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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

tutorial
adjective of or relating to tutors or tutoring; `tutorial sessions`

tutorially
adverb by tutorials; in a tutorial manner; `undergraduates are better taught tutorially`

Tutsi
Watutsi noun a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi

tutti-frutti
noun ice cream containing chopped candied fruits

Tuvalu
noun a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978

Tuvalu
noun a group of coral islands in Micronesia southwest of Hawaii

Tuvalu dollar
noun the basic unit of money in Tuvalu

tuxedoed
adjective dressed in a tuxedo; `a tuxedoed gentleman`

Tuxtla Gutierrez
noun a city in southeastern Mexico

tv announcer
television announcer noun an announcer on television

TV dinner
noun a meal that is prepared in advance and frozen; can be heated and served

twaddler
noun someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle

twang
nasal twang noun exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

twayblade
noun orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia

tweed
noun thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland

tweedle
verb sing in modulation

Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedledee and Tweedledum noun any two people who are hard to tell apart

tweedy
adjective (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy

tweet
noun a week chirping sound as of a small bird

tweeter
noun a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds; `the sound system had both tweeters and woofers`

twelfth
12th adjective coming next after the eleventh and just before the thirteenth in position

Twelfth night
noun eve of Twelfth day; evening of January 5

Twelfthtide
noun the season of Epiphany

twelve
12 adjective denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units

twelve-sided
adjective having twelve sides

twelve-tone music
12-tone music noun a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)

twenties
mid-twenties noun the time of life between 20 and 30

twenties
noun the decade from 1920 to 1929

twentieth
20th adjective coming next after the nineteenth in position

Twentieth Amendment
noun an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex

twenty
20 adjective denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units

twenty dollar bill
twenty noun a United States bill worth 20 dollars

twenty-eight
28 adjective being eight more than twenty

twenty-eighth
28th adjective coming next after the twenty-seventh in position

twenty-fifth
25th adjective coming next after the twenty-fourth in position

twenty-first
21st adjective coming next after the twentieth in position

twenty-five
25 adjective being five more than twenty

twenty-four
24 adjective being four more than twenty

twenty-fourth
24th adjective coming next after the twenty-third in position

twenty-nine
29 adjective being nine more than twenty

twenty-ninth
29th adjective coming next after the twenty-eighth in position

twenty-one
21 adjective being one more than twenty

twenty-second
22nd adjective coming next after the twenty-first in position

twenty-seven
27 adjective being seven more than twenty

twenty-seventh
27th adjective coming next after the twenty-sixth in position

twenty-six
26 adjective being six more than twenty

twenty-sixth
26th adjective coming next after the twenty-fifth in position

twenty-third
23rd adjective coming next after the twenty-second in position

twenty-three
23 adjective being three more than twenty

twenty-two
22 adjective being two more than twenty

twenty-two pistol
noun a .22-caliber pistol

twenty-two rifle
noun a .22-caliber rifle

twerp
twirp noun someone who is regarded as contemptible

twice
adverb two times; `I called her twice`

twiddle
noun a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns

twiddler
noun someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner

twig blight
noun a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants

twiggy
twiglike adjective resembling a twig

twilight
dusk noun the time of day immediately following sunset; `he loved the twilight`; `they finished before the fall of night`

twilight sleep
noun a state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a slight degree of consciousness; can be induced by injection of scopolamine or morphine

twilight zone
no man`s land noun the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both); `but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal`; `in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity`; `in that no man`s land between negotiation and aggression`

twill
noun a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs

twill
noun a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs

twill weave
noun a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs

Twin
Twin Falls noun a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho

twin
verb bring two objects, ideas, or people together; `This fact is coupled to the other one`; `Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?`; `The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project`

twin bed
noun one of a pair of identical beds

twin bill
doubleheader noun two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day)

Twin Cities
noun nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis

Twin Falls
noun a town on the Snake River in south central Idaho near the Twin Falls

twin-bedded
adjective having twin beds

twinberry
noun shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America

twined
twisted adjective wound or wrapped around something; `hair twined around her fingers`; `bulky with twisted stitches around the edges`

twiner
noun someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing

twinflower
Linnaea borealis noun creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs

twinge
noun a sharp stab of pain

twinjet
noun a jet plane propelled by two jet engines

twinkle
scintillation noun a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash

twinkle
spark noun merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; `he had a sparkle in his eye`; `there`s a perpetual twinkle in his eyes`

twinkler
noun an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner

twinkling(a)
adjective shining intermittently with a sparkling light; `twinkling stars`

twins
noun (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other

twirlingly
adverb doing twirls; `they had a most twirlingly magnificent time`

twist
noun social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s; `they liked to dance the twist`

twist
noun a jerky pulling movement

twist bit
twist drill noun a bit or drill having deep helical grooves

twit
taunt noun aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

twitch
twitching noun a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition

twitch
verb toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air

twitterer
noun a bird that twitters

two
2 adjective being one more than one; `he received two messages`

two dollar bill
noun a United States bill worth 2 dollars

two hundred
200 adjective being ten more than one hundred ninety

Two Kettle
noun a member of the Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux

two-by-four
noun a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section

two-dimensional
2-dimensional adjective lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; `a film with two-dimensional characters`; `a flat two-dimensional painting`

two-dimensionality
flatness noun the property of having two dimensions

two-eared
adjective having two ears

two-eyed violet
heartsease 2 Viola ocellata noun violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet

two-handed
bimanual adjective requiring two hands or designed for two people; `a two-handed sledgehammer`; `a two-handed crosscut saw`; `a machine designed for bimanual operation`