<B>trustbuster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a Federal official who breaks up, or tries to break up, business trusts and enforce the antitrust laws. </DL>
<A NAME="trustbusting">
<B>trustbusting, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><I>noun </I> the activities of a trustbuster. <DD><I>adj. </I> breaking up, or trying to break up companies combined to restrain competition. </DL>
<A NAME="trustcompany">
<B>trust company,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bank or other business concern that takes charge of the property of others and also often engages in other financial activities normally performed by banks. </DL>
<A NAME="trustdeed">
<B>trust deed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a deed to property, held in trust to secure payment of a debt. It is in the nature of a mortgage. </DL>
<A NAME="trustee">
<B>trustee, </B>noun, verb, <B>-teed,</B> <B>-teeing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or one of a group of persons responsible for the property or the affairs of another person or of an institution, business firm, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. A trustee will manage the children's property until they grow up. The Youth of a nation are the trustees of Posterity (Benjamin Disraeli).</I> (SYN) steward. <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a person whoholds property attached from a debtor. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>(U.S.) to attach by garnishment. <DD><B> 2. </B>to turn over to the care of a trustee or trustees. </DL>
<A NAME="trusteeprocess">
<B>trustee process,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S., Law.) the attachment of property or rights by garnishment. </DL>
<A NAME="trusteeship">
<B>trusteeship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the position of a trustee. <DD><B> 2. </B>the administration by a country of a trust territory, approved by the United Nations, usually with the idea that the trust territory will be developed toward self-government or independence. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=trust territory.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="trustful">
<B>trustful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> ready to confide; ready to have faith; trusting; believing. <BR> <I>Ex. That trustful boy would lend money to any of his friends. Trustful birds have built their nests (Robert Bridges).</I> (SYN) confiding, credulous, unsuspicious, naive. adv. <B>trustfully.</B> noun <B>trustfulness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="trustfund">
<B>trust fund,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> money, property, or other valuables held in trust for the benefit of another. </DL>
<A NAME="trusting">
<B>trusting, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that trusts; trustful. <BR> <I>Ex. a man of trusting nature.</I> adv. <B>trustingly.</B> noun <B>trustingness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="trustterritory">
<B>trust territory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various territories, regions, or small countries, administered for the United Nations by various countries, especially former colonial possessions or League of Nations mandates in Africa, Asia, or the Pacific. </DL>
<A NAME="trustworthy">
<B>trustworthy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be depended on or trusted; deserving confidence; reliable. <BR> <I>Ex. a trustworthy guide, a trustworthy report. The memory strengthens ... and becomes trustworthy as you trust it (Thomas De Quincey).</I> (SYN) dependable, faithful. adv. <B>trustworthily.</B> noun <B>trustworthiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="trusty">
<B>trusty, </B>adjective, <B>trustier,</B> <B>trustiest,</B> noun, pl. <B>trusties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>that can be depended on; trustworthy; reliable. <BR> <I>Ex. The master left his money with a trusty servant.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=trustful.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a prisoner who is given special privileges or responsibilities because of his good behavior. <DD><B> 2. </B>any person or thing that is trustworthy. adv. <B>trustily.</B> noun <B>trustiness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="truth">
<B>truth, </B>noun, pl. <B>truths.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that which is true. <BR> <I>Ex. to speak truth. Is he telling the truth?</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or facts; matter or circumstance as it really is. <BR> <I>Ex. to suspect the truth.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a fixed or established principle, law, or the like; proven doctrine; verified hypothesis. <BR> <I>Ex. a basic scientific truth. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions (Thomas H. Huxley). All great truths begin as blasphemies (George Bernard Shaw).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>that which is true, real, or actual, in a general or abstract sense; reality. <BR> <I>Ex. to find truth in God.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the quality or nature of being true, exact, honest, sincere, or loyal. <BR> <I>Ex. His friends his truth proclaim (John Dryden).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B><B>Truth,</B> God (in the belief of Christian Scientists). <DD><B> 7. </B>(Nuclear Physics.) the property of a top quark. <BR> <I>Ex. If the two new quarks do exist, there must also be two new properties of matter, which some physicists have taken to calling "truth" and "beauty" (Scientific American).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in truth,</B> </I>in fact; truly; really; verily. <BR> <I>Ex. These people pretend to blame him, whereas in truth they ought only to blame themselves (Daniel Defoe).</I> adj. <B>truthless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="truthdrug">
<B>truth drug,</B> <B>=truth serum.</B></DL>
<A NAME="truthful">
<B>truthful, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>disposed to tell, or habitually telling, the truth; free from deceitfulness. <BR> <I>Ex. a truthful child.</I> (SYN) veracious, honest, candid. <DD><B> 2. </B>telling the truth; correct in statement. <BR> <I>Ex. a truthful witness.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>conforming to truth; factually accurate. <BR> <I>Ex. You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.</I> (SYN) exact, correct. adv. <B>truthfully.</B> noun <B>truthfulness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="truthserum">
<B>truth serum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various drugs, especially thiopental sodium or scopolamine, under the influence of which a person will reveal inner thoughts or emotions. </DL>
<A NAME="truthset">
<B>truth set,</B> <B>=solution set.</B></DL>
<A NAME="truthtable">
<B>truth table,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a table that lists all possible combinations of true and false values that can be assigned to a proposition. Truth tables are designed to show logical relationships and are used in mathematics, logic, and computer engineering. </DL>
<A NAME="truthvalue">
<B>truth-value, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the truth or falseness of a proposition. </DL>
<A NAME="try">
<B>try, </B>verb, <B>tried,</B> <B>trying,</B> noun, pl. <B>tries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make an attempt or effort; endeavor; attempt. <BR> <I>Ex. He tried hard but could not succeed.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make an experiment. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to attempt to do or accomplish. <BR> <I>Ex. He tried to do the work. It seems easy until you try it.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to experiment on or with; make a trial of. <BR> <I>Ex. Try this candy and see if you like it.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to find out about; put to the proof; test. <BR> <I>Ex. We try each car before we sell it.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to investigate in a law court. <BR> <I>Ex. The man was tried and found guilty of robbery.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to settle by test or investigation. <DD><B> 6. </B>to subject to trials; afflict. <BR> <I>Ex. Job was greatly tried.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>to put to severe test; strain. <BR> <I>Ex. Her mistakes try my patience.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>to make sure by melting or boiling; render. <BR> <I>Ex. The lard was tried in a big kettle.</I> (SYN) purify, refine, assay. <DD><B> 9. </B>to shave or smooth the surface of, so as to fit with or to an adjoining surface, especially by planing. <DD><B> 10. </B>to ascertain the truth or right of (as a matter or a quarrel) by test or endeavor. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an attempt; endeavor; effort. <BR> <I>Ex. Each boy had three tries at the high jump.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a trial; test; experiment. <DD><B> 3. </B>a play in Rugby scoringthree points, made by holding the ball on or beyond the opponents' goal line. <BR><I>expr. <B>try on,</B> </I>to put on to test the fit or looks of (a garment). <BR> <I>Ex. She tried on her new dress.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>try out,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to test the effect or result of. </I> <I>Ex. The new rules have been put partially tried out (New York Evening Post).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to test to find out about; sample. <BR> <I>Ex. Picked pilots of proved experience ... volunteer to try out new types (Aeroplane).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to undergo a test or trial to determine fitness. <BR> <I>Ex. He tried out for the hockey team. One recent afternoon we watched [them] pass judgment on the merits of a couple of hundred dancers and showgirls who were assembled to try out for the weekly program (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> d. </B>to separate (fat, grease, or the like, from a substance) by roasting, boiling, or steaming. <BR> <I>Ex. The whalers tried out the blubber in a large pot.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>try over,</B> </I>(Especially British.) to go through by way of experiment. <BR> <I>Ex. Let's try it over before we decide.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="trying">
<B>trying, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> hard to endure or bear; annoying; distressing. <BR> <I>Ex. a trying day, a trying person.</I> (SYN) severe, difficult, vexing. adv. <B>tryingly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tryingplane">
<B>trying plane,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a type of large plane used in trying a surface. </DL>
<A NAME="tryma">
<B>tryma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mata.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fruit resembling a drupe, but formed from an originally compound ovary, and having a fleshy or fibrous outer covering (epicarp) which ultimately dehisces, as in the walnut and hickory; a kind of drupaceous nut. </DL>
<A NAME="tryon">
<B>try-on, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of trying on a garment. </DL>
<A NAME="tryout">
<B>tryout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a test made to determine fitness for a specific purpose; experimental trial. <DD><B> 2. </B>a selective trial to eliminate contestants or candidates not sufficiently capable to compete. <BR> <I>Ex. Olympic tryouts. Tryouts for the school play will be held next week.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the showing of a play before the opening. </DL>
