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testimony.noun,.plural.testimonies
evidence
in support
of a fact
or an assertion;
proof;
a testimony is saying something
to another or to others (the police officer testified on the radio that
no one should take that mountain road at any time during winter; jurors
listen to many testimonies at trials); if you say that one thing is testimony
to another, you mean that it shows clearly that the second thing has a
particular.quality
(this book is testimony to a very individual kind of courage; she is living
testimony to the adage
of kindness); a statement
saying that something is true;
a fact or situation
that shows or proves very clearly that something exists or is true; an
assertion
offering firsthand authentication
of a fact; a declaration
by a witness; an affirmation
or declaration; a declaration made to establish a fact
testimonial.noun,.plural.testimonials
a written statement testifying as to an individual's
qualifications, abilities and character; a public talk about oneself
testify,
testified,
testifying,
testifies.verbs
intransitive
verb use.to
bear.witness
(the exhilaration of weightlessness, to which many astronauts have testified);
to make a declaration of truth
or fact;
submit.testimony
(witnesses testifying before a grand
jury); to express or declare
a strong belief one had; to make a statement
based on personal knowledge in support of an asserted
fact; to serve as evidence (wreckage that testifies to the ferocity
of the storm)
transitive
verb use.to declare publicly; make
known (testifying their faith); to state
or affirm under oath (testified
in court that he saw the defendant); to bear witness to; provide evidence
for; indicate
testification.noun,.plural.testifications
testifier.noun,.plural.testifiers
trifling.adjective
of slight worth or importance;
trivial;
frivolous
or idle
triflingly.adverb
trifle.noun,.plural.trifles
something of little importance or value; a small
amount; a jot;
a dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry,
rum or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard and whipped
cream
trifle,
trifled,
trifling,
trifles.verbs
intransitive verb use.to
deal with something as if it were of little significance or value; to act,
perform or speak with little seriousness or purpose; jest; to play or toy
with something (she trifled with my affections); flirt
transitive
verb use.to waste (time or money,
for example)
a trifle.idiom
very little; somewhat (a trifle stingy)
trifler.noun,.plural.triflers
take to heart.idiom
to take seriously and be affected or troubled
by
Cornelius Tacitus,
Roman
Historian: Tacitus wrote.Histories-(covering
the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in 14-A.D.
to the death of Domitian 96 A.D.)-and.Annals-(history
of the Julian emperors from Tiberius to Nero). He lauds
the ideals of the Roman Republic and provides insight into many of the
Roman emperors. The last years of his life were devoted chiefly to the
composition of his historical works, of which less than half are extant.
tenuous.adjective
long and thin; slender (tenuous strands);
having a thin consistency;
dilute;
having little substance;
flimsy
(a tenuous argument)
tenuously.adverb
tenuousness.noun,.plural.tenuousnesses
though.conjunctive
you often use 'though' to introduce a fact which
you regard as less important than the fact in the main clause;
used to introduce a statement that makes the main statement coming after
it seem surprising, unlikely or unexpected; although
(though she's almost 40, she still plans to compete in the marathon); despite
the fact that; although (he still works on, though he knows it's past closing
time; even though it was raining, she walked to work; though they may tire
soon, they will still carry on)
as though.conjunction
as
if (looked as though they had been up all night)
though.adverb
however;
nevertheless.(snow
is not predicted; we can expect some rain, though; wouldn't that beat all,
though?)
turmoil.noun
turmoil is feeling unsettled in life, an existing
in a state of uncertainty, a being
confused and thus unsure over what direction may be best at this time
tang.noun,.plural.tangs
a distinctively.sharp
taste, flavor
or odor,
as that of orange juice; a distinctive quality
that adds piquancy;
a trace,
hint
or smattering;
the tropical
surgeonfish
tang, tanged,
tanging,
tangs.transitive
verbs
to give a tang to
tanginess.noun,.plural.tanginesses
tangy.adjective
tart, tarter,
tartest.adjectives
having a sharp, pungent
taste; sour; sharp or bitter
in tone or meaning;
cutting
tartly.adverb
tartness.noun,.plural.tartnesses
tart.noun,.plural.tarts
a small open pie with a sweet filling, as of custard
or cooked fruit; a woman considered to be sexually promiscuous
tart, tarted,
tarting,
tarts.transitive
verbs
to dress up or make fancy in a tawdry,
garish
way
Sir Rabindranath Tagore
1861-1941
Bengali writer who tried to deepen mutual Indian
and Western cultural comprehension, known especially for his collection
of poetry Gitanjali, 1912, based on traditional Hindu themes. He
won the 1913 Nobel Prize for
literature; He was born in Calcutta, into a wealthy family, the son of
the philosopher Debendranath Tagore. He began to write poetry as a child.
His first book appeared when he was 17 years old. After a brief stay in
England in 1878 to study law, he returned to India, where he rapidly became
the most important and popular author of the colonial era,
writing poetry.(example),
short stories, novels and plays.(example).
He composed several hundred popular songs and in 1929 also began painting.
A dedicated internationalist and educator, Tagore established a school
in 1901 in his estate, Santiniketan, in Bengal, to teach a blend of Eastern
and Western philosophies. In 1921 his school was expanded into an international
university, Visva-Bharati.....Microsoft®
Encarta® Encyclopedia 99. © 1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation. All
rights reserved. Picture courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica.
tirade.noun
a long angry or violent speech, usually of a censorious
or denunciatory nature; a
diatribe
tantra.noun
any of a comparatively recent class of Hindu or
Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit
that combine religious instruction with physical discipline and is concerned
with mysticism and magic (magic is defined as what science has not yet
understood about the invisible world)
tantric.adjective
torque.noun
a turning or twisting force; the moment of a force
such as what you feel when a vehicle takes off from a stop sign or when
you accelerate on the highway to pass a truck; the measure of a force's
tendency to produce torsion and rotation about an axis,
equal to the vector product of the
radius
vector from the axis of rotation to the point of application of the force
torque, torqued,
torquing,
torques.transitive
verbs
to impart torque to
torquer.noun,.plural.torquers
torquey.adjective
torsion.noun,.plural.torsions
the act
of twisting
or turning; the condition.of
being twisted or turned; the stress
or deformation.caused
when one end of an object
is twisted in one direction and the other end is held motionless or twisted
in the opposite direction
torsional.adjective
torsionally.adverb
words here with 'rr' are confusing:.1Corinthians
14:33
transfer, transferred,
transferring,
transfers.verbs
transitive verb use.to
convey
or cause to pass from one place, individual or thing to another
intransitive verb use.to
move oneself from one location or job to another; to withdraw from one
educational institution or course of study and enroll in another; to change
from one public conveyance
to another (transferred to another bus)
transference.noun,.plural.transferences
the act or process of transferring; the fact of
being transferred
transferential.adjective
transfer.noun,.plural.transfers
transferral.noun,.plural.transferrals
the conveyance or removal of something from one
place, person, or thing to another; one who transfers or is transferred,
as to a new school; a ticket entitling a passenger to change from one public
conveyance to another as part of one trip
transferability.noun,.plural.
transferrer.noun,.plural.transferrers
transferable.adjective
two-dimensional.adjective
a dimension
is an aspect of an object,
that is, you observe your car in the driveway from different positions;
nothing
in the universe is two-dimensional as everything physical has
three-dimensions
to it, though some items appear to have two dimensions, such as length
and width and therefor appear to be lacking in range
or depth, so that a two-dimensional object or figure looks flat rather
than solid and so such objects are deemed
unimportant for common measuring applications (too flat to consider, nevertheless,
they are three-dimensional)
three-dimensional.adjective
of, relating to, having or existing in three dimensions;
a three-dimensional object is solid rather than flat as so-called
two-dimensional objects are, because a three-dimensional object can be
measured in three different directions, the height, the length and its
width; the abbreviation
3-D can also be used (a three-dimensional model car he put together); a
three-dimensional picture, image or film looks as though it is deep or
solid rather than flat (new software, which generates both so-called.two-dimensional
drawings and three-dimensional images); having or appearing to have extension
in depth; lifelike; three-dimensional objects are solid rather than flat,
but then again, nothing in our world if flat, only appearing to be so;
if you describe fictional characters as three-dimensional you mean that
they seem real and natural (in the game the characters emerge as fully
three-dimensional); three-dimensional art or design is produced by carving
or shaping stone, wood, clay or other materials; see two-dimensional and
four-dimensional;
see 3D to 5D and beyond, having to do with the
consciousness of spirituality
transfuse, transfused,
transfusing,
transfuses.transitive
verbs
to cause to be instilled
or imparted
(transfused a love of learning to her children); to diffuse.through;
permeate
(a glade that was transfused with sunlight); to pour something out of one
vessel into another; to administer a transfusion of or to
transfuser.noun
transfusible.or.transfusable.adjective
transfusive.adjective
tax.noun,.plural.taxes
originally a voluntary contribution for the support
of a government but now assumed by governments to be required of persons,
groups or businesses within the domain
exercised by various government departments; a burdensome
or excessive.demand;
a strain; to make difficult
or excessive demands upon (a company with management that taxed everyone's
patience); to make a charge
against (he was taxed with the responsibility
of carrying the garbage to the bin)
tax, taxed,
taxing,
taxes.verbs
to place a tax on one's income, property or goods
as a forced compliance, used
by corporations controlled by the cabal to ensure you don't work for that
corporation unless you agree to the corporation deducting from your
income an amount they determine, as they are in agreement with the
cabal's dictates against you; taxes are illegal
according to God's Natural Laws
and legal by the subjugating
demands of criminal politicians and corporate leaders who put in place
statutes, civil laws, etc., without express approval by those who will
be negatively affected by them; this in their greed control over people
overrides God's laws; tax is to
exact
a tax from; to make difficult or excessive demands upon (dealing with a
department that taxes everyone's patience)
taxer.noun,.plural.taxers
taxation.noun,.plural.taxations
the act
or practice
of imposing taxes; the
fact
of being taxed
task.noun,.plural.tasks
a piece of work one decides to undertake;
a tedious
undertaking; a function to be performed; an objective
task, tasked,
tasking,
tasks.transitive
verbs
exertion
often to one's limits (climbing Mount Lougheed in Alberta, Canada is quite
tasking; it was a huge task requiring all he knew, to solve
the difficult computer issue);
tax
(effort expended taxed his limits)
take to task.idiom
call to task.idiom
bring to task.idiom
to reprimand
or censure
talent.noun,.plural.talents
a variable
unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome and the Middle East;
a talent of silver contained 3,000 shekels:.Exodus
38:25,26. The Greek talent was in the form of a circular mass, as the
Hebrew name kikkar denotes and was 82 1/4 lbs. A talent of gold was double
the weight of a talent of silver:.2Samuel
12:30. The Jewish talent is usually estimated at about 125 pounds troy
weight, though others estimate it a little less than 114 pounds troy. The
common Attic (Attica, Athens or the Athenians of Greece) talent was equal,
on the usual estimate, to about 56 lbs. 11 oz. troy.
In the New Testament, a talent is a denomination
of money, which was anciently reckoned
by weight and is used only of an indefinitely
large sum:.Matthew
18:24; 25:20-25.. The value
of the talent, therefore, varied
in different countries, in proportion
to the different weights of the talent.
Parable
of the talents.
For weights and measures
used in the Bible, see here.
one gerah
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$..2.5
American cents
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10 gerahs = 1 bekah
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... 25
American cents (a quarter of a dollar)
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2 bekahs = 1 shekel
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....2.50
American dollars
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50 shekels = 1 maneh
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....125.
American dollars
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60 manehs = 1 talent
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. 7500.
American dollars
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one.talent
of silver.(about 125 lbs.)(3,000 shekels)
one.talent
of gold.(about 250 lbs.)(6,000 shekels)
gerah.a
Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel and hence a small weight; the twentieth
part of a shekel, equal to 12 grains
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bekah.meaning
"a half" i.e., "half a shekel", equal to 5 pennyweight
|
shekel
equal to 10 pennyweight
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maneh.a
part" or "portion", equal to 60 shekels or 2 lbs. 6 oz
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one talent
of silver in Old Testament; about 125 lbs.; 3,000
shekels
|
one talentof
gold in Old Testament; about 250 lbs.; 6,000 shekels
|
one pound
In the New
Testament, a weight and sum of money equal to 100 drachmae,
which was a basic unit of currency and a silver coin in Greece and today
one of several modern units of weight, especially the dram
In the Old
Testament, a weight of 300 shekels was one pound
a pound equalled 10 1/3 oz. or 300 grams;
one talent was 100 pounds
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authorities differ
as to exact figures
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