<B>Tennessean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Tennessee. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Tennessee. </DL>
<A NAME="tennesseevalleyauthority">
Tennessee Valley Authority, =TVA.</DL>
<A NAME="tennesseewalkinghorse">
<B>Tennessee walking horse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an easy-gaited saddle horse originally bred from Morgan and standardbred stock by Southern plantation owners to obtain a horse with a comfortable mount. </DL>
<A NAME="tennesseewarbler">
<B>Tennessee warbler,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a warbler with an olive-green back and white breast, that nests in coniferous forests of northeastern North America. </DL>
<A NAME="tennis">
<B>tennis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a game played by two or four players on a special court, in which a ball is hit back and forth over a net with a racket; lawn tennis. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=court tennis.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tennisball">
<B>tennis ball,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a cloth covering. </DL>
<A NAME="tenniscourt">
<B>tennis court,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a level, rectangular area divided by a low net stretched across its center, prepared and marked out for playing the game of tennis. </DL>
<A NAME="tenniselbow">
<B>tennis elbow,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> inflammation or bursitis of the elbow, commonly associated with tennis and certain other sports. </DL>
<A NAME="tennisracket">
<B>tennis racket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the racket used in tennis. </DL>
<A NAME="tennisshoes">
<B>tennis shoes,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any pair of various shoes with rubber soles, worn for tennis; sneakers. </DL>
<A NAME="tennist">
<B>tennist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tennis player. </DL>
<A NAME="tenno">
<B>tenno</B> or <B>Tenno, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a title of the emperor of Japan. </DL>
<A NAME="tenny">
<B>tenny, </B>noun. =tenne.</DL>
<A NAME="tennysonian">
<B>Tennysonian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the English Victorian poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), his style, or his works. <BR> <I>Ex. "Lohengrin" has a few strokes of magic and many pages of idyllic Tennysonian rapture (Desmond Shawe-Taylor).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenon">
<B>tenon, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the end of a piece of wood cut so as to fit into the mortise in another piece and so form a joint. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to cut so as to form a tenon. <DD><B> 2. </B>to fit together with tenon and mortise. </DL>
<A NAME="tenonitis">
<B>tenonitis, </B>noun. =tendinitis.</DL>
<A NAME="tenor">
<B>tenor, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the general tendency; course. <BR> <I>Ex. The calm tenor of her life has never been disturbed by excitement or trouble.</I> (SYN) direction. <DD><B> 2. </B>the general meaning or drift. <BR> <I>Ex. I understand French well enough to get the tenor of his speech.</I> (SYN) gist, purport. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Music.) <DD><B> a. </B>the highest adult male voice. Bass and tenor are two parts of men's voices. <DD><B> b. </B>a singer with such a voice. <DD><B> c. </B>a part for such a voice or for an instrument of similar range. <DD><B> d. </B>an instrument that has the quality or range of this voice. <DD><B> e. </B>the largest bell of a peal, having the lowest tone. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Law.) an exact copy of a document. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>nature. <DD><B> b. </B>condition. <DD><I>adj. </I> (Music.) of or for a tenor; having the quality or range of a tenor. <BR> <I>Ex. a tenor voice, a tenor sax.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenorclef">
<B>tenor clef,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) the C clef when placed on the fourth line of the staff. </DL>
<A NAME="tenoredigrazia">
<B>tenore di grazia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tenor with a light, flexible, lyrical voice. </DL>
<A NAME="tenorerobusto">
<B>tenore robusto,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tenor with a vigorous, powerful voice. </DL>
<A NAME="tenorist">
<B>tenorist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who sings as a tenor or plays a tenor instrument. </DL>
<A NAME="tenorite">
<B>tenorite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a black oxide of copper, found in thin, iron-black scales in lava. </DL>
<A NAME="tenoroon">
<B>tenoroon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an obsolete wooden reed instrument intermediate in pitch between the oboe and the bassoon. <BR> <I>Ex. The tenoroon ... has entirely gone out of use (W. H. Stone).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a reed stop in an organ, resembling the oboe stop, but not extending below tenor C. <DD><B> 3. </B>any stop not extending below tenor C. </DL>
<A NAME="tenorrhaphy">
<B>tenorrhaphy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-phies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the surgical suture of a tendon. </DL>
<A NAME="tenotomy">
<B>tenotomy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> surgical incision into or through a tendon. </DL>
<A NAME="tenpence">
<B>tenpence, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a sum of ten British pennies. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a coin worth ten pennies (as one issued by the Bank of Ireland in the early 1800's). <DD><B> b. </B>(Archaic.) any of various foreign coins worth about ten pennies. </DL>
<A NAME="tenpenny">
<B>tenpenny, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the amount or value of tenpence. <BR> <I>Ex. a tenpenny piece, tenpenny lace. A tenpenny nail is 3 inches long, and it is so called because originally the nails cost tenpence per hundred.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenpercenter">
<B>ten-percenter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an agent, as of an actor or writer. <BR> <I>Ex. The ... ten-percenters retired to several of the town's toney hangouts (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any person whose commission is ten per cent of the profit or merchandise. </DL>
<A NAME="tenpin">
<B>tenpin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the pins in tenpins. </DL>
<A NAME="tenpins">
<B>tenpins, </B>noun. sing. or pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a game played with ten wooden pins at which a ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling. <DD><B> 2. </B>the pins used in this. </DL>
<A NAME="tenpoint">
<B>ten-point, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a size of type. </DL>
<A NAME="tenpounder">
<B>tenpounder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) the ladyfish. </DL>
<A NAME="tenrec">
<B>tenrec, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain insectivorous, quilled mammals of Madagascar, especially one that is tailless. Also, <B>tanrec,</B> <B>tendrac.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tense">
<B>tense</B> (1), adjective, <B>tenser,</B> <B>tensest,</B> verb, <B>tensed,</B> <B>tensing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>stretched tight; strained to stiffness. <BR> <I>Ex. a tense rope, a face tense with pain.</I> (SYN) taut, rigid. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) strained; keyed up. <BR> <I>Ex. tense nerves, a tense moment.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Phonetics.) pronounced with the muscles of the speech organs relatively tense. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to stretch tight; stiffen; tighten. <BR> <I>Ex. I tensed my muscles for the leap.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>tense up,</B> </I>to make or become tense. <BR> <I>Ex. You're all tensed up (Atlantic).</I> adv. <B>tensely.</B> noun <B>tenseness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tense">
<B>tense</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the form of a verb that shows the time of the action or state expressed by the verb. (Examples:) <I>He obeys</I> is in the present tense. <I>He obeyed</I> is in the past tense. <I>He will obey</I> is in the future tense. <DD><B> 2. </B>a set of such forms for the various persons. (Example:) The present tense of <I>obey</I> is. <BR> <I>Ex. I obey, thou obeyest, he obeys, we obey, you obey, they obey.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenseless">
<B>tenseless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having no tense. <BR> <I>Ex. a tenseless verb.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tensible">
<B>tensible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be stretched. </DL>
<A NAME="tensile">
<B>tensile, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with tension. <DD><B> 2. </B>that can be stretched; ductile. <BR> <I>Ex. tensile metals.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tensilestrength">
<B>tensile strength,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the maximum stress that a material can withstand before it breaks, expressed in pounds per square inch. </DL>
<B>tensimeter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for measuring the pressure or tension of vapor, as a manometer. </DL>
<A NAME="tensiometer">
<B>tensiometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an instrument for measuring the tautness or tension of wire, fabric, and other material. <DD><B> 2. </B>an instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid. Also, <B>tensometer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tensiometric">
<B>tensiometric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a tensiometer or with tensiometry. </DL>
<A NAME="tensiometry">
<B>tensiometry, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the measurement of tension or tensile strength. <DD><B> 2. </B>the study of tension or tensile strength. </DL>
<A NAME="tension">
<B>tension, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of stretching. <BR> <I>Ex. His tension on the rope made it break.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a stretched condition. <BR> <I>Ex. The tension of the bow gives its speed to the arrow.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) mental or nervous strain. <BR> <I>Ex. A mother feels tension when her baby is sick.</I> (SYN) anxiety, uneasiness. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a strained condition. <BR> <I>Ex. political tension.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>stress caused by the action of a pulling force. <BR> <I>Ex. An elevator exerts tension on the cables supporting it.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a device to control the pull or strain on something. <BR> <I>Ex. The tension in a sewing machine may be adjusted to hold the thread tight or loose.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>the pressure of a gas. <DD><B> 8. </B>electromotive force or voltage. <BR> <I>Ex. high-tension wires.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make tense; tighten; draw out. <BR> <I>Ex. tensioned steel rods.</I> adj. <B>tensionless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tensional">
<B>tensional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with tension. </DL>
<A NAME="tensioner">
<B>tensioner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device to control the pull or strain on something. <BR> <I>Ex. The overhead wire is strung with special tensioners to remain at a constant height above the track (Bruce H. Frisch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tensity">
<B>tensity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> tense quality or condition. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) It braced him into such a tensity of spirit (Thomas Carlyle).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tensive">
<B>tensive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>causing tension. <DD><B> 2. </B>denoting a sensation of tension in any part of the body. </DL>
