--- title: T — The school dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 2 description: The 969 words of the school 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/school/T/page/2/) [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/) / [school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/) / T # T — The school dictionary · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/) **2** [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/3/) [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/4/) [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/5/) [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/6/) [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/7/) [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/8/) [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/9/) [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/10/) - [tardiness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tardiness/) — Tardiness is being late, especially arriving late to school, work or a meeting. — 8 sentences - [tardy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tardy/) — Tardy means late, arriving after the right time: «Don't be tardy for class». — 9 sentences - [target](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/target/) — A target is a thing you aim at and try to hit, like the circle in archery or darts. — 12 sentences - [tariff](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tariff/) — A tariff is a tax that a country makes people pay on goods brought in from another country. — 8 sentences - [tarmac](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarmac/) — Tarmac is a hard black material for road and path surfaces, made of crushed stones mixed with tar. — 8 sentences - [tarnish](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarnish/) — To tarnish is when metal like silver, brass or copper loses its shine and gets dull or dark, because of the air. — 10 sentences - [taro](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taro/) — Taro is a tropical plant grown for its large, starchy root (corm), which is cooked and eaten like a potato. Its big leaves are heart-shape… — 12 sentences - [tarpan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarpan/) — The tarpan was a wild horse that lived in Europe and western Asia, including the steppes of Ukraine and Russia; it is now extinct. The las… — 9 sentences - [tarry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarry/) — To tarry is to stay somewhere for a while or to wait before going on. — 5 sentences - [tarsier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarsier/) — A tarsier is a tiny primate from islands in South-East Asia, such as the Philippines and Borneo, with huge round eyes, long back legs and… — 8 sentences - [tarsus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarsus/) — The tarsus is the group of small bones in the ankle and upper foot (science). — 9 sentences - [tart](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tart/) — A tart is an open pie made of pastry with a sweet or savoury filling, like jam or fruit. — 13 sentences - [tartan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartan/) — Tartan is a pattern of coloured stripes crossing each other at right angles, making squares; it is woven into woollen cloth, especially in… — 11 sentences - [tartar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartar/) — Tartar is a hard yellowish coating that builds up on teeth if they are not cleaned well. — 12 sentences - [tartaric](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartaric/) — Tartaric describes tartaric acid, a natural acid found in grapes, bananas and tamarinds; it is used in cooking, baking powder (as cream of… — 7 sentences - [tartly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tartly/) — In a sharp way, with a little unkind edge, as when someone is annoyed and speaks briefly. — 3 sentences - [tarzan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tarzan/) — Tarzan is a made-up character created by the American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs in the novel "Tarzan of the Apes" (1912): a boy raised b… — 10 sentences - [task](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/task/) — A task is a piece of work that someone has to do, often given by someone else. — 11 sentences - [tasmanian](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasmanian/) — Tasmanian means from or about Tasmania, the island state in the south of Australia. — 10 sentences - [tassel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tassel/) — A tassel is a bunch of threads or strings tied together at the top and hanging loose at the bottom, used for decoration on cushions, curta… — 9 sentences - [taste](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taste/) — The flavour of food or drink in your mouth. — 19 sentences - [tasteless](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasteless/) — Tasteless food has little or no flavour. — 10 sentences - [tasty](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tasty/) — Having a good, pleasant flavour. — 10 sentences - [tat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tat/) — Tat is cheap, tasteless or useless things, like junk sold at a fair: «The shop sells tourist tat». — 10 sentences - [tatar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tatar/) — A member of a Turkic people who live mainly in Tatarstan in Russia, and also in Crimea (Crimean Tatars) and other countries. — 9 sentences - [tatter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tatter/) — A tatter is a torn scrap of cloth or paper. «In tatters» means torn into many pieces, very worn or ragged. — 5 sentences - [tattered](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tattered/) — Torn and ragged, old and worn out at the edges. — 4 sentences - [tattler](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tattler/) — A tattler is a person who tells other people's secrets or spreads gossip, often to get into trouble. — 3 sentences - [tattletale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tattletale/) — A tattletale is a person, often a child, who tells a teacher or parent about other people's small mistakes, usually to get them into troub… — 8 sentences - [tattling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tattling/) — Tattling means telling an adult about someone's small misbehaviour, often just to get them into trouble (mainly American). — 9 sentences - [tattoo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tattoo/) — A picture or pattern made on the skin with ink pushed in by a needle, which stays there. — 12 sentences - [tatty](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tatty/) — Old, worn out and in poor condition, a bit shabby. — 10 sentences - [tatu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tatu/) — "Tatu" is the Ukrainian word for Dad when you call him or speak to him directly. — 16 sentences - [taunt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taunt/) — To taunt someone is to say unkind things to hurt their feelings or to make them angry. — 5 sentences - [taurus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taurus/) — Taurus is a group of stars (a constellation) that looks like the shape of a bull. — 9 sentences - [tavern](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tavern/) — A tavern is an inn or public house where people go to eat and drink. — 4 sentences - [tawny](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tawny/) — Tawny describes a warm orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour, like a lion's fur. — 9 sentences - [tax](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tax/) — Money that people and businesses must pay to the government to pay for things like schools, roads, hospitals and police. — 12 sentences - [taxation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxation/) — Taxation is the system of taking money (taxes) from people and businesses to pay for things a government provides. — 8 sentences - [taxi](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxi/) — A taxi is a car with a driver that you pay to take you where you want to go. — 9 sentences - [taxman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxman/) — The taxman is the government office that collects taxes, spoken of as if it were one person. — 9 sentences - [taxonomic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxonomic/) — Taxonomic means to do with sorting living things into named groups, such as kingdom, family, genus and species. — 9 sentences - [taxpayer](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/taxpayer/) — A person or business that pays taxes (money) to the government. — 7 sentences - [tay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tay/) — The River Tay is the longest river in Scotland (about 190 km), flowing past Perth and into the sea at Dundee; also Loch Tay and the Firth… — 8 sentences - [te](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/te/) — In tonic sol-fa singing (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, te), «te» is the seventh note of the major scale, just below the top do; it is spelt «ti»… — 12 sentences - [tea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tea/) — Tea is a hot drink made by pouring boiling water onto dried leaves of the tea plant. — 14 sentences - [teach](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teach/) — To teach means to help someone learn something by showing or explaining it. — 11 sentences - [teachable](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teachable/) — Able and willing to learn: a teachable puppy. — 10 sentences - [teacher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacher/) — A teacher is a person whose job is to help pupils learn, at school or in a class. — 22 sentences - [teaching](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teaching/) — Teaching is the work of showing or explaining things so that others learn them. — 5 sentences - [teacup](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teacup/) — A teacup is a cup used for drinking tea, often with a handle and a saucer. — 8 sentences - [teal](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teal/) — Teal is a blue-green colour, darker than turquoise. — 9 sentences - [team](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/team/) — A team is a group of people who play a sport or game together against others. — 13 sentences - [teammate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teammate/) — A teammate is a person who is on the same team as you, in a sport, game or school project. — 9 sentences - [teamwork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teamwork/) — Working together well as a group to reach a shared goal, each person helping the others. — 8 sentences - [teapot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teapot/) — A teapot is a pot with a handle, a lid and a spout, used for making and pouring tea. — 9 sentences - [tear](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tear/) — A tear (rhymes with «ear») is a drop of salty water that comes from your eye, when you cry, laugh a lot or get something in your eye. — 13 sentences - [teardrop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teardrop/) — A teardrop is a single tear falling from the eye. — 9 sentences - [tearful](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tearful/) — Tearful means crying, or close to tears, with wet eyes or a shaky voice. — 4 sentences - [teary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teary/) — Teary means full of tears or close to crying: teary eyes, a teary goodbye. — 10 sentences - [tease](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tease/) — To tease someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them, in a friendly way or an unkind way. — 10 sentences - [teased](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teased/) — Laughed at someone or made jokes about them, either in a friendly, playful way or in an unkind way that hurts. — 13 sentences - [teaser](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teaser/) — A teaser is a short puzzle or question that makes you think hard, often called a brain teaser. — 10 sentences - [teasing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teasing/) — Teasing is making fun of someone or annoying them with words or tricks, sometimes in a friendly way and sometimes in a hurtful way. — 10 sentences - [teaspoon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teaspoon/) — A teaspoon is a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee and for eating some foods. — 9 sentences - [teat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teat/) — A teat is the small, soft part on a female mammal's body that her babies suck to get milk; cows, goats and pigs have teats. — 8 sentences - [teatime](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teatime/) — The time in the late afternoon or early evening when people eat their evening meal, often called «tea». — 10 sentences - [tech](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tech/) — Tech is a short word for technology, like computers, phones and the internet. — 12 sentences - [technical](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/technical/) — Technical means to do with science, machines, computers or practical skills. — 11 sentences - [technically](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/technically/) — Technically means according to the exact rules or facts, even if it doesn't seem that way in everyday life, as in "Technically, a tomato i… — 9 sentences - [technique](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/technique/) — A technique is a special way of doing something that needs skill, like a painting technique or a swimming technique. — 9 sentences - [technology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/technology/) — The use of science and knowledge to make useful tools, machines and ways of doing things. — 10 sentences - [tectonics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tectonics/) — Tectonics, or plate tectonics, is the idea that the Earth's outer shell is broken into huge pieces called plates that move very slowly, an… — 8 sentences - [ted](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/ted/) — A teddy bear: «my old ted». — 10 sentences - [teddy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teddy/) — A teddy (or teddy bear) is a soft toy bear made of furry cloth and stuffed so it is cuddly. — 9 sentences - [tedious](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tedious/) — Long, slow and boring; tiring because it goes on and on. — 10 sentences - [tee](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tee/) — A tee is a small peg, often wooden or plastic, that holds a golf ball up before it is hit. — 12 sentences - [teem](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teem/) — To teem with something is to be full of it, crowded with lots of living things moving about: «The pond teemed with tadpoles». — 9 sentences - [teen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teen/) — A teenager, a person aged 13 to 19. — 10 sentences - [teenage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenage/) — Aged between 13 and 19, or connected with people of that age. — 8 sentences - [teenager](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teenager/) — A person between 13 and 19 years old. — 9 sentences - [teens](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teens/) — Your teens are the years of your life when your age ends in «-teen», from 13 to 19. — 10 sentences - [teeny](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teeny/) — Very small; tiny. — 11 sentences - [teepee](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teepee/) — A teepee is a cone-shaped tent of poles covered with skins or cloth, used by some Native American peoples. (Also spelled tepee.). — 5 sentences - [teethe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teethe/) — When a baby teethes, its first teeth are growing through the gums, which can make the baby sore, grumpy and dribbly. — 7 sentences - [teething](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teething/) — The time when a baby's first teeth are growing through the gums, which can be sore. — 8 sentences - [telegram](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegram/) — A telegram is a short written message sent by wire or radio, once paid for by the word. — 4 sentences - [telegraph](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegraph/) — The telegraph was an old way of sending messages over long distances along wires, using electric signals like Morse code. — 13 sentences - [telegraphic](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telegraphic/) — Telegraphic means to do with the telegraph, the old machine that sent messages along wires as electric signals. — 12 sentences - [telephone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telephone/) — A telephone is a machine for talking to someone far away by sending sounds as electrical or radio signals. — 10 sentences - [teleport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teleport/) — To teleport is to move from one place to another instantly, without travelling through the space between; it happens only in science ficti… — 8 sentences - [telescope](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telescope/) — A tube with lenses or mirrors that makes far-away things, like stars and planets, look bigger and closer. — 8 sentences - [televise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/televise/) — To televise something is to show it on television, often live as it happens: the match will be televised. — 8 sentences - [television](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/television/) — A television (TV) is a machine with a screen that shows programmes with pictures and sound. — 9 sentences - [tell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tell/) — To tell is to say something to someone so they know it. — 22 sentences - [teller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/teller/) — A teller is a person who works at a bank counter, taking in and paying out money. — 11 sentences - [telling](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telling/) — Saying or reporting something: «She is telling a story». — 14 sentences - [telltale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telltale/) — A telltale sign is a small clue that shows something is true or has happened: telltale crumbs on his face. — 8 sentences - [telly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/telly/) — Telly is a television set. — 9 sentences - [temp](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temp/) — A temp is a worker who works for a company only for a short time, often through an agency. — 11 sentences [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/) **2** [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/3/) [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/4/) [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/5/) [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/6/) [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/7/) [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/8/) [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/9/) [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/page/10/)