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tailor.noun,.plural.tailors
an individual that makes,
repairs and alters.garments
such as suits, coats and dresses; from Middle
English and from Anglo-Norman
'taillour' and from Old French
'tailleor' meaning 'to cut' cloth
tailor,
tailored,
tailoring,
tailors.verbs
transitive
verb use.to
make (a garment), especially to specific requirements or measurements;
to fit or provide someone with clothes made to that individual's measurements;
to make, alter or adapt for a particular end or purpose (information that
was tailored to an audience of parents)
intransitive
verb use.to
pursue
the trade of a tailor
tsunami.noun,.plural.tsunamis
a very large ocean wave
caused by an underwater Earthquake or volcanic eruption; from Japanese
'tsu' meaning 'port' and 'nami' meaning 'wave'
tsunamic.adjective
TSA.proper
noun.(Transportation
Service Agency)
a private for profit agency
established in 2001, with operating costs to be paid by the nations' people,
with its purpose of safeguarding United States transportation systems and
insuring safe air travel
tallow.noun,.plural.tallows
hard fat obtained from parts
of the bodies of cattle, sheep, pigs and horses and used in foodstuffs
or to make candles, leather dressing (making leather clothes, belts, etc.),
soap and
lubricants; any of
various similar fats, such as those obtained from plants
tallow,
tallowed,
tallowing,
tallows.transitive
verbs
to smear
or cover with tallow; to fatten animals in
order to.obtain
tallow; lard for cooking
tallowy.adjective
tallage.noun,.plural.tallages
taxation levied
on towns and lands claimed illegitimately
by the Crown or state which stole them, often after murdering the original
land owners and then allowed the poor to be feudal
dependants by using that land if they paid taxes on it, so dastardly
and corrupt were those acting as superiors
over others; just like today 1,
2
trunk.noun,.plural.trunks
the main woody axis
of a tree; in architecture,
the shaft of a column;
the body of a human being or an animal excluding the head and limbs; the
thorax
of an insect; a proboscis, especially
the long prehensile proboscis
of an elephant; a main body, apart from tributaries
or appendages; the main stem
of a blood vessel or nerve
apart from the branches; a trunk line of say, a train; a covered compartment
for luggage and storage, generally
at the rear of an automobile; a large packing case or box that clasps
shut, used as luggage or for storage; trunks are also shorts worn for swimming
or other activities such as soaking up the sun
tusk.noun,.plural.tusks
tusks are an elongated,
pointed teeth, one of a pair, extending
outside of the mouth in certain
animals such as the walrus, elephant or wild boar
tusk,
tusked,
tusking,
tusks.intransitive
and transitive verb use.to
gore
or dig with the tusks or a tusk
tusked.adjective
template.also
spelt.templet.noun,.plural.templates
a template used on computer
is a document where you fill
in answers for information asked for; a template is a pattern or gauge,
such as a thin metal plate with a cut pattern, used as a guide in making
something accurately, as in woodworking; a template is also a horizontal
piece of stone or timber used to
distribute weight or pressure, as over a door frame; in biochemistry,
a template is a molecule of a
nucleic
acid, such as DNA, that serves
as a pattern or mold for the
synthesis
of a macromolecule, as of
RNA
them.pronoun
the objective case of the
word 'they'; used as the object
of a verb or preposition
to refer to two or more people or things previously mentioned or easily
identified; word 'them' is used after the verb 'to be' and after 'than'
or 'as'; used as the object of a preposition (this letter is addressed
to them)
themselves.pronoun
those ones identical with
them (they are mature enough to
go riding bicycles themselves; the cooks themselves eat after all the guests
have finished; newcomers themselves, they knew few people at the party;
the members of the crew were themselves again after the storm passed)
trash.noun,.plural.trashes
worthless
or discarded.material
or objects; refuse
or rubbish; garbage;
something
broken off or removed to be discarded, especially plant trimmings; the
refuse of sugar cane after
extraction
of the juice; lies,
empty
words or ideas (the fable of evolution
being the beginning of living
organisms);
worthless or offensive
literary
or artistic material
trash,
trashed,
trashing,
trashes.transitive
verbs
to throw away; discard;
to wreck or destroy;
reduce
to trash or ruins
trashy,
trashier,
trashiest.adjectives
cheap
or worthless (trashy merchandise)
trashily.adverb
trashiness.noun,.plural.trashinesses
teratogenic.adjective
something that is teratogenic is poisonous and
deadly to human and other organisms; of,
relating.to.or.causing
malformations
of an embryo or a fetus
teratogenicity.noun,.plural.teratogenicities
turkey.noun,.plural.turkeys
a large North American bird
(Meleagris gallopavo) that has brownish plumage and a bare, wattled head
and neck and is widely domesticated for food, th Mexico and Central America
turkey is brilliantly colored and has eyelike spots on its tail
talk turkey.idiom
to speak frankly
getting down to the basic facts of a matter
Turkey.proper
noun
a country of southwest Asia
and southeast Europe between the Mediterranean and the Black sea (map).
Turkey is one of the oldest inhabited regions in the world. It was the
center of the Ottoman Empire
for more than 600 years. Its modern history dates to the rise of the Young
Turks (after 1908) and the collapse of the empire in 1918. Under the leadership
of Kemal Atatürk, a republic
was proclaimed in 1923. Ankara
is the capital and Istanbul the largest city. Population, 60 million.
triune.adjective
being three in one, such
as of the Christian Trinity
triune.noun,.plural.triunes
a trinity; from Latin 'unus'
meaning 'one'
trinity.noun,.plural.trinities
a group.consisting
of three closely related members. also called triunity.noun,.plural.triunities
the union
of three divine.entities,
the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in
one, collectively called
God
(what are the parts that comprise
God?); from Middle
English 'trinite' which is from Old
French, leading back to Latin
'trinitas' from 'trinus' meaning 'trine'
trine.adjective
threefold;
triple
trine.noun,.plural.trines
a group
of three
tell,
told, telling,
tells.verbs
if you can tell one thing
from another, you are able to recognize the difference between it and other
similar things (how to tell if what someone is saying comes from the evil
dark side 1,
2); if facts or events tell you
something, they reveal certain information to you through ways other than
speech
transitive verb use.to
give a detailed account of; narrate
(tell what happened next; told us a story); to communicate
by speech or writing; to express
with words (tell the truth; tell one's love); to make known; to reveal;
to notify; inform
intransitive verb use.to
give an account or a revelation: to show and tellwas now prepared to break
silence and tell
tellable.adjective
Sun Tzu,
personal name was Sun Wu, 5th century B.C.E.
famous for
the book.The
Art of War, the earliest known treatise
on war and military science, still used today in military training.
The Art of War.is
a systematic guide to strategy
and tactics for rulers and commanders.
The book discusses various maneuvers and the effect of terrain on the outcome
of battles. It stresses the importance of accurate information about the
enemy's forces, dispositions, deployments and movements. This is summarized
in the axiom."Know
the enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles with no
danger of defeat". It also emphasizes the
unpredictability of battle and the use of flexible strategies and tactics.
The book's insistence on the close relationship between political considerations
and military policy greatly influenced some modern strategists.
Five kinds of secret agents
were identified, the agent in place (who has access to enemy secrets),
the double agent (who is recruited from an enemy's intelligence and security
service), the deception agent (who provides disinformation to confuse the
enemy), the expendable agent (whose loss can enable other more important
agents to operate) and the penetration agent (who has access to an enemy's
senior leadership).
Sun Tzu stressed the importance
of good intelligence organization and he also wrote of counterintelligence
and psychological warfare, such as the importance of flexible tactics based
on surprise and deception and that guerrilla
strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility and attack, such
as select the tactic of seeming to come from the east and attacking from
the west; avoid the solid, attack the hollow; attack, withdraw; deliver
a lightning blow, seek a quick end to the conflict. Also important was
accepting battle only under favourable conditions.
Greek communist guerrillas
lost their war (1946–49) for a variety of reasons, not so much because
Tito deprived them of sanctuary in and supply from Yugoslavia but more
because they forfeited popular support in northern Greece by their barbarous
treatment of civilian hostages, by their rapacious
behavior in villages and by kidnapping children and sending them to be
raised in communist countries.
Alexander the Great's successful
campaigns resulted not only from mobile and flexible tactics but also from
a shrewd political expedient of winning the loyalty of various tribes
He said."All
warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem
unable, when using our forces, we must seem inactive, when we are near,
we must make the enemy believe that we are far away, when far away, we
must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy.
Feign
disorder and crush him."....comprised
with information from Encyclopedia Britannica.
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