--- title: T — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 56 description: The 1049 words of the English dictionary under T, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/page/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / T # T — The English dictionary · page 56 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) The Tuscarora are a Native American people who lived in what is now North Carolina and later moved north to New York and Ontario, Canada.[↗](../../tuscarora/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Tuscarora is also their language, which belongs to the Iroquoian family.[↗](../../tuscarora/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (a name) Tuscarora is also used as a place name for towns, a mountain area and a nation's reservation.[↗](../../tuscarora/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Tuscarora once lived in North Carolina.[↗](../../tuscarora/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Tuscarora joined the Iroquois Confederacy and it became the Six Nations.[↗](../../tuscarora/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Some Tuscarora people live on a reservation in New York State.[↗](../../tuscarora/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Tuscarora is an Iroquoian language.[↗](../../tuscarora/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We read about the Tuscarora in our history project.[↗](../../tuscarora/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **tush** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A cry of scorn, used to say that something is nonsense or that you do not agree.[↗](../../tush/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* "Tush! we shall fare better here," said another.[↗](../../tush/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Tush, that is nonsense.[↗](../../tush/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Tush, I do not believe it.[↗](../../tush/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **tusk** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tusk is a very long, pointed tooth that grows out of the mouth of some animals, such as elephants, walruses, wild boars and narwhals.[↗](../../tusk/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Tusks are used for digging, fighting, lifting and getting food, and they keep growing through the animal's life.[↗](../../tusk/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The elephant lifted the log with its tusks.[↗](../../tusk/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Walruses use their tusks to haul themselves onto the ice.[↗](../../tusk/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A narwhal's tusk is really one long spiral tooth.[↗](../../tusk/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Woolly mammoths had huge curved tusks.[↗](../../tusk/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Elephant tusks are made of ivory.[↗](../../tusk/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The wild boar's tusks were sharp and curved.[↗](../../tusk/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Poachers hunt elephants for their tusks, which is against the law.[↗](../../tusk/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Some elephants are born without tusks.[↗](../../tusk/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Lay your beast alongside, Toomai, and let him prod with his tusks.[↗](../../tusk/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **tusked** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Tusked means having tusks: long, pointed teeth that stick out of the mouth, like those of an elephant, walrus, wild boar or narwhal.[↗](../../tusked/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The tusked walrus pulled itself onto the ice.[↗](../../tusked/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A tusked wild boar burst out of the bushes.[↗](../../tusked/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mammoths were huge tusked animals of the Ice Age.[↗](../../tusked/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The narwhal is a tusked whale with one long spiral tooth.[↗](../../tusked/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the tusked troll guarded the bridge.[↗](../../tusked/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Elephants are the best-known tusked animals.[↗](../../tusked/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **tussle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A rough fight or struggle between two people.[↗](../../tussle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The two giants had a tussle.[↗](../../tussle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · "We shall have a tussle for that!" shrieked the Troll.[↗](../../tussle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The boys tussled over the ball.[↗](../../tussle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **tussock** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A thick clump or tuft of grass growing from the ground, often in wet ground.[↗](../../tussock/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We stepped from tussock to tussock across the bog.[↗](../../tussock/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Water lay between the tussocks.[↗](../../tussock/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The herds grazed among the tussocks.[↗](../../tussock/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **tut** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* interjection.[↗](../../tut/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* A small clicking sound made with the tongue, written «tut» or «tut-tut», showing that you disapprove or are annoyed.[↗](../../tut/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* verb: To make this sound: «She tutted at the noisy boys».[↗](../../tut/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (Tut, informal) Short for Tutankhamun, the famous young pharaoh of ancient Egypt — «King Tut».[↗](../../tut/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Tut-tut, what a mess!» said Grandma.[↗](../../tut/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The lady in the queue tutted when someone pushed in.[↗](../../tut/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum tutted at the muddy footprints.[↗](../../tut/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He gave a loud tut and rolled his eyes.[↗](../../tut/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · King Tut was only a boy when he became pharaoh.[↗](../../tut/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Stop tutting at me, I'm going as fast as I can\![↗](../../tut/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “Tut, tut, tut,” he said, “where does she lie?”[↗](../../tut/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **tutor** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tutor is a teacher who teaches one pupil or a small group, often at home or after school.[↗](../../tutor/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK school) A form tutor is the teacher who looks after a class in secondary school and takes the register.[↗](../../tutor/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (university) A tutor teaches and guides students.[↗](../../tutor/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To tutor means to teach someone in this way.[↗](../../tutor/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My tutor comes on Wednesdays to help with spelling.[↗](../../tutor/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our form tutor reads the notices every morning.[↗](../../tutor/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She tutors younger kids in reading.[↗](../../tutor/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A tutor helped him get ready for the test.[↗](../../tutor/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We discussed the trip in tutor time.[↗](../../tutor/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Big sister tutored me in fractions.[↗](../../tutor/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The tutor charges £20 an hour; how much for 3 hours?[↗](../../tutor/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · So one day he went to his tutor and said:[↗](../../tutor/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **tutu** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tutu is a short, stiff, frilly skirt that sticks out, worn by ballet dancers.[↗](../../tutu/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A tutu is also any light, puffy, net skirt that children wear for dressing up.[↗](../../tutu/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She wore a white tutu for the ballet show.[↗](../../tutu/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My little sister put on her sparkly tutu and twirled round the kitchen.[↗](../../tutu/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dancers' tutus stuck out like plates.[↗](../../tutu/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · For the charity fun run, Dad wore a pink tutu.[↗](../../tutu/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The tutu is made of many layers of stiff net.[↗](../../tutu/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In «Swan Lake» the swans dance in white tutus.[↗](../../tutu/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **tv** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* TV (television) is a machine with a screen that shows programmes, films and news.[↗](../../tv/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* TV also means the programmes that are shown: watching TV.[↗](../../tv/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* TV can mean the business of making these programmes: she works in TV.[↗](../../tv/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We watched a nature programme on TV.[↗](../../tv/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Can I watch TV after my homework?[↗](../../tv/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Turn off the TV; it's time for bed.[↗](../../tv/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My favourite TV show is about animals.[↗](../../tv/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The heavy TV was fixed to the wall so it couldn't fall.[↗](../../tv/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma calls it the telly.[↗](../../tv/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Too much TV before bed can make it hard to sleep.[↗](../../tv/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The football match is on TV tonight.[↗](../../tv/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **twain** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Two.[↗](../../twain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is used in old tales and set phrases.[↗](../../twain/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The rope was cut in twain.[↗](../../twain/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Childe Rowland and his brothers twain were playing ball.[↗](../../twain/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The door split in twain.[↗](../../twain/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD.[↗](../../twain/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.4.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twain/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Above Him stood the seraphim; each one had six wings: with twain he covered his face and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.[↗](../../twain/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.6.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twain/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · And I will give the men that have transgressed My covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof; (Prophets JER.34.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twain/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **twang** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A twang is a sharp, ringing sound like the sound of a tight string being plucked.[↗](../../twang/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A twang is a way of speaking where the voice sounds partly through the nose, often part of an accent: «a Southern twang».[↗](../../twang/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To twang is to make that sound, or to pluck a string so it makes it.[↗](../../twang/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The guitar string made a loud twang.[↗](../../twang/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He twanged the rubber band across the box.[↗](../../twang/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She spoke with a slight American twang.[↗](../../twang/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The arrow left the bow with a twang.[↗](../../twang/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Stretch the band tighter for a higher twang.[↗](../../twang/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The banjo twanged in the background.[↗](../../twang/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa has a Texan twang.[↗](../../twang/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He bent his bow and the sinewy string twanged.[↗](../../twang/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **tweak** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pinch and twist something quickly, such as a nose.[↗](../../tweak/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To make a small adjustment to something.[↗](../../tweak/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* They tweaked Peter's nose and passed on.[↗](../../tweak/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I tweaked the settings on the screen.[↗](../../tweak/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Tweak the recipe a little.[↗](../../tweak/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **tweedle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To play a tune lightly on a pipe or whistle, making a trilling sound.[↗](../../tweedle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* By-and-by he saw a man playing the bagpipes.[↗](../../tweedle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He tweedled a little tune on his whistle.[↗](../../tweedle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The fiddler tweedled merrily all evening.[↗](../../tweedle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **tweet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (noun) The short, high sound a small bird makes; (verb) to make this sound.[↗](../../tweet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A short message posted on the social media site Twitter (now called X); (verb) to post such a message.[↗](../../tweet/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To squeak or cry out in a small, high voice, like a mouse.[↗](../../tweet/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The little birds tweeted in the tree outside my window.[↗](../../tweet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Tweet, tweet!» sang the robin.[↗](../../tweet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The footballer tweeted a photo of the trophy.[↗](../../tweet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · His tweet went viral and thousands of people saw it.[↗](../../tweet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Think before you tweet, because others can share it.[↗](../../tweet/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The news was announced in a tweet.[↗](../../tweet/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby chicks tweeted for food.[↗](../../tweet/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Tweet," he cried; "you trod very hard upon me, madam."[↗](../../tweet/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **tweezer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Tweezers are a small tool with two thin metal arms that you squeeze together to pick up or pull out tiny things, such as splinters.[↗](../../tweezer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum used tweezers to take out my splinter.[↗](../../tweezer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The first-aid kit has a pair of tweezers.[↗](../../tweezer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pick up the tiny bead with the tweezers.[↗](../../tweezer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The scientist lifted the leaf with tweezers.[↗](../../tweezer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask an adult to remove a tick with tweezers.[↗](../../tweezer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My tweezers are in the bathroom drawer.[↗](../../tweezer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **twelfth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Twelfth comes after eleventh in order: number 12.[↗](../../twelfth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A twelfth is one of twelve equal parts of a whole, written 1/12.[↗](../../twelfth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A month is one twelfth of a year.[↗](../../twelfth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He finished twelfth in the race.[↗](../../twelfth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · One twelfth of the class was absent.[↗](../../twelfth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The twelfth page has a picture.[↗](../../twelfth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A month is one twelfth of a year.[↗](../../twelfth/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · One twelfth of 36 is 3.[↗](../../twelfth/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She is in twelfth grade.[↗](../../twelfth/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The pizza was cut into twelfths.[↗](../../twelfth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · "Then you shall be the twelfth," said the old Chinaman.[↗](../../twelfth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali: (Torah NUM.7.78, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelfth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · that Saadjah Gaon, who lived in the tenth, and Judah Halevi, who lived in the twelfth century, represented the book "Yezirah" as a very ancient work.[↗](../../twelfth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../twelfth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · I must not omit to mention two other Hebrew commentaries, one by Judah Halevi, and the other by Ebn Ezra, who lived in the first part of the twelfth century.[↗](../../twelfth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../twelfth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim; (Writings 1CH.24.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelfth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelfth/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.[↗](../../twelfth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 1CH.27.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelfth/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **twelve** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Twelve is the number 12.[↗](../../twelve/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is one more than eleven.[↗](../../twelve/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A dozen is twelve.[↗](../../twelve/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") A year has 12 months.[↗](../../twelve/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A clock face shows 12 hours.[↗](../../twelve/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There are twelve eggs in a box.[↗](../../twelve/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A year has twelve months.[↗](../../twelve/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He is twelve years old.[↗](../../twelve/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Twelve children came to the party.[↗](../../twelve/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A foot is twelve inches.[↗](../../twelve/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · At twelve o'clock we have lunch.[↗](../../twelve/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A dozen roses is twelve roses.[↗](../../twelve/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Twelve can be shared equally by 2, 3, 4 and 6.[↗](../../twelve/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The twelve princesses went upstairs to bed.[↗](../../twelve/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, (Torah NUM.31.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelve/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: (Torah GEN.35.22, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelve/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.[↗](../../twelve/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.14.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelve/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.[↗](../../twelve/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.4.15, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelve/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Jorah, a hundred and twelve.[↗](../../twelve/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelve/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.[↗](../../twelve/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.7.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twelve/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **twelvemonth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A year, or twelve months.[↗](../../twelvemonth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* That day twelvemonth the wood came ashore.[↗](../../twelvemonth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I will wait here to-morrow twelvemonth.[↗](../../twelvemonth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She was lonely for another twelvemonth.[↗](../../twelvemonth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **twentieth** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Twentieth comes after nineteenth in order: number 20.[↗](../../twentieth/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A twentieth is one of twenty equal parts of a whole, written 1/20.[↗](../../twentieth/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The twentieth century was a hundred years of history, the time of the first cars, planes and computers.[↗](../../twentieth/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She was the twentieth person in line.[↗](../../twentieth/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · One twentieth of 100 is 5.[↗](../../twentieth/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · On his twentieth birthday he got a car.[↗](../../twentieth/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The twentieth floor is the top.[↗](../../twentieth/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · One twentieth is the same as five percent.[↗](../../twentieth/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Planes were invented in the twentieth century.[↗](../../twentieth/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “Tink can’t go a twentieth part of the way round,” she reminded him a little tartly.[↗](../../twentieth/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.[↗](../../twentieth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.8.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twentieth/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.[↗](../../twentieth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.12.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twentieth/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.[↗](../../twentieth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.10.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twentieth/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel; (Writings 1CH.24.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twentieth/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · For the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.27, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twentieth/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul; (Writings 1CH.24.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twentieth/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **twenty** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Twenty is the number 20.[↗](../../twenty/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") It is two tens.[↗](../../twenty/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A twenty is a twenty-dollar or twenty-pound note.[↗](../../twenty/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She has twenty stickers.[↗](../../twenty/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He paid with a twenty-dollar bill.[↗](../../twenty/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Twenty children are in the class.[↗](../../twenty/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Twenty is four times five.[↗](../../twenty/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We have ten fingers and ten toes, twenty in all.[↗](../../twenty/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bus comes every twenty minutes.[↗](../../twenty/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My aunt is in her twenties.[↗](../../twenty/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘I am fifteen, and she is twenty.’[↗](../../twenty/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.[↗](../../twenty/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.11.24, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twenty/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, (Torah GEN.32.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twenty/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.[↗](../../twenty/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.25.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twenty/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And he judged Israel twenty years.[↗](../../twenty/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.16.31, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twenty/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.[↗](../../twenty/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.32, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twenty/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.[↗](../../twenty/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings EZR.2.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twenty/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **twice** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Twice means two times: «I rang twice».[↗](../../twice/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Twice as many or twice as much means double the amount.[↗](../../twice/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Ben has twice as many cookies as Lily.[↗](../../twice/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Zoe read twice as many pages as Tom.[↗](../../twice/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Sam jumped twice.[↗](../../twice/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Brush your teeth twice a day.[↗](../../twice/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A bike has twice as many wheels as a unicycle.[↗](../../twice/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I knocked twice, but nobody came.[↗](../../twice/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Think twice before you say something unkind.[↗](../../twice/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother is twice my age.[↗](../../twice/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Fairy clapped her hands twice.[↗](../../twice/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.[↗](../../twice/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.20.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twice/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.[↗](../../twice/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.41.32, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twice/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And it shall come to pass on the sixth day that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.'[↗](../../twice/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.16.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twice/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Lo, all these things doth God work, twice, yea thrice, with a man, (Writings JOB.33.29, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twice/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · God hath spoken once, twice have I heard this: that strength belongeth unto God; (Writings PSA.62.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twice/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.[↗](../../twice/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings NEH.13.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../twice/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") 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