English to English Dictionary

Tableware

Dishes, glassware, and flatware used for setting a table and serving a meal.

Taboo

A social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or association with a particular person, place, or thing.

Tabulator

A mechanism on a typewriter or word processor that automatically spaces text into columns or tables.

Tack

A small, sharp nail with a flat head.

Tackle

To make determined efforts to deal with a difficult problem or task.

Tactfully

In a manner that shows sensitivity and care in dealing with others and difficult issues.

Takeback

An act of retracting a statement, promise, offer, or previous move in a game.

Talk-into

To persuade someone to do something through continuous reasoning, argument, or conversation.

Tame

To domesticate an animal, or to bring a wild or savage living creature under human control and companionship.

Tangible

Perceptible by touch; clear and definite; real.

Tedious

Too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous.

Telemetry

The process of recording and transmitting the readings of an instrument to a distant location.