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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
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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