Tasmanian wolf
1: rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct [syn: {thylacine}, {Tasmanian tiger}, {Thylacinus cynocephalus}]
tasse
1: one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs [syn: {tasset}]
tassel
1: adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end [also: {tasselling}, {tasselled}]
tassel flower
1: tropical Asiatic annual cultivated for its small tassel-shaped heads of scarlet flowers [syn: {Emilia sagitta}] 2: tropical African annual having scarlet tassel-shaped flower heads; sometimes place...
tassel hyacinth
1: large beautiful Mediterranean species having sterile bluish-violet flowers with fringed corollas forming a tuft above the fertile flowers [syn: {Muscari comosum}]
tasseled
1: fringed or adorned with tassels [syn: {tasselled}]
tasset
1: one of two pieces of armor plate hanging from the fauld to protect the upper thighs [syn: {tasse}]
Tasso
1: Italian poet who wrote an epic poem about the capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1544-1595) [syn: {Torquato Tasso}]
taste
1: the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a ...
taste bud
1: an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue [syn: {tastebud}, {gustatory organ}]
taste cell
1: an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve [syn: {gustatory cell}]
taste perception
1: the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a ...
taste sensation
1: the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a ...
taste tester
1: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {taster}, {taste-tester}, {sampler}]
taste-maker
1: someone who popularizes a new fashion [syn: {trend-setter}, {fashion arbiter}]
taste-tester
1: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {taster}, {taste tester}, {sampler}]
tastebud
1: an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue [syn: {taste bud}, {gustatory organ}]
tasteful
1: having or showing or conforming to good taste [syn: {in good taste(p)}] [ant: {tasteless}] 2: having flavor [ant: {tasteless}] 3: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set...
tastefully
1: with taste; in a tasteful manner; "the house was tastefully decorated" [syn: {tastily}] [ant: {tastelessly}]
tastefulness
1: elegance indicated by good taste [ant: {tastelessness}]
tasteless
1: lacking flavor [ant: {tasteful}] 2: lacking aesthetic or social taste [syn: {in poor taste(p)}] [ant: {tasteful}] 3: not pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: {insipid}] 4: deficient in tastefulness...
tastelessly
1: without taste or in poor taste; in a tasteless manner; "the house was tastelessly decorated" [ant: {tastefully}]
tastelessness
1: the property of having no flavor [syn: {flavorlessness}, {flavourlessness}, {savorlessness}, {savourlessness}] 2: inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste [ant: {tastefulness}]
taster
1: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: {taste tester}, {taste-tester}, {sampler}]
tastily
1: in a tasty manner; "the meal was tastily cooked" 2: with taste; in a tasteful manner; "the house was tastefully decorated" [syn: {tastefully}] [ant: {tastelessly}]
tastiness
1: pleasant palatability [syn: {pleasingness}]
tasting
1: a small amount (especially of food or wine) 2: a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds; "a wine tasting" [syn: {taste}] 3: taking a small amount into the mouth to te...
tasty
1: especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel" [syn: {dainty}] 2: pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: {mouth-watering}, {savory}, {savoury}] [also: {tasti...
tat
1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn: {cheapness}, {tackiness}, {sleaze}] 2: a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture [syn: ...
Tatahumara
1: the Uto-Aztecan language of the Tatahumara people
Tatar
1: a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century [syn: {Tartar}, {Mongol Tatar}] 2: a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural M...
Tatary
1: the vast geographical region of Europe and Asia that was controlled by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries; "under Ghengis Khan Tartary extended as far east as the Pacific Ocean" [syn: {Tart...
Tate
1: United States poet and critic (1899-1979) [syn: {Allen Tate}, {John Orley Allen Tate}]
tater
1: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland [syn: {potato}, {white potato}, {Irish potato}, {murphy}, {spud}]
Tati
1: French filmmaker (1908-1982) [syn: {Jacques Tati}, {Jacques Tatischeff}]
tatou
1: about three feet long exclusive of tail [syn: {giant armadillo}, {tatu}, {Priodontes giganteus}]
tatouay
1: naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America [syn: {cabassous}, {Cabassous unicinctus}]
tatter
1: a small piece of cloth or paper [syn: {rag}, {shred}, {tag}, {tag end}]
tatterdemalion
1: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince" [syn: {...
tattered
1: worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince" [syn: {...
tattily
1: in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar" [syn: {cheaply}, {inexpensively}] [ant: {expensively}]
tattle
1: disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: {singing}, {telling}] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {ti...
tattler
1: someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: {tattletale}, {taleteller}, {talebearer}, {telltale}, {blabbermouth}] 2: any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
tattletale
1: someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: {tattler}, {taleteller}, {talebearer}, {telltale}, {blabbermouth}]
tattling
1: prone to communicate confidential information [syn: {blabbermouthed}, {leaky}, {talebearing(a)}, {tattling(a)}]
tattoo
1: a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters 2: a design on the skin made by tattooing 3: the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining v : ...
tatty
1: showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains" [syn: {moth-eaten}, {ratty}, {shabby}] 2: tastelessly showy; "a flas...
tatu
1: about three feet long exclusive of tail [syn: {giant armadillo}, {tatou}, {Priodontes giganteus}]
Tatum
1: United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975) [syn: {Edward Lawrie Tatum}] 2: United States jazz pianist who was almost completely blind; ...
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tau
1: the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet
tau cross
1: cross resembling the Greek letter tau [syn: {St. Anthony's cross}]
taunt
1: aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing [syn: {twit}, {taunting}] v : harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my fa...
taunting
1: abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn: {derisive}, {gibelike}, {jeering}, {mo...
tauntingly
1: in a playfully teasing manner; "`You hate things to be out of order, don't you?' she said teasingly" [syn: {teasingly}]
tauon
1: a lepton of very great mass [syn: {tau-minus particle}]
taupe
1: having a dusky brownish gray color [syn: {fuscous}] n : a grayish brown
taurine
1: of or relating to or resembling a bull n : a colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals
Taurotragus
1: African antelopes: elands [syn: {genus Taurotragus}]
Taurotragus oryx
1: dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa [syn: {common eland}]
Taurus
1: Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949) [syn: {Sanchez}, {Ilich Sanchez}, {Ilich Ramirez Sanchez}, {Carlos}, {C...
Taurus the Bull
1: the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20 [syn: {Taurus}, {Bull}]
taut
1: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" [syn: {tight}] 2: subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves wer...
tauten
1: become taut or tauter; "Yur muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened" [syn: {firm}] 2: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope" [syn: {firm}]
tautly
1: in a taut manner; "the rope was tautly stretched"
tautness
1: the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" [syn: {tension}, {tensity}, {tenseness}] 2: lack of mo...
tautog
1: large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America [syn: {blackfish}, {Tautoga onitis}]
Tautoga
1: tautogs [syn: {genus Tautoga}]
Tautoga onitis
1: large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America [syn: {tautog}, {blackfish}]
Tautogolabrus
1: a genus of Labridae [syn: {genus Tautogolabrus}]
tautologic
1: repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redu...
tautological
1: repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redu...
tautology
1: (logic) a statement that is necessarily true; "the statement `he is brave or he is not brave' is a tautology" 2: useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"
tavern
1: a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks [syn: {tap house}]
taw
1: the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet 2: a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles [syn: {shooter}]
tawdrily
1: in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers" [syn: {garishly}, {gaudily}]
tawdriness
1: tasteless showiness [syn: {flashiness}, {garishness}, {gaudiness}, {loudness}, {brashness}, {meretriciousness}, {glitz}]
tawdry
1: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: {brassy}, {cheap}, {flash}, {...
Tawney
1: English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962) [syn: {Richard Henry Tawney}]
tawny
1: of a light brown to brownish orange color
tawny eagle
1: brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia [syn: {Aquila rapax}]
tawny owl
1: reddish-brown European owl having a round head with black eyes [syn: {Strix aluco}]
tawse
1: a leather strap for punishing children
tax
1: charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government [syn: {taxation}, {revenue enhancement}] v 1: levy a tax on; "The State taxes alcohol heavily"; "Clothing is ...
tax advantage
1: an advantage bestowed by legislation that reduces a tax on some preferred activity
tax assessor
1: an official who evaluates property for the purpose of taxing it [syn: {assessor}]
tax avoidance
1: the minimization of tax liability by lawful methods
tax base
1: collective value of taxable assets
tax benefit
1: a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity [syn: {tax break}]
tax boost
1: the amount by which taxes are increased; "a tax increase of 15 percent" [syn: {tax-increase}, {tax hike}]
tax bracket
1: a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income [syn: {income bracket}, {income tax bracket}]
tax break
1: a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity [syn: {tax benefit}]
tax collector
1: someone who collects taxes for the government [syn: {taxman}, {exciseman}, {collector of internal revenue}, {internal revenue agent}]
tax credit
1: a direct reduction in tax liability (not dependent on the taxpayer's tax bracket)
tax deduction
1: a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket [syn: {tax write-off}, {deduction}]
tax evasion
1: the deliberate failure to pay taxes (usually by making a false report)
tax form
1: a form to use when paying your taxes
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