transmit-receive switch. A switch which prevents the transmitted energy from getting to the receiver, but allows the received energy, which is much weaker, to reach the receiver without appreciable loss. This is necessary when the same antenna is used for both transmission and reception.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. ix. 23 Such limiters are replacing TR gas discharge tubes in radar.
TRF n. Biochemistry = thyrotrop(h)in-releasing factor n. at thyro- comb. form 2.
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1959 K. Shibusawa et al. in Endocrinologica Japonica 6 31 We found a thyroid stimulating neurohumor in the hypothalamus... It was provisionally designated by us as TRF (Thyrotropin Releasing Factor).
1972 Clin. Endocrinol. (1973) (B.M.A.) 47 Thyrotrophin-releasing factor (TRF), has recently been synthesized.
TRH Biochemistry = thyrotrop(h)in-releasing hormone n. at thyro- comb. form 2.
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1968 A. V. Schally et al. in Rec. Progr. Hormone Res. 24 449 (table) Present name... Thyrotropin-releasing factor. TRF... Proposed name... Thyrotropin-releasing hormone. TRH.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 698/1 The chief value of the thyrotrophin releasing hormone (TRH) test has been the diagnosis of dysthyroid eye disease.
tRNA n. (also †T-RNA) Biochemistry transfer RNA.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > RNA
pentose nucleic acid1924
ribonucleic acid1930
ribose nucleic acid1942
RNA1942
sRNA1957
ribosomal RNA1959
messenger RNA1961
transfer RNA1961
metagon1962
rRNA1962
tRNA1962
1962 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 28 559 The system consisted of E. coli ribosomes and high speed super natant which contained transfer RNA (T-RNA), the amino acyl-T-RNA synthetases, and the enzymes involved in the final steps of the synthesis of the polypeptide chain.
1966 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 31 587/1 The elution profiles of noninfected-cell and infected cell arginyl tRNA exhibit unambiguous major differences.
1977 Time 4 Apr. 39/2 Aaron Klug..first determined the crystalline structure of transfer RNA (tRNA), the molecule that brings amino acids to the ribosome for assembly into protein.
T.S. n. and int. U.S. Forces' slang tough shit (also situation, stuff); also used attributively to designate a (real or imaginary) card, etc., allowing the recipient an interview to discuss his grievances with the chaplain.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > military warrant > spec
libranza1598
press1598
press warranta1687
safeguard1706
T.S.1944
1944 A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II 69 TS Cards: Beachhead chaplains are carrying a special ‘tough stuff’ ticket these days which they issue to guys with complaints about which nothing can be done.
1944 Yank 18 Aug. 16/2 I..will be ever grateful for any possible solution, for I have tried everything I know, even prayer. Still TS.
1946 Amer. Speech 21 249 A T.S. ticket is an imaginary form entitling the bearer to sympathy and nothing else. ‘All I can do is punch ya T.S. ticket (or slip) for ya.’
1946 Amer. Jrnl. Social. Mar. 422 One such expression is ‘TS’ or ‘tough s——’... ‘TS’, resigned acceptance, said with a bitter smile.
1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/4 [GI Jargon] TS, tough situation.
TS n. (pl. TSS) typescript.
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society > communication > printing > typing > [noun] > typewritten material
typewriting1867
type-copy1893
typescript1893
typoscript1893
TS1942
1942 E. Partridge Dict. Abbrev. 97/1 t.s. or ts. or ts; also T.S., etc., typescript.
1975 Record (Oxf. Univ. Press) xx. 24/1 11 unsolicited poetry TSS in one week.
TSA n. Training Services Agency.
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society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > training agency
TOPS1975
TSA1975
1975 Petroleum Rev. 29 399/2 The TSA has been very active since its inception.
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 12/7 The TSA's direct training services which include the provision of specially tailored courses to meet individual requirements.
TSH n. Biochemistry thyroid-stimulating hormone (cf. thyroid adj. and n. Compounds 1).
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1941 Trans. Amer. Assoc. Study Goiter 161 Media, which originally contained TSH in a concentration equivalent to one unit per cubic centimeter were found to have lost about seven-eighths of their activity.
1983 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. I. x. 12/2 Hypothyroidism due to TSH deficiency is often mild and easily overlooked.
tsp. n. teaspoon(ful).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > spoon as unit
spoonfulc1290
cochleare1708
teaspoonful1732
tablespoonful1755
tea-spoon1791
tablespoon1805
tbs.1950
tsp.1950
1950 Good Housek. Picture Cookery 161/1 Unboiled fondant. 1 lb icing sugar..tartar..1 tsp. lemon juice..1 egg white.
1955 R. J. Schwartz Compl. Dict. Abbrev. 178/1 tsp, teaspoon.
1973 Rubinstein & Bush Penguin Freezer Cookbk. 211 ½ lb. tomatoes, 1 tsp. allspice, 1 tsp. pine kernels.
TSS n. twin-screw steamer.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by screw propeller > with twin screws
TSS1935
1935 Duckworth & Langmuir West Highland Steamers ii. 107 T.S.S. ‘Flowerdale’..came into Mr. MacBrayne's hands as his first twin screw sea-going steamer.
1981 ‘J. Ashford’ Loss of ‘Culion’ viii. 52 I understand you've some information on the sinking of the TSS Culion..in the Indian Ocean.
TSS n. (see TS n. = typescript above).
T.T. n. (also t.t.) teetotal, a teetotaller.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence
water-drinking?1616
hydropotic1623
teetotal1834
teetotalling1839
water wagon1889
on the wagon1906
temperance1907
pussyfoot1919
bone-dry1920
T.T.1922
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer
water-drinker1440
abstainerc1475
Rechabite1637
drink-watera1641
hydropotist1678
hydropot1727
teetotal1834
teetotaller1834
teetotalist1840
Washingtonian1842
Good Templar1853
teetotalleress1854
blue-ribbonist1858
nephalist1861
total abstainer1862
blue-ribbonite1867
totec1870
Templar1874
blue ribboner1878
total abstinent1882
water butt1882
white ribboner1886
non-drinker1910
pioneer1912
T.T.1922
1841 Niles' Reg. 21 Feb. 400/3 TTT. They have temperance wagons in the west, marked with three Ts, to denote that the owner is a tee-to-taller.]
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 153 Selfish those t.t's are. Dog in the manger.
1936 Punch 22 July 97/2 Every birthday he gets a magnificent..Gift Of wine... It is sad To add I've brought him up to be T.T.
1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. v. 35 Can't offer you a beer, strict TT.
T.T. n. Commerce telegraphic transfer.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraphic message > types of
telotype1850
cablegram1868
cable-message1877
phonogram1880
cable1883
ticking1888
aerogram1890
T.T.1893
petit bleu1898
Marconigram1902
radio-telegram1902
radiogram1903
wireless1903
news flash1904
teleflash1904
lettergram1908
day letter1910
night letter telegram1910
night telegraph letter1912
radio1915
printergram1932
teletype1933
greeting telegram1937
telemessage1941
overnight telegram1955
telex1957
1893 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. (rev. ed.) 292 T.T., telegraphic transfer.
1927 Financial Times 3 May 1/4 Kobe T.T. Yen 24·58d.
1940 Economist 11 May 862/2 This compares with..1/ 8 per cent. for T.T. redemptions from Palestine.
1966 A. Gilpin Dict. Econ. Terms 201 (heading) Telegraphic Transfer (‘T.T.’).
T.T. n. Tourist Trophy (frequently used elliptically for Tourist Trophy Race).
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1913 W. T. Rogers Dict. Abbrev. 192/1 T.T. (motor), Tourist Trophy machine.
1913 W. T. Rogers Dict. Abbrev. 192/1 T.T. Race (motor), Auto-Cycle Tourist Trophy Race.
1914 Autocar 16 May 948/2 (heading) The T.T. race.
1929 Motor 2 July 1060/1 A driver who has, after all, driven at Le Mans and in the T.T.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 17 Nov. 21/5 The Isle of Man programme will include the usual classic TT.
T.T. adj. = tuberculin-tested adj. at tuberculin n. Compounds 2. transferred.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > tests > [adjective] > specific tests
drug testing1841
Head1893
Widal1896
tuberculin-tested1898
Schick1916
Kahn1922
T.T.1927
P–K1938
Papanicolaou1947
drugs testing1965
lymphocytotoxicity1965
patch-tested1990
1927 Field 15 Sept. 413/1 There are now a larger number of farmers producing Grade A (T.T.) milk.
1958 Times 28 July 11/5 A T.T. dairy farm.
1970 A. Jenkins Drinka Pinta x. 105 Scots were particularly keen that it should be Grade ‘A’ (T.T.) milk.
T.T.F.N. int. colloquial ‘ta-ta for now’ (a catchphrase popularized by the 1940s BBC radio programme Itma).
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > courteous formulae [phrase] > expressions of leave-taking > for temporary absence
I'll see youa1569
au revoir1694
hasta la vista1835
olive oil1880
tot siens1937
T.T.F.N.1948
see you later, alligator1954
1948 F. Worsley ITMA 21 The beloved Cockney Charlady, Mrs. Mopp (played by Dorothy Summers)..did not make her first appearance..until 10th October, 1941... Another of her famous sayings were the letters ‘T.T.F.N.’—a contraction of ‘Ta-ta for now’ with which she made her exit.
1966 A. Hall Frost 19 ‘See you soon then.’ ‘T.T.F.N.’
1976 Observer 11 Apr. 2/6 JY [sc. Jimmy Young] said TTFN to Mr Healey.
T.T.L. adj. Photography through-the-lens (metering).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [adjective] > light measurement
through-the-lens1947
T.T.L.1968
1968 Amateur Photographer 24 Apr. 4/2 (advt.) The most sought after T.T.L. camera!
1978 Amateur Photographer 2 Aug. 101/1 Landscapes with a lot of sky detail in the shot can often be wrongly exposed, particularly if the camera has TTL metering.
TTL n. Electronics = transistor-transistor-logic n. at transistor n. Compounds.
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the world > matter > physics > solid state physics > semiconductivity > transistor > [noun] > logic of
DTL1960
TTL1963
1963 Electronics 22 Mar. 54/1 Transistor-transistor logic (TTL) offers a saturated-transistor logic that is simple, compact, and has a high degree of design flexibility.
1967 Electronics 6 Mar. 123/1 Litton Industries Inc. had developed the ‘Phoenix gate’ TTL for the Phoenix missile.
1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 79/3 Compared with the previous family of RTL gates, TTL circuits provide greater output power (so that more gates in the next stage of an array can be driven), less stringent tolerances in manufacturing and greater immunity to spurious voltages.
T.U. n. transmission unit.
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1931 B. Brown Talking Pictures 96 10 per cent corresponds to ½T.U., and 3 T.U.'s are equivalent to a ratio of 100 per cent.
T.V.A. n. [French, taxe à la valeur ajoutée] = VAT n.2
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > value added tax
value added tax1935
added value tax1941
T.V.A.1963
VAT1966
1963 Times 2 Feb. 9/5 When we enter the Common Market,..a T.V.A. (tax value added) tax will have to be substituted for purchase tax.
1963 Economist 17 Aug. 567/2 The probable impact of a TVA tax on different types of industries.
1965 Listener 22 Apr. 585/2 The added-value tax is commonly known as the TVA.
T.V.A. n. U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > district council > specifically in U.S.A.
T.V.A.1935
1935 Harvard Law Rev. 48 806 It would seem that if the TVA is in fact unconstitutional, the contracts are subject to rescission.
1936 N.Y. Herald Tribune 4 June 36/8 The T.V.A. development.
1943 J. S. Huxley TVA 7 TVA stands for Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Tennessee Valley Authority is the outstanding example of democratic planning.
1965 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 7 Apr. (1970) 256 Lyndon talked about the vast Mekong River project which can provide food and water and power on a scale to dwarf even our own TVA.
TVP n. textured vegetable protein (proprietary name); see textured adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > [noun] > vegetable protein
leaf protein1917
soy protein1918
soy1945
Incaparina1960
TVP1968
Quorn1986
1968 Guardian 4 July 7/6 What TVP has been created from is mercifully not revealed.
1969 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Mar. 120/2 TVP... For unflavored and meat and poultry flavored vegetable protein food... First use on or before May 2, 1966.
1974 Observer 24 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 14/1 High-protein mock-meat has been in use in a fairly small way for some years... Known as tvp—textured vegetable protein—it comes in ‘extruded’ chunks, or minced.
1975 Trade Marks Jrnl. 21 May 1049/1 TVP ... Foods prepared from soya bean derivatives and included in Class 9. Archer Daniels Midland Company.., Decatur, Illinois, United States of America; manufacturers and merchants.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 166/1 The chunks of fictionalized, texturized social history (which are to drama as TVP to steak).
TWA n. U.S. Trans World Airlines (formerly, until 1950, Transcontinental and Western Air).
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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > public service airline > specific
Skybus1919
K.L.M.1933
TWA1933
skytrain1971
1933 Meccano Mag. Apr. 270/2 T.W.A. state that most of the transcontinental air mail is carried by their machines.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 93 They were flying back again via TWA.
1960 Daily Mail 13 Dec. 7/8 A champagne party was laid on for Mr. Steven Mueller, 2,000,000th passenger to leave London in a TWA jet airliner... There was a hitch when Mr. Mueller arrived. He is just two years and four months old. The red carpet treatment went to his mother.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 Apr. 20/5 Pressed by banks that had lent TWA millions, he sold his TWA stock for $546,549,171.
b. Biology. T designates lymphocytes that are derived from or have been processed by the thymus, which are responsible for cellular immune reactions.
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1970 New Scientist 7 May 271/1 Some of the lymphocytes..‘stray’ into the thymus gland, where they are converted..into a new sort of lymphocyte, called a T cell.
1973 Sci. Amer. July 58/1 T cells and B cells cannot be distinguished by their form.
1974 Nature 8 Feb. 387/2 T lymphocytes in human peripheral blood may be identified by their ability to form rosettes in vitro with untreated sheep erythrocytes.
1976 Path. Ann. 11 437 During famine the severity and frequency of diseases kept in check by T-cell function, such as tuberculosis, will increase.
1982 K. Arms & P. S. Camp Biol. (ed. 2) xxxiv. 541 Lymphocytes may be divided into two major groups, T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes.
I2. In combinations containing the abbrev. T (or extension, as T.D.) followed by a word.
T-Bill n. [treasury n.] = treasury-bill n. at treasury n. Compounds 2 (cf. T.B. n. at Initialisms 1a above).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > other promissory notes or bills
warrant1433
assignmentc1460
policy1623
navy bill1679
redraft1682
tally of pro1691
bank bill1694
bank seal bill1696
chequer-bill1697
assignation1704
chequer-note1705
mint bill1707
transport debenture1707
transport-bill1710
loan-bill1722
treasury note1756
tin bill1778
treasury-bill1798
rescription1800
short bill1808
treasury-warrant1834
sight bill1853
short-paper1912
treasuries1922
T.B.1936
T.D.R.1948
T-Bill1982
1982 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. 18 Examples..occur in financial futures, with the difference between the futures price and the price of its underlying cash instrument (cf. gold futures and the bullion price, or T-Bill futures and cash T-Bills).
T.D. pipe n. [see quot. 1889] U.S. a kind of clay pipe.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > clay-pipe
fairy pipe1829
clay1863
clay-pipe1876
T.D. pipe1880
1880 Harvard Lampoon 19 Mar. 26/2 So, after he had taken his breath of fresh air, he filled his T.D. pipe.
1889 Amer. Notes & Queries 2 114 ‘T.D. Pipes.’.. It is said that they took their name from Timothy Dexter, an eccentric capitalist, who in his will left a large sum of money to be expended in the erection of a factory where cheap clay pipes, such as those that now bear the name of ‘T.D.'s’, were to be manufactured.
1947 E. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 27 Deacon Parker, known to the boys as T.D., because he smoked the one-cent clay pipes of that name.]
T-group n. [training n.] Psychology a sensitivity-training group (see sensitivity n. Compounds 1).
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > social psychology > group psychology > [noun] > sensitivity training group
sensitivity1945
T-group1950
1950 Jrnl. Social Issues 6 ii. 3 Most of the core staff goes through a ‘Practicuum in Group Membership’ seminar worked out along the lines of the ‘T’ group training program at the National Training Laboratory in Group Development.
1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour x. 193 T (training)-groups were first developed in the National Training Laboratories at Bethel, Maine, in 1947... The members of a T-group spend their time studying the group and the processes of social interaction that take place in it.
1977 N.Y. Times 15 July c 22/2 We already spend far too much time practicing artificial modes of sociability, such as group encounters, sensitivity training, ‘T’ groups, Rolfing and the like.
T-man n. [treasury n.: compare G-man n. b] U.S. colloquial a law enforcement officer of the Treasury Department.
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society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > specifically in U.S. > treasury department
T-man1938
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > tax collection > [noun] > tax-collector
catchpoleOE
publicanc1175
tallagerc1400
leviera1513
vectigal1535
renter?1536
task-gatherer1552
exactor1570
uptaker1576
exacter1596
mise-gatherer1597
taxer1603
tax-taker1610
raiser1611
summonitor1617
summonisterc1625
riding officer1675
zamindar1683
tax-gatherer1693
desai1698
amildar1761
amil1763
collector1772
tax-master1796
tehsildar1799
taxman1803
tax-receiver1830
tax-collector1833
the taxes1874
revenuer1877
revenue1880
levyist1923
T-man1938
1938 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Mar. 10/7 Comparatively little has been heard in late times about the Treasury Department's ‘T-men’.
1952 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 6 Feb. 1/5 T-man William Frank says backdating of tax returns is the major irregularity he found.
T-rule n. [transformational adj.] Linguistics = transformational rule (see transformational adj.).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic relations > [noun] > change of word order or position > specifically in transformational grammar > transformational rule
T-rule1964
1964 E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. iv. 60 The difference between PS rules and T rules can be made clearer..by the following remarks.
1976 Language 52 108 In 1962, Wolfgang Motsch proposed a T-rule for a class of German adjectives.
T number n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [noun] > aperture value
T number1951
T stop1956
1951 G. H. Sewell Amateur Film-making (ed. 2) iii. 32 The T number indicates the actual light transmission obtained by measuring instruments.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 38 Modern lenses are sometimes marked in ‘T’ numbers rather than f-numbers.
T scale n. [Thorndike-Terman (see quot. 1922)] Psychology a method of scaling a psychological test.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > test rating > [noun] > graded measurement > type of scale
Binet–Simon scale1910
T scale1922
Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Scale1942
stanine1945
Guttman scale1950
1922 W. A. McCall How to measure in Educ. x. 299 It is a tribute to their genius to call the proposed unit..a Thorndike-Terman, or, for brevity, a T... Every product scales [sic] may be transmuted into T scales, thereby making all scales performance scales.
T score n. Psychology a method of scoring a psychological test.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > test rating > [noun] > type of score
T score1954
1954 A. Anastasi Psychol. Testing iv. 83 If the normalized standard score is multiplied by 10 and added to or subtracted from 50, it is converted into a T-score, a type of score first proposed by McCall.
1970 F. G. Brown Princ. Educ. & Psychol. Testing vii. 173 T scores were originally defined..with reference to a particular norm group... However, as used today, the T-score designation generally applies to any normalized standard score system with X = 50 and s = 10.
T stop n. [transmission n.] Photography a measured point on a scale of aperture values based on the actual light transmitted through the lens of a camera; similarly T number.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [noun] > aperture value
T number1951
T stop1956
1956 J. J. Rose Amer. Cinematographer (ed. 9) 133 The new method of calibration will be known as the ‘T’ Stop system, the T denoting transmission of light and the ‘T’ stops representing absolutely accurate light measurement.
1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 344 ‘T’ stops, more accurate measurement of light entering a lens than ‘f’ numbers.
T-unit n. [terminable adj.] Linguistics a minimal terminable unit (see quot. 1965).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > minimal sequence
nucleus1932
minimal (also minimum) terminable unit1965
T-unit1965
1965 K. W. Hunt Gram. Structure written at Three Grade Levels iii. 21 These units might be christened ‘minimal terminable units’, since they would be minimal as to length, and each would be grammatically capable of being terminated with a capital letter and a period. For short, the ‘minimal terminable unit’ might be nicknamed a ‘T-unit’... T-unit will be the name used for it in this investigation.
1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) iii. 39 Writing of high quality can employ a simple style that would not necessarily yield a high score as measured by the T-unit.
1977 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1974 lxi/ lxii. 30 The transcripts of these interviews (exclusive of garbles and false starts) were marked off into T-units and the mean length of T-units was computed for each informant.
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TI adj. (also Ti) (Biology), tumour-inducing; spec. in Ti plasmid, a plasmid (originally referred to as a ‘tumour-inducing principle’ or TIP, this being still occasionally used to denote ‘tumour-inducing plasmid’), found in some strains of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, whose presence is necessary to induce the formation of crown galls in plant tissue infected by the bacterium.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > plasmid
plasmid1952
Ti plasmid1976
1954 Ann. Rev. Plant Physiol. 5 141 The affected cells acquire as a result of the action of TIP [sc. tumour-inducing principle] only the potentiality for autonomous growth but not the capacity for rapid duplication.
1974 Nature 8 Nov. 169/2 The correlation between the loss of the plasmid and the loss of the tumour-inducing plasmid (TIP) being 100%.
1976 Molecular & Gen. Genetics 145 180/2 Both the specificity and the activity of the enzyme-systems for octopine or nopaline utilization in A. tumefaciens strains are coded for by the TI plasmid.
1984 National Geographic Dec. 834/2 A French-bean gene was inserted into a Ti plasmid..from a microbe.
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T-bird n. [thunder n.] North American colloquial a ‘Ford Thunderbird’ motor car, a type of large, sporty coupé or convertible.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > specific model
Olds1907
Model T1909
Ford1914
Rolls1915
Merc1930
T-model1932
beetle1958
T-bird1958
VW1958
Mini1959
Moke1959
deux-chevaux1962
Mini-Moke1962
Liftback1973
Beemer1978
Roller1979
foreign2010
1956 Amer. Speech 31 229 T-bird, a T-33 jet trainer.]
1958 (advt.) in W. P. Boyer Thunderbird (1986) 170/1 The new T-bird has four of the most comfortable, most luxurious, full-sized..seats you can imagine.
1964 B. Wilson & M. Love Fun, Fun, Fun (song) in B. Wilson Beach Boys Endless Summer (1975) 23 She'll have fun, fun, fun, till her daddy takes the T-bird away.
1981 L. Deighton XPD xx. 180 He took his T-bird and headed south.
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TBT n. Chemistry tributyltin.
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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > tin > [noun] > compounds
phosphor tin1668
stannide1862
TBT1973
1968 Biochemistry 7 3811/1 TBT, tributyltin chloride.]
1973 Biochem. Pharmacol. 22 1496 (caption) tbt = tributyltin.
1985 Financial Times 19 Apr. 19/2 Problems with Pacific oysters alleged to be caused by TBT were first reported in 1981.
2012 Manch. Evening News (Nexis) 26 June 25 The failings by the companies resulted in increased levels of TBT in the Manchester Ship Canal.
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TIA n. Medicine transient ischaemic attack.
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1967 Arch. Surg. 94 586/2 Transient ischemic attacks (TIA)... Some [patients] had many alarming transient attacks while others were barely aware of them.
1987 W. I. Bennett et al. Your Good Health vii. 396 A TIA increases the risk of a stroke during the following year about 17 times.
2008 Independent 19 Feb. (Extra section) 13/5 TIA symptoms disappear within 24 hours, which is why it is called ‘transient’.
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TSS n. Medicine toxic shock syndrome.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > bacterial or viral disorders > [noun] > bacterial disorders
endemic syphilis1865
Oroya fever1873
verruga1873
Weil's disease1889
undulant fever1896
pasteurellosis1902
microbism1904
spirillosis1904
spirochaetosis1906
necrobacillosis1907
melioidosis1921
Reiter's disease1922
rickettsiosis1925
leptospirosis1926
Carrion's disease1927
treponematosis1927
bartonellosis1928
brucellosis1930
mycobacteriosis1938
listerellosis1939
listeriosis1941
shigellosis1944
Reiter's syndrome1947
Shigella dysentery1963
pigbel1966
mud fever1969
Lyme arthritis1976
toxic shock syndrome1978
legionellosis1979
TSS1980
1980 Los Angeles Times 14 June a24/1 Known as toxic shock syndrome (TSS), the disease is characterized by the sudden onset of high fever.
2006 Company Nov. 72/3 It's extremely rare, but wearing tampons can trigger toxic shock syndrome (TSS), a potentially fatal form of blood poisoning.
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T-back n. (a) a high-cut undergarment or swimming costume having only a thin strip of material passing between the buttocks; cf. G string n. 2b, tanga n.2; (b) a style of bra, bikini top, etc., in which shoulder straps meeting below the back of the neck are joined to the back of the garment by a single supporting vertical strap between the shoulder blades.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > brassière > types of
bandeau1915
uplift bra1932
gay deceiver1942
falsies1943
balconette1947
Wonderbra1947
push-up1955
bralette1973
underwire1973
minimizer1980
T-back1981
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > clothing for loins or genital area > other
tanga1912
cache-sexe1926
monokini1964
thong1975
T-back1981
1981 Bon Appétit May 126/1 (advt.) Erotic but elegantly so, with a plunged tie front and baring T-back of curve-clinging lace.
1986 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. c16/1 His T-back tank tops, thong-style next-to-nothing bottoms..will be in Bloomingdale's and Bergdorf-Goodman this fall for $58 to $65.
1990 Littlewoods Catal. Spring–Summer 302 Pack of two front-fastening bras... T-back ensures shoulder straps cannot move off shoulders.
1994 News (Boca Raton, Florida) 5 Feb. b4 Saying bare derrieres and family values don't mix, commissioners of this gulf-front city [sc. Clearwater, Florida] have voted to ban T-back bathing suits.
1997 Chicago Tribune 9 Mar. xiii. 4/3 For unrestricted movement, especially for swimming, look for a tank with a cut-away T-back.
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T-bone n. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American) a collision of two motor vehicles in which the front of one vehicle hits the side of the other; frequently attributive.
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1938 Hammond (Indiana) Times 12 June 11/5 The T-bone crash by youthful Jimmy Carraway who rides a car up a ramp, jumps 15 feet and drives head-on into an auto parked diagonally across the race track.
1968 Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Jrnl. 9 May c5/1 (heading) Fourth turn T-bone means midnight oil for dessert.
1996 C. Lewis Dry Fire vii. 118 It's a T-bone accident, the front of one car into the side of another.
2014 Wall St. Jrnl. 27 Dec. a13/4 Mid-intersection ‘T-bones’ declined, but rear-end collisions sharply increased as drivers slammed on the brakes to avoid a ticket.
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T-dot n. [perhaps representing a pronunciation of the first letter and full stop of T.O. n. at Additions (compare dot n.1 5b)] Canadian slang (often with the) the city of Toronto.
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T-dot1999
1999 Toronto Star 25 Mar. k8/2 To label any of those—'60s Yorkville folk.., or late-'70s punk, or the savage drum 'n' bass currently putting ‘T-dot’ on the..map—the Toronto sound is to do the other Toronto sounds..a disservice.
2006 Metro (Toronto) 21 Dec. 52/2 This holiday season,..consider buying at least one item that's made right here in the T-dot.
2014 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 20 June (Real Estate section) g5 Tourists will continue to pack those double-decker buses to see the T-Dot.
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TBH adj. slang ‘to be had’; (of a man) sexually available (to other men); desirable, sexually attractive.Now somewhat dated.
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1949 K. Williams Diary 13 May (1993) 42 Harold G. spent evening with me. Told me he was TBH v. gay!!!
1974 C. A. B. Warren Identity & Community in Gay World vi. 128 Carol: Do you think all men are basically gay? Justin: No. But I think they're all TBH... Given the right time and place, and the right situation, any guy can be had.
1979 in J. Weeks & K. Porter Between Acts (1991) viii. 78 So he slept with me that night. He was willing, he was TBH.
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TBH int. (also tbh) colloquial (originally and chiefly in online and electronic communication) to be honest (to be honest at honest adj. and adv. Phrases 2).
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1991 Re: Stop Silliness about Justification for Vegetarianism in rec.food.veg (Usenet newsgroup) 17 June TBH (To be honest), I skip a lot of it too. But did read it for a while.
2002 E. Jansen NetLingo 459 TBH, ‘To Be Honest’.
2007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 21 July 27 TBH (to be honest), right now I am LMBO (Laughing My Butt Off) at U n00bs (newbies, net newcomers).
2013 New Musical Express 30 Mar. 56/3 I saw them headline Reading when I was 16 and tbh they're probably better on a big stage anyway.
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TCP n. Computing = Transmission Control Protocol n. at transmission n. Additions (originally, Transmission Control Program).
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1974 V. G. Cerf & R. E. Cahn in IEEE Trans. Communications 22 640/1 Within a host we assume the existence of a transmission control program (TCP) which handles the transmission and acceptance of messages on behalf of the processes it serves.
1976 L. Garlick Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 721. 1 Such a satisfactory mechanism does not exist in the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) of Cerf et. al.
1985 Infor: Canad. Jrnl. Operational Res. 23 294 Originally designed to handle unreliable and hostile subnets in a long-haul network, TCP has been adopted by many local area networks (LAN) as well.
1996 WEBTechniques Dec. 50/2 A single connection can be kept open for the duration of the user interaction with an image, which will improve network performance by..allowing the TCP transmission window to throttle up completely.
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TCP/IP n. [ < TCP n. at Additions + IP n. at I n.1 Additions] Computing a protocol incorporating TCP and IP which enables data to be transmitted between computers on the internet or other network.
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1980 J. B. Postel Request for Comments (Network Working Group) (Electronic text) No. 761. 42 There are of course two interfaces of concern: the user/TCP interface and the TCP/IP interface.
1982 COMPCON 82 High Technol. in Information Industry 319/2 Implementation of a local computer network..[uses]..the ISO network model under the Unix operating environment in conjunction with Ethernet and Department of Defense standard TCP/IP protocols.
1998 P. E. Ceruzzi Hist. Mod. Computing ix. 295 This interconnection of networks to one another, using the glue of TCP/IP, constitutes the present-day Internet.
2000 Personal Computer World Aug. 161/3 Rather than specifying a single machine, you can use a network number and hostmask..to add a whole range of TCP/IP addresses.
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TDA n. chiefly British Police slang and Criminals' slang taking and driving away a vehicle without the owner's consent; (an instance of) vehicle theft.
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1976 H. Ferguson Confessions of Long Distance Acid Head 63 This guy had been arrested for T.D.A.,..and for driving without a licence.
1992 in R. Graef Living Dangerously ii. 60 I used to have a lot of money in my pocket on the run. I financed it with TDAs every day.
2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xviii. 200 True, they both had form..but they reckoned they were going to walk away from this little jolly. Theft and TDA? Slap on the wrist.
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tl;dr int. and adj. (also tldr, TLDR, etc.) colloquial (oriɡ. and chiefly in electronic communications) (a) int. ‘too long; didn't read’ (also occasionally ‘don't read’); used as a dismissive response to an account, narrative, etc., considered excessively or unnecessarily long, or to introduce a summary of a longer piece of text; (b) adj. designating a short summary of a longer text.
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2002 Re: My Thoughts on Metroid Prime (Long) in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet newsgroup) 21 Dec. tl;dr.
2004 Schandaal! in nl.comp.games.quake (Usenet newsgroup) 1 July tl;dr version—Magazines accused of fixing review scores in exchange for being able to review pre-release code.
2008 @nfreader 18 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The whole arbitrary scrolling thing really adds a nice level of uncertainty to the whole computing experience. tldr: I need a new mouse.
2015 A. Gallardo Zombified vii. 79 The tl;dr version of the e-mail was that he was interested in the attacks.
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TMI n. colloquial (originally in the language of electronic communications) too much information; usually implying disgust or disapproval in response to a disclosure of an excessively personal or graphic nature.
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1996 Lemonade & Pizza in alt.cosuard (Usenet newsgroup) 25 Mar. All the underwear in question is briefs and not boxers. TMI?
1998 B. Luoma Wks. & Days 119 I get embarrassed and ask if the poems are TMI. Anselm thinks not.
2003 Pensions Week (Nexis) 28 Apr. In the report we learn the name of L and the rather graphic symptoms of at least one of his illnesses (irritable bowel syndrome); definitely TMI if you happen to read the case over breakfast.
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T.O. n. Canadian slang Toronto, Ontario.
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1964 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 23 Dec. 24/1 Old T.O., where Bay Street is Canada's original hardened artery.
1981 C. Beresford-Howe Marriage Bed (1982) ii. 89 Sure, people out west and in Quebec like to make fun of good old TO, but I figure they're jealous.
2003 Now 6 Mar. 21/4 The question is, how much e-waste do we actually have in T.O.?
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TQA n. Business = total quality assurance at total adj. and n. Additions.
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1974 Managem. Rev. (N.Y.) June 25 Total quality assurance (TQA) is a relatively new system that requires all members of the production management team to participate in satisfying the customer's quality needs.
2002 CED (Nexis) Jan. 48 The TQA program provides customers with a trained quality assurance staff which monitors a percentage of the daily work performed by the technicians in the field.
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TQC n. Business = total quality control at total adj. and n. Additions.
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1980 Japan Econ. Jrnl. 9 Sept. 18 The firm decided to adopt the long-term program as its TQC (total quality control) campaign, started in its 1978 business year, has been well observed within the company.
2000 R. L. Nersesian Trends & Tools for Operations Managem. x. 223 Japan was the first nation to embrace the concept of TQC and bootstrapped itself to a world industrial power.
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TQM n. Business = total quality management at total adj. and n. Additions.
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1985 Business Wire (Nexis) 18 Mar. The influence of the corporate Total Quality Management System (TQMS) comes through initial design of the product or process.]
1986 Financial Times 1 Aug. 14/6 In some European countries such as the UK, companies are just beginning to embark on a TQM programme—which incorporates quality into every aspect of a business, from the shop floor to the board room.
1999 Washington Post 22 Nov. c1/3 Do you prefer TQM or more of a business process approach?
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TRC n. = Truth and Reconciliation Commission n. at truth n. and adv. Compounds 4.
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1995 SASH (Mowbray, S. Afr.) Jan. 21/1 You have expressed some concerns about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
2005 SL (Cape Town) Feb. 12/1 It takes you through the history of the genocide..to the aftermath—with stories from survivors, and the Gacaca..hearings, the Rwandan equivalent of the TRC.
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TTYL v. (also ttyl) colloquial (originally and chiefly in electronic communications) talk to you later..The following quot. appears in a 1985 BlackWater Message System post of 23 February, but the date is not verifiable as posts could be subsequently re-edited: ‘As for the oreo cookie scandle sic my waist line can only handle such sweets say on tuesday nights. ttyl.’
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1988 Some Various Semi-drastic Omega Bugs in comp.sources.games.bugs (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Nov. Well, that's all for now, boys and girls... TTYL, Keith Steiger.
1991 E. H. Sewell & M. J. Schaefermeyer in E. Slembek Culture & Communication 286 Other examples of these shortcuts are: btw for ‘by the way,’..and ttyl for ‘talk to you later’.
2004 L. Sandoval Who's your Daddy? 198 I gotta blaze, girl. I'll TTYL, okay? Keep me posted.
2011 S. D. Littman Want to go Private? 63 I wish I could talk more now, but I really GTG. Mom's shouting. TTYL.
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Sport. As the T.
a. Squash. The point near the centre of a squash court where the short line and the half court line meet, typically viewed as the ideal position for a player to stand in order to control the game.
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1976 Washington Post 25 Mar. d9/1 The problem has to do with co-existence in..a squash court... He who dominates the ‘T’ (the juncture of the service boxes) controls the play.
2003 J. Zug Squash ix. 227 Jahangir, so hard to dislodge from the T,..pummels it down the right wall.
2016 Bognor Regis Observer (Nexis) 26 Mar. Lake was struggling to take control of the T to keep his opponent behind him and was forced to work hard to retrieve.
b. Tennis. The point on each side of a tennis court where the service line and the centre service line meet, typically viewed as the ideal target for a serve sent down the centre of the court.
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1981 N.Y. Times 30 Aug. (Sports section) 2/2 A second serve by Ivan Lendl clearly hit the ‘T’ of service and center service lines.
2003 O. Shine Lang. Tennis 132 Serves down the middle are often referred to as down the T.
2016 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Feb. I missed two second serves by a little bit. He had served an ace on the T, which was in by a little bit.
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T & A n. (also T. and A., T and A, T&A, T. & A., T'n'A and with lower-case initials.) U.S. slang slang (originally U.S.) tits and ass (see tit n.1 Phrases 3a) (frequently attributive); (also, chiefly British) tits and arse.
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1979 N. Amer. Rev. Spring 73/3 The danger to public morality in T & A (‘Tits and Ass’) on television.
1994 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) July 122/2 It's really a T & A movie.
1999 Time Out N.Y. 25 Feb. 85/1 Berkowitz's..producer..pushes the reluctant would-be auteur to up the project's T & A quotient.
2013 Vogue Feb. 257/2 I've spent years avoiding painting the female nude... They're not about T & A (tits and ass).
2016 @sebpatrick in Twitter 11 Apr. That might be the only T&A comics shot I've ever seen that manages to get in both tits AND both arse cheeks.
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TTC v. colloquial (originally and chiefly in online forums relating to infertility and conception) (with reference to pregnancy) trying to conceive.
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1998 Re: I'm tired of all the waiting!! in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet newsgroup) 15 May Sometimes it's nice to talk with people that are intent on just ttc and don't mind obsessing about it with you!
2004 Irish Times 20 July 11/5 The final piece of research..is aimed at TTC dads (that's shorthand for Trying to Conceive in pregnancy chatrooms).
2009 @exeastsidefeed 17 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My DH and I are ttc baby #2.
2012 Prima Baby (Nexis) Jan. 74 As every woman who is TTC knows, trying-to-get-pregnant-sex is not the same as enjoying-yourself-sex.
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TSR n. Australian travelling stock route (or road); (also) travelling stock reserve (cf. travelling stock n. Compounds).
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1877 Legislative Assembly New S. Wales Crown Lands 6/2 in Votes & Proc. Legislative Assembly 1880–1 (1881) II. 398 T.S.R. 24, county of Phillip, does not appear to be correctly charted on the sketch... My letter..contains a general recommendation with regard to travelling stock reserve 24.
1913 W. K. Harris Outback in Austral. 149 ‘T.S.R.’, a right-of-way, half a mile wide, for drovers and their herds of cattle, with artesian bores or other water supplies available at frequent intervals.
2018 E. Riverina Chron. (New S. Wales) (Nexis) 11 Apr. 3 Students..take part in..activities that focus on the native plants and animals... Education about the Travelling Stock Routes and Reserves (TSR) will also feature.
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'tpron.conj.
regional.
= that pron.2, that conj.
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1867 Our Young Folks Mar. 130 Jest show me that! Ur prove 't the bat Hez got more brains than's in my hat.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xv. 108 I ance was neepours wi' a chap 't could 'a deen that.
1887 R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd xxvii. 286 I didn't feel real cherk this week, so't I didn't go to sewin' s'ciety.
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t'prep.
Shortened form of to n., before a vowel, formerly in use, often combined with the following word, as tabandon to abandon, tabyde to abide; so taxe to ask, tendite, tendure, tescape, t'attempt; also, with omission of h, tave, tafe, to have, ta to hae, to have; tadwellyd to have dwelt, talyved to have lived, etc.
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c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3879 Ðatt doþ uss tunnderrstanndenn.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4334 Ffair folk to fighte, Cesar tabyde.
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 381 To longe tendyte.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1345 So gret a reuthe I haue for tendite.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 1019–22 He gaff to hem..Talyved euere,..Neuer tave had necessyte Off deyyng.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 9392 Taxe and lerne, thow art wys.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 9422 And tadwellyd Immutable.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 16962 Tescape Eche Trybulacion.
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Ireland in Descr. Brit. 27 These swyne may not be kept..for tendure in likenes of swyne ouer thre dayes.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Thomas of Wudstocke f. ix I forced the Frenchmen tabaddon theyr bowers.
1592 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 343 Proved cares and assured love aught,..tafe the upperhand.
1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iii. 27 T' attempt some Massacre, or Treason.
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. iii. 117 Staberius thus compell'd his heirs t' engrave On his proud tomb what legacies he gave.
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