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tab n. 1 flap, tag, loop, ticket, sticker, label, flag, lappet,
strap, handle: Pull on the red tab and the life jacket inflates
automatically. 2 charge, bill, account, reckoning, Chiefly US
check: They left me to pick up the tab at the restaurant for
everyone.

table n. 1 food, victuals, provender, comestible, edibles, eatables,
fare, board, provisions: One can rely on a fine table at Mrs
McGuire's. 2 plain, flatland, mesa, tableland, plateau, steppe:
The area is barren lava table from horizon to horizon. 3
(tabular or columnar) list or listing, register, record,
tabulation, chart, catalogue, index, inventory, itemization,
pr‚cis, table of contents: The figures are easier to understand
when arranged in a table.

--v. 4 submit, present, offer, proffer, bring forward, bring

up, propose: The bill will be tabled for action today. 5
shelve, postpone, defer, suspend, put off, stay, pigeon-hole,
mothball, Colloq put on ice: When the bill came up we tabled it
for six months.


tableau n. scene, sight, spectacle, picture, image; composition,
arrangement, grouping, effect: The children raptly listening to
their father telling a story - what a charming tableau!


tablet n. 1 (scribbling or writing- or note- or memo) pad,
(spiral(-bound)) notebook, US scratch pad: I write all my
dreams in a little tablet in case I forget to relate them to my
psychiatrist. 2 slab, plaque, plate, panel, plaquette: The
tablet on the base of the statue says it is of Disraeli. 3
stone, gravestone, headstone, tombstone, memorial: We each
contributed to the tablet that marks Croombender's grave. 4
pill, capsule, troche, pellet, pastille, drop, lozenge, bolus:
Take three tablets twice a day.


taboo adj. 1 tabu, anathema, forbidden, interdicted, off limits, out
of bounds, verboten, proscribed, banned, prohibited, restricted,
unmentionable, unspeakable; censored, censorable, unacceptable,
rude, impolite, indecorous, dirty, explicit; outlawed, illegal,
illicit, unlawful: Our holiday in Benidorm is a taboo subject
in my house. Many people dislike hearing taboo language used on
radio or television.

--n. 2 tabu, anathema, interdict, interdiction, proscription,
ban, prohibition, restriction: There is still a strict taboo
against mentioning bodily functions in public.

--v. 3 tabu, forbid, interdict, proscribe, ban, prohibit: The
hotel taboos the sharing of a room by unmarried couples.


tabulate v. systematize, organize, order, group, list, arrange,
classify, categorize, rate, grade, catalogue, codify,
pigeon-hole, sort, assort, index, itemize; record, note: We
shall report the results of the poll as soon as they have been
tabulated.


tacit adj. unspoken, undeclared, unsaid, unstated, unvoiced,
unuttered, silent, understood, unexpressed, implied, implicit:
The sisters have a tacit agreement not to poach each other's

boyfriends. He gave me a look of tacit gratitude.

taciturn adj. silent, uncommunicative, mum, mute, reticent, reserved,
uncommunicative, unforthcoming, tight-lipped, close-lipped,
untalkative, quiet: Even when he was small, Chris was quite
taciturn, saying little but evidently thinking much.

tack n. 1 pin, push-pin, nail, Brit drawing-pin, tin-tack, US
thumbtack: Someone keeps stealing the tacks from the bulletin
board. 2 fastening, stitch, baste: Could you put some tacks in
the hem so I can try on the skirt? 3 direction, bearing,
heading, course, approach; way, path, procedure, method,
technique, attack, line: Our new tack was due east. They may
have to take a different tack to win the contract. 4 tackle,
gear, equipment, equipage, harness, saddlery, fittings,
fitments, kit, outfit, rig, rigging, accoutrements or US also
accouterments: He has ordered all new tack for his horse.

--v. 5 pin, attach, fasten, secure, join, couple, unite,
combine, stick, fix, affix, staple, nail, skewer, peg, screw,
bolt, rivet; baste, stitch, sew, bind, tie; paste, glue, cement,
solder, braze, weld: You were only supposed to tack these
together lightly, but now I can't pull them apart. 6 change
direction or heading or course , Nautical go or come about;
zigzag, veer off or away, Nautical beat: We tacked quickly to
avoid striking the buoy. 7 tack on. add (on), append, annex,
attach, tag on: When they tacked on a rider to the contract, we
refused to sign it.


tackle n. 1 gear, rig, fittings, equipment, equipage, rigging,
paraphernalia, outfit, tools, apparatus, trappings,
accoutrements or US also accouterments, Colloq Brit clobber:
The steeplejack brought along all his tackle and made ready for
his climb. 2 block (and tackle), fall, hoisting gear, pulley,
sheave: You'll need heavier tackle to lift this cargo.

--v. 3 come to grips with, grapple with, approach, take on, try
to solve, (try to) deal or cope with, stand or face up to, face,
confront, address oneself to, attend to, set about, pursue,
Colloq take a crack at, have a go at: Perhaps you'd better
tackle the parking problem yourself. I'll tackle the boss on the
matter as soon as I see him. 4 attack, fall upon, devour,
consume, demolish, destroy: You've seen nothing till you've

seen Graham tackle a roast turkey.

tackyฐ adj. sticky, gluey, gummy, adhesive, ropy, viscous, viscid,
Colloq gooey: The varnish is still tacky and must dry before
sanding.

tacky adj. tawdry, cheap, brummagem, gaudy, tasteless, vulgar,
shabby, tatty, sleazy, chintzy, shoddy, seedy: Richard
consistently buys the tackiest suits on the market.


tact n. discretion, diplomacy, sensitivity, savoir faire, judgement,
politesse, delicacy, finesse, cleverness, prudence, care,
carefulness, dexterity, dexterousness, discernment,
judiciousness, adroitness, skill, acumen, acuteness, perception,
understanding, consideration, thoughtfulness, politeness: You
can count on Robert to handle such matters with consummate tact.

tactful adj. discreet, diplomatic, sensitive, politic, judicious,
delicate, clever, prudent, careful, dexterous, discerning,
adroit, skilful, acute, perceptive, considerate, understanding,
considerate, thoughtful, polite: Even the people working in the
complaints department are tactful.

tactic n. 1 move, manoeuvre, ploy, caper, plan, strategy, stratagem,
device, ruse, plot, scheme, design: Inviting her husband along
was a tactic merely to avert suspicion. 2 tactics. manoeuvres,
strategy, plans, campaign, generalship, military science,
military operation(s), orchestration, engineering,
masterminding: Entirely different tactics must be employed in
jungle fighting.

tactical adj. artful, clever, cunning, shrewd, adroit, strategic,
skilful, adept, politic, smart, tactful: The general was noted
for his dazzling strategies and tactical genius.


tactician n. strategist, campaigner, mastermind, intriguer, plotter,
planner, schemer, manipulator, manoeuvrer, orchestrator, Colloq
operator: Montgomery was regarded by some as a master
tactician.


tactless adj. coarse, boorish, uncivilized, unsophisticated, rough,
rude, uncouth, discourteous, ungentlemanly, unladylike, crude,
gruff, bluff, abrupt, blunt, brusque, impertinent,

disrespectful, uncivil, impolite, insensitive, awkward,
bungling, clumsy, maladroit, inept, undiplomatic, thoughtless,
gauche, unskilful, impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate,
injudicious, indiscreet, unwise: It was pretty tactless of him
to ask her out in front of his ex-girlfriend.

tag n. 1 label, name or price tag, mark, marker, tab, ticket,
sticker, stub, docket: The tag was clearly marked with a
bar-code. 2 name, epithet, label, designation, title,
appellation, nickname, Slang handle, moniker: Called 'Eddie the
dip', he got his tag 'the dip' because he's a pickpocket.

--v. 3 label, mark, ticket, identify, earmark: Please tag all
these cartons so we'll know what's in them without opening them.
4 label, name, call, dub, nickname, style, entitle, christen,
baptize: I have already said that Eddie was tagged 'the dip'
because he was a pickpocket. 5 tag along. follow, trail (along)
after, tail, shadow, attend, accompany, drag along with or
after: Does your little brother have to tag along wherever we
go?

tail n. 1 appendage, brush (of a fox), scut (of a hare, rabbit, of
deer), dock, caudal fin (of a fish), uropygium (of a bird),
pope's or parson's nose, tailpiece, flag: I just caught a
glimpse of the fox's tail as it leapt the fence. 2 rear end,
tail-end, backside, buttocks, croup, rump, posterior(s), bottom,
Colloq behind, hinie, Taboo slang Brit bum, arse, US ass: When
I catch you, I'll kick your tail! 3 reverse: The obverse of a
coin is the head, the reverse is the tail.


--v. 4 dog, follow, trail, stalk, shadow, track: We tailed the
suspect from Newcastle to New Mexico.

tailor n. 1 couturier, couturiŠre, costumier, dressmaker, modiste,
clothier, garment-maker, outfitter, seamstress: She has all her
clothing made by her tailor.

--v. 2 fit, adapt, suit, adjust, alter, accommodate, modify,
change, convert, cut, fashion, mould, stretch, accustom: Your
telephone system can be tailored to your most exacting demands.

tailor-made
adj. 1 fitted, custom-made, made-to-order, bespoke; made to

measure: He would not wear anything but tailor-made clothes. 2
ideal, perfect, customized, made-to-order, custom-made, suited,
suitable, (just) right, Colloq right up one's Brit street or US
alley: The job of lighthouse-keeper was tailor-made for a
misanthrope.

taint n. 1 stain, blot, blemish, slur, tinge, tincture, (black or
bad) mark, stigma, imperfection, flaw, scar, defect; discredit,
dishonour: His writing suffers from the taint of pedantry.


--v. 2 sully, tarnish, stain, stigmatize, smear, harm, hurt,
damage, debase, vitiate, blacken, foul, contaminate, pollute,
dirty, muddy, smirch, besmirch, blemish, soil, corrupt, spoil,
defile, ruin, destroy: It takes very little to taint one's
reputation in a small village.

take v. 1 grip, seize, grasp, clasp, get, get or take hold of, grab,
snatch, clutch, catch, capture, obtain, lay hold of, lay (one's)
hands on, procure, acquire, gain (possession of), take
possession of, secure, win, carry off, abduct, Colloq nab: The
police took him into custody. He takes what he can get. When it
comes to ineptitude, Sue certainly takes the prize. 2 pick,
select, choose, opt for, settle or decide or fasten on or upon:
When you get to the fork, take the road to the left. 3
appropriate, arrogate, extract, carry off or away, steal,
purloin, pilfer, filch, palm, rob, shoplift, pocket, remove,
walk off or away with, run or make off or away with; embezzle,
misappropriate, peculate; plagiarize, pirate; Colloq lift,
swipe, snitch, Chiefly Brit pinch, nick, Slang knock off, hook,
rip off, liberate, US boost, crook: They took what didn't
belong to them. 4 reserve, book, engage; hire, rent, lease: He
took a room in a small hotel, where he began to write detective
fiction. 5 acquire, get, adopt; assume, derive, obtain, draw,
receive, inherit: He has taken his bad manners from you. The
film takes its title from the book. 6 accept, receive, bear,
withstand, stand, endure, weather, tolerate, abide, brave, go
through, undergo, suffer, submit to, swallow, Colloq put up
with, brook, stomach, Brit stick: She took the news about
Leon's relapse quite well. I have taken quite enough from you
already. 7 assume, bear, undertake, adopt, arrogate;
acknowledge, accept: Kevin took full responsibility for the
mistake. 8 believe, think, judge, deem, hold, feel; take for,
assess (as), consider (as), regard (as), view (as), accept

(for): I take people to be honest till proven otherwise. She
took him for a fool when they first met. 9 carry, convey, bear,
transport, bring, deliver, ferry; haul, cart: Will this train
take me to Aylesbury? They took the bicycle to Old Lyme in a
van. 10 take up, study, be involved or occupied in or with,
apply oneself to, learn; read, Colloq tackle: I cannot believe
that Doreen is taking home economics. He took a course in car
maintenance. 11 prove or be effective or efficacious or
operative or functional, take effect, take hold, operate,
function, work, perform, Colloq do the trick: If the transplant
fails to take, the doctors will have to operate again. 12 exact,
extract, get: She took revenge by denying him certain
privileges. 13 swallow, eat, consume, ingest, devour, gulp
down, gobble up or down, wolf, bolt; drink, imbibe, quaff;
inhale: Rudolf takes pills of every conceivable colour. The
doctor said I could take a wee nip now and then. Sonya stepped
out to take a breath of fresh air. 14 subtract, deduct, remove,
take away, take from, take off: Take three from five. Five,
take away two, leaves three. It's cheaper when you've taken off
the discount. 15 end, terminate, annihilate, wipe out; kill:
The assault on Leningrad took tens of thousands of lives. The
Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. 16 require, demand, need,
necessitate, call for: Remember, it takes two to tango. It took
him two years to complete the fresco. It takes six to sail his
yawl. 17 hold, contain, accommodate, accept, fit in: This
storage bin cannot take anything else, it's completely full. 18
convey, lead, conduct; escort, convoy, guide, accompany: This
road takes you directly to the yacht club. He asked to be taken
to the manager's office. 19 understand, gather, interpret,
perceive, apprehend, deduce, conclude, infer, judge, deem,
assume, suppose, imagine, see: I take it from your expression
that you've had bad news. 20 charm, captivate, capture,
attract, lure, allure: There was something about him that took
her fancy. 21 use, employ, make use of, establish, put in(to)
place, adopt, put into effect, effect, apply; resort to, have
recourse to, turn to: The police have taken measures to ensure
that it doesn't happen again. 22 clear, get or go over or past
or round or through: Browning's Delight took the last jump
easily. He must have taken that corner at 90! 23 experience,
entertain, feel: She seemed to take an instant dislike to me.
24 express, voice, raise, put forth: I hope you will not take
objection or exception to what I am about to tell you. 25 cause
or make or induce or drive or persuade (someone) to go or be:

What takes you to M laga in August? 26 act, assume, play,
perform: I'm taking the part of the wicked witch in the local
pantomime. 27 bilk, cheat, swindle, defraud, Colloq con, Brit
fiddle: When he examined his wallet he realized he'd been
taken. 28 take aback. astound, astonish, surprise, startle,
shock: She was really taken aback at the news. 29 take after.
a resemble, look like, be the spitting image or the spit and
image of, favour, remind one of, Colloq be a chip off the old
block: He takes after his grandfather. b Sometimes, take off
after. chase, follow, run after, pursue: When the man stole the
newspaper and ran, the shopkeeper took after him at a gallop. 30
take back. retract, withdraw, recant, disavow, repudiate: He
now wants to take back what he said about you. 31 take down. a
note, make a note or memo or memorandum of, write down, record,
put or set down, put in writing, document, transcribe,
chronicle: Please take down what I am about to tell you. b
debase, deflate, lower, diminish, belittle, depreciate,
deprecate, humble, humiliate, shame, disparage, degrade,
disgrace: She certainly took that pompous ass down a peg or
two. 32 take in. a accommodate, receive, let in, quarter,
board, lodge: When her children grew up and left home, she
decided to take in lodgers. b deceive, fool, trick, impose upon,
overcharge, cheat, mulct, defraud, cozen, bilk, dupe, gull,
hoodwink, swindle, Colloq bamboozle, con, pull the wool over
(someone's) eyes, Slang Brit do: He was really taken in by that
time-share deal. c include, subsume, embrace, comprise, cover,
encompass, contain: Our sales figures take in all of North
America, not just Canada. 33 take it. a withstand or tolerate
or survive punishment or abuse, survive: The Marines are
extremely tough and can take it. b See 20, above. 34 take off.
a remove, doff, strip or peel off, discard, divest (oneself) of:
Take off your hat in the house. b satirize, lampoon,
caricature, mock, parody, travesty, burlesque, mimic, imitate,
Colloq spoof, Brit send up: It is not always easy to take off
members of the Cabinet. c depart, leave, go (away), decamp; fly
off, become airborne, lift off, blast off; Colloq skedaddle,
make (oneself) scarce, Slang hit the road, scram, beat it,
split: You'd better take off before they find you here. The
plane is due to take off at 18.35. 35 take on. a hire, engage,
employ, enrol, enlist, retain: We are so busy that we have
taken on ten new people. b challenge, rival, face, contend
against, oppose, match or pit (oneself) against, vie with,
fight: Are you in any condition to take on the champion? c

assume, accept, undertake, tackle: You might be taking on more
than you bargained for. 36 take out. entertain, escort, invite
out; court, woo: He took her out to dinner at a Chinese
restaurant. 37 take over. assume or take or usurp or gain
control or possession or command of: A huge conglomerate is
trying to take over our company. 38 take to. a like, find
pleasant or pleasing, feel affection or liking or affinity for,
find suitable: We took to each other the very first time we
met. He took to computers as a duck takes to water. b leave or
depart or take off for, run for, head for, flee to, make for:
When the attack came, the villagers took to the hills. 39 take
up. a pick up, accept, agree to, acquiesce to, accede to: She
took up his offer, and they've been married for forty years. b
assume, resume, carry on, continue, go on with, follow on with,
pick up: After a pause, he took up the thread of the story once
more. c espouse, embrace, become interested or involved in,
support, sponsor, advocate: She took up the cause of women's
rights at her age? d occupy, cover, use (up), fill (up):
Bernard's exercise equipment now takes up half the living-room.
e deal with, treat, consider, bring up, raise: Next week our
panellists will take up the question, 'Who benefits from
education?'

--n. 40 revenue, takings, yield, return, receipts, proceeds,
gain, profit(s); gate, box office: How much was the take from
the first day?

taken adj. captivated, entranced, enchanted, charmed, bewitched,
infatuated: I was so taken with Lucinda that I started blushing
like a teenager.

take-off n. 1 flight, flying, taking off, departure, leaving, going;
launch, lift-off: The take-off was delayed by bad weather. 2
satire, lampoon, caricature, mockery, parody, travesty,
burlesque, imitation, Colloq spoof, Brit send-up: The annual
students' entertainment was as usual a take-off of the teachers.

taking adj. attractive, alluring, engaging, captivating, winning,
winsome, charming, entrancing, enchanting, bewitching, fetching,
fascinating, delightful, irresistible, compelling, intriguing,
prepossessing: Cassie's taking ways won her many friends.

tale n. 1 story, narrative, report, account, record, chronicle,

history, narration, recital, anecdote: We were brought up on
tales of the supernatural. Her tale of what happened does not
agree with the facts. 2 falsehood, lie, fiction, fib,
fabrication, untruth, falsification, exaggeration, Colloq tall
tale or story, (cock-and-bull) story, US fish story: He told
some tale about having been captured by urban guerrillas. 3
rumour, gossip, slander, allegation, tittle-tattle, libel,
story, US chiefly naval scuttlebutt: I have been hearing tales
about wild parties at the neighbours' again.


talebearer
n. gossip, rumour-monger, gossip-monger, taleteller,
talemonger, scandalmonger, tell-tale, troublemaker, quidnunc,
tattler, informer, sieve, Chiefly US and Canadian tattle-tale,
Slang bigmouth, blabbermouth, squealer, stool-pigeon, stoolie,
rat, Brit sneak, nark, US fink, ratfink: The words, spoken in
private, were repeated to him by some talebearer.

talent n. 1 ability, power, gift, faculty, flair, genius, facility,
aptitude, capacity, knack, ingenuity, forte, strength;
endowment: Bill's extraordinary talent for playing the trombone
was widely acclaimed. 2 tendency, proclivity, propensity,
penchant, predilection, predisposition, bent, inclination:
Annabel certainly has a talent for saying the wrong thing.


talented adj. gifted, accomplished, brilliant, skilled, skilful,
masterful, expert, adept, adroit, dexterous, deft, clever, good,
polished, proficient, first-rate, top-drawer, excellent, Colloq
ace, crack, top-notch, Brit wizard, whizzo, US crackerjack:
Leslie is the most talented player in the school hockey team.

talisman n. amulet, charm, tiki, fetish or fetich, ju-ju, periapt,
abraxas; wishbone, rabbit's foot, Brit merry thought: He was
given a talisman that was supposed to protect its wearer from
bad luck.

talk v. 1 Sometimes, talk in. speak (in), use, communicate in,
converse in, express (oneself) in, discourse in: If you talk
English I might understand. 2 confer, consult, parley, have a
(little) talk, (have a) chat, confabulate, Colloq confab, Slang
US rap: I think we ought to talk before you decide which offer
to accept. 3 chatter, prate, prattle, jabber, blather or
blether, gibber, jibber-jabber, cackle, babble, patter, rattle

on, go on, Brit natter, witter, rabbit on, Colloq gab, Slang
gas, jaw , US run off at the mouth: They talk continuously,
mostly about nothing. 4 chat, gossip, palaver, Slang chew the
fat or the rag, shoot the breeze, US chin, schmooze, rap, have a
bull session, bat the breeze, shoot the bull: We were just
sitting around talking when Tom suggested we go for a swim. 5
inform, confess, give the game away, blab, Colloq come clean,
Slang rat, squeal, sing, spill the beans, Brit grass: If they
give him the third degree, you can be sure he'll talk. 6 speak,
give or deliver a speech or a talk or an address, lecture: I
believe that Professor Hale is talking at the County Library
tonight. 7 talk about or over or of. discuss, confer about or
on, parley about: I don't want to talk about football all the
time. Can't we talk it over? She talks only of you. 8 talk big.
boast, brag, vaunt, crow, bluster, exaggerate, blow or toot
(one's) own horn: He was never in the war - he just talks big.
9 talk down. a depreciate, deprecate, denigrate, disparage,
belittle, minimize, diminish, criticize, Colloq knock, pan, put
down: It's the only thing he's ever done, and you shouldn't
talk it down. b Usually, talk down to. condescend to, patronize:
I resent your talking down to me in that way. 10 talk into.
convince, bring round, sway, persuade: We have been trying to
talk him into running in the marathon. 11 talk over. discuss:
We talked over the best way to prepare the advertising proposal.
12 talk to or with. speak to or with, communicate with, converse
with: Since the episode with the monkey, she refuses to talk to
me. I talked with him yesterday. 13 talk up. promote, support,
sponsor, advertise, publicize, push, Colloq plug, hype,
ballyhoo: She has been talking up the book on her radio show.


--n. 14 oration, lecture, address, presentation, speech,
discourse, report, disquisition, dissertation; sermon; harangue,
tirade, Colloq spiel: Claire delivered a talk on computational
linguistics. Every week we have to listen to the same talk about
sin. 15 conversation, conference, discussion, meeting,
consultation, dialogue, colloquy, parley, palaver, chat,
tˆte-…-tˆte, confabulation, Colloq confab, powwow, Slang
chin-wag, head-to-head, US one-on-one, rap session: We must
have a little talk about your school report. 16 subject or
topic of conversation or gossip or rumour: Her behaviour at the
wedding was the talk of the town for weeks. 17 gossip, rumour,
hearsay, information, news, report, Colloq info, Slang dope:
There is some talk that you might be leaving. 18 palaver,

gossip, claptrap, prattle, prattling, chatter, verbiage, cackle,
bunk, nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, poppycock, hot air, stuff
and nonsense, twaddle, Colloq malarkey, piffle, hooey, hokum,
bunkum, bosh, hogwash, horse feathers, Slang bilge(-water),
crap, bull, tripe, Brit tosh, balls, US apple-sauce, Taboo slang
horseshit, bullshit: That's just a lot of talk. 19 dialect,
speech, way or manner of speaking, fa‡on de parler, language,
jargon, argot, cant, patois, accent, Colloq lingo: Can you
understand musicians' talk? My parents' talk is peppered with
words long obsolete in standard English.

talkative adj. garrulous, loquacious, verbose, long-winded, voluble,
prolix, wordy, chatty, gossipy, effusive, talky, logorrhoeic or
logorrhoeal, Colloq gabby, blabby, Slang big-mouthed; US running
off at the mouth: The children are so talkative I can't get a
word in edgeways.

talker n. 1 speaker, lecturer, orator, speech-maker, keynoter,
spellbinder, tub-thumper, rabble-rouser, demagogue, haranguer,
ranter: You might disagree with what he says, but you must
admit he's a great talker. 2 blusterer, blatherskite, swaggerer,
show-off, Slang windbag, gasbag, lot of hot air, blowhard: He
is a big talker, but he never gets anything done.


tall adj. 1 high, towering, big, soaring, lofty, giant, gigantic;
multi-storey: The giant sequoias of California are the tallest
trees in the world. There are many tall buildings in most major
cities. 2 lanky, gangling, rangy, leggy, long-legged, big,
giant, huge, gigantic, large: Some of those basketball players
are unbelievably tall. 3 exaggerated, overblown, far-fetched,
improbable, unbelievable, incredible, preposterous, outrageous,
overdone, absurd, Colloq Brit steep: He told us some amusing
tall tales about his fishing adventures.


tally v. 1 agree, coincide, accord, correspond, fit, compare, match
(up), square, conform, concur, harmonize, Colloq US jibe:
Nothing I could do would make my figures tally with those of the
bank. 2 Sometimes, tally up. count (up or out), enumerate,
record, register, reckon, add (up), total (up), tabulate,
itemize, list, calculate, compute: Please tally up what I owe
you.

--n. 3 count, enumeration, record, register, reckoning,

addition, total, tabulation, itemization, listing, calculation,
computation: According to my tally, you owe œ156.72. 4 ticket,
label, mark, marker, tag, tab: Each plant can be identified by
its own tally. 5 counterfoil, stub, counterpart, duplicate,
mate: If you lose your tally you cannot get back your luggage.

tame adj. 1 tamed, docile, disciplined, obedient, domesticated,
house-broken, trained, broken: He used to keep a tame fox in
his back garden. 2 mild, gentle, fearless, unafraid: It is
amazing how tame animals can be when they do not perceive man as
a threat. 3 tractable, pliant, compliant, meek, submissive,
mild, under (someone's) control or thumb, subdued, suppressed;
unassertive, feeble, ineffectual, timid, timorous, cowardly,
pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, faint-hearted, white-livered,
lily-livered, yellow, Colloq wimpish: Charles is far too tame
to defy Kate. 4 boring, tedious, tiresome, dull, insipid,
bland, lifeless, flat, vapid, prosaic, humdrum, bland,
unexciting, uninspired, uninspiring, run-of-the-mill, ordinary,
uninteresting, dead, Colloq wishy-washy: As a nightclub, the
place is much too tame for my tastes.

--v. 5 break, domesticate, train, house-train, gentle, master,
subdue, subjugate: The brown bear is a most difficult animal to
tame. 6 calm, subdue, control, mollify, pacify, mute, temper,
soften, curb, tone down, moderate, mitigate, tranquillize:
After a week the Lord tamed the violent sea and our tiny craft
was allowed to continue.

tamper v. interfere, meddle, intermeddle, intrude, tinker, mess (about
or around), Colloq fiddle or fool (about or around), monkey
(around), muck (about): Anyone caught tampering with the
machinery will be prosecuted.

tang n. 1 pungency, piquancy, bite, zest, zestiness, sharpness,
poignancy, spiciness, nip, edge, spice, taste, flavour, savour,
aroma, smell, odour, Colloq zip, kick: Ginger root gives the
dish just the right tang. 2 tinge, flavour, hint, suggestion,
soup‡on, trace, dab, smack, touch, smattering: The new version
has the tang of the original without its obsolete words. 3
prong, tab, projection, tongue, strip, tine, shank, pin, spike:
The tang of a good knife goes right through to the end of the
handle.

tangential
adj. divergent, digressive, off or beside(s) the point,
peripheral, irrelevant, extraneous, unrelated: The matter of
cost is tangential to the main issue.


tangible adj. material, real, physical, corporeal, bodily, somatic,
solid, concrete, touchable, tactile, manifest, palpable,
evident, actual, substantial, visible, seeable, discernible,
perceptible, ponderable, objective, ostensive: Leaving aside
intangibles like taste, smell, and colour, the important
tangible characteristic of food is texture.

tangle n. 1 confusion, knot, gnarl, mesh, snarl, twist, kink,
entanglement, jam, snag, jumble, mess, skein, web, coil: It
took hours to straighten out the tangle of ribbons. 2 muddle,
complication, jumble, puzzle, medley, complexity, complication,
scramble, mishmash, mix-up, hotchpotch or US and Canadian also
hodgepodge, jungle, maze, labyrinth: She was rather bewildered
by the vast tangle of information on the subject.


--v. 3 Often, tangle up. confuse, knot, mesh, snarl, gnarl,
twist, kink, ravel, entangle, jam, snag, intertwist, intertwine,
interlace, interweave, jumble, mess up, scramble, shuffle,
muddle: Now you've tangled all the ribbons I carefully
straightened out earlier. 4 Often, tangle with. wrangle (with),
contend (with), fight (with or against), (come into) conflict
(with), come or go up against, lock horns (with), dispute, cross
swords (with), disagree (with): The sheriff is the last person
I want to tangle with.


tantalize v. tease, taunt, provoke, torment, torture, bait, tempt,
plague, frustrate: They tantalized him by hanging the keys to
his cell just outside his reach.


tantamount to
adj. amounting to, as good as, virtually the same as, (pretty)
much the same as, equal to, equivalent to, like, of a piece
with, comparable to, commensurate with: His response, for all
its politeness, was tantamount to a rejection.


tantrum n. fit (of anger or of passion), outburst, eruption, blow-up,
explosion, flare-up, storm, rage, fury, Colloq Brit paddy, wax:
He has a tantrum every time he fails to get his own way.


tapฐ v. 1 rap, knock, dab, strike, peck; drum, beat: Must you
continually tap on the table with that blasted pencil?!


--n. 2 rap, knock, dab, strike, peck, pat; tapping, tap-tap,
rapping, knocking, pecking, beat, beating, patter, pattering: I
felt a tap on my shoulder. The tap, tap, tap of the dripping
water was driving me mad.


tap n. 1 cock, stopcock, pet-cock, sillcock, seacock, spigot,
spout, valve, US faucet: Replace the washer in the tap to stop
the leak. 2 bung, stopper, cork, spile, plug, stopple, peg:
Move the tap from the empty barrel to the new one. 3 wire-tap,
bug, listening device, electronic eavesdropper: I think there's
a tap on my phone. 4 on tap. a on draught, out of the barrel
or keg: They have real ale on tap. b ready, available, on or
at hand, waiting, in reserve, on call: He promised to be on tap
if I needed him for anything.


--v. 5 drain, draw (off), siphon off or out, extract, withdraw:
We tapped the wine directly from the casks. 6 open, drain,
unplug, sap, bleed, milk, broach, mine, use, utilize, make use
of, put to use, draw on or upon, turn to account: Whenever she
needed money, she tapped her savings. 7 bug, eavesdrop on,
wire-tap: M.I.5 still taps her phone.

tape n. 1 strip, band, fillet, stripe, strap, belt, ribbon: She
wore a colourful woven tape round her head to hold her hair. 2
(tape) recording, reel, spool, cassette, video: He played us
the tape of the whole interview.

--v. 3 strap, band, bind; seal, stick: If you tape the packet,
customs cannot open it for inspection. 4 record; tape-record,
video: Programmes can be taped automatically when we are out.


taper v. 1 narrow (down), thin, diminish, come or go down: Note how
the trousers taper towards the ankles. 2 Often, taper off.
diminish, reduce, thin out, wind down, decrease, fade, lessen,
peter out, fall off, wane, subside, let up, slacken, die away or
down or off or out, decline, slow (down or up), weaken, abate,
ebb, slump, drop (off), fall (off), plummet: Sales of ice
skates can be expected to taper off during the summer.

tardy adj. 1 late, unpunctual, behind schedule, overdue, behindhand:
Yet again you have been somewhat tardy in completing your
assignments. 2 slow, dilatory, belated, slack, retarded,
sluggish, reluctant, indolent, lackadaisical, listless,
phlegmatic, slothful, lethargic, languid: They have been tardy
in acknowledging the importance of Allen's work.

target n. goal, object, objective, aim, end; butt, quarry: The target
of the charity drive is to raise œ30,000. Why make Peter the
target of your ridicule?

tariff n. 1 tax, assessment, duty, excise, levy, impost, toll, Brit
rate: The tariff on imported clothing may be increased. 2
schedule (of charges), price-list; bill of fare, menu: I
stopped by the hotel to ask about their tariff.

tarnish v. sully, disgrace, taint, blacken, blemish, stain, blot, soil,
spot, dirty, contaminate, defame, injure, spoil, ruin, damage,
harm, hurt, stigmatize, debase, degrade, denigrate, dishonour,
asperse, calumniate: By his behaviour, he has tarnished the
reputation of his entire family.

tarry v. 1 delay, pause, wait, linger, loiter, stall, procrastinate,
dawdle, bide one's time, temporize, hang back, Colloq hang on or
about or (a)round: They tarried in the pub, and missed their
train. 2 remain, sojourn, stay, stop, rest, dwell, bide (one's)
time, settle: She plans to tarry at Eastbourne for a while.

tartฐ adj. 1 sour, acidic, acidulous, acidulated, lemony, citrusy,
vinegary, acetous, acescent; sharp, tangy, astringent, acerb,
acerbic, acrid, bitter, pungent, piquant, harsh: Those grapes
are a bit tart for my taste. 2 biting, bitter, caustic, acid,
corrosive, mordant, astringent, acrimonious, trenchant, harsh,
scathing, stinging, acerbic, incisive, cutting, keen,barbed,
nasty, curmudgeonly, testy, crusty, abusive, virulent,
sarcastic, sardonic, satiric(al), vicious, cynical: You can
rely on Henry for a tart rebuff every time.

tart n. 1 pie, tartlet, pastry, turnover, flan, quiche, patty, Brit
pasty: Three guesses who stole the tarts from the Queen of
Hearts. 2 strumpet, streetwalker, prostitute, whore, harlot,
fallen woman, trollop, wanton, working girl, fille de joie,
call-girl, loose woman, slut, drab, jade, demi-mondaine,

courtesan, woman of ill repute, hussy, doxy, lady of the evening
or the night, woman of easy virtue, Slang floozy, hooker, US
chippy, roundheels, bimbo: The paper claimed that the minister
was involved with a woman that it described as 'a tart'.


task n. 1 duty, assignment, business, job, charge, stint, mission,
work, chore, undertaking: It will be your task to keep the
others working. 2 (major) effort, test (of strength), piece of
work, struggle, strain: Getting him to do anything at all was
quite a task. 3 take to task. scold, reprimand, call to
account, blame, censure, recriminate, reproach, reprove, rebuke,
criticize, lecture, upbraid, chide, reprehend: I was taken to
task for failing to notify the police of the break-in.


taste n. 1 drop, soup‡on, dash, pinch, touch, hint, suggestion,
grain, trace, bit; flavour, savour, relish, tang: I added just
the tiniest taste of coriander to the sauce. 2 sample, morsel,
bite, mouthful, bite, sip, nip, swallow: I had a taste of the
sauce and it's superb. 3 palate, desire, inclination, leaning,
partiality, disposition, penchant, liking, fancy, preference,
fondness, appetite, relish, stomach, tolerance: She developed a
taste for caviare and champagne while working in television. 4
discernment, discrimination, perception, judgement, cultivation,
refinement, stylishness, grace, polish, elegance: Her unerring
taste leads her to select only the best. 5 style, mode,
fashion, manner, form, design, motif: The room was decorated in
Moorish taste. 6 decorum, discretion, tactfulness, delicacy,
refinement, politesse, politeness, correctness, propriety,
tastefulness: Evan's taste would never allow him to say
anything rude.

--v. 7 savour, sample, examine, try, test: Taste this and see
if it's too salty. 8 experience, sample, know, have knowledge
of, undergo, encounter, meet (with), come up against: As a
young man he had tasted the pleasures of Paris.

tasteful adj. in good taste, decorous, refined, finished, tactful,
polite, polished, restrained, correct, harmonious, fitting, fit,
proper, discriminating, aesthetic, discriminative, fastidious,
cultivated, comme il faut, elegant, graceful, charming: Though
a bit shabby, her clothes were demure and tasteful.

tasteless adj. 1 in bad or poor taste, garish, gaudy, loud, tawdry,

meretricious, cheap, flashy, unrefined, inelegant, unaesthetic;
improper, wrong, indecorous, indelicate, uncultivated, uncouth,
uncultured, gauche, boorish, maladroit, distasteful, unsavoury,
coarse, crude, gross, vulgar, base, low: That is the most
tasteless dress I have ever seen. He made a tasteless remark
about her table manners. 2 insipid, bland, dull, flat, watery,
vapid, flavourless, unsavoury, Colloq wishy-washy: The tea
served there is completely tasteless.


tasty adj. delicious, delectable, luscious, flavorous, flavoursome,
flavourful, savoury, toothsome, palatable, appetizing, sapid,
mouth-watering, ambrosial, Colloq yummy, scrumptious: They
serve a very tasty curry at that Indian restaurant.


tatter n. 1 Often, tatters. scrap(s), rag(s), shred(s), bit(s),
piece(s): Tatters from the culprit's clothing were found on a
thorn-bush. 2 in tatters. in ruins, in shreds, destroyed,
ruined, shattered, in disarray, demolished: My life has been in
tatters ever since she left me.


tattered adj. ragged, torn, shredded, rent, threadbare: Above the altar
in the chapel hang the tattered standards of the regiment,
dating from the Crimean War.


tattle v. 1 blab, tell, reveal or divulge, give away secrets, Slang
squeal: Though sworn to silence, Davis tattled. 2 gossip,
prattle, prate, babble, chatter, jabber, blather or blether,
Brit natter, witter, Slang yack: The old crones were tattling
away in the kitchen.


taunt v. 1 tease, jeer (at), flout, twit, mock, torment, annoy, make
fun or sport of, poke fun at, deride, sneer (at), scoff (at),
insult, ridicule, burlesque, lampoon, US ride, Colloq kid, rib,
roast, put down, Brit guy, Slang bug, rag, hassle, US get on
(someone's) case: The boys used to taunt him, calling him
'Shrimpo' because he was so short.

--n. 2 jeer, gibe, brickbat, insult, scoff, derision, sneer,
slap (in the face), raspberry, Colloq dig, US Bronx cheer: At
17, he was six feet tall and no longer had to tolerate his
classmates' taunts.

taut adj. 1 tight, tense, strained, stretched, rigid, stiff: When

his jaw goes taut like that I know he's angry. 2 Nautical neat,
tidy, Bristol fashion, shipshape, spruce, (in) trim, smart,
orderly, well-organized; well-disciplined: Captain Scriven runs
a taut ship, no doubt about it.


tautology n. repetition, redundancy, battology, pleonasm, iteration,
tautologism; repetitiousness, repetitiveness, wordiness,
prolixity, verbiage, verbosity, long-windedness: Clich‚s like
'null and void' and 'cease and desist' are tautologies.
Tautology, when called 'repetition', is often used for
rhetorical effect.

tawdry adj. gaudy, cheap, flashy, brummagem, showy, meretricious,
garish, loud, tatty, tinsel, tinselly, plastic, tinny, shabby,
US tacky, Colloq cheapjack: She was wearing a tawdry outfit
picked up at a church jumble sale.

tax n. 1 levy, impost, duty, tariff, assessment, tribute, toll,
excise, customs, charge, contribution, Archaic scot, tithe, Brit
octroi, cess, rate(s), dues: Most people try to pay the lowest
taxes they can get away with. 2 onus, burden, weight, load,
encumbrance, strain, pressure: The admission of fifty new
children put a heavy tax on the school's resources.


--v. 3 assess, exact, demand, charge, impose or levy a tax
(on), Archaic tithe: If the government doesn't tax citizens,
where will the money come from? 4 burden, strain, put a strain
on, try; load, overload, stretch, exhaust; encumber, weigh down,
saddle, Brit pressurize, US pressure: This misbehaviour is
really taxing my patience. Our meagre resources were taxed to
the limit. Mother was taxed with the responsibility of caring
for us.

taxi n. 1 taxi-cub, cab, hackney, Colloq hack: Please hurry, as I
have a taxi waiting.

--v. 2 drive, ride (on the ground): After landing, the plane
taxied to the gate.


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teach v. instruct (in), inform (about), communicate (to), educate,
guide, train, tutor, coach, enlighten, edify, indoctrinate,
inculcate, instil, school in, demonstrate, show, familiarize or
acquaint with, give lessons (in) (to); drill, discipline: She
is qualified to teach chemistry. Captain Ross taught many
youngsters to sail. She wants to teach when she completes her
training.

teacher n. schoolteacher, educator, instructor, professor, doctor,
tutor, fellow, lecturer, master, mistress, schoolmaster,
schoolmistress, coach, trainer, guide, mentor, guru, cicerone,
counsellor, advisor; educationist; Brit don, Scots dominie, US
docent, Colloq schoolma'm: One can be counted extremely lucky
to have inspiring teachers.


team n. 1 side, line-up, group, band, gang, body, crew, party,
troupe: Which team does Lineker play for? 2 pair, yoke, span,
duo, set, rig, tandem: They hitched a fresh team of horses to
the coach and we were soon back on the road.


--v. 3 Often, team up. join (up or together), band or get or
work together, unite, combine, link (up), cooperate,
collaborate; conspire: If we team up, we'll get the job done
better and in half the time.


tear v. 1 rip, rend, rive, rupture, pull apart, shred, mutilate,
mangle, claw, split, divide, separate, sever: The tiger is
tearing its quarry to shreds. He tore the contract in half and
stormed out. 2 pull, snatch, wrench: The force of the blast
tore the attach‚ case from my grasp. The child was torn from
her mother's arms by the soldier. 3 dash, fly, run, gallop,
race, sprint, rush, scoot, shoot, sprint, speed, bolt, dart,
flit, scurry, scuttle, career, zoom, hurry, hasten, Colloq zip:
He is tearing around trying to find the money to cover his loan.


--n. 4 rip, rent, rupture, hole, split, slash, gore, cut,
score, slit, gash, fissure, rift, laceration: Nobody will see
the tear in your trousers if you remain seated.


tearful adj. weeping, crying, in tears, sobbing, whimpering, dewy-eyed,
blubbering, snivelling, lachrymose, Colloq weepy: She was
tearful as she told him they could not meet again.

tease v. 1 bait, taunt, torment, harass, bedevil, bother, nettle,
plague, chaff, pester, annoy, irritate, needle, goad, badger,
provoke, vex, twit, tantalize, frustrate, Non-Standard
aggravate, Colloq guy, pick on, rib, drive mad or crazy, drive
up the wall, Brit take the mickey out of, Slang rag: Stop
teasing the animals! Frances would tease me by agreeing to go
out and then begging off with a headache. 2 coax, worry, winkle,
work, manipulate: He was finally able to tease the broken piece
of key out of the lock.


technical adj. 1 complex, complicated, detailed, intricate, specialized:
This is a technical matter, not easily understood by the layman.
2 mechanical, applied, industrial, polytechnic, technologic(al):
We thought he would be happier attending a technical school.


technique n. 1 technic, method, approach, manner, mode, fashion, style,
procedure, system, tack, line, modus operandi, standard
operating procedure, Colloq MO (= 'modus operandi'), SOP (=
'standard operating procedure'): After many years, he has
developed his own technique for building hot-air balloons. 2
technic, art, craftsmanship, artistry, craft, knack, touch,
skill, skilfulness, adroitness, adeptness, dexterousness,
facility, competence, faculty, ability, aptitude, performance,
proficiency, talent, gift, genius, know-how, knowledge,
expertise: Jason's technique remains unsurpassed.

tedious adj. over-long, long-drawn-out, prolonged, endless, unending,
monotonous, unchanging, changeless, unvarying, laborious,
long-winded, wearing, wearying, wearisome, tiring, exhausting,
fatiguing, tiresome, boring, dreary, dull, dry-as-dust, drab,
colourless, vapid, insipid, flat, uninteresting, banal,
unexciting, prosaic, prosy, soporific, humdrum, routine,
repetitious, repetitive, mechanical, automaton-like, automatic,
Colloq ho-hum, Slang dead, US blah: For almost fifty years my
father had a tedious job on an assembly line.

tedium n. tediousness, monotony, changelessness, invariability,
long-windedness, wearisomeness, tiresomeness, boredom, ennui,
dreariness, dullness, drabness, colourlessness, vapidity,
insipidity, insipidness, two-dimensionality, banality, routine,
repetitiousness: How do you survive the tedium of getting up
and going to an office every day?

teemฐ v. Usually teem with. proliferate (with), be prolific (with),
abound, be abundant, swarm (with), be alive (with), crawl
(with), bristle (with), overflow (with), overrun (with), be full
(of), brim (with): When the panel was removed, the entire
foundation was seen to be teeming with termites.

teem v. pour, rain, stream (down), Colloq come down (in buckets),
bucket down, rain or pour cats and dogs: It teemed with rain
continuously when we were on holiday.


teenager n. adolescent, youth, boy, girl, young man, young lady,
juvenile, minor, Colloq kid: The town ought to provide a place
where teenagers can get together.


teeter v. balance, wobble, rock, sway, totter, waver, tremble,
stagger: She screamed when she saw Bruce teetering on the edge
of the precipice.

telegram n. cable, cablegram, radiogram, radio-telegram, wire, telex,
(In France) bleu, pneu, Brit trade mark Telemessage, US trade
mark Mailgram: She received a telegram from him, saying that he
would be arriving on Monday.

telephone n. 1 handset, phone, Colloq blower, Chiefly US horn: Mr
Fraser, the Managing Director is on the telephone for you.

--v. 2 phone, ring (up), call (up), give (someone) a ring or a
call, Colloq get (someone) on the blower or chiefly US the horn,
give (someone) a tinkle or a buzz, buzz: Telephone when you
have a chance.

telescope n. 1 spyglass, Old-fashioned glass; refracting telescope,
reflecting telescope, radio telescope: Through the telescope,
he could just discern the American coastline.


--v. 2 shorten, compress, abbreviate, curtail, condense,
summarize, pr‚cis, digest, tighten (up), boil down, abridge,
truncate, abstract: Telescope the report into two columns for
page 2. 3 concertina, squash, crush: The first three carriages
of the train were telescoped in the crash.

television
n. TV, video (receiver), small screen, Colloq box, idiot box,

Brit telly, US boob tube, Slang tube, Brit goggle-box: My
television was not working over the weekend.

tellฐ v. 1 relate, narrate, recount, recite: Tell me a story. 2
Sometimes, tell of. say, mention, hint at, refer to, touch on,
utter, state, declare, proclaim, announce, publish, broadcast,
communicate, make known, report, impart, indicate, release,
break, let (something) be known, advertise, trumpet, herald,
bring to light, disclose, divulge, intimate, leak, admit,
betray, acknowledge, confess, disbosom oneself, get (something)
off (one's) chest, unburden or disburden (oneself), blab,
tattle, Colloq talk, let the cat out of the bag, spill the
beans, let out, let slip, blow the whistle on, give away the
(whole) show, US pull the plug on, Slang squeal, squeak, rat,
peach, US spill (one's) guts: She told of her fears. He refuses
to tell where the money is hidden. She talked a lot but told
very little. 3 apprise, advise, inform, let (someone) know,
notify, acquaint (someone) with (something): He has told me
everything. Tell them that I shall be late. He told them nothing
of his illness. 4 recount, describe, delineate, outline,
portray, depict, express, put, word, explain: I am not sure how
to tell you this. 5 order, command, require, demand (that),
charge, direct, dictate (that), instruct, bid: Tell them I want
no visitors today. She told him to go. 6 carry weight, be
influential, be effective, have (an) effect: What we
accomplished here today is bound to tell in our favour. 7
determine, say, confirm, aver, assert, asseverate, swear, take
an oath, be sure or certain or positive, know (for sure or for
certain): It just shows you never can tell. 8 ascertain,
determine, perceive, understand, make out, discern, identify,
recognize, distinguish, discriminate, differentiate: I cannot
tell if that is George or not. I can't tell George from John in
this photograph. 9 predict, prophesy, forecast, foretell,
foresee, forecast, determine, ascertain, know: Who can tell
what tomorrow will bring? 10 tell off. scold, reprimand,
berate, chide, castigate, censure, take to task, rebuke,
lecture, reproach, reprove, Colloq give (someone) a
tongue-lashing, rake or haul (someone) over the coals, give
(someone) a piece of (one's) mind, tick off, Slang tear a strip
off, US chew out: He was told off for being late for dinner
again. 11 tell on. tattle on, blab about, Brit grass on:
Charlotte never forgave Tim for telling on her to Aunt Jane.

tell n. tumulus, mound, barrow, hillock: Excavation of the tell
exposed ancient skeletons.

telling adj. 1 effective, effectual, influential, weighty, important,
powerful, forceful, potent, significant, considerable, striking:
The new colour scheme in the office has had a telling effect on
morale.

--n. 2 tattling, (too) revealing, Colloq letting the cat out of
the bag, giving away the whole show: I cannot say why her key
was found in his pocket - that would be telling.

temper n. 1 mood, disposition, temperament, humour, state or frame of
mind, character, personality, nature, make-up, constitution:
Practising law did not suit his temper, so he became a social
worker. 2 composure, self-control, self-possession, calmness,
equanimity, balance, sang-froid, coolness, Colloq cool: He
would lose his temper if she ever mentioned another man. 3 ill
humour, ill temper, foul temper, irascibility, irritability,
petulance, volatility, peevishness, huffishness, surliness,
churlishness, hotheadedness, hot-bloodedness: At the first sign
of temper, just ignore him. 4 (temper) tantrum, fury, fit (of
pique), rage, passion, Colloq Brit wax, paddy: She went off
into a temper at the mere mention of his name.


--v. 5 modify, moderate, assuage, mollify, soften, cushion,
tone down, allay, soothe, mitigate, palliate, reduce, relax,
slacken, lighten, appease: The cold currents from the poles are
tempered by the equatorial waters. She used all her wiles to
temper his fury. 6 anneal, toughen, strengthen, harden: Plunge
the heated blade into water to temper it.

temperamental
adj. 1 moody, sensitive, touchy, hypersensitive, volatile,
irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, short-tempered,
hot-tempered, hotheaded, hot-blooded, excitable, explosive, on a
short fuse or US fuze, capricious, impatient, bad-humoured,
curt, brusque, short, gruff, bluff, curmudgeonly, waspish,
snappish, peevish, crabby, crabbed, grumpy, huffish, huffy,
crotchety, US cranky, Colloq grouchy: He's not usually
temperamental - must be something he ate. 2 erratic, uneven,
unreliable, inconsistent, undependable, unpredictable: That car
of mine is getting temperamental in its old age.


temperance
n. 1 (self-)restraint, moderation, (self-)control, forbearance,
(self-)discipline, continence: Temperance is one of the four
cardinal virtues, alongside justice, prudence, and fortitude. 2
abstemiousness, teetotalism, abstinence, sobriety, Rechabitism;
prohibition: We have always preached temperance to our
children.


temperate adj. 1 moderate, reasonable, (self-)restrained, disciplined,
controlled, forbearing, reasonable, sensible, sane, rational,
not excessive, composed, steady, stable, even-tempered, equable,
sober, sober-sided, sober-minded, mild, dispassionate,
unimpassioned, cool, cool-headed, unexcited, calm, unruffled,
tranquil, imperturbable, unperturbed, self-possessed, quiet,
serene: Even the most temperate of women would lose her cool
when dealing with a man like that. 2 abstemious, teetotal,
abstinent, continent, moderate, sober; chaste, celibate,
austere, ascetic, self-denying, puritanical: Those who lead
temperate lives seem to live no longer than those who yield to
dissipation.

tempest n. 1 storm, wind-storm, hailstorm, rainstorm, hurricane,
typhoon, tornado, cyclone, squall, thunderstorm: The Red Spot
on Jupiter is the centre of a perpetual, violent tempest. 2
storm, commotion, disturbance, upheaval, disruption, furore or
US furor, turbulence, ferment, tumult, agitation, perturbation,
hurly-burly, disorder, outbreak, unrest, riot, chaos, uproar,
brouhaha, Colloq hoo-ha: After the tempest of protest died
down, a vote was taken and saner heads prevailed.

tempestuous
adj. stormy, wild, uncontrolled, uncontrollable, disrupting,
disruptive, turbulent, tumultuous, riotous, chaotic, uproarious,
boisterous, frantic, frenzied, frenetic, furious, wrathful,
vehement, fiery, impassioned, fierce: They had a tempestuous
relationship, and did not live together for very long.

template n. templet, pattern, mould, guide, model, die: The work on the
lathe is matched to the template.

temple n. place or house of worship, holy place, house of God, church,
synagogue, mosque, pagoda, cathedral, sanctuary, chapel, shrine,

Yiddish shul or schul: Temples to gods are found throughout the
world.

tempo n. cadence, rhythm, beat, time, pulse, metre, measure; pace,
speed, rate: The melody should be played in waltz tempo. Living
in the country, Tom is unaccustomed to the tempo of big-city
life.

temporal adj. 1 earthly, terrestrial, terrene, mundane, worldly,
non-spiritual, non-clerical, lay, laic(al), secular,
non-religious, non-ecclesiastic(al), material, civil, profane,
fleshly, mortal: He believed that his temporal miseries would
be compensated for by an eternity in the seventh heaven. 2 See
temporary, below.


temporarily
adv. 1 for the time being, in the interim, pro tem, in or for
the meantime or the meanwhile, for now: Mr Peters is
temporarily out of the office, and will contact you on his
return. 2 briefly, fleetingly, for a (short or little) while or
time, for the moment: Your size is temporarily out of stock,
madam.

temporary adj. impermanent, makeshift, stopgap, stand-by, provisional;
pro tem, transitory, transient, fleeting, fugitive, passing,
ephemeral, temporal, evanescent, short-lived, momentary: I
suppose it will have to do as a temporary substitute.

tempt v. 1 attract, entice, lure, allure, draw (in), invite, lead on,
whet (one's) appetite, seduce, captivate, persuade, coax,
cajole: They had a special offer to tempt new customers. 2
lead, induce, persuade, prompt, move, incline, dispose: I would
be tempted to resign if they treated me that way. 3 provoke,
dare, (put to the) test: I shouldn't tempt Providence if I were
you.

temptation
n. 1 tempting, enticing, leading on, seducing, captivating,
persuading, coaxing, cajoling: The temptation by advertisers
never stops, does it? 2 enticement, seduction, captivation,
persuasion, allurement, invitation, attraction, draw, lure,
inducement, snare, Colloq pull, come-on: I could never resist a
temptation like that.


tempting adj. 1 seductive, enticing, inviting, alluring, captivating,
attractive, tantalizing, appealing, irresistible, titillating;
fetching, winsome, prepossessing, ravishing, voluptuous,
sensuous, Colloq sexy, US foxy: They made her a very tempting
offer which she found hard to refuse. He was continually
distracted by thoughts of tempting young girls. 2 appetizing,
mouth-watering, delicious, savoury, delectable, succulent,
luscious, toothsome: Why does food always look most tempting
when I am on a diet?

temptress n. seductress, vamp, siren, femme fatale, coquette, flirt,
enchantress, sorceress, Circe, Slang sexpot, man-eater, US foxy
lady, fox, mantrap: You warned me against that temptress
because you wanted her for yourself.

tenable adj. defensible, supportable, justifiable, maintainable,
workable, viable, defendable, plausible, reasonable, rational,
arguable, believable, credible, creditable, imaginable,
conceivable, possible: Copernicus showed that Ptolemaic
cosmology was no longer tenable.

tenacious adj. 1 persistent, dogged, unfaltering, pertinacious,
unswerving, determined, diligent, resolute, staunch, stalwart,
steadfast, strong, sturdy, unwavering, strong-willed,
strong-minded, unshaken, unshakeable or unshakable, obstinate,
intransigent, stubborn, adamant, obdurate, refractory,
immovable, inflexible, rigid, firm, unyielding, uncompromising:
Despite his age, Christopher maintains a tenacious grip on
reality. 2 cohesive, strong, tough; adhesive, sticky, clinging;
gummy, gluey, mucilaginous, glutinous, viscous, viscid: The
bricks are then smeared over with a tenacious mud, which dries
hard. 3 Often, tenacious of. clinging (to), grasping,
maintaining, keeping (up), staying with, retentive (of),
persisting or persistent (in), retaining: She is tenacious of
the old ways of doing things. 4 retentive, good: Aunt Agatha
has a very tenacious memory.

tenacity n. 1 tenaciousness, persistence, doggedness, perseverance,
pertinacity, determination, grit, diligence, resoluteness,
resolution, purposefulness, resolve, staunchness, steadfastness,
stamina, assiduity, sedulousness, strength, strong-mindedness,
unshakeability or unshakability, obstinacy, intransigence,

stubbornness, obduracy, inflexibility, rigidity, firmness,
uncompromisingness, Colloq US sand, stick-to-it-iveness: He
persisted with the tenacity of the English bulldog. 2
tenaciousness, cohesiveness, strength, power, toughness,
resilience; adhesiveness, stickiness, gumminess, glueyness,
mucilaginousness, glutinousness, viscousness, viscidity, US
cling: The texture of the surfaces affects the tenacity of the
bonding cement.


tenancy n. occupancy, occupation, possession, tenure: Our tenancy of
the house expires next month. The tenancy of this position is a
year.

tenant n. occupant, lessee, renter, leaseholder, occupier, resident,
inhabitant: We could not redecorate the premises while the
tenants were there.

tendฐ v. be inclined or disposed, be liable or apt or likely,
incline, lean, have or show or exhibit or demonstrate a
tendency, favour, verge, gravitate, be biased; be prone: The
judge might tend towards leniency in your case. I tend to agree.
Tree growth here tends towards the horizontal.

tend v. care for, take care of, look after, look out for, watch
over, see to, keep an eye on, attend (to), wait on, cater to,
minister to, serve, nurse, nurture: Marie tended her father
lovingly throughout his long illness.

tendency n. inclination, bent, leaning, disposition, propensity,
predisposition, proclivity, predilection, susceptibility,
proneness, readiness, partiality, affinity, bias, drift,
direction, trend, movement: Brian has always had a tendency to
being overweight. The particles exhibit a tendency to align
themselves north and south.


tenderฐ adj. 1 sensitive, delicate, fragile, frail, infirm, unstable,
shaky, weak, feeble, unwell, sickly, ailing, unsound: His
condition is still a bit too tender for him to go outside. 2
chewable, edible, eatable, soft: The steak will become more
tender if it is marinated. 3 young, youthful, immature,
juvenile, inexperienced, impressionable, vulnerable, green, new,
raw, undeveloped, untrained, uninitiated, callow: At his tender
age he could not have known about such things. 4 sensitive,

touchy, ticklish, dangerous, troublesome, provocative,
difficult, tricky: Please avoid mentioning the wedding, it's a
tender subject around here. 5 gentle, soft, delicate, light,
sensitive, soothing: Oh, how he yearned for her tender touch at
his fevered brow. 6 kind, kind-hearted, loving, affectionate,
fond, gentle, mild, compassionate, considerate, humane,
benevolent, sympathetic, feeling, thoughtful, soft-hearted,
warm, caring, merciful, solicitous, tender-hearted,
warm-hearted, good-natured: Wounded and helpless, he succumbed
to the tender care of the nurses. 7 touching, emotional,
moving, stirring, soul-stirring, heart-rending, heartfelt,
passionate, impassioned, impassionate, poignant, sentimental,
mawkish, maudlin: Who could forget the tender scene as Cedric
bade farewell to his mother and went off to war? 8 sore, raw,
painful, sensitive, inflamed; smarting, burning, hurting,
aching, agonizing: This spot, right here, is so tender that it
hurts just to think about it. 9 loving, affectionate, amatory,
amorous, adoring, romantic: They exchanged tender, knowing
looks.


tender v. 1 offer, proffer, present, propose, put forward, extend,
hold out, submit, advance, put up, set before: Donald tendered
his resignation yesterday. She has tendered the committee an
excellent proposal.


--n. 2 offer, bid, presentation, proposal, proposition: The
city is accepting tenders for the construction of a new bridge.
3 currency, money, specie, (bank) notes, cash, bills; payment,
compensation: Pound notes are no longer legal tender in England
and Wales.

tenderฐ n. 1 dinghy, gig, skiff, launch, boat, row-boat or rowing-boat,
jolly-boat: The yacht moved easily through the water towing a
tender. 2 wagon, truck, vehicle: The tender of Felix's toy
train was filled with sweets for his birthday.

tenet n. belief, credo, creed, article of faith, ideology, precept,
conviction, principle, dogma, idea, opinion, position, view,
viewpoint, maxim, axiom, canon, teaching, doctrine: They accept
the Golden Rule as a fundamental tenet of their organization.

tenor n. drift, tone, spirit, essence, character, gist, bias, import,
substance, effect, significance, meaning, sense, connotation,

theme, thread, implication, inference, intent, purpose,
tendency, purport, direction: The general tenor of Mark's
letters was unfriendly.


tense adj. 1 taut, strained, stiff, under tension, rigid: One could
see how tense the muscles were under the skin. 2 intense,
nervous, anxious, under (a) strain, highly-strung, high-strung,
strained, on edge, wrought up, keyed up, worked up, taut, on
tenterhooks, apprehensive, distressed, upset, disturbed,
worried, edgy, on pins and needles, jumpy, fidgety, overwrought,
Colloq wound up, jittery, having a case of the jitters, Brit
strung up, US strung out, Slang uptight, US antsy: Try to relax
and not be so tense. 3 nervous, anxious, worrying, worrisome,
distressing, disturbing, stressful, nerve-racking or
nerve-wracking, fraught, disquieting: Those were tense moments
while we waited for the winner's name to be posted.

--v. 4 tighten, stretch, strain, tauten, tension: The mast
will be secure once the stays have been tensed.


tension n. 1 stress, tightness, tautness, strain, pull, traction,
pressure, tenseness, force: Can this cable withstand so much
tension? 2 nervousness, anxiety, anxiousness, strain, edginess,
apprehension, suspense, tautness, distress, upset, worry,
jumpiness, fidgetiness, Colloq jitteriness, (a case of) the
jitters: I could feel the tension building among the audience.

tentative adj. 1 experimental, speculative, exploratory, probative,
trial, provisional: We have tentative plans for introducing a
new work methodology. 2 unsure, hesitant, uncertain,
indecisive, cautious, timid, shy, diffident, uneasy,
apprehensive: The child gave him a tentative smile, not knowing
what to expect.


tenuous adj. 1 thin, slender, thin, fine, attenuated, delicate,
gossamer, diaphanous, fragile: The spider descended slowly on
its tenuous thread. 2 flimsy, insubstantial or unsubstantial,
paltry, weak, feeble, frail, meagre, vague, negligible,
insignificant, trifling, sketchy, hazy, nebulous, dubious,
doubtful, shaky: Your case rests on very tenuous evidence.

tenure n. 1 possession, holding, occupancy, incumbency, tenantry,
tenancy, occupation, residency, residence: The laws on tenure

are extremely complicated. 2 (job) security, permanence,
permanency: After five years he was automatically guaranteed
tenure.


tepid adj. 1 lukewarm, warmish: The gelatine should be tepid before
refrigerating it. 2 lukewarm, unenthusiastic, cool,
indifferent, apathetic, uninterested, unconcerned, nonchalant,
uncaring, neutral, blas‚: How can he remain tepid on an issue
like apartheid?


term n. 1 name, title, designation, appellation; word, expression,
locution, phrase: The term for that is venturi tube. Habeas
corpus is a term of art in law. 2 semester; time, period (of
time), interval, length of time, span (of time), duration,
spell, stretch, while: During the summer term we played cricket
every Saturday. He was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
3 sitting, stint, session, course; incumbency, administration:
During their latest term of office, interest rates were raised
twice. 4 Often, terms. condition(s), provision(s), article(s),
clause(s), proviso(s); stipulation(s), qualification(s),
assumption(s): According to the terms of the will, proceeds
from the patent go into a trust fund. 5 come to terms. agree,
come to or reach an agreement or an arrangement or an
understanding, reconcile, arrange, settle, compromise: Can we
come to terms on the price? He will simply have to come to terms
with his conscience. 6 in terms of. concerning, regarding, as
regards, with regard to, in relation to, relative to, relating
to, in the matter of: The psychiatrist offered little in terms
of direct solutions to my problems. 7 terms. a payment,
schedule, rates: What terms have they offered to settle the
debt? b standing, position, basis, relationship, relations,
footing: I always thought you two were on good terms.

--v. 8 call, name, label, designate, denominate, entitle,
title, style, dub; nickname: Abraham Lincoln was termed, among
other things, 'The Great Emancipator'.

terminal adj. 1 closing, concluding, terminating, ending, final,
ultimate, extreme; maximum, greatest: Spencer wrote that the
human being is at once the terminal problem of biology and the
initial factor of sociology. 2 deadly, mortal, fatal, lethal,
incurable: The cancer was diagnosed as terminal.

--n. 3 terminus, (terminal) station, end of the line, depot:
We arrived at the air terminal with five minutes to catch our
plane. 4 keyboard, monitor, position, station, VDU (= 'visual
display unit'), PC (= 'personal computer'), module, CRT (=
'cathode ray tube'), screen, (control) panel: The computer
system supported a terminal for each member of the team. 5
connection, wire, connector, coupler, coupling, conductor: Do I
attach the red cable to the positive or the negative terminal?


terminate v. stop, end, come to an end, finish; put an end to, cease,
conclude, discontinue, drop, abort, bring to an end or a close,
wind up or down, sign off, cut off: The railway line once
terminated at the port. They said they wanted to terminate the
contract.


termination
n. 1 end, ending, stop, stopping, stoppage, ceasing, cessation,
discontinuation, abortion, Colloq wind-up, winding up, close,
finish, finishing, conclusion: The rights revert to us at the
termination of the agreement. Because of her condition,
termination of the pregnancy was recommended. 2 suffix,
desinence, ending: The English termination -ly usually denotes
an adverb but is occasionally adjectival, as in sickly .


terminology
n. nomenclature, vocabulary, language, words, locutions,
wording, terms, phraseology, phrasing, jargon, shop-talk, argot,
cant, Colloq lingo: Medical terminology requires specialized
dictionaries.


terrain n. topography, landscape, ground, territory: These vehicles
are specially designed for rough terrain.

terrestrial
adj. 1 earthly, earthbound, worldly, terrene, tellurian or
telluric, global, sublunary, subastral; mundane: He insists
that we tackle our terrestrial problems before spending a
fortune on space travel.


--n. 2 earth-man, earth-woman, earth-person, earthling, mortal,
human: My experiences are beyond the imaginations of you mere
terrestrials.

terrible adj. 1 bad, serious, grave, severe, acute, distressing,
disagreeable, nasty, foul, unbearable, dreadful, loathsome,
hideous, vile, intolerable, awful, Colloq rotten, lousy,
beastly: I've had a terrible virus. 2 bad, remorseful,
regretful, rueful, sorry, contrite, ashamed,
conscience-stricken, guilty, distressed, dreadful, awful, Colloq
rotten, lousy, beastly: I felt terrible having to tell the
neighbours about their cat. 3 unhappy, unpleasant,
disagreeable, awful, miserable, joyless, wretched, unfortunate,
Colloq rotten, lousy, beastly: We spent an absolutely terrible
evening at the theatre. 4 gruesome, grisly, macabre, gory,
grotesque, brutal, savage, horrible, horrendous, terrifying,
terrific, harrowing, horrid, horrifying, ghastly, frightening,
frightful, unspeakable, monstrous, dread, terrible, appalling,
shocking, alarming, awful, foul: The casualties that were
arriving had the most terrible wounds. 5 disgusting, revolting,
nauseating, nauseous, offensive, vomit-provoking, obnoxious,
stomach-turning, stomach-churning, abominable, mephitic,
noisome, noxious, loathsome, horrible, hideous, terrific, awful,
evil, vile, rotten, awful: The compost heap was giving off the
most terrible stench. 6 terrifying, frightening, frightful,
fearsome, formidable, redoubtable, awesome, awe-inspiring,
terrific: The animal gave a terrible roar and charged into the
clearing.


terribly adv. very, extremely, exceedingly, thoroughly, decidedly,
unbelievably, incredibly, monumentally, outrageously, awfully,
fabulously, Colloq frightfully: They were terribly apologetic
about being late. I missed him terribly when he left.


terrific adj. 1 See terrible, 4, 5, 6, above. 2 wonderful, marvellous,
splendid, breathtaking, extraordinary, outstanding, magnificent,
exceptional, unbelievable, incredible, mind-boggling,
stupendous, superb, excellent, first-class, superior, Colloq
great, ace, fantastic, fabulous, sensational, smashing, super:
They really put on a terrific show.

terrify v. alarm, frighten, scare, terrorize, shock, make one's flesh
crawl or creep, horrify, make one's blood run cold, make one's
hair stand on end, stun, paralyse, petrify: Are you trying to
terrify the child with those horror stories?

terrifying

adj. alarming, frightening, scary, shocking, horrifying,
paralysing, petrifying: Being chased by a bull is a terrifying
experience.


territory n. 1 area, region, district, neighbourhood, zone, sector,
tract, land, precinct, quarter, vicinage, vicinity, purlieu:
Each one of these animals stakes out its own territory and
protects it. 2 area, bailiwick, domain, province, haunts, patch,
Colloq stamping-ground, US turf: Richard would be best advised
to stick to his own territory.

terror n. 1 fright, dread, fear, horror, panic, shock, alarm, anxiety,
dismay, consternation, intimidation, awe: They felt a sense of
terror when they caught sight of the enemy forces. 2 scourge,
demon, brute, monster, fiend, devil, US mad dog: The gang of
teenagers was the terror of the neighbourhood. Her daughter is a
little terror.

terrorist n. subversive, radical, insurgent, revolutionary, anarchist,
nihilist; bomber, arsonist, incendiary; desperado, gunman, thug,
felon, criminal: The shooting was carried out by a previously
unknown gang of terrorists.

terse adj. 1 concise, brief, short, compact, pithy, succinct,
summary, laconic, short and sweet, to the point, sententious,
crisp, epigrammatic, aphoristic; distilled, condensed,
compendious, abbreviated, abridged, shortened, concentrated: He
gave a terse account of what had happened. 2 abrupt, curt,
short, brusque, blunt, gruff, bluff, ungracious, petulant, tart,
rude: His answer was terse and unhelpful.

test n. 1 trial, examination, exam, proof, evaluation, assay, check,
check-up, investigation, study, analysis: My physics test is
tomorrow. Have you had a blood test lately?


--v. 2 try (out), check (up) (on), examine, evaluate, assess,
assay, prove, probe: Someone ought to test the water for
purity.


testify v. state, aver, assert, attest, swear, say, affirm, declare,
give evidence or testimony, bear witness, avow, vouchsafe,
proclaim, announce: He testified that he saw you there. Is your
mother going to testify at the trial? The fingerprints testify

to the fact that she was here.

testimonial
n. endorsement, certification, commendation, (letter of)
recommendation, reference, Colloq blurb: I am happy to write a
testimonial for you.

testimony n. evidence, attestation, affirmation, confirmation,
verification, authentication, corroboration, avowal, deposition,
statement, affidavit, declaration, assertion, claim, averral,
asseveration, information: We have only his testimony that the
woman caused the accident.

testy adj. irritable, bad-tempered, irascible, short-tempered,
petulant, touchy, tetchy, querulous, peevish, hot-tempered,
crusty, cross, grumpy, grouchy, bearish, crabby, crabbed,
fretful, captious, waspish, snappish, quarrelsome, fractious,
contentious, choleric, splenetic, ill-humoured, disagreeable,
ill-tempered, edgy, on edge, quick-tempered, crotchety,
cantankerous, US cranky, Colloq and US and Canadian dialect
ornery: The old colonel made a few testy remarks about the
boys' haircuts. Why make excuses for his being so testy?

tˆte-…-tˆte
n. 1 (cosy or personal) chat, dialogue, causerie, pillow talk,
private talk or word, parley, interview, Colloq confab, US
one-on-one: Will we have time for a brief tˆte-…-tˆte after
dinner?


--adv. 2 intimately, privately, in private, face to face,
confidentially, secretly, … deux, in secret, Colloq US
one-on-one: Could we meet tˆte-…-tˆte some time?

--adj. 3 intimate, private, intime, cosy: I arranged a little
tˆte-…-tˆte dinner at my flat.

tether n. 1 lead, leash, rope, cord, fetter, restraint, halter, tie,
chain: The dog had broken loose from its tether and was running
around in the yard.


--v. 2 tie (up or down), restraint, fetter, chain (up or down),
leash, manacle, secure, shackle, fasten, picket, stake: Why
don't you tether the goat where the grass is more plentiful?


text n. 1 wording, words, content, (subject-)matter; printed matter,
(main) body (text), contents: The editor had no right to make
changes in the text without consulting the author. The text is
in 10-point roman type, the footnotes in 8-point. 2 extract,
abstract, section, quotation, part, paragraph, passage, verse,
line: What text from the Scripture are we discussing next week?
3 subject(-matter), topic, theme, motif, issue, focus: For
today's talk I have chosen for my text the problem of
alcoholism. 4 textbook, school-book, reader, manual, primer,
workbook, exercise book, Archaic hornbook: Today's science
texts are much more advanced than those of twenty years ago.

texture n. feel, surface, character, grain, features, consistency,
weave; configuration, nature, structure, fabric, constitution,
substance: The material has a rough texture. The texture of the
plot is reinforced by the dialogue.

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thank v. 1 express or show (one's) gratitude or thanks or
appreciation, say thank you or thanks, give or offer or tender
thanks: Don't forget to thank your uncle for the gift, William.
2 blame, hold responsible, credit, acknowledge: You have your
mother to thank for the present state of affairs.

--n. 3 thanks. gratitude, appreciation, gratefulness,
acknowledgement, recognition, thanksgiving: I gave thanks that
I was again on dry land. 4 thanks to. owing to, because of, as
a result of, thanks be given to, in consequence of, as a
consequence of, by reason of, through, Sometimes non-standard
due to: Thanks to you, I have to commute to work by train.


thankful adj. grateful, appreciative, indebted, pleased, glad, obliged,
obligated, under obligation, beholden to: I am most thankful
that you came, doctor.


thankless adj. unappreciated, unacknowledged, useless, unrewarding,
fruitless, unprofitable, profitless, unrequited, vain, futile,
bootless: She always regarded housekeeping as a thankless task.

thaw v. 1 Sometimes, thaw out. melt, de-ice, liquefy, defrost, warm
(up), heat (up), unfreeze: We cannot leave till the river
thaws. Why not thaw out the shepherd's pie for dinner? 2 soften,
warm, become (more) cordial or friendly, relax, yield, relent,
bend, unbend, let (oneself) go: After he got to know some of us
better he began to thaw.

theatre n. 1 playhouse, (opera) house, (music-) hall, auditorium,
amphitheatre, theatre-in-the-round, coliseum, hippodrome, arena
(theatre): A long run in a West End or Broadway theatre is
every playwright's dream. 2 drama, stagecraft, dramaturgy,
melodrama, theatrics, histrionics, staginess, acting,
performing, performance: Even the way Mary serves dinner is
pure theatre. 3 the theatre. drama, the stage, dramaturgy,
dramatic or Thespian or histrionic art(s), the boards, show
business, Colloq showbiz: The theatre is a risky profession. 4
area, arena, scene, sphere or place or field of action, setting:
In which theatre of war did you serve?


theatrical
adj. 1 theatric, dramatic, stage, histrionic, Thespian;
repertory: He joined a theatrical company and his family
disowned him. 2 stagy, overdone, camp, campy, melodramatic,
overwrought, exaggerated, forced, overacted, overacting,
sensational, sensationalistic, fake, false, mannered, affected,
unnatural, artificial, showy, ostentatious, spectacular,
extravagant, Colloq phoney or US also phony, ham or hammy,
grandstand: Does Fergus's theatrical behaviour ever embarrass
you?


theft n. robbery, stealing, pilferage, pilfering, filching,
shoplifting, thievery, purloining, embezzlement, hijacking,
larceny, Colloq lifting, appropriation, pocketing, pinching,
swiping, snitching, Chiefly Brit nicking, US boosting, Slang
heist, knocking off, rip-off: The theft of the jewellery was
reported to the police immediately.

theme n. 1 subject(-matter), topic, idea, notion, concept, thesis,
text, thread, keynote, gist, core, substance, point, essence:
What is the central theme of your article? 2 essay, paper,
composition, review, article, story, piece, exposition, study,
exercise, monograph, tract, thesis, dissertation, disquisition,
treatise: I have to hand in two themes next week.


theorem n. 1 hypothesis, proposition, assumption, conjecture, thesis,
postulate: He has set forth a clever proof of the binomial
theorem. 2 statement, dictum, rule, deduction, formula, axiom,
principle: After a lifetime of experience, his theorem is that
honesty is the best policy.

theoretical
adj. 1 hypothetical, conjectural, speculative, untested,
unproved, unproven, moot, putative, debatable, supposititious,
suppositional: The theoretical trajectory will take it beyond
Uranus. 2 impractical, unrealistic, pure, ideal, abstract,
academic: The suggestion was purely theoretical, since we have
no means of carrying it out.


theorist n. theoretician, speculator, hypothecator, hypothesizer,
theorizer, philosopher, dreamer: Leave guesswork to the
theorists: we need hard facts.


theorize v. guess, hypothesize, conjecture, speculate: It is logically
illogical to theorize about articles of faith.

therapeutic
adj. therapeutical, healing, curative, remedial, restorative,
salutary, health-giving, healthy, beneficial, corrective,
salubrious, medical, medicinal: Primitive medicine men knew of
the therapeutic powers of these herbs.

therapist n. psychotherapist, psychologist, analyst, therapeutist,
psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, counsellor, advisor, Colloq shrink:
For some problems it is best to seek the advice of a trained
counsellor or therapist.

therapy n. 1 remedy, treatment, remedial programme; cure: As therapy,
he suggested I swim a mile every day. 2 psychotherapy,
psychoanalysis, analysis, group therapy: If it weren't for my
weekly therapy sessions, I'd never see anyone.

therefore adv. consequently, so, thus, as a result or consequence, hence,
ergo, for that reason, wherefore, accordingly, that being so or
the case: Demand for our products has fallen dramatically, and
we cannot therefore expect to make a profit this year.

thesaurus n. 1 treasury, treasure trove, storehouse, armoury, arsenal,
repository, cache: It is hoped that this book will be regarded
as a thesaurus of linguistic treasures. 2 synonym dictionary,
synonymy, dictionary, lexicon: He checked in his thesaurus for
a synonym of 'idea'.

thesis n. 1 argument, theory, proposition, point, contention, belief,
idea, premise or premiss, assumption, view, assertion, precept,
opinion, notion, theorem, axiom, postulate: Think how many
centuries it took man to come to grips with the thesis that all
men are created equal. 2 See theme, 2, above.

Thespian adj. 1 dramatic, theatrical or theatric, histrionic, acting,
performing; Colloq ham, hammy: His Thespian talents went
unnoticed until he appeared as an extra in a James Bond movie.

--n. 2 actor, actress, performer, trouper, player;
supernumerary; matin‚e idol, star; Colloq ham: For many years
she was one of the most beloved Thespians who ever trod the
boards.

thick adj. 1 broad, wide, solid, thickset, burly, ample, solid,
bulky, substantial, beamy: He sank his teeth into the thickest
sandwich I have ever seen. She is a bit thicker in the
mid-section than I had remembered, but a good ketch nonetheless.
2 Usually, thick with. dense, solid, compact, concentrated,
condensed, packed, close-packed, compressed, crowded, choked,
filled, full, deep, clotted, chock-full or choke-full or
chuck-full, chock-a-block, teeming, swarming, alive, bristling,
crawling, bursting, crammed, jammed, brimming, Colloq lousy
with: The gallery was thick with visitors. 3 compact,
condensed, compressed, choking, packed, impenetrable,
impassable, dense; pea-soup, soupy, murky, misty, foggy, smoggy,
smoky, opaque, obscure, obscuring, hazy: We plunged deeper into
the thick jungle. A thick fog blanketed the valley. 4 abundant,
plentiful, bushy, luxuriant: Her thick red hair tumbled down
over her shoulders. 5 dense, viscid, viscous, gelatinous,
mucilaginous, gluey, glutinous, ropy, coagulated, clotted,
congealed, jelled, jellied, inspissated, stiffish; stiff, firm,
rigid, solid: For a thicker sauce, use cornflour. 6
thickheaded, thick-witted, thick-skulled, dense, stupid, slow,
slow-witted, dull, dull-witted, stolid, obtuse, gormless,
boneheaded, fat-headed, pin-headed, wooden-headed, addle-pated,

halfwitted, block-headed, doltish, Boeotian, cretinous,
imbecilic, moronic, US thimble-witted; insensitive,
thick-skinned; Colloq dim-witted, Slang dopey: How could anyone
so thick have become an executive? 7 guttural, hoarse, throaty,
raspy, rasping, rough, husky, grating, gravelly, indistinct,
distorted, inarticulate; gruff, raucous: 'I need you,' he
moaned, his voice thick with emotion. 8 close, friendly, like
that, inseparable, devoted, hand in glove, on good terms, on the
best (of) terms, intimate, Colloq chummy, pally, (as) thick as
thieves, Brit matey, well in, US palsy-walsy: We were thick in
the old days, going everywhere together. 9 marked, pronounced,
strong, decided, obvious, typical: She speaks English with a
thick Polish accent.


--n. 10 core, heart, centre, middle, focus, midst: If it's a
fight, you can be sure that Timothy will be in the thick of it.

thicken v. coagulate, clot, congeal, jell, gel, set, solidify, stiffen,
harden, firm up, cake, incrassate, inspissate: Cornflour can be
used to thicken sauces.

thicket n. copse, brake, grove, covert, wood, Brit spinney: We
concealed our horses in the thicket and stole ahead on foot.


thick-skinned
n. insensitive, insensate, dull, obtuse, stolid, callous,
numb(ed), steeled, hardened, toughened, tough, unsusceptible,
inured, unfeeling, case-hardened, impervious, pachydermatous,
Colloq hard-boiled: You must be very thick-skinned not to
realize that they were getting at you.

thief n. 1 robber, burglar, cat burglar, housebreaker, picklock,
sneak-thief, safe-cracker, pilferer, shoplifter, purloiner;
embezzler, peculator; pickpocket, cutpurse, purse-snatcher,
mugger, highwayman, footpad, brigand, bandit, thug, dacoit,
ruffian, outlaw, desperado, hijacker, gunman, plunderer;
poacher; Technical kleptomaniac, Australian bush-ranger, US
road-agent, Colloq hold-up man, crook, US second-story or
second-storey man, bandito or bandido, Slang cracksman, box man,
dip, stick-up man: They caught the thief who took the
paintings. 2 cheat, swindler, confidence man, mountebank,
charlatan, sharper, trickster, flimflam artist or man,
thimblerigger, Colloq con man, con artist, shell-game artist, US

highbinder: That thief cheated them out of their savings. 3
pirate, (sea) rover, picaroon or pickaroon, corsair, freebooter,
buccaneer, marauder, filibuster, privateer: They might seem
romantic in retrospect, but at the time, pirates were no more
than common thieves.

thin adj. 1 slim, slender, lean, spare, slight, lanky, spindly,
skinny, thin as a rail or reed or rake, wispy, twiggy, skeletal,
gaunt, gangling, bony, emaciated, cadaverous, meagre, scrawny,
all skin and bones, scraggy, undernourished, underfed,
underweight, undersized, puny, sparse, hollow-cheeked,
(half-)starved, pinched, withered, shrunken, shrivelled (up):
Douglas is quite thin as a result of his illness. 2 sparse,
unsubstantial, poor, scant, insufficient, inadequate, slight,
worthless, unimportant, deficient, skimpy, unplentiful, paltry,
piddling: This year's harvest has been very thin. 3
attenuated, threadlike, stringlike, pencil-thin, fine; narrow:
Draw a thin line between the columns. Please slice the bread
thin. 4 flimsy, weak, feeble, slight, unsubstantial,
insubstantial, fragile, frail, poor, lame; unbelievable,
unconvincing: Harry gave some thin excuse for being late. 5
airy, filmy, diaphanous, gossamer, sheer, light, delicate,
chiffon, silky, silken, gauzy, translucent, see-through,
transparent: She had nothing but a thin negligee to protect her
from the cold. 6 watery, watered down, dilute(d), weak,
unsatisfying: My dinner, as usual, consisted of thin gruel and
a dry crust. 7 thin on the ground. rare, uncommon, scarce, few
(and far between), unusual, hard to come by or find, scant,
scanty: Good managers are thin on the ground.


--v. 8 Often, thin down. draw out, attenuate, reduce, trim, cut
down, prune; sharpen: At one end, thin the dowel to a point. 9
Often, thin down or out. dilute, water (down), decrease, reduce,
diminish: They always thin the wine with some water. The crowd
thinned out after a while.

thing n. 1 item, (inanimate) object, article, possession: They went
without leaving a thing behind. 2 item, subject, matter,
detail, feature, aspect, affair, constituent, element, factor,
point: There's one thing that I forgot to mention. It's a small
thing, but I like coffee with my breakfast. 3 fad, trend,
fashion: Let me show you the latest thing in sports cars. 4
feeling, reaction, attitude, sentiment, emotional attachment;

quirk, fixation, preoccupation, obsession; fetish or fetich,
id‚e fixe, affection, liking, partiality, predilection, fancy,
love, passion, mania; phobia, fear, terror, aversion, loathing,
horror, detestation, dislike, Colloq hang-up: A chocoholic has
a thing about chocolate. Pet snakes are not Patricia's thing.
Roger has a thing about going out in public. 5 device, item,
gadget, object, entity, mechanism, contrivance, apparatus,
instrument, utensil, Colloq dingus, doodad, whatchamacallit,
thingumajig, whosis, whatsis, thingummy, thingumabob, Chiefly US
and Canadian gismo or gizmo: Where's the thing that is supposed
to hold the flywheel in place? 6 chore, task, responsibility,
matter; act, action, deed, activity, proceeding: The first
thing I must do is to phone home. 7 opportunity, chance,
possibility: See me first thing tomorrow. 8 things. a
affairs, matters, business, concerns: I have to take care of
some things at the office today. b circumstances, events,
happenings: Things are rarely what they seem. c belongings,
luggage, baggage, impedimenta, possessions, paraphernalia,
effects, clothes, clothing, goods; equipment, tools, utensils,
implements, apparatus, Colloq gear, stuff, Slang Brit clobber,
US crap, junk, Taboo slang US shit: Take your things and leave
at once! The plumber left his things at the shop.

think v. 1 believe, imagine, expect, dream, fantasize, suppose: When
do you think that you will retire? 2 judge, reckon, consider,
deem, regard (as), characterize (as), believe, assume, mark:
They thought him a fool for making such a fuss. 3 contemplate,
cogitate (on or over or about), ruminate (over or about),
reflect (on), meditate (on or over or about), muse (on or over
or about), deliberate (on or over or about), think about or of
or over: He likes to sit in the bath and think. I need time to
think over your proposal. 4 Often, think of. recall, remember,
recollect, call to mind: I simply cannot think of the name of
that film we saw last week. 5 think of or about. a consider,
ponder, weigh, contemplate, muse over, have in mind, mull over,
entertain the idea or notion of, intend, have in mind, propose:
Do you ever think of retiring? b assess, evaluate, value,
judge: What do you think about their latest suggestion? 6
think up or of. devise, concoct, contrive, come up with, invent,
conceive (of), dream up, create, make up, improvise: Who thinks
up the plots for these dreadful TV series?

thinkable adj. conceivable, possible, imaginable, feasible, reasonable,

tenable, not unlikely, plausible, believable, credible: It is
hardly thinkable that they can be serious.

thinker n. sage, wise man, savant, Nestor, Solomon, pundit, mastermind,
philosopher, scholar, learned person, mentor, expert: She has
been looked on as one of the great thinkers of her time.

thinking adj. 1 rational, sensible, ratiocinative, intelligent,
reasoning, reasonable; meditative, contemplative, reflective,
philosophical, cogitative, pensive, thoughtful, intellectual:
Any thinking person would have done the same as you.

--n. 2 opinion, judgement, belief, thought, point of view,
viewpoint, assessment, evaluation, theory, reasoning,
conclusion, idea, philosophy, outlook: There is nothing either
good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Do you concur with the
current thinking on education?

thirst n. 1 craving, desire, appetite, hunger, eagerness, avidity,
ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness, lust, passion,
enthusiasm, fancy, hankering, longing, yearning, Colloq itch,
yen: It was the thirst for gold that drove them mad. She has an
insatiable thirst for knowledge.


--v. 2 Often, thirst for or after. crave, desire, hunger for or
after, lust for or after, fancy, hanker for or after, long for,
yearn for, wish for: These men are thirsting for power.

thirsty adj. 1 parched, dry, dehydrated; arid: I need another drink -
I'm really thirsty. The thirsty land welcomes the rain. 2
desirous, hungry, avid, eager, ravenous, voracious, burning,
greedy, avaricious, hankering, yearning, craving, Colloq
itching: The students are thirsty for knowledge and very
hard-working.


thorn n. 1 barb, spine, spike, prickle, bristle, brier, bur or burr,
point, bramble, cocklebur: My sleeve caught on the thorn and
tore. 2 Often, thorn in (one's) side. bother, irritation,
annoyance, nuisance, vexation, torment, torture, scourge,
plague, affliction, irritant, bane, Colloq pain in the neck,
Taboo slang pain in the Brit arse or US ass: His nagging
brother has been a thorn in his side for years.

thorny adj. 1 prickly, barbed, spiny, spiked, brambly, spinous,
Technical spinose, acanthoid, spiculose, spiculate, spinulose,
aciculate, muricate, barbellate, setigerous, setaceous,
setiferous, setose: The insect's feet have tiny thorny
projections. 2 difficult, hard, tough, prickly, nettlesome,
painful, ticklish, delicate, intricate, critical, complex,
complicated, problematic, vexatious, knotty, tangled, involved,
troublesome, controversial, nasty, worrying, Colloq sticky,
Slang hairy: Many thorny questions have vexed us throughout the
ages.

thorough adj. 1 thoroughgoing, complete, downright, perfect,
through-and-through, total, unmitigated, undiluted, unmixed,
unalloyed, out-and-out, unqualified, sheer, utter, arrant,
absolute, proper: I have rarely encountered such thorough
stupidity. 2 exhaustive, extensive, painstaking, meticulous,
assiduous, careful, scrupulous, particular, conscientious,
methodical: Police conducted a thorough search but found
nothing. 3 extensive, exhaustive, detailed, in-depth,
comprehensive, full, complete, all-inclusive, total,
all-embracing, encyclopedic or encyclopaedic, universal, A-to-Z,
Colloq all-out: We need someone who has a thorough knowledge of
the terrain.


thoroughly
adv. 1 completely, downright, perfectly, totally,
unqualifiedly, utterly, absolutely, entirely, extremely,
unreservedly, wholly, fully, positively, definitely, quite: He
is thoroughly stupid, as we all know. 2 carefully,
painstakingly, exhaustively, extensively, assiduously,
sedulously, methodically, conscientiously, scrupulously,
meticulously, intensively, comprehensively, completely,
throughout, from top to bottom, from stem to stern, backwards
and forwards, in every nook and cranny: Police searched
thoroughly again, but could still find no murder weapon.

though conj. 1 although, even though, while, in spite of or despite
the fact that, notwithstanding that, albeit, granted, granting
or conceding that, allowing or admitting that, even if,
supposing: Though it is the right size, I hate the colour.

--adv. 2 however, nonetheless, nevertheless, yet, but, still,
even so, be that as it may, all the same, notwithstanding, for

all that: She lost the original; I kept a copy though.

thought n. 1 thinking, reflection, reflecting, meditation, meditating,
contemplation, contemplating, cogitation, cogitating, musing,
pondering, rumination, ruminating, brooding, mental activity,
mentation, brown study; brainwork, cerebration, deliberation,
deliberating, consideration, considering: She was deep in
thought. The solution may require considerable thought. 2 idea,
notion, brainstorm, observation: I have a thought that I'd like
to share with you. 3 consideration, contemplation, planning,
plan, scheme, design, intention, expectation, hope, prospect,
anticipation, dream, vision: Any thought of taking a few days
off had to be abandoned. 4 thoughtfulness, consideration,
kindliness, kind-heartedness, concern, compassion, tenderness,
kindness, sympathy, attentiveness, regard, solicitude: I don't
need any help, but I appreciate the thought. 5 Often, thoughts.
recollection(s), memory or memories, remembrance(s),
reminiscence(s): Now and then he comforted himself with
thoughts of his happy childhood. 6 intellect, intelligence,
reasoning, rationality, ratiocination, reason: Some believe
that only humans are capable of thought. 7 bit, trifle, touch,
small amount, trace, soup‡on, little, tinge: This champagne is
a thought too sweet.


thoughtful
adj. 1 considerate, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, compassionate,
tender, sympathetic, attentive, solicitous, helpful, charitable:
Wasn't it thoughtful of Simon to offer his help? 2
contemplative, pensive, reflective, musing, in a brown study,
pondering, meditative, engrossed, introspective, rapt, wistful,
brooding, wool-gathering, day-dreaming: Every time I mentioned
Clarissa, he would become thoughtful. 3 prudent, wary,
cautious, mindful, heedful, thinking, attentive, circumspect,
careful, caring: The crew are ever thoughtful of the
passengers' safety.

thoughtless
adj. 1 inconsiderate, rude, impolite, insensitive, tactless,
undiplomatic, untactful, unthinking: It was thoughtless of you
to mention her son, who is serving time for possession of drugs.
2 rash, imprudent, negligent, foolish, stupid, careless,
neglectful, reckless, silly, unthinking, unreflective,
absent-minded, forgetful, remiss, ill-considered, heedless,

inadvertent, inattentive: How thoughtless of me to forget your
birthday!

thrashing n. 1 beating, drubbing, whipping, flogging, assault, caning,
belting, mauling, lashing, trouncing, basting, battering,
pounding, Colloq hiding, tanning, lambasting, hammering,
pasting: Every time he stepped into the ring he got a
thrashing. 2 punishment, chastisement, disciplining,
discipline, castigation: He dreaded the thrashing his father
administered at any sign of disobedience.

thread n. 1 fibre, filament, strand, (piece of) yarn; string, line,
cord, twine: Threads from his jacket were found clutched in the
victim's hand. The glass is spun out into fine threads. 2
theme, plot, story-line, subject, motif, thesis, course, drift,
direction, tenor, train (of thought), sequence or train or chain
of events: It is difficult to follow the thread of the story
when it has so many digressions.


--v. 3 string: Carefully thread the beads onto the wire. 4
file, wind, pass, squeeze (through), pick or make (one's) way
(through), inch, ease: He threaded his way through the crowd to
reach the dais.


threadbare
adj. 1 frayed, worn (out), worn to a frazzle, ragged,
moth-eaten, tattered, tatty, scruffy, shabby, seedy, torn,
wretched, sorry, slovenly: My old winter coat is looking a bit
threadbare. 2 trite, hackneyed, overused, overworked, reworked,
stale, tired, stereotyped, commonplace, clich‚d, clich‚-ridden,
banal, prosaic, dull, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, boring,
played out, Colloq old hat: You'll never make it as a comedian
by relying on that threadbare material of yours.


threat n. 1 intimidation, menace, commination, warning, peril, risk,
danger, Damoclean sword: It is not honesty but the threat of
punishment that deters many from crime. 2 omen, presage,
portent, foreboding, forewarning, intimation: The villagers
lived under a constant threat from the smoking volcano.


threaten v. 1 intimidate, menace, terrorize, daunt, cow, bully,
browbeat, warn, caution: The headmaster threatened those who
misbehaved with the most dire punishment. 2 imperil, put at

risk, endanger, jeopardize, put in jeopardy: All life is
threatened if the environment is not better looked after. 3
impend, loom; augur, portend, presage, forebode: The creatures
crawl into their burrows if danger threatens. The gathering
clouds threatened rain.

threatening
adj. ominous, menacing, portentous, sinister, looming,
inauspicious, minatory, minacious, comminatory, intimidating,
foreboding, imminent, impending: Threatening storm clouds began
to build in the western sky.

threshold n. 1 sill, door-sill, doorstep; doorway, entrance: He stood at
the threshold and peered into the room. 2 brink, verge, edge,
beginning, commencement, outset, start, dawn: The emigrants
were at the threshold of a new life.

thrift n. economy, husbandry, care, carefulness, prudence, parsimony,
frugality, thriftiness, sparingness, scrimping, skimping;
penuriousness, close-fistedness, tight-fistedness,
niggardliness, stinginess, miserliness: Only through our thrift
were we able to save enough for a new car.

thrifty adj. economical, careful, prudent, parsimonious, frugal,
sparing, scrimping, skimping; penurious, close-fisted,
tight-fisted, niggardly, stingy, miserly, penny-pinching, cheap:
He talked about the need to save money and be thrifty in every
way.


thrill n. 1 excitement, titillation, frisson, tingle, tingling
(sensation), stimulation, Colloq kick, bang, charge, buzz:
Victor feels a tremendous thrill when his daughter wins a tennis
match. 2 tremor, quiver, quivering, shudder, shuddering,
tremble, trembling, flutter, throb, throbbing, tremor,
pulsation, vibration: The only warning was a slight thrill in
the earth just before the main quake.

--v. 3 excite, stimulate, animate, electrify, galvanize,
enliven, stir, titillate, touch, strike, move, impassion,
arouse, Slang send, give (someone) a kick: They were thrilled
to discover that they had won an award.

thrilling adj. exciting, stimulating, animating, electrifying,

galvanizing, enlivening, stirring, titillating, striking,
moving, arousing, rousing, gripping, sensational, riveting,
spine-tingling, soul-stirring: Last year's Cup Final was a
thrilling match, with most sides playing their hearts out. I
have never had such thrilling rides at the fun fair.

thrive v. succeed, prosper, boom, advance, flourish, grow, bloom,
burgeon, develop, wax, increase, fructify, ripen: They thrived
in the invigorating mountain air.


throe n. Usually, throes. pang, anguish, struggle, chaos, turmoil,
tumult, paroxysm, spasm, fit, seizure, convulsion, Technical
ictus: She was in the throes of despair at the dreadful news
from home.


throng n. 1 horde, crowd, host, assemblage, assembly, gathering, mass,
crush, jam, multitude, congregation, press, swarm, herd, flock,
bevy, drove: Throngs of people packed the shopping mall on
Saturday.


--v. 2 crowd (into), fill, pack (into), cram (into), crush
(into), jam (into), press (into), swarm (into), herd (into),
flock (into or to); assemble (in or at), gather (in or at), mass
(in or at), congregate (in or at): Thousands thronged the
stadium to watch the tennis matches.

through prep. 1 because of, on account of, owing to, as a consequence
or result of, by virtue of, via, be means of, by way of, with
the aid or help of, under the aegis or auspices of, Sometimes
non-standard due to: It was through his good graces that I got
the appointment. 2 during, throughout, in the course or middle
of: The dog barked all through the night. 3 inclusive of,
including: When I say 'the third through the sixth' I mean
'including the sixth'. 4 to; into: I went through a lot of
trouble to find this book.

--adj. 5 Often, through with. done (with), finished (with); at
the end of one's tether (with), washing (one's) hands (of): Let
me know when you are through. How many times has she sworn she
was through with him forever?

--adv. 6 by, past: I am just passing through. 7 entirely,
through and through, completely, thoroughly, totally, wholly,

utterly, fully, to the core, from head to foot or toe, from top
to bottom, from stem to stern, from one end to the other, in
every way, in all respects: By the time I got home, I was
soaked through.


throughout
prep. 1 during, all (the way) through, from the beginning to
the end of: We worked throughout the day and night. Throughout
his life he felt the need for constant support. 2 everywhere in,
all over, in every part of, in every nook and cranny of, from
one end to the other of: I searched throughout the house for my
keys.

--adv. 3 all (the way) through, everywhere, from one end to the
other, wholly, entirely, completely, fully: They were busy
tidying the house throughout before his mother came to stay.

throw v. 1 toss, cast, hurl, fling, sling, pitch, dash, propel,
project, shy, bowl, send, launch, Colloq chuck: He threw the
ball to the batter with all his might. 2 cast, shed, project:
I was hoping you might throw some light on the subject. Coming
events throw their shadow before them. 3 throw or bring down,
floor, fell, knock down or over, overthrow, upset, overturn: He
threw the vase on the floor. 4 dismay, confound, confuse,
dumbfound or dumfound, baffle, disconcert, unnerve, throw off or
out, unsettle, put off, put (someone) off his or her or their
stride or pace or stroke, Colloq discombobulate: Her frank
questions about my private life really threw me. 5 throw away.
a discard, cast off, dispose of, jettison, get rid of, scrap,
throw out, dispense with, Colloq dump, trash, chuck out, Slang
ditch: He is a hoarder, refusing to throw anything away. b
waste, squander, lose, forgo, fritter away, fail to exploit or
take advantage of, Slang blow: He threw away his last chance
for a decent life when he left her. 6 throw off. a eject,
expel, emit, throw up or out: The volcano throws off rocks
every so often. b shake off, rid or free (oneself) of, get rid
of, reject, renounce, repudiate: He finally managed to throw
off his mother's pernicious influence. c deceive, mislead,
decoy, misguide, misdirect, distract, divert, bewilder,
confound, confuse, Colloq flummox, bamboozle: He doubled back
to throw the dogs off. d See 4, above. 7 throw out. a
radiate, emit, send forth, give out or off, diffuse, put out or
forth, disseminate: The substance throws out a greenish light.

b expel, eject, force out, evict, Colloq Brit turf out, Slang
bounce: Henry was thrown out of the pub for rowdy behaviour. c
See 5 (a), above. d See 6 (a), above. 8 throw over. jilt,
leave, abandon, desert, forsake, break or split up with, Colloq
walk out on, chuck, drop: She was heartbroken when he threw her
over and married her sister. 9 throw up. a vomit, spit up,
puke, spew up, be sick; regurgitate, disgorge, Colloq heave
(up): He felt as if he was going to throw up. b abandon, quit,
leave, throw over, give up, relinquish, resign, renounce, Colloq
chuck: He threw up a perfectly good job to go and live on a
boat. c reveal, bring out or up, bring to the surface or the
top, bring forward or forth, bring to light or to notice: Their
treachery was thrown up in high relief by the events that
followed. d throw or slap or knock together, jerry-build: The
house was thrown up overnight - and it looks like it. e See 6
(a), above.

thrust v. 1 push, shove, drive, force, impel, ram, jam, butt, propel,
prod, urge, press; shoulder, jostle, elbow: A stranger thrust
this note into my hand. She thrust her way through the crowd. 2
stab, plunge, stick, jab, poke; lunge: He thrust the dagger
into the man's back. She thrust at me with an ice pick. 3
Usually, thrust upon. press (upon or on), impose (upon or on),
force (upon or on), urge (upon or on): They were willing to
help, but rather thought the problem had been thrust upon them.

--n. 4 shove, push, drive, lunge, poke, prod, stab: He
depended on his agility to avoid the thrusts of the rapier. 5
propulsion, force, power, energy: The thrust of the photon
engines drives the space ship at nearly the speed of light.

thud n. clunk, thump, whomp, wham, clonk, bump: His head hit the
wall with a thud.


thug n. hooligan, gangster, desperado, gunman, terrorist, hoodlum,
robber, assassin, murderer, killer, cutthroat, ruffian, Mafioso,
(In Paris) apache, tough, mugger, Technical p'hansigar, Brit
rough, Slang tough, hood, crook, hit man, heavy, US goon,
Australian larrikin: Some thugs roughed him up and took his
wallet.

thumb n. 1 Technical pollex. 2 all thumbs. awkward, clumsy,
maladroit, Colloq butter-fingered, ham-fisted, cack-handed: I

am all thumbs when it comes to threading needles. 3 give
(something) the thumbs down or turn thumbs down (on). disapprove
(of), reject, rebuff, turn down: We turned thumbs down to the
idea of a picnic. 4 turn or give thumbs up (to). approve (of),
accept, welcome, Colloq OK or okay: The boss gave thumbs up to
our request for a Christmas party. 5 under (one's) thumb. under
(one's) control, wrapped (a)round (one's) little finger, in the
palm of (one's) hand, eating out of (one's hand), at (one's)
beck and call: She has the directors under her thumb.


--v. 6 hitchhike, Colloq hitch, US hook a ride: They thumbed
their way across the country. 7 Often, thumb through. leaf
(through), flick or flip (through), riffle (through), skim
(through), browse (through): I was thumbing through City Life
and came across your picture, Bernard! 8 thumb (one's) nose at.
scoff at, deride, jeer at, mock, dismiss, scorn, flout, be
contemptuous of, show contempt for, exhibit defiance for, be
defiant of, contemn, Brit cock a snook at: He has thumbed his
nose at authority all his life.


thumbnail adj. rough, undetailed, cursory, sketchy, superficial; brief,
short, quick; compact, concise, pithy, succinct: His poetry is
a chilling, thumbnail sketch of the way we live now.


thumping adj. 1 great, huge, colossal, stupendous, gigantic, enormous,
immense, monumental, massive, titanic, elephantine, behemoth,
gargantuan, mammoth, jumbo, Colloq whopping, thundering,
walloping: That is the biggest thumping beach ball I have ever
seen! That was a thumping lie. 2 complete, utter, unmitigated,
24-carat, perfect: Anyone who would turn down a salary increase
must be a thumping idiot.

thunder n. 1 roll, reverberation, boom, booming, roar, roaring,
pealing, rumble, rumbling; crash, crashing, crack, cracking,
explosion, blast: We were deafened by the thunder of the tanks
crossing the bridge above us.

--v. 2 roll, reverberate, boom, roar, rumble, resound; explode,
crash, crack, blast: The noise of the jets thundered through
the valley. 3 shout, yell, scream, bellow, bark, roar;
denounce, fulminate against, swear (at), rail (at), curse (at),
execrate; threaten, intimidate, menace: 'Fee, fie, foe, fum!'
thundered the giant. No secretary will tolerate his thundering

at her.

thunderous
adj. roaring, booming, thundering, tumultuous, noisy, loud,
ear-splitting, deafening: They took curtain calls to thunderous
applause.

thunderstruck
adj. dumbfounded or dumfounded, astonished, astounded,
awestruck, awed, speechless, struck dumb, amazed, taken aback,
staggered, stunned, shocked, dazed, numb, paralysed, aghast,
open-mouthed, nonplussed, Colloq flabbergasted, floored, bowled
over, Brit knocked for six: We were thunderstruck to learn that
our team had been disqualified.


thus adv. 1 so, in this manner or way or fashion or wise, as
follows, Non-Standard thusly: On receipt of the payment, I
wrote thus to him. 2 therefore, ergo, consequently, as a
consequence, as a result, accordingly, (and) so, then, for this
or that reason, hence, in which case or event, that being the
case, that being so: He has already decided; thus, your efforts
to persuade him are useless.

thwart v. 1 frustrate, impede, check, stymie, baffle, stop, foil,
stump, hinder, obstruct, balk, block, oppose, negate, nullify,
Colloq short-circuit: They have thwarted all our efforts to
become friendly.

--n. 2 brace, cross-brace; (rowing-)seat, bench: These canoes
are fitted with two thwarts.

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tickle v. titillate, delight, please, gratify, amuse, entertain,
divert, captivate, thrill, tickle pink or to death: The show we
saw last night really tickled my fancy. She was tickled to
receive the flowers.


ticklish adj. 1 uncertain, unsteady, unsure, unstable, unsettled,
fickle, touch-and-go, touchy: Power that relies on the sword
has a ticklish basis. 2 delicate, precarious, risky, hazardous,

dangerous, critical, thorny, fragile, awkward: As the canoe
drifted towards the waterfall, we found ourselves in a very
ticklish predicament. 3 delicate, sensitive, hypersensitive,
difficult, touchy, prickly: Cornelia is a bit ticklish on the
subject of her holiday plans.

tidy adj. 1 neat, orderly, trim, shipshape, spruce, spick and span,
clean, well-kept, well-groomed: Change your clothes and come
back when you're tidy. 2 well-organized, organized,
well-ordered, methodical, systematic, trim: They refused to
clean his office till he had made it tidy. 3 respectable,
sizeable, significant, considerable, substantial, good, goodly,
good-sized, ample, large, big, fair, generous, not
insignificant; Colloq not to be sneezed at: They settled a tidy
sum on their daughter when she was married.

--v. 4 Often, tidy up. neaten (up), straighten (out or up),
clean (up), put in order, Colloq fix (up), spruce up, organize,
reorganize, arrange, rearrange: You can't watch television
until you've tidied up your room. Please tidy up the files by
the end of the week.

tie v. 1 bind, fasten, make fast, tie up, lash, secure, truss,
attach, tether, rope, chain, moor; connect, join, knot, link,
couple, splice, unite: He keeps a vicious dog tied to a stake
in his garden. Tie the ends of the rope together. 2 bind, truss
(up), tie up, lash, pinion, restrict, confine, restrain; limit,
tie down, curtail, curb, cramp, hamper, hinder: His hands are
tied behind his back. According to the terms of the agreement,
my hands are tied and I can do nothing. 3 connect, associate,
unite, join, link, bind (up), affiliate, ally, league, team
(up): Our business interests are tied to those of the major
banks. 4 equal, even, be equal or even (with), match, be neck
and neck (with): We tied them for first place. Yesterday, we
were tied for second. 5 tie down. a clinch, secure, confirm,
Colloq nail down: I tied down the PBT contract this morning. b
restrict, restrain, constrain, confine, curtail: He won't marry
because he doesn't want to feel tied down. 6 tie in. a be
consistent, make sense, correspond, coincide, fit (in), be
logical, coordinate: His alibi ties in with the witness's
testimony. b relate, connect, link, associate, coordinate:
They cleverly tie in concern for the environment with their
product. 7 tie up. a occupy, engage, (keep) busy: This affair

will tie me up till Tuesday. b use, take up, encroach on,
impose on: I won't tie up your time any longer. c stop, halt,
bring to a standstill: The traffic was tied up for hours. d
commit, oblige, obligate, bind: We have tied up all their
output for a year. e See 1, above. f See 2, above.

--n. 8 link, fastening, bond, band, connection, tie-up,
relationship, affiliation, liaison, involvement, entanglement:
Isn't there some tie between those two companies? 9 string,
cord, lace, rope, thong, ribbon, band, ligature, shoelace, line,
leash, stop: The tie of her dressing-gown came loose. 10
equality, dead heat, deadlock, draw, stalemate: When there is a
tie, the game ought to go into 'sudden death' overtime. 11
cravat, US necktie: Please put on a tie for dinner. 12 railway
tie, sleeper: Ties in Europe are now made of concrete.

tie-in n. tie-up, relationship, relation, association, connection,
link, linkage: They say that there is a tie-in between smoking
and lung cancer.


tier n. row, line, level, order, range, course, series, stratum,
layer, echelon, file, rank, storey: The trireme is said to have
had three tiers of oarsmen.


tie-up n. 1 US and Canadian slow-down, slow-up, entanglement,
stoppage, jam, log-jam, traffic jam, delay, congestion: The
tie-up was caused by fog on the highway. 2 See tie-in, above.

tiff n. (petty) quarrel, disagreement, misunderstanding, dispute,
argument, difference (of opinion), squabble, bicker, row,
wrangle, US spat: Clare and Geoff have had their first tiff.

tiffin n. luncheon, lunch, light repast, snack: The new arrivals were
to join us for tiffin.


tight adj. 1 secure, firm, fast, fixed, secured, close-fitting, snug,
sealed, hermetically sealed, leak-proof, hermetic, impervious,
impenetrable, impermeable, airtight, watertight, waterproof,:
Make sure that the lid is tight. 2 taut, stretched, tense,
constricting, (too) small, ill-fitting: She was wearing a very
tight dress. 3 strict, binding, restrictive, stringent, severe,
tough, uncompromising, unyielding, rigorous, stern, austere,
autocratic, harsh, hard and fast, inflexible: You can't get

away with anything under such tight regulations. I have a tight
schedule next week. 4 Chiefly nautical taut, (well-)disciplined,
orderly, neat, well-organized, trim, tidy, smart: He runs a
tight ship. 5 stingy, niggardly, mean, penurious, miserly,
parsimonious, penny-pinching, tight-fisted, close-fisted, Colloq
Brit mingy: Glenn is much too tight to buy anyone a drink. 6
close, (almost) even, (highly) competitive, neck and neck,
evenly matched: It is going to be a tight race. 7 difficult,
trying, dangerous, perilous, risky, hazardous, touchy,
problematic, sticky, tricky, ticklish, precarious, touch-and-go:
The strike has created a tight situation at the office. 8
tipsy, drunk, intoxicated, Colloq high, woozy, under the
influence, Brit tiddly: When I saw her, she was too tight to
drive. 9 scarce, scanty, hard to find or come by, rare; dear,
expensive: Entrepreneurs have found investment money to be
pretty tight this year.

--adv. 10 tightly, securely, firmly; closely: Keep this door
closed tight. Hold me tight. Her hands were clasped tight in
prayer. 11 compactly, densely, solidly, firmly, closely: We
were packed so tight in the bus that no one could move.

tighten v. 1 Sometimes, tighten down or up. anchor, fasten, fix, tense,
secure: Tighten those last two screws and you're finished. 2
make tighter or tenser or stronger, strengthen: He tightened
his grip on my hand. 3 Sometimes, tighten up. make more
rigorous or strict or stringent or severe or restrictive, close
gaps in: We ought to tighten security at the warehouse. 4
Sometimes, tighten up. tauten, stiffen, tense, close: I felt
the noose begin to tighten round my neck.

tight-lipped
adj. close-mouthed, silent, quiet, mum, mute, close-lipped,
noncommittal, reticent, secretive, taciturn, unforthcoming,
uncommunicative, reserved: He remained tight-lipped about his
activities during the war.

tightly adv. closely, tensely, vigorously, rigorously: It was a
tightly fought race.


tights n.pl. US and Canadian and New Zealand panty hose, Australian
and US also pantihose: It was much too hot to wear tights.

tillฐ v. plough or US also plow, cultivate, farm, work, dig, hoe,
harrow, manure, Literary delve: My family has tilled this land
for seven generations.


till n. money or cash-drawer, cash-box or register: He insists that
the money was in the till when he left last night.

tilt v. 1 lean, slant, incline, slope, angle, tip, heel over, pitch,
list, cant: She caught the lamp just as the table tilted. 2
tilt at. joust with, compete with, battle against, contend with,
spar with, cross swords with, attack: In tilting at the media,
he has chosen some formidable opponents.

--n. 3 lean, slant, incline, slope, angle, tip, heel, list,
pitch, cant, inclination: The wall is at a perilous tilt and
could easily fall. 4 joust, tourney, tournament, meeting,
tilting, engagement, encounter, match, contest, test, trial,
fight, combat; dispute, argument, difference, quarrel,
altercation, squabble, tiff, US spat, Colloq set-to: I have
enjoyed the various tilts I have had with the editor over the
years.

timber n. 1 trees, forest, woodland: The standing timber has been
seriously depleted in Brazil. 2 wood, beams, boards, planks, US
and Canadian lumber: The timber for our new house arrived
today. 3 material, potential, stuff, character, quality,
talent, prospect: Agatha seems to be good management timber.

timbre n. tone (colour or quality), tonality, colour, resonance:
Kurt's voice has a rich, full timbre.

time n. 1 period, interval, stretch, spell, patch: I was going
through a bad time when we last met. 2 period, interval,
stretch, while, span, space, term, duration: It is a long time
since I have seen you. In the time I took to write this, she had
vanished. 3 hour; point, moment: What time is it? At what time
is our appointment? 4 age, period, epoch, era, lifetime,
heyday, day(s): The novel is set in the time of the Caesars. 5
opportunity, chance, occasion: You must make time to visit your
mother. 6 experience: I had a wonderful time at your party. 7
tempo, beat, rhythm, metre, measure: They are playing 'Teddy
Bears' Picnic' in march time. 8 ease, leisure; convenience:
He'll be there in his own time. 9 Often, times. life, things,

circumstance, conditions, everything, culture, mores, habits,
values: How times have changed since we were young! 10 ahead
of time. (bright and) early, prematurely, beforehand, in good
time: He arrived ahead of time and had to wait. 11 all the
time. always, ever, constantly, continuously, continually,
perpetually, at all times, without surcease, unceasingly:
Mother is after me all the time to do my homework. 12 at one
time. a once, once upon a time, on one occasion, previously, in
days of yore, formerly, heretofore, in the (good) old days: At
one time you thought me beautiful. b simultaneously, (all) at
once, at the same time, together, all together, in unison: The
car can only carry five people at one time. 13 at the same
time. a all the same, nonetheless, yet, even so, but, however,
be that as it may, nevertheless, notwithstanding, just the same:
I love her; at the same time, I cannot live with her. b See 12
(b), above. 14 at times. from time to time, occasionally,
(every) now and then, once in a while, on occasion, every so
often, at intervals, sometimes, Colloq every so often: At
times, Ingrid would come over and cook dinner for me. 15 behind
the times. old-fashioned, outdated, dated, outmoded, antiquated,
pass‚, obsolescent, obsolete, Colloq old hat, dead: Isn't 'The
Lambeth Walk' a bit behind the times? 16 for the time being.
for now, for the present, for the moment, meanwhile,
temporarily, pro tempore, pro tem, Archaic for the nonce: He
has been appointed chairman for the time being. 17 in no time.
at once, forthwith, straightaway, immediately, quickly,
speedily, without delay, swiftly: The pizza we ordered was
delivered in no time. 18 in time. a in timely fashion, early,
in good time, in the nick of time: The doctor arrived in time
to save the baby. b soon, one of these days, sometime, someday,
one day, eventually, sooner or later, anon: In time, people
might be living on the moon. 19 on time. a punctually, on the
dot, in good time: He is never on time for his appointments. b
in instalments, on terms, on account, on credit, Colloq Brit on
the never-never, on hire purchase or h.p.: We bought the car on
time. 20 take (one's) time. dawdle, dilly-dally, shilly-shally,
delay, linger, loiter: He's certainly taking his time with his
report. 21 time and again. again (and again), repeatedly, (over
and) over again, time and time again, time after time,
frequently, often, many times, on many occasions: Time and
again I warned him he'd get a ticket if he parked there.

--v. 22 schedule, set, regulate, control: The trains are timed

to arrive five minutes apart. 23 schedule, set, organize,
adjust, fix: She timed her entrance to coincide exactly with
the crash of the cymbals.


time-honoured
adj. established, traditional, habitual, customary, rooted,
conventional, age-old, set, fixed; venerable, venerated,
respected, revered, honoured: We observed the time-honoured
custom of kissing the Blarney Stone.


timeless adj. eternal, everlasting, immortal, undying, endless,
unending, ceaseless, abiding, deathless, ageless, changeless,
unchanged, immutable, unchanging, permanent, indestructible: He
was enraptured by the timeless beauty of the heavens.


timely adj. punctual, prompt, well-timed, propitious, opportune,
convenient, favourable, auspicious: We welcomed the timely
arrival of our rescuers.


time-serving
adj. self-seeking, self-serving, selfish, self-indulgent,
ambitious, mercenary, venal, greedy, profit-oriented,
fortune-hunting, gold-digging, opportunistic, hypocritical,
obsequious, sycophantic, toadying, toad-eating, boot-licking,
subservient, Colloq on the make, on the take, Slang US out for
numero uno, Taboo slang brown-nosing: Members of the party were
known to be time-serving and untrustworthy.

timetable n. schedule, calendar, curriculum, programme, agenda, Chiefly
Brit diary: My timetable doesn't allow for long lunches.

time-worn adj. ageing, old, tired, worn, time-scarred, decrepit,
dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, run-down, dog-eared,
ragged, moth-eaten, threadbare, seedy, shabby, archaic, antique,
well-worn, worn out, pass‚, broken-down, old-fashioned,
out-dated, dated, antiquated, ancient, obsolescent, obsolete,
stereotyped, stereotypic(al), hackneyed, stale, trite, overused,
Colloq old hat: She went into her time-worn routine about two
living as cheaply as one.


timid adj. shy, retiring, modest, coy, bashful, diffident, timorous,
fearful, apprehensive, mousy, scared, frightened, nervous,
cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, Colloq chicken-hearted, yellow,

yellow-bellied, chicken, chicken-livered, lily-livered, gutless:
I knew this strapping marine when he was a timid little boy.

tinker v. trifle, dabble, meddle, mess (around or about), toy, fool or
play (around or about), Brit potter or US putter (about or
around), Colloq fiddle or monkey or muck (about or around):
Graham has always enjoyed tinkering with engines.

tinny adj. 1 shabby, flimsy, flimsily or poorly made, shoddy,
inferior, cheap, tawdry: He bought himself a tinny old
rattletrap of a car. 2 metallic, harsh, twangy: She plays that
tinny old trumpet day and night.

tint n. 1 tincture, wash, hue, colour, cast; tinge, touch, hint,
trace, dash, colouring, shade, tone, suggestion: In the west a
tint of pink lingered in the sky. I thought I detected a tint of
anger in his voice. 2 dye, rinse, wash, stain, tincture,
colourant, colouring, touch-up: What's the harm in granny's
using blue hair tint?


--v. 3 dye, stain, colour, rinse, tinge, touch up: Sandra
tints her hair to give it a coppery sheen. 4 tinge, colour,
influence, affect, taint, stain: A deep pessimism tints all his
writing.


tiny adj. microscopic, infinitesimal, minute, minuscule, diminutive,
wee, small, little, miniature, micro, mini, pocket,
pocket-sized, bantam, pygmy or pigmy, midget, Lilliputian,
petite, delicate, dainty, elfin, slight, insignificant,
negligible, trifling, paltry, inconsequential, puny, Colloq
pint-sized, teeny, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy, itty-bitty,
itsy-bitsy: She wore the tiniest bikini I had ever seen. When I
saw them together I realized how tiny she is. Forgetting my
birthday was only a tiny thing.


tipฐ n. 1 end, extremity, peak, apex, summit, vertex, cap, top,
pinnacle, tiptop, crown, head, terminal, ferrule or ferule,
finial, nib or neb, point: The tip of the mountain showed above
the clouds. He broke off the tip of the billiard cue.


--v. 2 top, cap, crown, surmount: The foil is tipped with a
rubber button to prevent injury.

tip v. 1 Often, tip over. upset, overthrow, knock or cast or throw
down, up-end, knock over, overturn, topple (over), capsize: His
elbow tipped the lamp, which fell with a crash. 2 slant, lean,
incline, slant, tilt, cant: The statue is tipped a bit off the
vertical. 3 empty, unload, dump, deposit, Slang Brit ditch:
They tipped their load of gravel all over my driveway.

--n. 4 (rubbish or US garbage) dump, rubbish or refuse or trash
heap, dumping-ground: This old chair belongs in the tip.


tipฐ n. 1 gratuity, baksheesh, pourboire, douceur, lagniappe or
lagnappe, present, gift, Colloq little something: That waiter
didn't deserve a tip. 2 tip-off, (inside) information, warning,
advice, suggestion, clue, hint, pointer, forecast, prediction,
Colloq Brit gen: Louie had a tip that the police were coming.
Her tip was 'Flapdoodle' to win the fifth race.

--v. 3 reward: Why did you tip the barmaid? 4 Usually, tip
off. advise, warn, caution, alert, forewarn, notify, let
(someone) know, Colloq let (someone) in on: The thieves were
tipped off and never arrived.

tirade n. declamation, harangue, diatribe, philippic, outburst,
onslaught, screed, jeremiad, denunciation, stream of abuse,
invective: He let loose with such a vituperative tirade that I
walked out.

tire v. 1 weary, tire out, fatigue, exhaust, wear out, drain, sap,
enervate, drain, wear out, debilitate, weaken, Colloq take it
out of, fag (out), take it out of: The long climb tired me. 2
bore, exasperate, weary, irk, irritate, annoy, bother: I wish
you wouldn't tire me with your accounts of your shopping
expeditions.


tired adj. 1 exhausted, tired out, worn out, weary, fatigued, spent,
drained, Colloq all in, (dead) beat, knocked out, fagged (out),
dog-tired, ready to drop, dead tired, done in, Brit knackered,
whacked, US bushed, pooped, wiped out: I was really tired after
that ten-hour flight. 2 Usually, tired of. bored with,
exasperated by, weary of, irked or irritated or annoyed or
bothered by, sick (and tired) of, Colloq fed up (to here) with:
Perhaps she's tired of your constant nagging. 3 overworked,
overused, clich‚d, stereotyped, stereotypic(al), hackneyed,

unimaginative, trite, stale, worn out, unoriginal, commonplace,
Colloq bromidic: The gossip columns are filled with the same
old tired rubbish day after day.


tireless adj. energetic, vital, vigorous, dynamic, spirited, lively,
indefatigable, hardworking, industrious, untiring, unflagging,
unfaltering, unfailing, persistent, dogged, tenacious,
pertinacious, persevering, staunch, sedulous, unwavering,
unswerving, undeviating, steady, steadfast, resolute,
determined: We all appreciate the honorary secretary's tireless
efforts on behalf of our fund-raising this year.

tiresome adj. 1 boring, dull, fatiguing, humdrum, monotonous, flat,
tedious, wearisome, tiring, uninteresting, insipid, bland,
dry-as-dust, fatiguing, soporific, hypnotic: Ibsen wrote plays
that actors love and audiences find tiresome. 2 irritating,
irksome, vexing, vexatious, annoying, bothersome, exasperating,
trying, disagreeable, troublesome, unpleasant: I wish she would
take her tiresome problems elsewhere.


tissue n. fabric, network, web, interweaving, combination, chain,
series, accumulation, conglomeration, concatenation, pile, mass,
pack: Their entire testimony was a tissue of lies.


titbit n. delicacy, (dainty) morsel, treat, choice item, bonne bouche,
US tidbit, Colloq goody: Sally likes to steal little titbits
off my plate. I heard a juicy titbit of gossip this morning.

title n. 1 name: You cannot tell much from a book's title. 2
designation, appellation, epithet: Aubrey is now an earl, but
he rarely uses his title. 3 caption, inscription, headline,
head, subtitle, legend, subhead, rubric: The title on this
picture has nothing to do with its subject. 4 championship,
crown: He holds the world heavyweight boxing title. 5 right,
interest, privilege, entitlement, ownership, possession, tenure;
(title-)deed, documentation of ownership: My aunt has sole
title to these lands.

--v. 6 name, call, designate, style, label, term, entitle,
christen, baptize, nickname, denominate, tag, dub: Harold was
titled King of the Revels.

titter v. 1 chuckle, snicker, chortle, giggle; snigger: He told the

most awful jokes at which his staff would titter politely.

--n. 2 chuckle, snicker, giggle, (suppressed) laughter,
chortle, snigger: A titter ran through the audience.


titular adj. nominal, so-called, so-designated, so-styled, self-styled,
soi-disant, token, putative, theoretical: He may be the titular
head of the company, but his brother is really the boss.


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toast n. 1 tribute, pledge, salutation(s), greeting(s),
felicitations, honour, good wishes, appreciation,
remembrance(s), cheers: The speaker proposed a toast to the
editor-in-chief. 2 heroine, hero, favourite, darling, idol:
Jenny was the toast of the town.


--v. 3 pay tribute to, salute, drink to, honour, greet,
congratulate, felicitate: We toasted our fallen comrades.

toilet n. 1 (water) closet, WC, men's (room), ladies' (room), (public)
convenience, facility or facilities, washroom, bathroom,
lavatory, privy, outhouse, urinal, (in France) pissoir,
vespasienne; Nautical head, Chiefly military latrine, Chiefly US
rest room, New England necessary, Colloq the Gents, the
Ladies('), powder-room, little girls' room, little boys' room,
Brit loo, smallest room (in the house), Military ablutions,
Slang Brit bog, karzy, US and Canadian john, can, crapper: They
excused themselves to go to the toilet. 2 Formal or literary
grooming, dressing, making up, Brit toilette: She was still at
her toilet when we arrived.


toilsome adj. arduous, laborious, tough, hard, difficult, strenuous,
burdensome, onerous, back-breaking, exhausting, fatiguing,
tiring, enervating, wearying, draining: After a toilsome ascent
we finally reached the first camp.


token n. 1 coin, disc: You need to buy a token to get through the
turnstile. 2 symbol, sign, mark, marker, badge, emblem,
indication, proof, evidence: The purple trim on a Roman toga
was a token of its wearer's elevated status. 3 souvenir,

memento, keepsake, reminder, remembrance, Archaic remembrancer:
The miniature Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower are tokens of
our trips abroad.


--adj. 4 symbolic, emblematic, representative: The panel was
made up of three men and a token woman. 5 superficial,
cosmetic, surface, perfunctory, minimal, slight, nominal: We
encountered only token resistance when taking over the
communications centre.


tolerable adj. 1 bearable, supportable, allowable, endurable, acceptable,
sufferable: The heat and humidity are barely tolerable. 2
acceptable, unexceptional, common, fair, common-or-garden
variety, middling, ordinary, average, so so, mediocre, adequate,
run-of-the-mill, passable, indifferent, Colloq OK or okay, not
(too) bad, pretty or fairly good: They serve a tolerable lunch
in the hotel bar.

tolerance n. 1 open-mindedness, toleration, forbearance,
broad-mindedness, permissiveness, magnanimity, indulgence,
sufferance, patience, freedom from bigotry or prejudice: You
must exercise more tolerance in dealing with people who are
poorer than you. 2 play, clearance, allowance, variation: The
tolerance between these parts is less than a ten-thousandth of a
millimetre. 3 toleration, resistance, endurance, imperviousness;
immunity, insensitivity: His tolerance of the outrages of
stupidity seems limitless. She has a low tolerance for sugar.

tolerant adj. open-minded, objective, forbearing, unprejudiced,
unbigoted, dispassionate, broad-minded, indulgent, magnanimous,
patient, generous, charitable, catholic, latitudinarian,
permissive, liberal, big-hearted, fair, even-handed,
considerate: I am more tolerant of people than of their ideas.


tolerate v. 1 stand (for), allow, permit, bear, suffer, brook,
countenance, abide, admit, indulge, concede, sanction, swallow,
stomach, turn a blind eye to, Colloq put up with, Brit stick:
The teacher refused to tolerate any more misbehaviour. 2 bear,
stand, submit to, endure, weather, take, accept, undergo: Tests
show that the product can tolerate considerable wear and tear.

tollฐ v. 1 ring, peal, chime, strike, sound: The clock tower bell
tolled three.


--n. 2 ring, ringing, peal, pealing, chime, chiming, striking,
sound, sounding, tolling, knell: Each toll of the bell marked
the death of another victim.


toll n. 1 charge, fee, dues, assessment, tariff; excise, duty,
impost, levy, tribute: New motorways will be funded by means of
a toll on traffic using them. 2 loss, penalty, cost, damage(s);
exaction: The death toll from the earthquake reached 50,000.


tomb n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, mausoleum, grave, catacomb,
burial-chamber, final or last resting-place: Every year his
tomb is visited by a mysterious woman in black.


tombstone n. gravestone, headstone, marker, monument, cenotaph: The
tombstones in the military cemetery stood in serried ranks.

tone n. 1 sound, note: Odd tones emanated from the electronic
music-maker. 2 stress, emphasis, force, accent, intonation,
modulation, phrasing, inflection, pitch, tonality, timbre, sound
(colour), tone colour or quality, colour or colouring,
resonance, sonorousness, sonority, fullness, richness: The tone
of his voice is extraordinarily melodic. 3 manner, style,
attitude, air, aspect, approach, note, tenor, tone of voice,
mode of expression, temper, vein, spirit, air: Do not take that
imperious tone with me! 4 tint, tinge, shade, hue, colour,
colouring, cast: The fabric has a silvery tone that makes it
shimmer.


--v. 5 tone down. temper, modify, reduce, moderate, modulate,
soften, quiet(en), dampen, dull, subdue, mute, soft-pedal:
Please tone down your voice or the neighbours will hear you. 6
tone up. (re)invigorate, tune (up), brighten (up), (re)vitalize,
freshen (up), limber up, get into condition or shape: I really
have to tone up my body before I put on a swimsuit this summer.

tongue n. 1 language, speech; dialect, patois,Creole, idiom, parlance,
argot, talk, vernacular, fa‡on de parler: The people in that
area speak a strange tongue. 2 (verbal) expression, utterance,
voice, articulation: Michael is reluctant to give tongue to his
real feelings. 3 hold (one's) tongue. be or remain or keep
silent, keep mum, say nothing or nought, not breathe a word,
keep (one's) counsel, not say a word, Slang shut up: Hold your

tongue till you are spoken to! 4 slip of the tongue. slip,
mistake, gaffe, blunder, faux pas, Freudian slip, Colloq Brit
boob: Saying 'bald' when I meant 'bold' was a slip of the
tongue. 5 (with (one's)) tongue in (one's) cheek. facetiously,
whimsically, ironically, jocularly, jokingly, not seriously, in
jest, jestingly, in fun, to be funny, Colloq kiddingly: As he
is my older brother, I call him 'Dad' with tongue in cheek, of
course.


tongue-lashing
n. scolding, berating, reproof, rebuke, reprimand; (verbal)
abuse, castigation, chastisement, vituperation, revilement,
Colloq dressing-down, telling-off, talking-to, Brit slating,
ticking-off, wigging: For all his efforts to please, he only
got a tongue-lashing for interfering.

tongue-tied
adj. speechless, at a loss for words, struck dumb, dumbfounded
or dumfounded, mute, inarticulate: I was so nervous when the
Prince of Wales spoke to me that I got tongue-tied.

tonic n. 1 stimulant, restorative, invigorant, boost, refresher;
Obsolete or literary ptisan or tisane, Technical roborant,
analeptic, Colloq bracer, pick-me-up, pick-up, shot in the arm,
US picker-upper: His father made his money selling snake-oil
tonic.

--adj. 2 stimulant, stimulating, restorative, invigorating,
fortifying, bracing, strengthening, reviving, enlivening,
refreshing, Technical analeptic, roborant: Seeing Maddie and
Max again had a tonic effect.

tool n. 1 utensil, implement, instrument, device, apparatus,
appliance, contrivance, aid, machine, mechanism, gadget, Colloq
contraption, gimmick, Chiefly US and Canadian gismo or gizmo:
The work would go faster if you had the proper tools. 2 means,
way, agency, weapon, medium, vehicle, instrumentality, avenue,
road: Education is the tool you need to get anywhere in life.
3 puppet, cat's-paw, pawn, dupe, Slang stooge, sucker: I had
been used merely as a tool in her ambitious rise to the top.

--v. 4 work, carve, cut, embellish, decorate, ornament, dress,
shape: This is the shop where the leather is tooled and

gold-stamped.

top n. 1 summit, apex, peak, acme, crest, head, pinnacle, vertex,
zenith, meridian, crown, culmination, high point, height,
apogee: They reached the top of the mountain at dawn. For a
change, I should like to be at the top looking down. Samantha
remains at the top of her profession. 2 lid, cover, cap,
covering, stopper, cork: Put the top back on the bottle when
you're through.


--v. 3 surpass, better, best, outstrip, exceed, outdo, excel,
beat, transcend: It would be impossible to top some of his
achievements. 4 surmount, cover, cap, crown, tip; finish,
complete, garnish: The entire concoction was topped by a
maraschino cherry. 5 trim, crop, lop or cut off, clip, prune,
nip, pinch (back): All the trees in this area have been topped
to let in more sunlight. 6 scale, climb, ascend, surmount: The
party topped Annapurna the next day. 7 top up. fill (up),
refresh, refill, replenish, US freshen (up): He asked the
barman to top up our drinks.

--adj. 8 best, greatest, foremost, leading, pre-eminent,
eminent, first, first-rate, principal, prime, finest, choicest,
topmost; excellent, superior, superb, top-drawer, top-grade,
top-notch, supreme, peerless, unequalled, incomparable, Colloq
crack, ace, A-1 or A-one: Is he the top man in his field? She
is a top economics adviser to the government. 9 uppermost,
topmost, highest: The top fruit is the best.


topic n. subject(-matter), matter, issue, question, point, thesis,
theme, text, keynote, field or area of study or of inquiry: We
need to decide on a topic for tonight's discussion.

topical adj. 1 contemporary, current, up to date, timely: Drug
addiction is certainly a topical subject. 2 local, superficial:
For a minor injury we give a topical, not a general anaesthetic.

topple v. 1 upset, up-end, knock down or over, bring down, fell,
capsize, collapse: Scores of buildings were toppled by the
tornado. 2 bring or throw down, overthrow, defeat, vanquish,
overcome, overturn, unseat, oust: The leaders of the coup
succeeded in toppling the government in a week. 3 fall (over or
down), drop, collapse, keel over, tumble down: Seven guardsmen

toppled over because of the heat on the parade ground.

topsy-turvy
adj. 1 upside down, wrong side up, head over heels, inverted,
reversed, backwards, vice versa: The children were wearing
their pyjamas topsy-turvy. 2 chaotic, muddled, jumbled,
disorderly, disordered, disorganized, confused, mixed-up, messy,
untidy, in a muddle, higgledy-piggledy, Colloq arsy-versy, every
which way: The room was completely topsy-turvy and it was
impossible to find anything.

torment v. 1 torture, abuse, maltreat, mistreat, distress, agonize,
excruciate, crucify, harrow, rack, pain: Hunger tormented his
weary body. 2 worry, trouble, plague, annoy, bedevil, vex,
harry, badger, hector, harass, pester, nag, persecute, needle,
nettle, irk, irritate, bother, torture, afflict, Brit chivvy or
chivy or chevy: I was tormented by the suspicion that something
was wrong.


--n. 3 agony, wretchedness, anguish, distress, misery, pain,
woe, painfulness, torture, suffering, curse, hell: How can
parents endure the torment of losing a child? 4 worry,
vexation, annoyance, harassment, ordeal, persecution, needling,
nuisance, bane, irritation, bother, affliction, scourge,
torture: For yet another day I had to suffer the torment of
their company.

torpid adj. sluggish, slow, slow-moving, slow-paced, tortoise-like,
lethargic, apathetic, indolent, passive, slothful, dull,
stupefied, sleepy, somnolent, inactive, inert, languid,
languorous, phlegmatic, spiritless, lifeless, listless,
fain‚ant, lackadaisical, pococurante, indifferent, uncaring,
unconcerned, insouciant: Johnson said that it is a man's own
fault if his mind grows torpid in old age.


torpor n. sluggishness, sloth, lethargy, apathy, indolence, passivity,
slothfulness, dullness, stupefaction, drowsiness, sleepiness,
somnolence, inactivity, inertia, inertness, languor, laziness,
phlegm, lifelessness, listlessness, idleness, fain‚ance,
pococurantism, indifference, unconcern, insouciance: The heat
produced a certain torpor in all of us.

torrent n. stream, rush, flood, deluge, effusion, gushing, outburst,

outpouring, spate, inundation, flow, overflow, tide, cascade:
In minutes the brook became a rushing torrent. They assailed us
with a torrent of abuse.


torrential
adj. rushing, streaming, copious, profuse, teeming, relentless,
violent; fierce, vehement, vociferous, ferocious: The
torrential monsoons inundated the land. I had never heard such a
torrential outpouring of oaths.


torrid adj. 1 hot, fiery, sultry, stifling, sweltering, broiling,
sizzling, roasting, blazing, burning, baking, cooking, boiling,
blistering, blistery, scorching, scorched, parched, parching,
arid; humid, steamy, steaming, muggy; tropical: It seemed
impossible that any creature could survive in such a torrid
climate. 2 fervent, fervid, passionate, intense, ardent,
inflamed, impassioned, lustful, amorous, erotic, Colloq sexy,
hot: The film was noted for its torrid love scenes.


tortuous adj. 1 twisted, twisting, winding, wandering, serpentine,
turning, crooked, sinuous, bent, curled, curling, curved, curvy,
curvilinear, flexuous, anfractuous, convoluted, involuted,
zigzag, maze-like, mazy, labyrinthine: They followed a tortuous
trail through the jungle. 2 roundabout, indirect, devious,
intricate, involved, unstraightforward, complicated, ambiguous,
ambagious, circuitous, warped, crooked, tricky, misleading,
deceptive: We could not help being intrigued by the tortuous
Machiavellianism of the scheme.


toss v. 1 throw, cast, lob, pitch, fling, hurl, heave, shy, launch,
send, let fly, propel, catapult, sling, bowl, Colloq chuck: The
goalkeeper tossed the ball into the middle of the field. 2
shake, jerk, stir up, agitate, fling: Lucy disdainfully tossed
her head. 3 shake (up), stir (up), agitate, jiggle, tumble,
joggle; wave, lash, thrash: Don't you put the dressing on
before you toss the salad? The branches of the huge oak were
being tossed about in the storm. 4 writhe, wriggle, squirm, toss
and turn, thrash: I tossed all night, unable to get a moment's
sleep. 5 pitch, yaw, wallow, roll, lurch, undulate, plunge:
Our little boat was tossed this way and that in the heavy seas.

--n. 6 throw, lob, pitch, heave, shy: His toss went wild and
the ball rolled over the cliff.


tot n. child, toddler, infant, baby: Can you recall when you were
a tiny tot?


total n. 1 sum (total), totality, aggregate, whole, amount, total
number: The total of wounded came to only fifteen.

--adj. 2 whole, entire, complete, full, gross, overall,
comprehensive: Total rainfall in that area is only three inches
per annum. 3 complete, unalloyed, unmitigated, unqualified,
unconditional, utter, out-and-out, thorough, thoroughgoing,
perfect, outright, downright, all-out, absolute: My son is a
total failure in everything he attempts.


--v. 4 add (up), tot up, sum up, reckon, compute: Please total
my bill. 5 amount to, add up to, come to, mount up to: The
bill totals twice the amount I paid yesterday.

totalitarian
adj. absolute, absolutist, arbitrary, authoritarian,
autocratic, dictatorial, Fascist(ic), undemocratic, illiberal,
monolithic, Nazi, oppressive, despotic, tyrannical: Sooner or
later, totalitarian governments get overthrown.


totality n. total, aggregate, sum (total), whole, entirety, beginning
and end, alpha and omega, be-all and end-all: The totality of
his interests lies in watching soap operas on TV.

totally adv. completely, utterly, entirely, fully, unqualifiedly,
unconditionally, perfectly, absolutely, thoroughly, wholly,
consummately: We then decided on a totally different approach.
The weather was totally awful.

totter v. waver, topple, falter, tremble, teeter, sway, rock, stagger,
stumble, wobble, quiver, shake, quake, shiver, dodder: He
seemed to totter a bit as he left the pub.

touch v. 1 put (one's) hand on, feel, handle: She leant forward and
touched my hand. 2 bring into contact with, apply, put, set:
He touched a match to the fuse and ran. 3 Sometimes, touch (up)
against. be in contact (with), border, adjoin, meet, come up or
be (up) against, push or press or lean (up) against, brush or
rub (up) against, come or be together, abut: The ladder is

touching the freshly painted wall. 4 lay a hand or finger on;
meddle with, have to do with, interfere with, come near,
approach: If you touch me, I'll scream. 5 drink, eat, consume,
partake of, take, use, taste, have to do with: He swore that he
would never touch alcohol again. 6 affect, impress, influence,
disturb, move, stir, arouse, excite, impassion, stimulate,
strike, Colloq get to: We were touched by your sympathetic
note. 7 rival, match, equal, compare with, come up to, be on a
par with, be a match for, be in the same league or class as or
with, be on an equal footing with, reach, come or get near or
close to, hold a candle to, measure up to or against, Colloq US
stack up to or with or against: No other car can touch our new
model for speed and safety. 8 Usually, touch on or upon. refer
to, have reference to, pertain to, relate to, have a bearing on,
regard, mention, allude to, speak or write of, tell of, bring up
or in, raise, deal with, cover: I must now touch upon a
delicate matter. 9 have access to, access, use, employ, make
use of, put to use, avail (oneself) of, take, get, take
advantage of: I do not touch the principal, but try to live off
the interest. 10 touch down. land, alight, come to earth: We
touched down for fuel at Gander, Newfoundland. 11 touch off. a
detonate, spark (off), set alight, set off, ignite, light, fire,
put a match to: We touched off the gunpowder and blew up the
arsenal. b instigate, initiate, begin, start, set in motion,
ignite, set off, trigger, provoke, foment, cause, give rise to:
Her offhand remark touched off a family row that lasted for
years. 12 touch up. retouch, patch up; beautify, enhance,
titivate, renovate, spruce up: She said that the painting had
recently been touched up. Mandy is upstairs touching up her
make-up.

--n. 13 feeling, feel, texture: She wants nothing but the
touch of silk next to her body. 14 pat, tap, blow, hit, stroke,
brush, caress: She hated him so much that she cringed at the
touch of his hand. 15 dash, hint, intimation, suggestion,
soup‡on, bit, intimation, pinch, jot, spot, trace, tinge, taste,
suspicion, smattering, colouring, smack, speck, drop, whiff,
odour, scent, smell: Cynthia has a touch of hypocrisy about
her. The salad dressing could use a touch more garlic. 16
ability, deftness, expertise, dexterity, adroitness, facility,
skill, skilfulness, knack, capability, genius, talent, gift,
flair: Richard has a master's touch in everything he does. 17
response, feel, responsiveness, feeling, movement, operation,

performance level: This piano action has an excellent touch.
18 signature, trade mark, characteristic, influence, approach,
style, manner, technique, execution, method: I thought I
recognized your touch in the furniture selection. A woman's
touch might have helped.

touching adj. moving, stirring, emotional, tender, poignant, pathetic,
soul-stirring, heart-rending, heart-breaking, sad, pitiful,
distressing, distressful: The most touching scene is the one
where the boy meets his father for the first time.

touchstone
n. standard, yardstick, criterion, reference, benchmark, test,
norm, measure: His craftsmanship is the touchstone by which the
others are judged.

touchy adj. 1 (over-)sensitive, supersensitive, hypersensitive,
highly-strung, tense, thin-skinned, crabby, crabbed, testy,
irascible, irritable, tetchy, temperamental, grouchy, peevish,
querulous, petulant, pettish, splenetic, captious, bad-tempered,
short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, crusty, cross,
curmudgeonly, cantankerous, choleric, dyspeptic, waspish,
bearish, snarling, snappish, argumentative, disputatious,
contentious, US high-strung, cranky: She is very touchy on the
subject of her family. He's always touchy in the morning. 2
critical, touch-and-go, sensitive, ticklish, risky, precarious,
hazardous, chancy, unsure, uncertain, close, hairbreadth,
dangerous, hair-raising, frightening, terrifying, nerve-racking
or nerve-wracking, Jocular parlous, Colloq hairy: There was a
touchy moment when the fuel leaked into the astronauts' cabin.

tough adj. 1 hard, firm, durable, long-lasting, wear-resistant,
substantial, strong, stout, rugged, sturdy, sound, well-built:
Only one kind of material is tough enough to endure such
conditions for so long. 2 stiff, hard, leathery, inflexible,
chewy, fibrous, cartilaginous, sinewy, ropy, wiry, stringy:
That steak was as tough as shoe-leather. 3 strong, stalwart,
brawny, burly, muscular, powerful, virile, manly, sturdy,
doughty, intrepid, stout, rough, vigorous, strapping, athletic:
Two tough-looking characters moved towards us, so we left. 4
difficult, demanding, exacting, hard, troublesome; laborious,
taxing, strenuous: We deal with tough complaints every day.
It's a tough job. 5 baffling, thorny, puzzling, perplexing,

mystifying, knotty, irksome, difficult: The examiners asked us
some very tough questions. 6 stubborn, hardened, inured,
obstinate, obdurate, hard, harsh, severe, stern, inflexible,
refractory, intractable, adamant, unyielding, ungiving, rigid,
unbending, unsentimental, unfeeling, unsympathetic, callous,
hard-boiled, uncaring, cold, cool, icy, stony, Colloq
hard-nosed: He's a tough man to work for, but he's fair.

--interj. 7 Colloq Too bad!, Tough luck!, Hard luck!, Brit Hard
cheese!, Slang Tough titty!, Taboo slang Tough shit!: When I
told him that my money had been stolen, he said 'Tough!'

--n. 8 bruiser, hooligan, bully (boy), rowdy, thug, ruffian,
Colloq roughneck, bruiser, tough guy, gorilla: A couple of
toughs who had been threatening the cashier disappeared when
they saw our uniforms.

tour n. 1 journey, trip, excursion, outing, expedition, voyage,
trek, peregrination, jaunt, junket: We went on a guided tour
because we were short of time and wanted to see everything. 2
stroll, perambulation, walkabout, ramble, walk, drive; round,
circuit, ambit: The government representatives are on a tour of
all nuclear facilities. 3 spell, shift, assignment, turn,
Military period of service or enlistment: His tour of duty is
not finished till midnight.

--v. 4 journey, travel, voyage, visit, trip, trek, sightsee,
cruise; Colloq globe-trot: On retirement we spent a year just
touring around Europe.


tourist n. traveller, voyager, visitor, sightseer, Colloq
rubberneck(er), out-of-towner, Brit tripper, day-tripper,
holiday-maker: During the summer, this place is inundated with
tourists.


tournament
n. tourney, competition, contest, match, meeting, event, meet:
The tennis tournament was delayed by rain.


tousle v. dishevel, disorder, ruffle, disarrange, tangle (up), mess
(up), rumple, disarray, US muss (up): Her hair was all tousled
by the wind.

tout v. 1 hawk, peddle, sell, promote, talk up, Colloq push, plug:
They tout these new headache tablets as miraculous.

--n. 2 tipster: He is often seen with racetrack touts.


tow v. pull, drag, draw, haul, lug, trail, tug, trawl: The boat
was towing a long purse seine. I arrived just as the police were
towing away my car.


towards prep. 1 toward, in the direction of, to; for, so as to approach
or near, on the way or road to: She turned towards me. I'd
appreciate a lift if you're going towards Aston Clinton. 2
toward, to, for, as a help to, supporting, promoting, assisting:
We welcome any contribution towards the charitable works of our
order. 3 toward, near, nearing, close to, approaching, shortly
before: Towards the close of day, the cattle wander back to the
barns.

tower n. 1 bell-tower, campanile, minaret, pagoda, obelisk; belfry,
spire, turret, steeple, flŠche: There was a time when the
church tower was the tallest building in the town. 2 fortress,
citadel, stronghold, castle, fastness; keep, dungeon, prison:
The princess was imprisoned in the tower for a year and a day.


--v. 3 Often, tower over or above. loom, soar, rise, ascend,
rear: These ugly high-rise buildings tower over everything,
blocking out the sun.

towering adj. 1 lofty, tall, high, soaring, outstanding, elevated,
sky-scraping, sky-high, great, impressive, imposing, huge,
gigantic, supreme, superior, paramount, extraordinary,
unmatched, unequally, unrivalled, unparalleled, unsurpassed:
The towering American economy dominated the world for decades
after World War II. 2 violent, fiery, burning, passionate,
excessive, vehement, intense, consuming, mighty, overwhelming,
unrestrained, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, extreme,
colossal, enormous: Every time she mentioned Valentino, he went
into a towering rage.


town n. township, village, hamlet, community; municipality, city,
metropolis, borough, burgh: She was born in Stornoway, a small
town in the Outer Hebrides. We have to drive into the town to
do our shopping.


toy n. 1 plaything: Whenever he visited, Uncle Jed brought toys
for the children. 2 trifle, trinket, bauble, gewgaw, gimcrack,
knick-knack, bagatelle, kickshaw, bit of frippery: After
marrying her, he treated her as a rich man's toy.

--v. 3 Usually, toy with. trifle (with), dally (with), play
(with), sport (with), fool (with), fiddle (with), tinker (with):
He kept toying with his watch chain. 4 Usually, toy with. flirt
(with), dally (with), dilly-dally (with), play (with), deal with
carelessly, amuse oneself with: The cad was only toying with
her affections.

--adj. 5 miniature, tiny, diminutive, small, dwarf: She breeds
toy poodles. 6 imitation, fake, phoney or US also phony,
simulated, artificial: This is only a toy watch and doesn't
work.

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trace n. 1 hint, intimation, sign, token, suggestion, touch, vestige,
indication, mark, record, evidence, clue: There wasn't any
trace of the intruders. 2 bit, spot, speck, jot, drop, dash,
suspicion, remnant, tinge, soup‡on, iota, whiff, suggestion,
trifle: The traces of mud on the suspect's shoes proved he had
been there. 3 Often, traces. track(s), trail, spoor,
footprint(s), print(s), footmark(s): They were following the
traces of a buffalo.

--v. 4 dog, pursue, follow (in the footsteps of), stalk, track
(down), shadow, trail, Colloq tail: We traced him to a seedy
hotel in Caracas. 5 investigate, discover, ascertain, detect,
determine, find, seek, search for, hunt down or up, unearth,
track: Have you traced her whereabouts? I am able to trace my
ancestry back to the time of the First Crusade. 6 delineate,
outline, copy, draw, map, chart, mark (out), record, reproduce,
sketch: We traced Marco Polo's route to China and back.


track n. 1 line, rail(s), way, railway, US railroad: New track was
laid between London and Manchester. 2 path, trail, route,
footpath, course, road, street, alley: A rough track leads over

Sty Head Pass. Are you sure you're on the right track? 3 spoor,
trail, footprint(s), print(s), trace(s), footmark(s), scent,
slot, wake: The last time I saw him he was following the track
of a yeti. 4 keep track of. trace, track, keep an eye on,
follow, pursue, monitor, supervise, oversee, keep up with or on,
watch, keep a record of or on, record: Using an electronic tag,
we were able to keep track of the animal's movements. 5 lose
track of. lose, misplace, mislay, lose sight of, forget: She
lost track of some important papers. I lost track of what I was
saying.

--v. 6 follow, dog, pursue, trace, stalk, shadow, trail, hunt
down, chase, Colloq tail: She was tracked to Istanbul, where
they lost her. 7 See 4, above. 8 track down. find, seek out,
ferret out, hunt down, trace, catch, apprehend, capture, smell
or sniff out, run to earth or ground, Colloq run down: We
finally tracked him down at his mother's house in Putney.

trackless adj. empty, pathless, untrodden, unexplored, uncharted, virgin,
untrod: We found ourselves in the trackless wilderness of
central Australia.

tractฐ n. region, area, stretch, territory, expanse, zone, portion,
section, sector, quarter, district, patch, plot, parcel, US lot:
The developers own a tract of land where they plan to build a
shopping mall.

tract n. treatise, monograph, essay, article, paper, dissertation,
disquisition, homily, sermon, critique; pamphlet, booklet,
brochure, leaflet: Daphne was distributing tracts to passers-by
in front of the church.

tractable adj. 1 docile, amenable, tame, manageable, biddable,
persuadable or persuasible, compliant, easygoing, willing,
submissive, obedient, governable, yielding: It was a pleasure
to teach a student who was so tractable. 2 manageable,
handleable, workable, adaptable, malleable, pliable, plastic,
ductile, fictile: The new materials are quite tractable and can
be drawn or moulded with ease.


traction n. grip, gripping power, drag, purchase, friction, adhesion:
Unable to get any traction on the ice, the car skidded off the
road.


trade n. 1 commerce, business, traffic, exchange, barter, dealing(s),
buying and selling, merchandising, marketing, mercantilism,
truck: Have we any trade in shoes with South Korea? We are
establishing trade with Eastern Europe? 2 calling, occupation,
pursuit, work, business, employment, line (of work), m‚tier,
job, vocation, craft, career, profession: Just what trade are
you engaged in? 3 swap or swop, exchange, interchange, barter:
Was exchanging your microwave cooker for a hi-fi set a good
trade? 4 customers, clientele, custom, patrons, following,
patronage, shoppers: Her shop caters chiefly to the holiday
trade.

--v. 5 transact or do business, buy, sell, deal, traffic,
merchandise, have dealings: There are laws against Sunday
trading in some areas. 6 exchange, swap or swop, interchange,
switch, barter; return: Having traded his car for the boat, Sam
has no way of reaching the marina.


trader n. dealer, merchant, businessman, broker, merchandiser,
distributor, seller, salesman, saleswoman, salesperson, vendor,
buyer, purchaser, retailer, wholesaler: All sorts of traders
can be found in the covered market.


tradesman n. 1 merchant, dealer, shopkeeper, retailer, vendor, seller: A
tradesman had been ringing at the door for several minutes. 2
artisan, craftsman, journeyman, handicraftsman: He is a
tradesman, a skilled cabinet-maker by profession.


tradition n. custom, practice, habit, usage, convention, ritual, rite,
unwritten law, institution, form, praxis, lore: Exchanging
gifts on Christmas Eve has long been a tradition in our family.

traditional
adj. customary, usual, routine, habitual, standard, household,
stock, time-honoured, established, well-known, conventional,
ritual, unwritten, accustomed, historic, old, ancestral:
Mazetta mocha tarts were the traditional birthday cakes at home
when I was a child.


traffic n. 1 movement, conveyance, shipping, transport, freight,
Chiefly US transportation: Traffic across the border has
resumed. 2 See trade, 1, above: Drug traffic has increased

greatly in recent years.

--v. 3 See trade, 5, above: The police think that Baines is
trafficking in stolen goods.


tragedy n. catastrophe, calamity, disaster, misfortune, adversity,
blow: The death of their dog was a terrible tragedy, especially
for the children.


tragic adj. sad, depressing, lamentable, unhappy, funereal, forlorn,
melancholy, cheerless, mournful, lachrymose, dolorous, grievous,
morose, lugubrious, dismal, piteous, pitiable, pitiful,
pathetic(al), appalling, wretched, dreadful, awful, terrible,
horrible, deplorable, miserable, distressing, disturbing,
upsetting, shocking, unlucky, unfortunate, hapless, ill-fated,
inauspicious, star-crossed, ill-omened, ill-starred, calamitous,
catastrophic, crushing, disastrous; tragical: It was really
tragic that we couldn't get there in time to say goodbye.


trail n. 1 (beaten) path, way, footpath, route, way, track, course:
There is a well-worn trail through the wood. 2 track, spoor,
scent, smell, trace, footsteps, footprints, path, wake: The
trail of the elephant herd was quite easy to follow. 3 See
train, 2, below: She was always followed by a trail of
admirers.

--v. 4 tow, draw, drag (along), haul, pull, tag along, trawl,
bring along (behind), carry along (behind): We were moving
slowly because we were trailing a dinghy. 5 drag, pull, move,
be drawn, stream, sweep, dangle: I heard the whisper of silken
gowns trailing across Persian carpets. 6 lag (behind), dawdle,
loiter, linger, follow, straggle, bring up the rear, hang back,
fall or drop behind: Our team was trailing three-five in the
final. 7 follow, pursue, dog, trace, shadow, stalk, track,
chase, hunt, Colloq tail: We trailed the suspect to Victoria
Station, where we lost him. 8 trail off or away. diminish,
decrease, fade away or out, disappear, dwindle, lessen, die out
or away, peter out, subside, taper off, weaken, grow faint or
dim: As they drove away, the noise of their blasting radio
trailed off.

train n. 1 carriage, coach, Baby-talk choo-choo: Will this train
take me to Newcastle? 2 retinue, entourage, cortŠge, suite,

following, escort, guard, attendants, retainers, followers,
trail; staff, court, household: After the duke's coffin came a
train of several hundred hangers-on. 3 line, queue, procession,
succession, string, set, sequence, chain, progression, caravan,
cavalcade, parade, column, file: The baggage train of the
advancing army stretched for miles.

--v. 4 discipline, exercise, tutor, teach, coach, drill,
school, instruct, prepare, educate, edify, guide, bring up,
indoctrinate, rear, raise: We had been trained to put things
away and avoid clutter. 5 work out, exercise, practise: Hannah
is training for the next Olympics.

trait n. feature, characteristic, attribute, quality, peculiarity,
idiosyncrasy, quirk, lineament, mark, property: He has some
unpleasant traits, like spitting when he talks.

traitor n. turncoat, Judas, quisling, betrayer, renegade,
fifth-columnist, US Benedict Arnold, Colloq double-crosser,
snake in the grass, double-dealer, two-timer: Some traitor in
their midst had revealed their plans to the enemy.

traitorous
adj. treacherous, perfidious, seditious, subversive,
insurrectionist, renegade, insurgent, disloyal, deceitful,
untrue, unfaithful, faithless; treasonable, Colloq
double-crossing, double-dealing, two-timing: They identified
the traitorous wretch and hanged him. Consorting with the enemy
is a traitorous act.


trajectory
n. flight path, course, track: The missile has a high
trajectory.


tram n. tramcar, trolley bus, US and Canadian streetcar,
trolley(-car): Most cities with a traffic problem have replaced
trams with buses.

trammel n. 1 Usually, trammels. impediment(s), hindrance(s),
shackle(s), handicap(s), check(s), restriction(s), restraint(s),
curb(s), deterrent(s), constraint(s), hitch(es), snag(s),
(stumbling) block(s), obstacle(s), bar: He managed to avoid the
trammels of domesticity.


--v. 2 impede, hinder, handicap, check, restrain, curb, deter,
constrain, block, obstruct, fetter, confine: Do not let the
limitations of what's practical and possible trammel your
imagination.

tramp v. 1 march, hike, trudge, plod, slog, plough, tread, trek,
walk, US mush: I must have tramped across half of England
looking for work. 2 Usually, tramp on or upon. See trample, 1,
below.

--n. 3 march, trudge, plod, slog, trek, hike, walk: Every day
we had to make the five-mile tramp into the village for water. 4
derelict, vagabond, vagrant, drifter, rover, gypsy, beachcomber,
Brit dosser, down-and-out, Australian swagman, US hobo, bum,
down-and-outer: The police do not allow tramps to sleep in
public parks. 5 step, tread, footfall, footstep: She couldn't
get to sleep until she heard her husband's tramp on the stair.


trample v. 1 trample on or upon, tramp (on or upon), stamp (on), tread
(on), step on, crush, press, squash, flatten, Colloq stomp (on
or upon), squish, squush or squoosh: After the harvest, we
would take turns trampling the grapes. 2 Often, trample on or
upon. violate, damage, harm, hurt, infringe or encroach on, ride
roughshod over, set at naught, scorn, contemn, disdain, defy,
disregard, ignore, fly in the face of, fling or cast or throw to
the winds: The military regime trampled on the people's civil
rights. 3 Usually, trample out. trample down, trample
underfoot, stamp out, extinguish, put out, destroy, crush, break
down: The left-wing parties were trampled in a military coup.

trance n. daze, stupor, semi-conscious or half-conscious or hypnotic
or cataleptic or dream state, state of semi-consciousness or
half-consciousness or catalepsy or suspended animation or
stupefaction or abstraction or (complete) absorption or
exaltation or rapture or ecstasy; brown study: He walked about
all day in a trance, oblivious to what was going on around him.

tranquil adj. calm, serene, placid, quiet, peaceful, still, smooth,
unagitated, halcyon, relaxed; unruffled, sedate, steady,
regular, even, dispassionate, self-possessed, cool,
self-controlled, cool-headed, unexcited, undisturbed,
untroubled, unperturbed: He often thought back to the tranquil,

sultry summer days of his youth. How can Eleanor be so tranquil
when everything about her is so chaotic?

tranquillize
v. calm, soothe, pacify, still, quiet, relax, lull, compose,
sedate: He soon fell asleep, tranquillized by the medication
that had been administered to him.

tranquillizer
n. bromide, barbiturate, opiate, sedative, anti-psychotic,
anti-anxiety drug, Slang downer, red: She had been prescribed
tranquillizers, and developed severe side-effects.

transact v. do, carry on or out, conduct, manage, handle, negotiate,
transact, administer, discharge, perform, enact, settle,
conclude, complete, finish: We are flying to Frankfurt today to
transact some business.

transaction
n. 1 deal, dealing, negotiation, matter, affair, business,
action, proceeding, agreement, arrangement, bargain: This
transaction must not be revealed to the stock market. 2
transactions. proceedings, record(s), acta, minutes, annals,
Colloq goings-on, doings: The Society's transactions are
published annually.

transcend v. surpass, outstrip, exceed, go beyond, outdistance, overstep,
outdo, excel, overshadow, top, outdistance, outvie, rise above,
outshine, beat: Her performance at La Scala transcended that of
every other Mimi I have heard.

transcendent
adj. peerless, incomparable, unequalled, matchless, unrivalled,
unparalleled, unique, consummate, paramount, superior,
surpassing, supreme, pre-eminent, sublime, excellent, superb,
magnificent, marvellous; transcendental: Can there be any doubt
of Einstein's transcendent genius?

transcribe
v. 1 copy, reproduce, replicate, duplicate: I am busy
transcribing my lecture notes. 2 translate, transliterate,
write out, render, represent, show, interpret: The Rosetta
Stone has the same text transcribed in Egyptian hieroglyphics

and in demotic as well as in Greek.

transcript
n. 1 transcription, translation, transliteration, rendering,
interpretation, representation: Most linguists regarded writing
as a mere transcript of language. 2 (carbon or machine or Xerox
or photostatic or xerographic) copy, carbon, duplicate,
duplication, photocopy, reproduction, Photostat, Colloq dupe: I
have requested a transcript of the court proceedings.


transfer v. 1 move, transport, convey, remove, carry, take, deliver,
bring, transmit, cart, haul, shift, hand (on or over), turn
over, give, pass (on or along or over): The documents will be
transferred to you today.


--n. 2 move, conveyance, transmittal, transmission, delivery,
change: The papers documenting the transfer of the property are
here.


transfix v. 1 pin, fix, impale, skewer, nail, pierce, spear, spike,
spit, stick: The shrike, or butcher-bird, transfixes its prey
on a thorn, then picks its bones clean. 2 enrapture, galvanize,
electrify, hypnotize, mesmerize, rivet,,fascinate, bewitch,
enchant, ensorcel, engross, root to the spot, stun, paralyse,
Colloq stop dead (in one's tracks): The felon stood transfixed
with terror as the judge pronounced sentence.

transform v. change, modify, transfigure, alter, transmute, metamorphose,
turn into, convert, transmogrify, mutate, permute: What will it
take to transform these students into civilized human beings?

transformation
n. change, modification, transfiguration, transfigurement,
alteration, transmutation, metamorphosis, conversion,
transmogrification, mutation, permutation: The transformation
in her appearance over a few short months was miraculous.

transfuse v. 1 instil, transmit, transfer, inject: Her greatest success
was to transfuse a sense of history to her students. 2 infuse,
permeate: An embarrassed blush transfused his face.

transgress
v. 1 sin, trespass, offend, err, lapse, fall from grace,

disobey, misbehave, go wrong or astray, do wrong: She knew she
had transgressed and was ready to atone. 2 break or violate or
contravene or go beyond or exceed or overstep or infringe or
defy or disobey (the law): He had blatantly transgressed the
laws of decency.

transgression
n. sin, trespass, offence, error, lapse, fall from grace,
disobedience, misbehaviour, wrong, violation, fault, misdeed,
misdemeanour, crime, wrongdoing, infraction: How should he be
punished for his transgressions?

transgressor
n. sinner, offender, criminal, felon, culprit, lawbreaker,
trespasser, wrongdoer, evil-doer, villain, miscreant,
malefactor, delinquent: The majority of transgressors are
apprehended within 24 hours of the crime.

transient adj. transitory, temporary, brief, fleeting, momentary,
passing, ephemeral, fugacious, fugitive, evanescent,
short-lived, short-term, impermanent, fly-by-night, volatile:
The peace was transient, as the outbreak of civil war soon
followed. A souvenir shop obviously sells more to the transient
trade than to residents.


transit n. 1 moving, movement, travel, travelling, motion, passing,
progress, progression, transition; passage, traverse, traversal,
traversing: We were unable to mail any letters while we were in
transit. The overland transit of the island took three days. 2
transport, transportation, carriage, haulage, cartage,
conveyance, transfer, transference, transferral, transmittal:
The transit of the merchandise will be handled by our regular
shipping company.


--v. 3 cross, traverse, go or move or pass or travel across or
over or through: They were advised to check with authorities of
every country visited or transited during their journey.

transition
n. 1 change, alteration, metamorphosis, change-over,
transformation, transmutation, mutation, development, evolution,
conversion, modification, metastasis: Tracing the transition
from tadpole to frog is exciting for young pupils. 2 See

transit, 1, above.

translate v. 1 convert, paraphrase, change, rewrite, interpret,
transcribe, render, decode, decipher, metaphrase: Can you
translate this German document? 2 transform, convert, change,
mutate, turn, transmute, metamorphose, transubstantiate, alter,
transmogrify: Why are people always trying to translate the
dross of reality into the gold of dreams? 3 interpret, rewrite,
explain, reword, elucidate, spell out: Can you translate this
technical legal jargon into plain English? 4 transfer, convey,
carry, move, transport, forward, ship, send, dispatch or
despatch: Soon after being made bishop of Worcester, he was
translated to Winchester.


translation
n. 1 conversion, paraphrase, interpretation, transcription,
transliteration, rendering, rendition, metaphrase, gloss,
decipherment, decoding: It was Michael Ventris who was
responsible for the translation of Linear B. 2 metamorphosis,
change, alteration, transmutation, transfiguration,
transformation, transmogrification, transubstantiation,
conversion: The translation from the caterpillar to the
butterfly is miraculous. 3 interpretation, rewriting, rewrite,
explanation, rewording, elucidation: He is well known for his
translation of abstract ideas into terms that an intelligent
layman could cope with. 4 transfer, transference, transferral,
conveyance, carrying, moving, movement, transportation,
transport, forwarding, shipping, shipment, sending,
transmission, dispatch or despatch: His translation to a minor
consular post in the south Pacific was expected.

transmission
n. 1 transfer, transference, transferral, transferring,
conveyance, carrying, moving, movement, transportation,
transport, transporting, forwarding, shipping, shipment,
sending, transmittal, transmitting, dispatch or despatch,
dispatching or despatching: We were unable to arrange for the
transmission of the papers in time for the meeting. 2 broadcast,
broadcasting, sending, telecasting, dissemination,
communication: Transmission of the new programmes begins next
year.

transmit v. 1 send, transfer, convey, communicate, pass on, deliver,

forward, dispatch or despatch; post, ship, cable, radio,
telegraph, fax, telex, telephone, phone, Chiefly US and Canadian
mail, Colloq wire: Your message was transmitted last night. 2
pass or go through, pass on, send, put, direct, conduct,
channel: The mirror transmits the light through this filter.

transparent
adj. 1 (crystal) clear, pellucid, diaphanous, see-through,
limpid, crystalline, sheer, transpicuous: I want completely
transparent glass in this window, instead of that frosted glass.
2 plain, apparent, obvious, evident, unambiguous, patent,
manifest, unmistakable or unmistakeable, (crystal) clear, as
plain as day, as plain as the nose on (one's) face, undisguised,
recognizable, understandable, transpicuous: The origin of many
English words is transparent because of their spelling. 3
candid, open, frank, plain-spoken, direct, unambiguous,
unequivocal, straightforward, ingenuous, forthright,
above-board, artless, guileless, simple, na‹ve, undissembling,
Colloq on the level, upfront: His transparent honesty makes
Clive unsuited to a career in diplomacy.

transpire v. 1 become known, be rumoured, be revealed, come to light: It
transpired that she had been seeing him while she was still
married. 2 Sometimes non-standard happen, occur, take place,
come about, come to pass, materialize, arise, turn out: No
improvement has yet transpired in their living conditions.

transplant
v. displace, move, remove, relocate, shift, uproot, resettle,
transfer: This is the third time the company has transplanted
Harry in a year!

transport v. 1 carry, bear, convey, move, remove, transfer, deliver,
fetch, bring, get, take, ship, haul, transmit, send, forward:
The goods were transported by ship. 2 exile, banish, deport,
send away: Australia was settled mainly by people who had been
transported from England. 3 carry away, enrapture, captivate,
delight, charm, spellbind, bewitch, fascinate, enchant,
entrance, hypnotize, mesmerize, electrify, ravish: Flavia's
parents were totally transported by her winning the decathlon.

--n. 4 transportation, carrier, conveyance, shipping, transfer,
transferral, shipment, haulage, cartage, carriage, moving:

Can't you give me any idea of what the transport costs might
come to? 5 Usually, transports. rapture, ecstasy, exaltation,
exultation, euphoria, delight, (seventh) heaven, happiness,
bliss, elation, exhilaration, thrill, Elysium, paradise; Elysian
Fields, Colloq cloud nine: Helen succumbed to transports of
delight at seeing her son receive such an important award.

transpose v. exchange, interchange, metathesize, switch, swap or swop,
trade, commute, transfer: The bank transposed two figures on my
statement, reducing my balance by œ500.

trap n. 1 snare, pitfall, gin, springe, deadfall, booby-trap: After
the Pied Piper left, Hamelin had no further need for rat traps.
2 trick, subterfuge, wile, ruse, stratagem, ambush, deception,
device, artifice, ploy: Oscar was the man for whom Esther set a
neat trap. 3 mouth, Slang yap, gob, mush, face: Shut your trap
or get out.

--v. 4 snare, ensnare, entrap, catch, net: We dug a pit to
trap the marauding lion. 5 imprison, confine, lock, hold, keep:
The boy was trapped in the cave without a means of escape. 6
trick, deceive, fool, dupe, beguile, inveigle: Esther finally
trapped Oscar into marrying her.


trappings n.pl. accoutrements or US also accouterments, panoply,
caparison, equipage, apparatus, equipment, paraphernalia,
appointments, furnishings, furniture, gear, rig, habiliments,
decoration(s), embellishment(s), accessories, frippery or
fripperies, adornment(s), trimmings, raiment, fittings, finery:
Many respect the trappings of office more than the
office-holder.

trash n. 1 rubbish, (stuff and) nonsense, balderdash, moonshine,
gibberish, gobbledegook or gobbledygook, tommy-rot, bunkum,
garbage, twaddle, Colloq rot, flapdoodle, crap, codswallop,
bosh, piffle, hooey, bunk, malarkey, poppycock, boloney or
baloney, eyewash, hogwash, bilge-water, bull, Scots havers, Brit
tosh, gammon, US a crock, hokum, gurry, horse feathers, Slang
Brit (a load of (old)) cobblers, Taboo slang bullshit,
horseshit, Brit balls, US a crock of shit: Don't believe him -
he is talking trash. 2 (Chiefly US and Canadian) junk,
brummagem, knick-knacks, gewgaws, trifles, bric-…-brac, frippery
or fripperies, bits and pieces, odds and ends, trinkets, tinsel,

'Not Wanted on Voyage': There was mostly trash in the flea
market, but there were one or two more valuable items. 3 (In US
and Canada) rubbish, litter, garbage, waste, refuse, junk,
debris, rubble, dregs, dross, scoria, slag, offscourings, dirt,
sweepings, Slang crap: The service comes to remove the trash
once a week.

--v. 4 Slang chiefly US destroy, ruin, wreck, vandalize,
deface: The lodgers trashed the flat before doing a moonlight
flit.

traumatic adj. shocking, upsetting, disturbing, painful, agonizing,
distressing, harmful, hurtful, injurious, damaging, wounding,
traumatizing: Few experiences are more traumatic than losing a
child.

travel n. 1 travelling, tourism, touring, globe-trotting: Travel is
an enriching experience. Travel by air is the commonest means of
long-distance transport. 2 travels. trips, expeditions,
journeys, excursions, tours, voyages, touring, treks, trekking,
travelling, wanderings, peregrinations, junkets, pilgrimages:
In all your travels, have you ever encountered an honest man?

--v. 3 journey, go, move, proceed, roam, rove, traverse, tour,
take or make a trip or tour or excursion or junket or journey,
trek, voyage: As one who has travelled far and wide, what is
your favourite country? 4 go, move, socialize, fraternize,
associate, Colloq hang around or about: Cordelia and I do not
travel in the same circles.


traveller n. tourist, voyager, sightseer, globe-trotter, gypsy, wanderer,
hiker, rover, wayfarer, Jocular bird of passage, Colloq
rubberneck(er), jet-setter, Chiefly Brit tripper, day-tripper,
holiday-maker: Travellers have been greatly inconvenienced by
the strike of customs officials.

travelling
adj. itinerant, wandering, peripatetic, roving, mobile,
nomadic, touring, wayfaring, migratory, restless: At fourteen,
he joined a travelling circus.

traverse v. 1 cross, criss-cross, travel or pass or move over or
through, walk, cover, travel (over), roam, wander, range, tramp,

tour: He has traversed the country from end to end innumerable
times. 2 cross, criss-cross, go across; lie or extend across or
athwart, bridge, intersect: The road traverses the river
several times at Newtown. 3 oppose, cross, thwart, go or act
against, go or act in opposition or counter to, conflict (with),
controvert, contravene, counter, obstruct, contradict, gainsay,
deny: The policies of today seem to traverse those set forth
only last year. 4 examine, look into, scrutinize, inspect,
investigate, review, study, look at, consider, contemplate,
scan, look over, check, survey, reconnoitre, observe: Certain
areas of knowledge are seldom traversed by scholars.

treasure n. 1 wealth, riches, money, fortune, valuables, cash, cache,
hoard: The existence of the treasure came to light only last
week. 2 pride (and joy), delight, joy, darling, ideal, apple of
(one's) eye, Colloq jewel, gem, prize, find, catch: Kathy is a
treasure and I don't know what we did before we hired her.

--v. 3 hold dear, cherish, value, prize, esteem, rate or value
highly: We treasure the signed letter that Churchill wrote to
my father. I treasure every moment we can spend together.

treasury n. exchequer, bank, cache, resources, funds, money(s): There
was not enough money in the treasury to pay for the scheme. The
Treasury indicated their concern at the current state of the
economy.

treat v. 1 handle, manage, behave or act toward(s), deal with; use:
Why should we treat female employees any differently? 2 handle,
manage, deal with, discuss, touch on or upon, consider, take up,
study, examine, explore, investigate, scrutinize, analyse, go
into, probe, survey, expound (on), criticize, review, critique:
That subject is treated in Chapter VI. 3 nurse, doctor, attend,
care for, look after, prescribe for, medicate: He is being
treated for gallstones. 4 entertain, take out, pay for, regale,
play host to; wine and dine: Our visitors treated us when we
went out to dinner yesterday. 5 treat (someone) to (something).
pay (the bill) for, buy (something) for: Edward treated us all
to ice-cream.


--n. 6 favour, gift, present, boon, bonus, premium, Colloq US
and Canadian freebie: Put your money away - this is my treat.

treatment n. 1 Often, treatment of. behaviour (towards), conduct
(towards), action (towards), handling (of), care (of),
management (of), dealing(s) (with), manipulation (of), reception
(of); usage (of): I am not accustomed to such rude treatment.
Your treatment of our customers must be more courteous, Miss
Davidson. 2 therapy, care, curing, remedying, healing: They
received extensive medical treatment for the injuries they had
sustained.


treaty n. pact, agreement, alliance, concordat, entente, covenant,
deal, contract, compact, accord: They entered into a treaty not
to violate each other's borders.

tremble v. 1 quiver, shake, quake, shiver, shudder, quaver, quail;
vibrate, rock: Her first big role and she was trembling like a
leaf! The earth trembled as the tanks rolled past.

--n. 2 quiver, shake, quake, shiver, shudder, quaver, tremor;
vibration: There was a little tremble, and then the building
collapsed.

tremulous adj. 1 trembling, a-tremble, quivering, shaking, quaking,
shivering, shuddering, quavering, hesitant, wavering, unsure,
unsteady, faltering, doubtful, nervous, shaky, palpitating,
jumpy, Colloq jittery: His tremulous hands revealed just how
apprehensive he was. 2 timid, shy, bashful, anxious, worried,
timorous, fearful, afraid, frightened, scared: I cannot
remember when I felt so tremulous before meeting someone.


trenchant adj. cutting, keen, acute, sharp, pointed, poignant,
penetrating, incisive, biting, mordant, mordacious, sarcastic,
bitter, acerbic, acid, vitriolic, tart, acrid, acrimonious,
acidulous, corrosive, caustic: The critics dismissed the play
with a few trenchant remarks.


trend n. 1 tendency, leaning, bias, bent, drift, course, inclination,
direction: The trend seems to be towards shorter skirts. 2
fashion, style, vogue, mode, look, rage, Colloq fad, craze,
thing: Why is she so compulsive about keeping up with the
latest trends?

--v. 3 tend, lean, be biased, bend, drift, incline, veer, turn,
swing, shift, head: At the convention, the party leaders

trended more to the left of centre.

trendy adj. 1 fashionable, stylish, … la mode, modern, up to date, up
to the minute, in vogue, voguish, all the rage, Slang hot, now,
with it, groovy, in the groove, in, flash: Sibyl travels with
that trendy set from Belgravia.

--n. 2 show-off, clothes-horse, coxcomb, exhibitionist, Slang
Brit pseud, grandstander: Don't you just hate those trendies
down at Cole's wine bar?

trial n. 1 test, testing, experiment, proof, try-out, trying out,
trial run, examination, check, checking, Colloq dry run: The
trials of the new life-jackets are to be conducted soon. 2
hearing, enquiry or inquiry, examination, inquisition,
litigation, judicial proceeding, lawsuit, contest: Throughout
the trial, the accused protested his innocence. 3 try, attempt,
endeavour, effort, venture, essay, Colloq go, shot, stab, fling,
whirl, crack, whack: This was their first trial at climbing the
north face. 4 trouble, affliction, tribulation, hardship,
adversity, suffering, grief, woe, misery, distress, bad or hard
luck, misfortune, hard times: Mona acknowledged the trial of
having ten children and no husband. 5 nuisance, irritation,
bother, bane, annoyance, pest, irritant, thorn in the flesh or
side, US bur or burr under the saddle, Colloq plague, hassle,
pain (in the neck), headache, Taboo slang pain in the Brit arse
or US ass: William, who is full of mischief, is a constant
trial to his mother.


--adj. 6 sample, experimental, exploratory, provisional,
probationary, tentative, conditional, pilot: Will you consider
a trial subscription to Verbatim, The Language Quarterly?

tribe n. race, stock, strain, nation, breed, people, seed, (ethnic)
group, gens, clan, blood, pedigree, family, sept, dynasty,
house; caste, class: It was important in that society to marry
someone from the same tribe.

tribunal n. court (of justice), bar, bench, judiciary, Inquisition, Star
Chamber: Should he be tried before a judicial tribunal or
pilloried by the tribunal of public opinion?

tributary n. branch, offshoot, streamlet, feeder, brook, rivulet, run,

rill, runnel, runlet, streamlet, Scots and No. Eng. burn, No.
Eng. beck, US creek, NE US kill: The Teviot is one of the
tributaries of the Tweed.


tribute n. 1 honour, homage, recognition, celebration, respect, esteem,
testimonial, compliment, encomium, acknowledgement, acclaim,
acclamation, commendation, praise, kudos, laudation, panegyric,
eulogy, glorification, exaltation: No greater tribute could be
bestowed than recognition by one's fellows. 2 tax, exaction,
impost, duty, excise, levy, dues, assessment, tariff, charge,
surcharge, payment, contribution, offering, gift; ransom; tithe,
Peter's or Peter pence: In exchange for their freedom, the king
demanded an annual tribute of a thousand oxen.


trick n. 1 ruse, artifice, device, stratagem, wile, deception,
manoeuvre, deceit, fraud, hoax, imposture, intrigue,
machination, conspiracy, subterfuge, dodge, confidence trick,
sham, Slang con: The government's 'dirty tricks squad'
perpetrated crimes against their political adversaries. 2 prank,
frolic, antic, (practical) joke, hoax, tomfoolery, antic, caper,
jape; sport, horseplay, mischief; Scots cantrip, Colloq
leg-pull, gag, shenanigans, US dido: The boys meant no harm,
they're just up to their tricks. 3 art, knack, technique,
skill, secret, gift, ability, Colloq hang: He has developed the
trick of persuading people to buy life insurance. 4 Usually, no
mean trick. feat, accomplishment, deed: It was no mean trick to
train a cat to fetch his slippers. 5 sleight of hand,
legerdemain, magic, stunt: I have taught him all the tricks I
know. 6 trait, characteristic, peculiarity, idiosyncrasy,
eccentricity, quirk, practice, habit, mannerism, crotchet,
weakness, foible: He has an odd trick of winking while giving a
sly smile. 7 do the trick. work, answer, fulfil the need,
suffice, be effective, solve or take care of the problem, do or
accomplish the necessary, US turn the trick, Colloq fill the
bill: Replacing the battery cable did the trick.

--v. 8 fool, hoodwink, dupe, mislead, outwit, outmanoeuvre,
deceive, misguide, misinform, gull, bilk, cheat, defraud, cozen,
take in, swindle, humbug, Colloq bamboozle, take, put something
over on (someone), pull the wool over (someone's) eyes, Brit
gammon, Slang rook: I knew I had been tricked when I missed my
wallet. For years the couple made a living tricking tourists out
of their money. She tricked me into taking her to dinner.


--adj. 9 See tricky, 3, below.

trickery n. chicanery, deception, deceit, guile, shrewdness, craftiness,
slyness, shiftiness, evasiveness, artfulness, artifice, craft,
imposture, swindling, knavery, duplicity, double-dealing, fraud,
cheating, Colloq hanky-panky, skulduggery, funny or monkey
business, jiggery-pokery: He separated her from her money by
trickery.


trickle v. 1 drip, drop, dribble, drizzle, run, flow, spill; ooze,
seep, leak, exude: The water trickled onto the floor. Blood is
trickling from the wound.


--n. 2 drip, seepage, spill, dribble, runnel, runlet, rivulet:
A tiny trickle of saliva appeared at the corner of his mouth.

tricky adj. 1 deceitful, shady, deceptive, shifty, dodgy, artful,
guileful, crafty, duplicitous, shrewd, cunning, dishonest,
devious, sly, wily, slippery, foxy, double-dealing, cheating:
Arthur is a tricky chap and I shouldn't trust him. 2 ticklish,
risky, hazardous, sensitive, delicate, touch-and-go, thorny,
difficult, awkward, complex, complicated, knotty, uncertain,
debatable, Colloq iffy, sticky: It is a tricky decision whether
you tell a patient how ill he really is. 3 unfair, unjust,
unsportsmanlike, deceptive, Colloq trick: There were some
tricky questions in today's exam.

trifle n. 1 knick-knack, trinket, bauble, bagatelle, toy, gewgaw,
nothing, plaything, bˆtise, Colloq doodah: Oh, it's nothing,
just a trifle I picked up in the Seychelles. 2 little, bit,
drop, iota, scintilla, suggestion, dash, dab, pinch, whiff,
mite, whit, jot, tittle, Colloq smidgen or smidgin, US tad: I'd
like a trifle more sugar in my coffee, if you don't mind.


--v. 3 Usually, trifle with. dally (with), flirt (with), wanton
(with), mess about (with), toy (with); play (with), fiddle
(with), dandle, tinker (with), fidget (with): I hated to see
the way he trifled with my sister's affections. While trifling
with this knob, I was able to get Radio Moscow.

trifling adj. trivial, insignificant, unimportant, puny, minor, paltry,
slight, petty, inconsequential, frivolous, superficial,

incidental, negligible, commonplace, inconsiderable, shallow,
valueless, worthless, US and Canadian picayune, Colloq piddling:
Their contribution to musical scholarship has been trifling.


trim adj. 1 neat, tidy, orderly, well-ordered, well-groomed, well
turned out, well-kempt, smart, crisp, dapper, spick and span,
spruce, shipshape (and Bristol fashion), Archaic or dialectal
trig, Colloq natty, US spiffy: Nancy arrived wearing her trim
new flight-attendant's uniform. 2 in good or fine fettle, fit
(as a fiddle), athletic, slim, slender, clean-cut, shapely,
streamlined, compact: Larry looks so trim that I asked him if
he had lost weight. The new convertible model is a very trim
little motor-car.


--v. 3 curtail, shorten, prune, pare, lop (off), crop, bob,
clip, cut, shave, shear, snip, dock; barber: They trimmed the
article by cutting two paragraphs from the end. He had shaved
off his beard and trimmed his moustache. 4 decorate, embellish,
dress up, embroider, adorn, ornament, deck out, caparison,
beautify: When should we trim the Christmas tree?

--n. 5 trimming, edging, piping, purfling, ricrac or rickrack,
embroidery, border, hem, frill, fringe, ornament, ornamentation,
decoration, embellishment, adornment: The skirt was spoilt by a
rather cheap trim round the hem. 6 condition, state, fettle,
health, form, order, fitness, repair, Colloq shape: Sid's car
seemed to be in good trim when I saw it yesterday.

trio n. threesome, trilogy, triad, triplex, triple, troika,
triptych, triumvirate, triplet, trine, triune, trinity, three:
An interesting trio showed up for dinner.

trip n. 1 stumble, slip, blunder, false step, misstep, fall: He
sprained his ankle in that trip on the stair. 2 stumble, slip,
blunder, false step, misstep, faux pas, error, mistake,
indiscretion, lapse, slip of the tongue, lapsus linguae,
erratum, oversight; Freudian slip; Slang Brit boob: If it
hadn't been for that one trip, we would have had a perfect
score. 3 tour, journey, excursion, outing, expedition, voyage,
trek, peregrination, jaunt, junket, drive: We took a short
side-trip to visit Khios.

--v. 4 dance, caper, skip, cavort, gambol, frisk, hop, spring:

Joanne came tripping gaily down the Champs •lys‚es. 5 stumble,
slip, blunder, misstep, fall (down), tumble, topple, dive,
plunge, sprawl, lurch, flounder, stagger, falter: I tripped on
the doorstep and went head over heels. 6 Often, trip up. trap,
trick, catch out, unsettle, throw off, disconcert: She has been
trying to trip me up and confess to something I didn't do. 7
journey, travel, voyage, visit, tour, trek, sightsee, cruise;
Colloq globe-trot: They have been tripping all over Europe this
summer. 8 detonate, set off, trigger, operate, release,
explode, spark off: When he touched the wire, he tripped the
charge. 9 Often, trip out. hallucinate, Slang freak out, turn
on: There's no talking to him when he's tripping out on coke.

triumph n. 1 victory, conquest, success, achievement, accomplishment,
attainment, coup, ascendancy: The discovery of the drug was
perhaps the greatest of his many triumphs. 2 exultation,
rejoicing, exulting, elation, delight, rapture, exhilaration,
jubilation, happiness, joy, celebration, glory: There was great
triumph on winning the World Cup.


--v. 3 Often, triumph over. win, succeed, carry the day, be
victorious, gain a victory, take the honours, thrive, dominate,
prevail; defeat, beat, rout, vanquish, best, conquer, overcome,
overwhelm, subdue: Does justice always triumph? The book is
about how man triumphed over pain.

triumphal adj. celebratory, rapturous, jubilant, joyful, glorious,
exultant; commemorative: A holiday was declared to celebrate
her triumphal entry into the city. This triumphal arch
commemorates Trajan's victory over the Dacians.

triumphant
adj. victorious, successful, conquering, winning; undefeated:
The triumphant hero returns tonight!


triviality
n. 1 smallness, unimportance, insignificance, meaninglessness,
inconsequentiality or inconsequentialness or inconsequence or
inconsequentness, trivialness, pettiness, paltriness: I have
difficulty coping with the triviality of some of my boss's
requests. 2 trifle, technicality, non-essential, small matter,
unimportant or insignificant or inconsequential or trivial or
petty detail, bˆtise: He tends to get bogged down in

trivialities, unable to see what is important.

trivialize
v. belittle, denigrate, lessen, minimize, undervalue,
depreciate, underestimate, underrate, make light of, laugh off,
underplay, dismiss, disparage, misprize, beggar, deprecate,
slight, scoff at, scorn, run down, decry, Colloq put down, play
down, pooh-pooh: Edward tends to trivialize the work of others.


trophy n. 1 prize, laurel(s), wreath, cup, award, reward, honour(s),
medal, citation, palm, bays; booty, spoils, Colloq gold, silver,
silverware: He has won trophies for more boat races than I have
participated in. 2 memento, souvenir, token, record, reminder,
remembrance, keepsake: That scar is a trophy of a hand-to-hand
fight near El Alamein.

trot v. 1 jog, run; bustle, hustle, hurry, hasten, scamper, scoot,
Colloq skedaddle: I trot round the park every morning for
exercise. As I need some butter, I'd better trot down to the
shop before it closes. 2 trot out. bring out, show, display,
exhibit, flaunt, come out with; dredge up, drag out; recite,
repeat: Our neighbour trotted out his new lawnmower for us to
admire.


--n. 3 jog, lope, single-foot, pace; run: It was a delight to
watch the young horses in a fast trot round the track. 4
translation, gloss, interpretation, crib, Colloq US pony, horse:
He couldn't read Homer without a trot.


trouble v. 1 bother, upset, anguish, alarm, worry, afflict, agitate,
disquiet, discomfit, make uncomfortable, grieve, perturb,
discommode, inconvenience, discompose, discountenance, put out,
burden, encumber, weigh down: I don't mean to trouble you with
my problems, but I have no one else to turn to. 2 annoy,
irritate, irk, vex, bother, plague, pester, torment, harass,
hector, harry, provoke, nettle, exasperate, ruffle, Colloq get
or grate on (someone's) nerves, give (someone) a hard time, get
under (someone's) skin: Vincent keeps troubling me for advice
on starting a new business. 3 discommode, incommode, impose on,
inconvenience, put out, thank: I'll trouble you to turn off the
light when you leave the room. 4 care, be concerned, take the
trouble or the time, go to the trouble, bother, exert (oneself),
concern (oneself), take pains: He never troubled to find out if

his family was safe.

--n. 5 distress, worry, concern, difficulty, discomfort,
unpleasantness, inconvenience, vexation, grief, woe, affliction,
disquiet, suffering, tribulation, anxiety, torment, anguish,
strife: Her trouble began when her ex-husband stopped paying
for child support. How can someone so insignificant cause so
much trouble? 6 annoyance, bother, tormenter, irritation,
nuisance, nag, heckler, pest, Slang US nudnik: Ever since she
lost her job, she's been a trouble to her family. 7 disorder,
agitation, row, disturbance, turbulence, tumult, upset,
dissatisfaction, unrest, discord, dispute, turmoil, rebellion,
revolt, uprising, outbreak, fighting, fight, skirmishing,
skirmish: The trouble began when workers refused to allow
management to hire replacements. 8 affliction, defect,
disability, disease, ailment, illness, sickness, disorder,
complaint: With her trouble she ought to see a doctor. 9 in
trouble. a in deep trouble, in a mess, in a predicament, in
dire straits, Colloq in a pickle, in hot water, on the spot, in
a scrape, Slang Brit in shtook or shtuk or shtuck or schtuck,
Taboo slang in deep shit, up shit creek (without (the vestige
of) a paddle): They will be in terrible trouble if the bank
forecloses on the mortgage. b unmarried or unwed and impregnated
or pregnant or with child or expecting or in a delicate
condition or colloq in a family way: Most of the girls who are
in trouble are teenagers.

troublemaker
n. mischief-maker, rabble-rouser, gadfly, firebrand, agent
provocateur, stormy petrel, incendiary, gossip-monger,
scandalmonger, malcontent, instigator, meddler, agitator: As
far as the police were concerned, any protester was, by
definition, a troublemaker.


troublesome
adj. worrisome, worrying, annoying, irksome, irritating,
vexatious, bothersome, distressing, difficult, burdensome,
Colloq pestiferous, US and Canadian pesky: We sometimes have to
put up with troublesome motor-cycle gangs.


truant n. 1 malingerer, runaway, absentee, delinquent, dodger,
shirker, idler, loafer, layabout, Slang Brit skiver, Brit
military scrimshanker: Truants were warned that their parents

would be required to visit the school.

--adj. 2 malingering, runaway, absent, absentee, delinquent,
shirking, loafing, Slang Brit skiving: The officer brought in
three truant boys found fishing at the lake.

truce n. 1 armistice, cease-fire, suspension of hostilities, lull,
moratorium, respite, let-up, intermission, interval, interlude:
It looked as if the truce might last. 2 pact, treaty, compact,
agreement, cease-fire, armistice: If both sides abide by the
truce the war might be over.

truck n. 1 merchandise, commodities, goods, stock, wares, stuff, odds
and ends, sundries, junk, rubbish, US trash: There was no one
in the shop and all the truck was stacked in the corner. 2
dealing(s), traffic, business, transaction, trade, commerce,
communication, contact, connection, (business or social)
relations: She refuses to have any truck with the likes of you.


truckle v. kowtow, be obsequious, toady, defer, bow, scrape, genuflect,
salaam, drop to the ground or to (one's) knees or down on
(one's) knees, submit, yield, cower, cringe, grovel, crawl,
quail, fawn (on or upon), Colloq butter up, fall all over, lick
(someone's) boots, boot-lick, US apple-polish, Slang suck up to,
Taboo slang brown-nose, kiss (someone's) Brit arse or US ass:
Just look how Caroline is always truckling to the boss, hoping
for favours.

truculent adj. surly, sullen, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, unpleasant,
nasty, obstreperous, rude, unpleasant, ferocious, fierce,
savage, feral, barbarous, harsh, scathing, virulent, combative,
belligerent, antagonistic, bellicose, hostile, contentious,
warlike, violent, pugnacious, Colloq scrappy: I don't care
enough for this job to endure the boss's truculent attitude a
moment longer.

true adj. 1 accurate, correct, truthful, faithful, literal,
authentic, veracious, actual, factual, realistic, genuine,
right, valid, unelaborated, unvarnished, unadulterated,
verified, verifiable: Do you swear that this is a true account
of what actually took place? 2 staunch, faithful, devoted,
dedicated, loyal, fast, firm, unswerving, steady, steadfast,
trustworthy, trusty, dutiful, upright, honourable, constant,

unwavering, stable, dependable, sincere, reliable, true-blue:
D'Artagnan proved himself to be a true friend. 3 proper, exact,
accurate, unerring, correct, precise, right, Slang Brit spot on:
It is important that these matters be seen in their true
perspective. If this is a true copy of the original, please
sign it.

--adv. 4 truly, truthfully, honestly, accurately, candidly,
frankly, sincerely, straightforwardly: Tell me true, do you
love me? If the report speaks true, then we must find the
culprit. 5 exactly, correctly; geographically: We sail true
north to Iceland. 6 come true. come to pass, occur, take,
place, happen, be realized, become a reality, be fulfilled: Her
dreams finally came true when she bought a little house in Kent.


truism n. commonplace, platitude, bromide, axiom, clich‚, maxim: You
can rely on Vera to utter a truism like, 'It's a nice day', on a
warm, sunny day.


truly adv. 1 truthfully, actually, really, honestly, in fact, in
truth, in actuality, in reality, in all honesty, sincerely,
genuinely: Are you truly giving up your job to get married? I
truly believed her to be guilty. 2 properly, rightly,
rightfully, justly, legitimately, justifiably, duly, well and
truly, accurately: In the circumstances, can we truly condemn
him for behaving as he did? 3 definitely, really, actually,
undoubtedly, indubitably, beyond (the shadow of) a doubt, beyond
question, without a doubt, indeed, unquestionably, absolutely,
positively, decidedly, certainly, surely: I believed her to be
truly guilty. 4 in truth, indeed, really, honestly, sincerely,
genuinely, Archaic (yea,) verily, Usually ironic forsooth: I
love you, darling, truly I do.

trunk n. 1 main stem, stalk, stock, Technical bole: After the
tornado, only the trunks of the trees remained upright. 2
torso, body: All that was found of the corpse was the trunk. 3
chest, locker, foot-locker, box, case, bin, coffer, casket: We
found a trunk full of old books in the attic. 4 snout,
proboscis: The elephant reached for the food with its trunk. 5
(In US and Canada) luggage compartment, Brit boot: We cannot
get all the luggage into the trunk of the car.

trust n. 1 confidence, reliance, faith, conviction, certitude,

certainty, sureness, positiveness, assurance, belief: Place
your trust in me. 2 credit, reliability, dependability,
credibility, trustworthiness: The company will sell you the
piano on trust. 3 custody, care, keeping, charge, guardianship,
protection, safe keeping, trusteeship: The money is in trust
for Gillian's grandchildren. 4 monopoly, cartel; group,
corporation, conglomerate: An international trust controls the
world market in diamonds.


--v. 5 rely (on or upon), have faith or confidence (in),
confide (in), depend or bank or count (on or upon), pin (one's)
faith or hopes on or upon: I trust that you will attend the
meeting. In God we trust - others must pay cash. Can I trust you
to keep a secret? Don't trust to luck. 6 entrust, commit, give,
delegate, make or turn or sign or hand over, depute, assign,
empower, consign: I shouldn't trust my money to her.

trusting adj. trustful, unsuspicious, confiding, confident,
unsuspecting; na‹ve, innocent, gullible, incautious, credulous:
It is a good thing that her husband has a trusting nature.
Samantha might be a little too trusting and could easily be
deceived.

trustworthy
adj. reliable, trusty, dependable, accurate; responsible,
steady, steadfast, loyal, faithful, (tried and) true,
honourable, honest, ethical, principled, moral, incorruptible:
Is this thermometer trustworthy? Isaac's former employer said
that he is completely trustworthy.


truth n. 1 genuineness, reality, actuality, correctness, accuracy,
fact: The truth of the matter is that he's in love with you. 2
fact(s): To tell the truth, I came here to kill you. 3 in
truth. in fact, truly, actually, really: In truth, his name is
not Jack Armstrong at all but Ebenezer Braithwaite.

truthful adj. true, accurate, factual, veracious, true to life, honest,
realistic, reliable, faithful, trustworthy, straightforward,
candid, frank, sincere, earnest, forthright, unvarnished,
unembellished: He gave a truthful account of his experiences in
the jungle.

try v. 1 attempt, endeavour, essay, seek, undertake, venture,

strive, struggle, make an effort, try (one's) hand at, Colloq
have a stab or go or whack (at), take a shot or crack (at): He
tried to help me with my homework. 2 test, try out, prove,
evaluate, examine, inspect, check out, sample, appraise, assay,
look over, analyse, scrutinize, assess, judge: I'll try your
way of solving the problem. You won't know if it works till you
try it. 3 test, prove, strain, tax: You are trying my patience
with your silly questions. 4 hear, sit on, adjudicate, judge,
adjudge: There are three more cases to try this month.


--n. 5 attempt, endeavour, essay, undertaking, venture,
struggle, effort, turn, Colloq go, stab, whack, fling, shot,
crack: You have three tries to pin the tail on the donkey.


trying adj. irritating, exasperating, frustrating, annoying, irksome,
infuriating, maddening, bothersome, tiresome, vexing,
troublesome, worrying, worrisome, distressing, disquieting,
upsetting, dispiriting, taxing, demanding, tough, stressful,
difficult, tiring, fatiguing: This must be a trying time for
you, caring for eight small children.

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tug v. 1 pull, tow, yank, jerk, draw, drag, haul, wrench: The boy
was tugging a little puppy along on a lead.

--n. 2 pull, tow, yank, jerk, drag, haul, wrench: I gave a tug
and the doorknob came away in my hand.

tuition n. education, teaching, tutelage, training, schooling,
instruction, guidance, preparation: The course fees cover
tuition and accommodation.


tumble v. 1 fall (down), pitch, turn end over end or head over heels,
roll, drop: Giggling hysterically, we tumbled in a heap on the
lawn. 2 drop, toss, dump, jumble: The waiter tumbled several
spoonfuls of berries on to my plate. 3 tumble to. understand,
apprehend, perceive, comprehend, see the light, Colloq get the
signal or message, catch on, Brit twig to, Slang get wise, wise
up, dig: I finally tumbled to what she was trying to tell me.

--n. 4 fall, slip, stumble, Colloq header, spill: Joshua took
a bad tumble on the stairs yesterday.

tumbledown
adj. ramshackle, dilapidated, ruined, in ruins, decrepit,
rickety, shaky, falling apart or to pieces, disintegrating,
tottering, broken-down, crumbling, gone to rack and ruin: He
lived for years in a tumbledown shanty near the railway.


tumour n. neoplasm, cancer, melanoma, sarcoma, malignancy, carcinoma,
growth, lump, swelling, protuberance, excrescence: The doctor
found a tumour that he said ought to be removed.

tumult n. commotion, disturbance, upset, uproar, riot, disorder,
disquiet, insurrection, agitation, bedlam, chaos, brouhaha,
fracas, hubbub, stir, pandemonium, hullabaloo, furore or US
furor, brawl, Donnybrook, affray, row, mˆl‚e or melee,
turbulence, ferment, ado, turmoil, confusion, rampage, frenzy,
rage, excitement, rumpus, Colloq US ruckus: The tumult caused
by the football hooligans spread through the city.

tumultuous
adj. clamorous, noisy, boisterous, disorderly, turbulent,
violent, uproarious, chaotic, frenzied, furious, excited,
agitated, hectic, riotous, rowdy, unruly, unrestrained, fierce,
savage, wild, hysterical, frantic, rumbustious, boisterous,
obstreperous, tempestuous, stormy: The heroes received a
tumultuous welcome on their return.


tune n. 1 melody, air, song, strain, motif, theme: David presents a
marvellous half-hour radio programme of show tunes every week. 2
euphony, pitch, harmony, accord, accordance, consonance, unison,
correspondence, conformity: She cannot sing in tune. The guitar
is out of tune with the piano. Her husband is out of tune with
today's fashion.

--v. 3 tune up, calibrate, adjust, regulate, coordinate, adapt,
attune, align, set: That garage charges too much for tuning an
engine. 4 tune in (on). attend (to), pay attention (to), listen
(to), understand, be aware (of), be on the qui vive, be alert
(to), Slang be on the same wavelength or frequency (with): I am
not sure that Bernard is tuned in to what his sister does for a
living. 5 tune out. ignore, disregard, turn a blind eye to, be

blind to, turn one's back on, turn a deaf ear to: Sally is able
to tune out anything she doesn't like to hear.

tuneful adj. melodic, musical, sweet-sounding, melodious, euphonious,
dulcet, mellifluent, mellifluous, harmonic, catchy, mellow,
smooth, rich, rhythmic, Colloq easy on the ear(s): Irving
Berlin wrote some of the most tuneful music that we have.

tunnel n. 1 shaft, subway, (underground) passage(way), underpass;
burrow, hole; Channel Tunnel, Colloq Chunnel: The cat got out
through this tunnel.

--v. 2 burrow, dig, hole, excavate, penetrate, mine: The
prisoners tunnelled under the wall and escaped.


turf n. 1 sod, sward, green, grass, greensward, lawn: We bought
some turf for the new lawn. 2 territory, bailiwick, area,
neighbourhood, backyard, Colloq stamping-ground, home ground,
(personal) space: You're on my turf now, so you'll do as I say.
3 the turf. horse-racing, racing, the racing world, racecourse,
racetrack: The attractions of the turf keep them from other
pursuits.

--v. 4 turf out. eject, dismiss, expel, throw out, oust,
banish, exile, Colloq sack, bounce, give (someone) the boot or
the sack or the (old) heave-ho, chuck or toss or kick or boot
out, fire: The committee said he had brought the sport into
disrepute and turfed him out of the team.


turn v. 1 rotate, revolve, spin, roll, reel, circle, gyrate, whirl,
wheel, go (a)round or about, pivot, swivel: The earth turns on
its axis. Turn the crank to raise the bucket. 2 move, shift,
wheel, veer, swing, face: As she turned I noticed a horrible
scar. 3 reverse, turn (a)round, alter, change, adapt,
reorganize, remodel, modify, refashion, reshape, reform,
transform, make over, convert, bring over: He has been trying
to turn the business into a profit-making enterprise. He has
turned defeat into advance. She managed to turn one of the most
loyal membrs of the government. 4 go or pass or move (a)round,
veer, drive, walk: Turn left at the corner. 5 go bad, become
rancid, spoil, curdle, addle, sour, decay, moulder, rot,
putrefy, Colloq go off: All the milk in the fridge had turned
because of the power cut. 6 apply, put, use, employ: Is there

any way we can turn this situation to our advantage? 7
Sometimes, turn aside or away. block, avert, thwart, prevent,
balk or baulk, parry, deflect, fend off, check: He deftly
turned aside the thrust of the dagger. 8 form, make up,
fashion, formulate, construct, cast, create, coin, concoct,
express: Donald certainly knows how to turn a felicitous
phrase. 9 direct, aim, point: He turned the gun on himself and
pulled the trigger. 10 twist, sprain, wrench: I have turned my
ankle and cannot walk. 11 twist, wind, snake, curve, bend, arc,
coil, loop, meander, zigzag: The road turned this way and that,
following the river bank. 12 turn against. defy, mutiny, rebel,
revolt, rise (up) against: The captain had not expected the
first mate to turn against him, too. 13 turn back. a reverse,
repulse, repel, rebuff, drive back, beat back: At last we
turned back the enemy's advance. b go back, retrace (one's)
steps, return: We must turn back before it is too late. 14
turn down. a refuse, reject, rebuff, decline, deny: My request
for help was turned down. b decrease or diminish or lessen or
lower or soften the sound of: Turn down the radio, I'm on the
phone. 15 turn in. a go to bed or sleep, retire, withdraw,
call it a day, Slang hit the sack or the hay: I usually turn in
by eleven o'clock. b hand in or over, turn over, deliver, give
in, submit, offer, proffer, tender, give back, return,
surrender, yield: Please turn in your visitors' badges before
you leave. c turn over, deliver (up), inform on, betray, Colloq
squeal on, rat on, finger, tell on: For enough money, he'd turn
in his own mother. 16 turn into. a turn to, become, change
into or to, metamorphose into or to: Right before her, the
prince turned into a frog again. b go or come into, drive into,
pull into, walk into: They lost sight of the suspect when he
turned into a side-street. 17 turn off. a stop, switch off,
deactivate, discontinue; extinguish: First turn off the water,
then the light. b disillusion, depress, cool (off), disenchant,
disaffect, alienate, repel, repulse, bore, offend, put off,
displease, sicken, nauseate, disgust: People who don't brush
their teeth turn me off. c deviate, diverge: When you come to
the fork, turn off to the right. 18 turn on. a start (up),
switch on, energize, activate, set in motion, cause to function
or operate: Turn on the light. b depend on or upon, be
contingent on, hinge on or upon, be subject to: The success of
the venture turns on our ability to capitalize it. c excite,
thrill, arouse, stimulate, titillate, work up, impassion: He
was really turned on by the girl in the bar. 19 turn on or

upon. a concern, revolve about, relate to: The discussion
turned on his ability to write music. b be hostile to, attack,
assail, set upon, Colloq tear into: Oliver is so unpopular that
his own dog turned on him and bit him. 20 turn out. a make,
form, shape, construct, build, fabricate, put together,
assemble, manufacture, produce, put out, bring out: The plant
turns out a thousand cars a week. b develop, evolve, eventuate,
happen, result, prove, occur, end up, arise: As it turned out,
he lost anyway. It turns out that he knows my sister. c eject,
evict, throw out, expel, oust, dismiss, terminate, cashier,
Colloq fire, sack, kick out, axe, Brit turf out: When they
found I wasn't a member, they turned me out. d dress, fit out,
equip, rig out, accoutre or US also accouter: She was well
turned out in a beautiful ball gown. e come, arrive, appear,
attend, assemble, meet, Colloq show (up), surface: 55,000
turned out for the rock concert. 21 turn over. a consider,
muse or ruminate over or about, revolve, ponder (over): I
needed a while to turn over the job offer in my mind. b
reverse, invert, turn upside down: Turn over the clock and read
the inscription on the bottom. c overturn, upset, knock over:
In my haste, I turned over the punch bowl. d sell, merchandise:
A shop in that location ought to turn over a million a year. e
rotate, revolve, spin, kick over: The engine turns over, but it
won't start. 22 turn tail. run away, flee, bolt, scoot, show a
clean pair of heels, cut and run, take to (one's) heels, beat a
hasty retreat, Colloq take off, beat it, scram, skedaddle: He
turned tail when I shouted for help. 23 turn to. a appeal to,
apply to, resort to: She turned to me for help. b advert to,
refer to, pick or take up, have recourse to: Please turn to
your exercise books now. c get to work, pitch in, buckle or
knuckle down: The neighbours turned to in helping clean up the
mess after the storm. d turn into, change to, convert into,
become: Lot's wife was turned to salt. 24 turn turtle.
capsize, overturn, keel over, upset, up-end, Colloq go bottoms
up: The overloaded barge turned turtle and sank in the river.
25 turn up. a surface, appear, arrive, Colloq show (up), show
one's face: Guess who turned up at our wedding? b come up,
arise, Colloq crop up, pop up: Something will turn up soon for
you. c uncover, discover, find, unearth, come across, hit upon,
dig up, expose, disclose, reveal, bring to light: We turned up
a formerly unknown fact about the shipwreck. d increase or
raise or amplify or intensify the sound of: Turn up the TV - I
can't hear what they're saying.


--n. 26 revolution, rotation, cycle, spin, whirl, circuit,
round, roll, twirl; pirouette: He gave the top another turn,
just to make sure it was on securely. 27 curve, bend, turning,
corner, sinuosity, dog-leg, hairpin bend or curve, irregularity,
meander, twist, zigzag, Colloq toing and froing: There are many
dangerous turns on that road. 28 loop, coil, spiral, twist:
Take two turns of this rope round your waist, then knot it. 29
deviation, turning, detour, shift, change of direction or
course: A turn to the right is not permitted at this corner.
30 opportunity, chance, say, round, spell, time, watch, shift,
stint, tour (of duty), move, trick, Colloq whack, crack, shot,
go: You have had your turn, now let someone else go. 31 drive,
spin, ride; airing, constitutional, ramble, saunter, stroll,
walk, promenade, amble: Let's take a short turn round the park.
32 trend, direction, drift: The conversation took a new turn.
33 change, alteration, switch: The doctor says that Valerie has
taken a turn for the better. 34 Usually, bad turn. disservice,
harm, injury, wrong: If you do someone a bad turn, what can you
expect? 35 Usually, good turn. favour, (good) deed, act (of
kindness), courtesy, boon, mercy: One good turn deserves
another. 36 shock, fright, surprise, start, scare: You really
gave me a turn, jumping out like that! 37 form, style, manner,
mode: Each turn of phrase in her writing seems original and
refreshing. 38 disposition, inclination, bent, bias, leaning,
tendency: Alistair is of a rather dour turn of mind tonight.
39 at every turn. everywhere, constantly, always, all the time:
In Scotland, we met with kindness and hospitality at every turn.
40 by turns. alternately, reciprocally, in rotation,
successively, in succession: The book is fascinating and
frustrating by turns. 41 in turn. sequentially, one after the
other, in succession, successively, in (proper) order: Each
patient will be treated in turn. 42 out of turn. a out of
sequence, out of order: I don't want you answering questions
out of proper turn, Jonathan. b imprudently, indiscreetly,
improperly, disobediently, inappropriately: I apologize if I am
speaking out of turn on this issue. 43 take turns. alternate,
vary, rotate, exchange: Let's take turns looking through the
telescope.


turn-about
n. reciprocity, exchange: Turn-about is fair play.

turncoat n. renegade, traitor, betrayer, deserter, fifth-columnist,
double agent, apostate, tergiversator, defector, backslider,
Vicar of Bray, US Benedict Arnold, Colloq snake in the grass:
Labour members who voted with the Tories on the issue were
branded turncoats.

turn-off n. 1 exit, side-road, feeder (road), auxiliary (road), ramp,
Brit slip-road, US (exit or entrance) ramp: Our shop is at the
first turn-off after the traffic light. 2 damper, killjoy,
Colloq wet blanket, Slang US freeze-out: It was a real turn-off
to discover that his hobby was model railways.

turnout n. 1 assemblage, muster, attendance, audience, crowd, gate,
throng, gathering: The turnout for the first day of the sale
was enormous. 2 output, production, out-turn, volume; gross
national product, GNP, gross domestic product, GDP: Turnout has
improved since the settlement of the labour dispute. 3 gear,
outfit, clothing, apparel, apparatus, equipment, trappings,
fittings, equipage: Have you seen Charlie in his
mountain-climbing turnout?

turnover n. gross (revenue), (total) business, volume: Although
turnover increased by ten per cent, profits were down by two per
cent.


tutor n. 1 teacher, instructor, educator, coach, mentor, guru:
Bernard engaged a tutor to coach him through the examinations.

--v. 2 teach, instruct, coach, educate, school, train,
indoctrinate, drill, enlighten, advise, direct, guide, prepare,
ground: Twitchell needs someone to tutor him in the fine art of
going out with girls.

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tweak v. 1 pinch, nip, twitch, squeeze, jerk, grip: I do wish that
adults would refrain from tweaking my nose, though it is pretty
cute.

--n. 2 pinch, nip, twitch, squeeze, jerk, grip: He gave her
nose an affectionate little tweak.


twee adj. precious, sweet, sentimental, quaint, dainty, cute,
mignon(ne), bijou: The tearoom atmosphere is a bit too twee for
my taste.


twiddle v. 1 play with, twirl, fiddle (with), wiggle, juggle, toy with,
fidget with, Colloq fool with, mess with, monkey with: Stop
twiddling with the dial on that radio! 2 twiddle (one's)
thumbs. do nothing, be idle, idle or while away (the) time,
waste time, bide (one's) time: I sat there, twiddling my
thumbs, while you were being entertained royally.

twigฐ n. sprig, stem, shoot, offshoot, branchlet, stick, sucker,
sprout, withe or withy, tendril: Gather up some dry twigs for
kindling.

twig v. understand, grasp, fathom, get, comprehend, see, know,
sense, divine, Colloq catch on, be or get or become wise to,
tumble to, Slang rumble, dig: She twigged the situation at once
but didn't let on she knew.

twilight n. 1 dusk, sunset, gloaming, sundown, half-light, crepuscule or
crepuscle: We enjoyed dinner at twilight on the terrace
overlooking the sea. 2 decline, wane, waning, ebb, downturn,
down-swing, slump, decay, weakening, declination, diminution:
Even at the twilight of his career, Jonas enjoyed the respect of
his colleagues. 3 Twilight of the Gods. G”tterd„mmerung,
Ragnar”k or Ragnarok: The world ends at the Twilight of the
Gods, only to be born anew.


--adj. 4 evening, crepuscular, dimming, darkening, darkish,
darksome, shadowy, shady, dim, dark, obscure, sombre, gloomy,
Literary darkling: The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled
thickets mourn. 5 twilight zone. limbo: He lives in the
twilight zone, unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.

twin n. 1 double, clone, duplicate, look-alike, counterpart, Slang
ringer: I cannot distinguish these twins.


--adj. 2 identical, matching, matched, duplicate,
corresponding, look-alike: The bedroom had twin beds with pink
covers.

--v. 3 pair, match, yoke, join, link, couple, combine, connect,
associate: Many towns in Britain are twinned with similar towns
on the Continent.


twine n. 1 cord, string; rope, cable, yarn: Have you some twine for
tying up this package?

--v. 2 entwine, braid, twist, intertwine, curl, wreathe,
spiral, wind, weave, interweave, encircle, wrap: Annette's
front door has roses twined all round it.

twinge n. 1 stab, pang, cramp, spasm, pinch, stitch, (sharp) pain,
prick, bite, gripe: I get a terrible twinge in my back when I
lift anything heavy. 2 pang, pain: I felt a twinge of remorse
at leaving.

twinkle v. 1 scintillate, sparkle, coruscate, glitter, shimmer, wink,
flicker, glisten, glint, flash, fulgurate, spark, dance, blink,
shine, gleam: The stars were twinkling in the icy black sky.
Nicole's eyes twinkled as she told me about Max's latest
success.

--n. 2 twinkling, scintillation, scintillating, sparkle,
sparkling, coruscation, coruscating, glitter, glittering,
shimmer, shimmering, winking, flicker, flickering, glistening,
glint, flash, flashing, fulguration, spark, sparking, dancing,
blinking, shine, shining, gleam, gleaming, dazzle, dazzling:
From far off, I caught the twinkle of the sun on car
windscreens.


twinkling n. 1 (split) second, flash, twinkling or wink of an eye,
instant, trice, Colloq jiffy, two shakes (of a lamb's tail),
tick: Liza called out, and in a twinkling, Joseph was at her
side. 2 See twinkle, 2, above.


twirl v. 1 spin, whirl, rotate, revolve, wheel, turn, gyrate, twist,
wind (about or around): The windmills twirled in the breeze.
Katherine absently twirled a lock of hair round her finger.


--n. 2 twirling, spin, spinning, whirl, whirling, turn,
turning, revolution: He was hypnotized by each twirl of the
roulette wheel. 3 whorl, winding, convolution, spiral, helix,
coil, volute: The pattern consists of interlocking twirls of

green and brown.

twist v. 1 plait, braid, weave, entwine, intertwine, twine,
interweave, pleach, splice, wreathe, interlace: She twisted
together some daisies to make a garland for her hair. 2
distort, warp, contort, pervert, alter, change, slant, bias,
colour, falsify, misquote, misstate, garble, miscite,
misrepresent, violate; misinterpret, mistranslate,
misunderstand, misconstrue: He twisted her words so that she
seemed to be saying the opposite of what she intended. 3
wriggle, worm, squirm, writhe, wiggle: The little beggar
twisted out of my grasp and ran for his life. 4 wind, snake,
meander, turn, zigzag, worm, bend, curve: I lost sight of the
stream where it twisted through the undergrowth. 5 wrench,
turn, sprain, rick or wrick: I twisted my ankle on a faulty
step. 6 twist (one's or someone's) arm. force, coerce, make,
persuade, bully, Brit pressurize, US pressure: I didn't want to
go, but she twisted my arm.


--n. 7 coil, spiral, skew, zigzag, dog-leg, turn, curve, angle,
bend, bow, meander: The road is full of twists and turns. 8
interpretation, analysis, understanding, slant, angle,
construction, construal; treatment, approach, version,
variation: This book puts a new twist on the fall of the Roman
Empire. 9 distortion, misinterpretation, contortion,
perversion, warping, alteration, change, departure, bias,
colouring, falsification, misquotation, misstatement, garbling,
misrepresentation; mistranslation, misunderstanding,
misconstrual, misconstruction: It was a twist of fate that
brought us together again. She gave everything he said such a
twist that he scarcely recognized his own ideas. 10 quirk,
idiosyncrasy, crotchet, peculiarity, oddity, trick,
eccentricity, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity;
weakness, flaw, fault, foible, failing: Owing to a twist in his
character, he has developed a hatred of women. 11 round the
twist. mad, crazy, insane, eccentric, Colloq daft, Brit round
the bend, Slang nuts, nutty, bonkers, cuckoo, batty, off (one's)
rocker, Brit barmy or balmy: Kevin's gone round the twist if he
thinks I am going out with his sister.


twister n. 1 cheat, swindler, confidence man or woman, rogue,
scoundrel, swindler, trickster, mountebank, deceiver, fraud,
impostor or imposter, Colloq con man or woman, crook: This

particular twister preys on the elderly. 2 tornado, cyclone,
typhoon, hurricane, whirlwind; waterspout: The twister picked
up my bicycle and dropped it in my neighbour's garden.


twitฐ v. tease, cajole, taunt, jeer (at), make fun of, banter, tweak,
gibe or jibe, chaff, ridicule, mock; blame, berate, deride,
scorn, contemn, censure, revile, reproach, upbraid; Colloq kid,
pull (someone's) leg: She never seemed to mind being twitted
about her height.


twit n. nitwit, nincompoop, ass, ninny, ninny-hammer, fool,
imbecile, blockhead, halfwit, idiot, simpleton, Colloq chump,
moron, Brit silly billy, Slang dope, US and Canadian jerk: That
silly twit told the teacher what we were planning.


twitter v. 1 peep, cheep, tweet, chirp, warble, trill, chirrup,
chatter: The birds twitter so loudly that they wake me every
morning. 2 chatter, prattle, gossip, giggle, prate, titter,
snicker, snigger, simper: I was embarrassed because my
classmates always twittered when I did a recitation.

--n. 3 peep, peeping, cheep, cheeping, twittering, tweet,
tweeting, chirrup, chirruping, chirp, chirping, warble,
warbling, trill, trilling: The twitter of the birds was driving
me mad. 4 ado, bustle, excitement, flutter, dither, whirl,
agitation, Colloq stew, tizzy: The girls were in a twitter of
apprehension.

two-faced adj. double-dealing, hypocritical, duplicitous, dissembling,
deceitful, Janus-faced, treacherous, dishonest, untrustworthy,
insincere, scheming, designing, crafty, Machiavellian, sly,
perfidious, lying, mendacious: That two-faced liar told you one
story and me another!


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tycoon n. mogul, magnate, baron, financier, (multi)millionaire,
billionaire, merchant prince, potentate, Colloq big shot,
(big-time) operator, wheeler-dealer, big-timer, US big wheel,
big cheese: What makes you think that Castenado is an oil
tycoon?


type n. 1 class, category, classification, kind, sort, genre, order,
variety, breed, species, strain, group, genus, ilk, kidney:
Just what type of person would you say the president is? 2
typeface, Brit fount, US font: The body text ought to be set in
Bodoni Book type, the headings in Times bold. 3 prototype,
paradigm, archetype, epitome, exemplar, model, specimen,
pattern, personification, standard, quintessence: She doesn't
consider him to be the usual type of businessman.


--v. 4 typewrite; keyboard; transcribe: She types at a speed
of about sixty words a minute.

typical adj. 1 representative, characteristic, conventional, normal,
standard, ordinary, regular: On a typical day I get up at 6.30.
2 orthodox, classic, conventional, in character, in keeping,
usual, commonplace, run-of-the-mill, natural, customary, common,
to be expected, ordinary: His way of looking at life is typical
for someone of his educational and social background.


typify v. exemplify, instance, epitomize, personify, represent,
characterize, embody, evince, symbolize, suggest: John's views
typify the conservative approach.


tyrannical
adj. tyrannous, oppressive, dictatorial, Fascistic, despotic,
autocratic, authoritarian, arbitrary, imperious, overbearing,
unjust, high-handed, severe, harsh, iron-handed, heavy-handed:
The people suffered under one tyrannical form of government
after another for generations.

tyrannize v. Often, tyrannize over. domineer over, bully, subjugate,
enthral, enslave, dominate, intimidate, dictate to, order about
or around, ride roughshod over, browbeat, keep under (one's)
thumb, oppress, subdue, suppress, keep down: The people have
been tyrannized long enough.

tyranny n. autocracy, Fascism, authoritarianism, absolutism, despotism,
dictatorship, Stalinism, Nazism; arbitrariness, oppression,
suppression, subjugation, enslavement, enthralment, domination:
Tyranny would not survive long were it not expedient for its
supporters.

tyrant n. dictator, despot, autocrat, martinet, Hitler, bully,
oppressor, authoritarian, hard taskmaster, slave-driver, Simon
Legree, overlord: It seems that no people or part of the world
is immune to tyrants.