Old English | sp | English |
Ticchen | n | A kid, a young goat, a titchen |
Tidder | vb | To be productive or prolific. 2. to produce offspring; to tudder. |
Tide | n | A portion. 2. extent with space of time, an age, a season, a while. 3. a point in the duration of the day, month or year. 4. an action with repetition; occasion. 5. a suitable, fit, opportune or favourable season or proper time or occasion. 6. an appointed or fixed time; a definite time in the course of the day, such as eventide, noontide. 7. a point at which any hour is completed; as at tenth tide of the day. 8. a more or less definite point or season in the course of a year, or of life; such as winter-tide, New year-tide. 9. an anniversary of or festival, village fair of the church's saints, such as St Boltulf tide or day. |
Tide | vb | To happen, befall, betide. 2. to fall as a lot or portion. 3. to fare, get on well or ill. 4. to meet with or experience good or evil fortune. 5. to carry forward, as time does. 6. to carry through an undertaking, to enable, to overcome a difficulty. |
Tide | phr | "At Neap Tide" - a tide whose rise and fall is least marked, occurring seven and one half days after the time of the new moon and the full moon. 2. during the falling or low tide of the sea. 3. minimum tide when the sun's attraction is pulling contrary to the moon's. |
Tide | phr | "At Flood Tide" - the rising level of the sea. |
Tide | phr | "At High Tide" - the rising level of the sea. |
Tide | phr | "At Spring Tide" - maximum tide when the sun's attraction is pulling in conjunction with the moon. |
Tide | phr | "Swim Against the Tide" - act, behave in a way that is opposite to most other people actionss, behavior, opinions. |
Tide | phr | "The Turn of the Tide" - the tide turns: a change of fortune; the course of events; trend of opinion, feelings change, (usually with the implication of improvement). 2. the tide has turned; conditiions have changed. |
Tide | phr | "Tide Over" - enable a person get over, live through, surmount turmoil, difficulty, stressful situations. 2. to manage temporarily. |
Tidefall | n | A waterfall that empties directly into the sea; a coastal waterfall. 2. the transition of tides to or from high tide and low tide. |
Tideful | adj | Seasonable, opportune, right, fit or convenient of time. |
Tidefulness | n | Fit or expedient season. 2. state or condition of being tideful. |
Tidefully | adv | Opportune, fittingly, conveniently. |
Tide-gate | n | A gate which is opened to let water flow into a basin at high tide, and shut at ebb time to prevent water flowing out. |
Tideland | n | Land that is submerged at high tide. |
Tideless | adj | Having no tide. |
Tideless-blooded | adj | Whose blood is unstirred by passion or emotion. |
Tidelessness | n | The state or condition of having no tide. |
Tidelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a tide in one aspect or other. |
Tideline | n | The edge defined by the tide on the shore. |
Tidelock | n | A lock with twin-gates, between tidal harbor and basin behind it, by means which vessels can pass in and out any time without waiting for high tide. |
Tidemark | n | A mark made by the tide at high water. 2. a mark left around a bath at the level of the water in it. 3. a line on a person's body marking the extent to which it has been washed. |
Tidemill | n | A mill with a waterwheel driven by the tide. |
Tidepool | n | Tide pools or rock pools are shallow pools of seawater that form on the rocky inter-tidal shore. Many of these pools exist as separate bodies of water only at low tide. |
Tidesman | n | A customhouse officer who goes on board a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tide-waiter. |
Tide-water | n | That part of the river estuary which is affected by water brought by or affected by the tide. 2. water which inundates the land at high tide; tidewater. 3. water affected by the tide on the seacoast r in a river; the seacoast. |
Tide-water | adj | Pertaining to the tide water. 2. situated on the seacoast. |
Tidewave | n | an undulation of water passing around the earth and causing high and low tides. |
Tideway | n | A channel in which the tide runs, esp.the tidal part of the river. 2. the ebb or flow in a tidal channel. 3. a channel in which a tide sets. |
Tidewheel | n | A water-wheel operated by the ebb and flow of the tide. |
Tiding | n | Something that happens. 2. event, incident, occurrence. 3. custom, usage. 4. announcement of an event; piece of news. 5. flow or rising of the tide; fig. a rising or surge. |
Tidingman | n | In Marylands and parts of New England, an officer elected and charged with the responsibility of preventing disorderly conduct; a law enforcement officer. |
Tidings | n | Report, news, intelligence. 2. information, indication, trace. |
Tidings-bearer | n | Newsman, news-bringer, reporter, news-maker. intelligence informer. |
Tidingless | adj | Without tidings or news. |
Tiding time | n | Duration of time or occurrence; "the seizure lasted until the tiding time and then went off in a gentle kindly sweats in the ebbs. |
Tie | n | Neck wear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front; necktie. 2. a social or business relationship. affiliation, association, tie-up. 3. equality of score in a contest. 4. a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating; beam. 5. a fastener that serves to join or connect; during construction; link, linkup, tie-in. 6. the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided; draw, standoff. 7. in music a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value. 8. one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track. tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper. 9. a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied. |
Tie | vb | Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord, bind. 2. finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc. 3. limit or restrict to. 4. connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; connect, link, link up 5. form a knot or bow in. 6. create social or emotional ties; bond. 7. perform a marriage ceremony; : marry, wed, splice, "tie the knot". 8. make by tying pieces together; "The fishermen tied their flies. 9. unite musical notes by a tie. |
Tie | phr | "Have One's Hands Tied" - be restricted by rules and regulations. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Back" - draw, fasten back or behind something that is free and loose and attach it in place. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Down" - to fasten down, restrict or hinder a person's freedom, opportunities. 2. make somebody decide or limit or restrict someone's freedom of movement. 3. occupy, engage the attention of somebody, so that the movement is difficult. 4. to follow or conform to. 5. to have responsibiities making alternative activities difficult. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Hand and Foot" - to be completely hampered by restrictions or obligations. |
Tie | phr | "Tie In" - bring in or have a close association or agreement with. |
Tie | phr | "Tie In With." - be logically associated with. 2. match, fit, make something correspond to or with; be consistent with something. |
Tie | phr | "Tie On" - attach something with a string or cord. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Someone Hands" - to prevent a person acting as he/she see fit. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Someone's Hands Behind Their Back" - restrict somebody's activities, power or authority to do something. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Someone Own." - make someone decide, or restrict somebody freedom. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Something Up" - to finalize the arrangements for something. |
Tie | phr | "Tie the Knot" - get married, wed, get hitched. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Up" - tie or fasten securely with cord, string, rope etc; make a parcel of. 2. invest or reserve capital etc so that it is not immediately at hand or available for use. 3. to bequeath money under certain restrictions. 4. moor a boat. 5. secure an animal. 6. obstruct, prevent from acting freely. 7. secure or complete an undertaking or arrangements of an organization. 8. full occupy, engage or keep a person busy. |
Tie | phr | "Tie Up in Knots" - confuse, bamboozle, confabulate. |
Tie-back | n | A decorative strip or fabric or cord for holding a curtain back from the window. 2. to tie or fasten back. 3. a loop of cloth, cord, etc., which is placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side. 4. in journalism, a newspaper rewrite or short synopsis of the information presented in the original story. in order to refresh the memories of readers who saw the old story and to update new readers. |
Tie-back wall | n | A brick wall reinforced with horizontal wires for stability. |
Tie-beam | n | A horizontal beam or timber connecting two rafters in a roof or roof-truss. |
Tie-break | n | a means of deciding a winner from competitors who have tied. |
Tie-breaker | n | A rule, or further period of play devised to decide a winner in a sorting event or game with a tied score. |
Tie-breaking | n | Something serving as a tiebreaker. |
Tied | adj | (Of a house) occupied subject to the tenant working for the owner. 2. (of a public house) that is owned by the brewery and is bound to supply the products produced or specified by that brewery. |
Tied-house | n | A hotel which is restricted to dealing with one particular brewery for its supplies of ale and beer etc. |
Tie-in | n | a connection, association or relation. 2. a form of sales or advertising that offers or requires more than a single purchase. 3. the joint promotion of related commodities etc (e.g. a book and a film). |
Tie-in-sale | n | A sale in which the buyer, in order to get the article, he wants is required to buy a second article. |
Tie-less | adj | Without or not wearing a necktie. |
Tie-line | n | A transmission line connecting parts of a system, esp. a telephone line connecting two private branch exchanges. |
Tie-pin | n | An ornamental pin for holding a tie in place. |
Tie-rod | n | An iron bar connecting two parts of a structure. |
Tie-up | n | An arrangement between two business firms to advertise each other's goods; a connection, or association. 2. a situation starting from a breakdown of machinery, strike, blockade, obstruction, impasse in which further progress or operation is impossible. part of the barn where cows and oxen are kept. |
Tight | n | Only in O.E., the action of drawing, draught, going, cause, way. 2. bring-up, rearing, training, educator, good breeding, good behavior. |
Til | prep | Until |
Tile | n | A flat thin rectangular slab,as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum, used to cover surfaces, such as roofing, wall or draining or floor tile. 2. game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, 3. a stiff hat. (coll). |
Tile | vb | Covered with tiles, roofed or laid with tiles. |
Tile | adj | OE: serviceable, good, excellent. 2. gain, profit, wealth, possessions. |
Tile | phr | "On the Tiles" - having a spree; out enjoying oneself. |
Tiled | adj | Constructed form, or decorated with tiles. |
Tile earth | n | A species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. |
Tile-less | adj | without tiles; tileless. |
Tile-maker | n | Some one who makes tiles.; a tilemaker. |
Tile-making | n | The manufacture of tiles. |
Tiler | n | A tradesman who covers various surfaces with tiles. |
Tiles | phr | "On the tiles." - out at night enjoying oneself. |
Tiling | n | The action of tiling; covering with tiles. |
Tile-shard | n | A broken piece or fragment of tile |
Tilestone | n | A kind of laminated slate or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian. |
Tile-theeker | n | One who covers roofs with tiles. 2. a roofer; "thatcher" |
Tile-work | n | The tiled surface of something or the arrangement of tiles on a surface. |
Tile-wright | n | A maker of tiles. |
Tiling | n | A covering of tiles. 2. the act of applying tiles. 3. in geometry a tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps. 4. in computing theory a technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache. |
Till | vb | To labor, work for, or at, to cultivate, plow. 2. to labor after, seek after, provide to, get by effort, to acquire or earn by labor. 3. to take care; to attend to medically; to treat a patient or a disease. 4. to bestow labor and attention, such as plowing, harrowing, manuring, etc; on land to make it fit for raising crops and cultivation. 5. prepare, spread in preparation. 6. set a trap or snare. 7. spread in 8. to pitch a tent. |
Till | vb | To touch, reach, attain, obtain. 2. to reach, extend to a specific point or distance. 3. to stretch a thing out. 4. to draw away, to draw, attract, persuade. 5. entice, allure, coax, win over, proceed. |
Tilled | adj | Covered with tiles. |
Tiller | n | One who tills the soil or cultivate any crop or plant. 2. a husbandman, tillman, tillsman, cultivator, farmer, earth-tiller, tilthman. |
Tiller | n | A plant, a shoot; twig, esp., a shoot or sucker from the root. 2. a young tree, sapling; esp., a stock, shoot raising from the stock or stem of a felled tree. |
Tillered | adj | Having several shoots spreading from the roots; also fig. renewed growth. |
Tillerman | n | A tiller of the soil. |
Till-hew | vb | To cut or hew in pieces. |
Tilling | n | The cultivation or the act of cultivation of land in order to raise crops. |
Tilly | adj | Abounding in, or of the nature of tilly or tenacious clay. |
Tillman | n | A man who tills the earth; a husbandman. |
Tilt | n | Late Middle English (in the sense ‘fall or cause to fall, topple’): perhaps related to Old English tealt ‘unsteady’, or perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian tylten ‘unsteady’ 2. a medieval sport in which competitors charge one another with a lance whilst on horseback. 3. a thrust with a lance. 4. a sloping position or movement. 5. an upwards or downwards pivoting movement of a camera. 6. an inclination or bias. |
Tilt | n | (OE teld: a tent) - a tent; the canvas covering of a cart; a small canvas awning over the stern-sheets of a boat. |
Tilt | vb | To cover with an awning. |
Tilt | vb | To raise one end of; to tip up. 2. to thrust as with a lance. 3. to forge with a tilt-hammer. 4. to charge on horseback with a lance. 5. |
Tilt | phr | "At Full Tilt" - at full speed. |
Tilt | phr | "Have a Tilt at" - make innuendoes about. |
Tilt | phr | "Run Full tilt at" - run very rapidly. |
Tilt | phr | "Tilt at Windmills" - attack imaginary enemies, supposing them to be real |
Tilth | n | Labour, the act of labour, work or effort directed to useful or profitable ends. 2. right-tilth or honest labour. 3. labour in cultivation, agricultural work, husbandry. 4. the cultivation or knowledge in morality, religion or the mind. 5. the result or produce of tilling, a crop or harvest. 6. land under cultivation, as distinguished from pastures. 7. tilled or arable land, tilth-ground or a ploughed field. 8. prepared surface, soil, "the crumbs." 9. the depth of soil ploughed or cultivated. |
Tilth | vb | To cultivate, till, plough or plow. 2. to cultivate things of the mind |
Tilthing | n | The act of cultivation, (fig & lit). |
Tilward | adj | To the direction of, towards. |
Timber | n | In Old English a building. 2. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material; lumber.
3. a beam made of wood; a post made of wood. 4. land that is covered with trees and shrubs, forest, woodland. 5. wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like. 6. the body, stem, or trunk of a tree. 7. material for any structure. |
Timber | vb | To build, construct, make. 2. of a bird, to build a nest. 3. to construct, have affect, do, form, cause, bring about, bring into existence or operation (any action, condition, etc.) 4. to add fuel to a fire. 5. to support by means of timber, a roof or other structure. 6. to cover or frame with timber. 7. of a tree, to form or produce wood or timber. 8. to surmount as timber. 9. to furnish with timber. |
Timber | phr | "Timber Out" - to divide timber into beams, planks etc.; suitable for building. |
Timbered | adj | Covered with growing trees; wooded. 2. constructed of timber. |
Timber-frame | n | A house built usually factory-prepared sections of timber framework. |
Timber-framed | adj | Applied to a building in which timber is the only structural part of the building, except the foundations. 2. having a timber-frame. |
Timber-getter | n | A timber-cutter; a lumberjack. |
Timber-head | n | A projecting end of a ship's timber used for making fast the hawsers. |
Timbering | n | Timber materials collectively. 2. timber-work; timbers collectively. 3. the act or process of furnishing with timber. 4.temporary timbers used for supporting the sides of an excavations. |
Timberland | n | Land covered with forest yielding timber. |
Timberless | adj | Devoid or without timber. |
Timberlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of timber in one aspect or another. |
Timberline | n | The tree line above which altitude trees will not grow. |
Timberlode | n | One of the feudal obligations of a serf to supply his lord with cut timber. |
Timberman | n | A person who works with timber. 2. a lumberjack; a man responsible for the timber-props in a mine. |
Timber-monger | n | Trader in timber and timber products. |
Timbers | n | The variety of woods used. 2. the framework ribs of a boat to which the planking or skin is attached. |
Timber-stand | n | All trees occupying an area capable of producing timber, including but not limited to, logs, poles, posts, pulpwood and other cordwood products. |
Timber-toes | n | A person with a (wooden) prosthetic. |
Timber-trees | n | A tree suitable for building purposes. |
Timber wolf | n | A type of large North American grey wolf. |
Timberwork | n | Work or constructed of wood, especially the framing of a structure. |
Timberyard | n | A place where cut timber is stored. |
Time | n | In instance or single occasion for some event. 2. a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something. 3. an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities 4. a suitable moment. 5. the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past. 6. a person's experience on a particular occasion.
7. a reading of a point in time as given by a clock; clock. 8. the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event; fourth dimension. 9. rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration meter, metre. 10: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; prison term, sentence, time. |
Time | vb | To befall, happen, farewell, prosper. 2.to measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain per-iod of time. 3. assign a time for an activity or event. 3.set the speed, duration, or execution of. 4.regulate or set the time of, to regulate, or agree with, in time of movement. 5. adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time. 6. to ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen. 7. to measure, as in music or harmony. 8. to keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. 9. to pass time; to delay. [Obs.] |
Time | phr | "Against Time" - with utmost speed, so as to finish by a specified (working against time). |
Time | phr | "Ahead of One's Time." - have, or with, an idea or invention that is too advanced or earlier than expected for one's peers. |
Time | phr | "All In Good Time." - as soon as it seems appropriate. 2. in one's own good time: at a time and place decided by you. 3. in good time; with time to spare. |
Time | phr | "All the Time" - during the whole of times referred to. 2.constantly. 3. at all times. |
Time | phr | "Any Time" - no thanks are necessary. |
Time | phr | "At a Time" - separately in specified groups or numbers, as 'came three at a time' |
Time | phr | "At One Time." - at some unspecified time in the past; formerly. |
Time | phr | "At the Same Time" - simultaneously, at a time that is the same for all; moreover. |
Time | phr | "At Times" - occasionally, intermittently, now and then. |
Time | phr | "Beat Time" - to mark rythmn of the music by the movement of the hand or a baton. |
Time | phr | "Before One's Time" - prematurely. |
Time | phr | "Before Time" - before the due or expected times. |
Time | phr | "Be In Good Time" - punctual. |
Time | phr | "Bide One's Time" - wait for a good chance. |
Time | phr | "Born Before One's Time" - to be more advanced in ideas than one's peers. |
Time | phr | "Bring to Time" - to call to account, discipline, force to conform. |
Time | phr | "Do Time."- serve a prison sentence. |
Time | phr | "Father Time" - the personification of time, especially as an old man with a scythe and hour glass. 2. also 'Old Father Time' |
Time | phr | "For the Time Being" - for the present, meanwhile. 2. until some other arrangement is made. |
Time | phr | "From time to Time" - occasionally, sometimes, once in awhile. |
Time | phr | "Half the Time" - as often as not. |
Time | phr | "Have a Lean Time" - time of difficulty (because of lack of money). |
Time | phr | "Have a Time' - to experience unusual pleasure, difficulty, etc. |
Time | phr | "Have Had One's Time" - in soldier's expression for being ripe for death. |
Time | phr | "Have Not Much Time for" - have a strong dislike for. |
Time | phr | "Have the Time of One's Life" - a period or occasion of exceptional enjoyment. |
Time | phr | "Have a Time of It" - undergo trouble or difficulty. |
Time | phr | "Have the Time" - be able to spend the time. |
Time | phr | "High Time" - the expiration of, or a time past the the expiration of, of a period in which something should have done. |
Time | phr | "If I've Told You Once I've Told you a thousand Times" - I express resentment at the need to constantly repeat some statement. |
Time | phr | "In Good Time" - with time to spare. |
Time | phr | "In No Time" - very soon; very quickly. |
Time | phr | "In One's Own Time" - at whatever rate or pace suits one. 2. in one's own working time. |
Time | phr | "In One's Time" - at or during some previous period of one's life. |
Time | phr | "In the Fullness of Time" - eventually. |
Time | phr | "In Time" - not late, punctual. 2. eventually: in time you may agree. 3. in accordance with a given rhythm or tempo (especially in music) |
Time | phr | "Keep Good Time" - (of a clock) recording time accurately. 2. be habitually punctual. 3. be in good time. |
Time | phr | "Keep time" - sing or move etc in time. |
Time | phr | "Know the Time of Day" - to be smart, wide awake. |
Time | phr | "Living on Borrowed Time" - to live longer than expected. |
Time | phr | "Long Time No See" - it good to see you again. |
Time | phr | "Lose No Time" - act immediately. |
Time | phr | "Make a Time" - make a fuss or to-do. |
Time | phr | "Make Time" - find an occasion when time is available to do something. 2. make sexual advances to. |
Time | phr | "Make (good) Time" - gain time, especially, to make up for lost time by extra speed, as a train. 2. to perform, achieve , arrive in a certain time, as 'make good time' 3. (slang) to impress or influence favorably with. |
Time | phr | "Mark Time" - keep the feet moving as if marching but without going forward or back. 2. (fig) to delay; put in time without doing anything new. |
Time | phr | "Not Before Time" - not too soon; timely. 2. only just in time. |
Time | phr | "Not Give Somebody the Time of Day" - not acknowledge someone; not give someone respect. 2. not do the slightest favor for ; being unwilling to help anybody.. 2. not great or or speak to. 3. have contempt for. |
Time | phr | "No Time" - a very short interval. |
Time | phr | "Not Know the Time of Day" - lack mental alertness and awareness: slow and dull; stupid; sleepy. |
Time | phr | "One at a Time" - singly or in specified groups. |
Time | phr | "One's Time is One's Own" - one is free to arrange one's duties , activities, leisure time, holidays, etc to suit one's own convenience. |
Time | phr | "On Time" - promptly, according to schedule; 2. paid for, or to be paid for, at a later date by installments. |
Time | phr | "Out Of Time" - unseasonable; unseasonably. |
Time | phr | "Play for time" - delay in the hope of gaining an advantage. |
Time | phr | "Take One's Time" - do something at one's own pace. |
Time | phr | "Take Time by the Forelocks" - sieze the moment; carpe diem. |
Time | phr | "There Was a Time" - there was a time when I ... |
Time | phr | "The Time of Day" - the hour by the clock. 2. salutations appropriate to the time of day. |
Time | phr | "Time After Time" - repeatedly; on many occasions; very often. 2. time and time again; time and again. |
Time | phr | "Time Alone Will Tell" - I do not know, nobody knows, at present; one will only in the future. |
Time | phr | "Time and Again" - repeatedly, time after time; |
Time | phr | "Time and a Half" - a rate of pay fifty percent (50%) greater than normal, especially for overtime. |
Time | phr | "Time and Tide Stills for No Man" - action is necessary without delay. |
Time | phr | "Time and Time Again" - very often, on many occasionally, frequently, repetitiously, repeatedly, time and again. |
Time | phr | "Time Flies" - time seems to pass very quickly, more quickly than you notice, when you are occupied doing something. |
Time | phr | "Time Hangs Heavily on One's Hands" - time passes too slowly; the days seem long, because one does not have enough to do, one is bored. |
Time | phr | "Time Has Come to Do Something" - it has now become right, or necessary for somebody to do something. |
Time | phr | "Time Heals All Wounds" - negative feelings eventually go or erode away (anyway, death will always intervene) |
Time | phr | "Time is a Great Healer" - with the passing of time pain, grief, enmity etc come to be less keenly felt. |
Time | phr | "Time is Getting On" - it is getting late. |
Time | phr | "Time Is on the Side Of" - the more time that passes, the longer something takes to begin or finish, the more somebody will be helped, profited, proved right. |
Time | phr | "Time is Ripe" - it is, or was, a very suitable occasion or period (for something to happen or to be done); time is sufficiently advanced to secure the result. |
Time | phr | "Time's Up" - time is up; and the deadline has passed. |
Time | phr | "Time of Day" - the day according to the clock. See: 'not give someone the time of day' |
Time | phr | "Time off" - a period of time where one is not required to work. |
Time | phr | "Time of the Month" - euphemistically, the time when a woman is menstruating (or about to). |
Time | phr | "Time of the Year" - a particular time of the year. |
Time | phr | "Time of Your Life." - a thrilling memorable experience. Time here is an episode, usually an all-to brief period. |
Time | phr | "Time on My Hands." - I'm bored, I haven't enough to do. |
Time | phr | "Time Out" - the intentional ending of an incomplete task after a time limit considered to be enough for it to end. 2. a break from a stressful task or undertaking. |
Time | phr | "Time Out of Mind"- from a time or during a period of human memory. 2. time immemorial. |
Time | phr | "Time Stood Still"- applied to moments of, or periods of ectasy or profound absorption; (there seemed to be no such thing as time.) |
Time | phr | "Time Up!" - stop! |
Time | phr | "Time Was" - it was once true |
Time | phr | "Time with his Sickle."- is time personified; "Time" has an hour-glass in one hand, a sickle in the other." |
Time | phr | "Time When"- or "there was a time when" one was able or accustomed to do something. 2. a period of time. |
Time | phr | "Time You Got a Watch" - a phrase used to reply to the question what time is it. 2. an expression directed at a habitually punctuality-lacking person. |
Time-belt | n | A time zone, as 'Greenwich Mean Time (G.M.T.) |
Timebook | n | A record of an employees' hours of work. |
Timebox | n | A solitary confinement cell in a prison (a slang term). |
Timed | adj | Happening at a certain time. 2. regulated by time. 3. marked or printed with a specific time; (specifically of a ticket) valid only a stated time. |
Time frame | n | A specified period of time in which something occurs or is planned. |
Timeful | adj | Seasonable, early in the season, temporal |
Time keeper | n | A person who records time, esp. that of workers or in a game. 2. a watch or clock as regards accuracy. 3. a person as regards punctuality. |
Timekeeping | n | The recording of times worked by a group of employees. 2. the keeping of time, according to the laws and rules, of a particular game or sporting event. 2. the measurement of time, or determining what the local time is. |
Timeless | adj | Unaffected by time, dateless, unseasonable, untimely. 2. done or occurring before the proper time. 3. having no end, unending; eternal. |
Timelessly | adv | In a timeless manner or way. |
Timelessness | n | State of external existence believed in by some religions characterized by the afterlife. 2. eternity, ever-lastingness, foreverness, never-endingness. |
Timelike | adj | In mathematics, physics of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively. 2 in physics of the interval between two events in spacetime having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other. |
Timeline | n | A graphical representation of a chronological sequence of events (past or future). 2. a chronology, a schedule of activities, a timetable. |
Timeliness | n | The state of being timely; being at the right time, seasonableness. 2. timely convenience. 3. quality or state of being timely, or opportune. |
Timeloan | n | A loan which must be repay by a certain date. |
Timelock | n | A lock that is operated by a timing device, so as to prevent it unlocked before the specified time. 2. a device built into a computer program to stop it operating after a certain time. |
Time-locked | adj | Inextricably linked to a certain period of time. 3. secured by a lock. |
Timelord | n | A person (in science fiction literature) who is able to time-travel. |
Timely | adj | Without ref to time; independently of the passage of time. 2. in good time, opportune. |
Timely | adv | Opportunely, seasonably, early. |
Time-off | n | Time for rest or recreation. |
Time-of-flight | n | Used attributively to describe various processes, devices etc, that use the time as an object or light takes to travel a certain distance. |
Time-out | n | Any interval of rest taken during the course of a regular period of work; brief intermission. 2. a short recess requested by a team during play. |
Timer | n | A timepiece that measures a time interval and signals it's end. 2. a timekeeper in sport or the workplace. 3. a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times. |
Times | vb | Multiply of a number. |
Time-share | n | Share in a property under time-sharing. |
Timesharing | n | A computer term in which a number of users at different terminals simultaneously use a single computer for different purposes. 2. in real estate a plan in which persons share ownership or rental costs of a holiday home, entitling each person or participant to use the residence at a specific time each year. |
Time sheet | n | A sheet of paper for recording hours of work etc. |
Time-shift | vb | Move from one time to another, especially (a television program) for later viewing. 2. movement from one time to another. |
Time-shifting | n | In broadcasting, time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to after the live broadcasting. Typically, this refers to TV programming but can also refer to radio shows via podcasts. |
Time sink | n | A time sink (also timesink; time-sink, time-suck), time drain or time-waster is an activity that consumes a significant amount of time, especially one which is seen as a wasteful way of spending it. Although it is unknown when the term was coined, it makes an analogy with heat sink. |
Timesome | adj | Of, or pertaining to, exists in, or subject to time, as opposed eternity. 2. of finite duration, temporal. |
Timesomeness | n | State or condition of being timesome - subject to time, temporalness. |
Time-span | n | A period spanning a duration of time. |
Time-step | n | An interval. |
Time-stepping | n | In mathematics, a step wise temporal analyses. |
Timestream | n | (Time-stream) - a metaphorical conception of time as a stream, a flowing body of water. In Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, the term is more narrowly defined as: "the series of all events from past to future, especially when conceived of as one of many such series" |
Time suck | n | A time consuming activity. 2. a time-sink. |
Timeward | adv | Temporal |
Time warp | n | An imaginary distortion of space in relation to time , whereby persons or objects of one age can be moved to another. 2. a state in which the styles, attitudes etc of a past period are retained, as caught in a 1970s time warp. |
Time wave | n | In novelty theory, a graph of novelty plotted against time. |
Timewise | adv | In respect of time. |
Timework | n | Work paid for at some much an hour, or day as opposed to piece-work. |
Timeworn | adj | Worn or impaired by the process of time; impaired by age; decayed. |
Timing | n | The time when something happens. 2. the regulation of occurrence, pace or co-ordination to achieve a desired effect, as in music theatre, athletics. 3. ( mechanics) in an internal combustion engine, the instant ignition takes place and the valves open and close; the controlling mechanism . 4. the act of setting a watch to time. 6. the act of assessing the time taken to do something. |
Tin | n | A silvery-white malleable element resisting corrosion, occurring naturally in cassiterite and other ore, and used esp. in alloys and for plating thin iron or steel sheets to form tin plates. 2. vessel or container made of tin or tinned iron. 3. and air-tight sealed container made of tin plate or aluminium for preserving food. 3. slang: money; cash; a policeman's badge. |
Tin | phr | "As Mad as a Tin Full of Worms" - crazy, wild, irate. |
Tin | phr | "Put the Tin Lid On" - bring something to an aend in an unpleasant way. |
Tin | vb | To seal food in airtight tin containers for preservation. 2. cover or coat with tin. |
Tin | phr | "Put the Tin Lid On" - be the culmination of. 2. to put a stop to. 3. bring something to an abrupt and conclusive end. |
Tin-arsed | adj | Lucky, (Australian slang); also tinny. |
Tin blight | n | An autocatalytic, allotropic transformation of the element tin, which causes deterioration of tin objects at low temperatures. Tin pest has also been called tin disease, tin blight or tin leprosy (lèpre d'étain). |
Tin can | n | A container made of tin. 2. an empty can made of tin. 3. (slang)a warship; esp., a destroyer. |
Tind | vb | To kindle, to be kindled, to set on fire, burn. |
Tinder | n | Any dry flammable substance that readily catches fire. 2. a dry substance such as wood that readily catches fire from a spark. |
Tinder-box | n | A container that holds tinder, flint and steel formerly used for starting or kindling fires. |
Tinder-dry | adj | Any flammable substance, so dry, as ready to burn. |
Tinderish | adj | Inclined or likely to burn; tenderly. |
Tindle | n | A name given locally, in parts of England, to small fires lighted or lit outdoors at the beginning of May and November. |
Tine | n | A prong on a fork or pitchfork or deer's antler; a tooth. 2. affliction, trouble; distress, vexation; "Cruel winter's tine." (see "teen) |
Tine | vb. | See Tind. to kindle; to set on fire. "To tine the cloven wood." |
Tine | phr | "Tine the Cloven Wood." - set kindle on fire. |
Tine | vb | To furnish with prongs, a rake, fork, harrow and other similar implements. nb: three-tined: three-prong. |
Tin-eared | adj | Tone deaf. |
Tin-fish | n | (Slang): a submarine; a torpedo. |
Tinful | adj | As much or the amount a tin can hold. |
Tin god | n | (Little Tin God)- The object of an unjustified or misplced veneration. 2. a self-important person who is regarded by himself of by others as of far greater importance that nhe really is. |
Tin-hat | n | A steel hat to protect soldiers from shrapnel. 2. a general officer. |
Tin-hat | phr | "To Put the Tin Hat On." - to bring something to a close or climax. |
Tinhorn | n | A cheap gambler, esp. who acts slowly and gambles for low stakes. 2. poor or contemptible person. 3. an inferior, contemptible, pretentious person. |
Tinlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of tin in some aspect. |
Tinman | n | A man who works in or with tin; a tinsmith. 2. a tin-miner; one who makes tinplate. 3. a dealer in tinware. 4. ship engaged in the carriage of tin ore. |
Tinned | adj | Coated or plated with tin. 2. preserved in air-tight tins; canned. |
Tinned dog | n | Australian slang: canned meat, camp-pie, bully-beef, spam. |
Tinnen | adj | Made of or consisting of tin. |
Tinnet | n | Brushwood for making or repairing hedges (from OE: tynet.) |
Tinnily | adv | In a tinny way. |
Tinniness | n | The quality of being tin, particularly in the sense of being cheap, low-quality metal. 2. the thin, unpleasant sound of an instrument made of tin, or any tinny substance used to make a sound. |
Tinning | adj | The process of plating iron with tin. 2. the processing of canned food iin airtight tins. |
Tinny | adj | Of or like tin. 2. of a metal object: flimsy, insubstantial. 3. of reproduced sound, thin and metallic, lacking low frequencies. 4. making a sound lie tin when struck. 5. Australian slang: lucky. |
Tin-opener | n | A can-opener; a tool or gadget used for opening cans etc. |
Tin-pan | n | Noisy, clamging, inharmonious, tinny. |
Tin pot | adj | Cheap, valueless, inferior. |
Tinsmith | n | A worker in tin and tinplate. |
Tinsmithing | n | The trade of a tinsmith or repairing things of tin or similar alloys. |
Tinstone | n | Cassiterite, the chief source of tin. |
Tintreg | n | Grief, affliction, vexation, torment. |
Tintregend | n | One who afflicts torment and vexation on others. |
Tintregh | vb | OE: to grieve, afflict, vex. 2. to torment. torture. 3. to tintreg. |
Tinware | n | Household utensils made of tin plate. |
Tin whistle | n | A small high-pitched metal whistle that is blown for the end like a flute. |
Tinwork | n | Articles made of tin; work with tin. 2. a place or establishment where tin is manufactured or mined. |
Tire | vb | To fail, diminish, give out, come to an end. 2. to become weak or exhausted from exertion. 4. to have one's strength reduced or worn out by toil or labour. 5. to become fatigued. 5. to become weary by wanting for something. 6. to become weary or exhausted by excess; to have had enough. |
Tire | phr | "Sick and Tired of" - very tired of. |
Tire | phr | "Tired Of " - weary, irritated with , fed up with. |
Tire | phr | "Tire Down" - to exhaust a hunted animal by persistent pursuit; to run down. |
Tire | phr | "Tire Of" - no longer be interested in, or attracted by; weary of. |
Tire | phr | "Tire Out" - exhaust physically or mentally. |
Tired | adj | Exhausted, fatigued, worn-out. |
Tiredly | adv | In a tired, weary or jaded manner. |
Tiredness | n | The state of being tired or fatigued. 2. weariness, fatigue. |
Tireless | adj | Of persons, untiring, proofed against fatigue; indefatigable; unwearied. |
Tirelessly | adv | In a tireless manner; without tiring, untiringly. |
Tirelessness | n | The quality or condition of being tireless; indefatigableness. |
Tiresome | adj | Having the property of tiring by continuance, sameness or lack of interest. 2. wearisome, tedious, irritating. 3. loosely, troublesome, disagreeable, unpleasant, irksome, annoying, vexatious. |
Tiresomely | adv | In a tedious manner, tediously, fatiguing. |
Tiresomeness | n | Condition or quality of being tired or weary, wearisome, tedious. |
Tiring | n | Producing exhaustion, exhausting, wearing, wearying. 2. draining, toilsome, trying. |
Tiring | adj | Wearied, fatigued, exhausting. |
Tiringly | adv | In a tiring manner; to a wearisome degree. |
Tithe | n | A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. 2. a granting, a concession, boon, 3. one whom a concession or grant is made. 4. one successful in prayer or beseeching. |
Tithe | vb | To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on. 2. to grant, concede, bestow a tithe. 3. to decimate. |
Tithe-barn | n | A barn for holding the parish tithe corn. |
Tithed | adj | Subject to, charged with or liable for the payment of a tithe. 2. taken or paid by way of a tithe. |
Tithe-free | Adj | To be free or exempt from the payment of a tithe. |
Tithe-gatherer | n | A collector of tithes. |
Tithe-less | adj | without tithes, not in receipt of tithes. |
Titheman | n | One who pays a tithe. |
Tither | n | A receiver, gatherer or exactor of a tithe. 2. one who pays a tithe. 3. a supporter of the system of ecclesiastical tithes. |
Titheling | n | Tenth part tithe. |
Tithe-monger | n | One who deals in tithes. |
Tithe-taker | n | One who collects tithes. |
Tithing | n | An Anglo-saxon administrative district comprising ten house holders each responsible for the conduct of the others. |
Tithing | n | The act of levying, payment and collecting of tithes. 2. a payment of one-tenth of a total. 3. a stook or shock of ten sheaves. 4. one-tenth of anything. 5.a company of ten householders. 6. the killing of every tenth man or beast; a decimation. 7. the killing of all but one man, soldier etc from a group of ten. |
Tithingman | n | A chief man responsible for the collecting of tithes. 2. a parish peace-keeping officer; a petty constable . 3. the head of a tithing, who rules or leads a group of ten householder in a small Saxon township. |
Tiver | n | A kind of ochre ( red) or coloring used in marking sheep. 2. a secret or magical writing; a charm, talisman; sorcery. |
Tiver | vb | To mark or colour with tiver or red ochre. |
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