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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: t-w - twenty-one</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="tw"> T-W, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a three-wheeled motorcycle with balloon tires which allow it to traverse rough or soft terrain. Ex. The T-Ws' principal allure is recreational (Time). </DL> <A NAME="twa"> twa, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) two. </DL> <A NAME="twa"> Twa, noun, pl. Twa or Twas.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a pygmoid people of Rwanda and Burundi, in east central Africa. </DL> <A NAME="twad"> Twad.,<DL COMPACT><DD> Twaddell (hydrometer). </DL> <A NAME="twaddell"> Twaddell, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a hydrometer used for densities greater than that of water, the excess of density above unity being found by multiplying the number of divisions (degrees) of the scale by 5 and dividing by 1,000. </DL> <A NAME="twaddle"> twaddle, noun, verb, -dled, -dling.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. silly, feeble, tiresome talk or writing. Ex. garrulous twaddle of old men on club sofas (William B. Maxwell). <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a person who talks or writes twaddle. Ex. We twaddled away the evening well enough (Scott). <DD>v.i., v.t. to talk or write in a silly, feeble, tiresome way. </DL> <A NAME="twaddler"> twaddler, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who talks or writes twaddle. </DL> <A NAME="twain"> twain, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) two. Ex. The nation was ... severed in twain by ... religious faction (Henry T. Buckle). </DL> <A NAME="twang"> twang, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a sharp, ringing sound, such as is produced when a tense string is sharply plucked or suddenly released. Ex. The bowstring made a twang when I shot the arrow. <DD> 2. a sharp, nasal tone. Ex. the twang of a Yankee farmer. <DD>v.t. 1. to cause to make a sharp, ringing sound. <DD> 2. to play, pluck, or shoot with a twang. Ex. He twanged an arrow into the target. <DD> 3. to speak (words) with a sharp, nasal tone. <DD>v.i. 1. to make a sharp, ringing sound. Ex. The banjos twanged. <DD> 2. to shoot with a bow. <DD> 3. (of an arrow) to leave the bowstring with a twang. <DD> 4. to speak with a sharp, nasal tone. </DL> <A NAME="twangle"> twangle, noun, verb, -gled, -gling.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun a continuous or repeated resonant sound, usually lighter or thinner than a twang; jingle. <DD>v.i. to twang lightly; jingle. <DD>v.i. to twang lightly; jingle. </DL> <A NAME="twangy"> twangy, adjective, twangier, twangiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a twang. Ex. a twangy banjo (Harper's). noun twanginess. </DL> <A NAME="twankay"> Twankay, noun, or Twankay tea,<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of green tea, originally one consisting solely of leaves from a particular part of China, but later simply a designation of a blend of leaves of a particular size. </DL> <A NAME="twas"> 'twas,<DL COMPACT><DD> it was. Ex. "'Twas the night before Christmas." </DL> <A NAME="twayblade"> twayblade, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of terrestrial orchids, having two nearly opposite broad leaves springing from the stem or the root. </DL> <A NAME="tweak"> tweak, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t., v.i. to seize and pull with a sharp jerk and twist. Ex. to tweak a person's ear. <DD>noun a sharp pull and twist; twitch; pluck. </DL> <A NAME="twee"> twee, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British Slang.) sweet; cute. Ex. You look very twee tonight (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="tweed"> tweed, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a woolen cloth with a rough surface. Tweed is sometimes made of wool and cotton, and usually has two or more colors. <DD> 2. a suit, jacket or other coat, or skirt made of this fabric. expr. tweeds, clothes made of tweed. Ex. We do look disreputable enough in our rough tweeds (George Fenn). </DL> <A NAME="tweeded"> tweeded, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dressed in tweeds; wearing tweedy clothes. Ex. ... elegantly tweeded women shoppers (Manchester Guardian). </DL> <A NAME="tweedle"> tweedle, intransitive verb, -dled, -dling.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British Dialect and Scottish.) <DD> 1. to produce thin or shrill, modulated sounds by playing on a fiddle, bagpipe, or the like. <DD> 2. to pipe or whistle, as a bird. </DL> <A NAME="tweedledumandtweedledee"> tweedledum and tweedledee,<DL COMPACT><DD> two things or parties that are identical or nearly identical. </DL> <A NAME="tweeds"> tweeds, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under tweed. </DL> <A NAME="tweedy"> tweedy, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. consisting of or like tweed. Ex. a tweedy jacket. <DD> 2. characterized by or given to wearing tweeds. noun tweediness. </DL> <A NAME="tweel"> 'tweel, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) atweel. </DL> <A NAME="tween"> tween, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a boy or girl between childhood and adolescence, especially between the ages of 10 and 13. Ex. The youngsters choose ... games ... tailored to the various levels of teens, tweens, and tots (Marion K. Sanders). </DL> <A NAME="tween"> 'tween, preposition.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) between. </DL> <A NAME="tweendeck"> tween-deck, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> being or lodging between decks of a ship. Ex. tween-deck passengers, tween-deck cabins. </DL> <A NAME="tweeny"> tweeny, noun, pl. tweenies.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a between maid. </DL> <A NAME="tweet"> tweet, noun, interjection, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun, interj. 1. the note of a young bird. Ex. We heard the "tweet, tweet" from a nest in the tree. <DD> 2. any similar sound. <DD>v.i. to utter a tweet or tweets. </DL> <A NAME="tweeter"> tweeter, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a high-fidelity loudspeaker for reproducing the higher frequency sounds, usually those above 6,000 cycles per second. </DL> <A NAME="tweeze"> tweeze or tweese, verb, tweezed, tweezing, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. to pull out with tweezers. Ex. Hairs which spoil the line should be tweezed out (Sunday Times). <DD>noun (Obsolete.) 1. a case of small instruments, as of a surgeon. <DD> 2. tweezers. </DL> <A NAME="tweezer"> tweezer, noun. =tweezers.</DL> <A NAME="tweezers"> tweezers, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> small pincers for pulling out hairs and picking up small objects. </DL> <A NAME="twelfth"> twelfth, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. next after the 11th; last in a series of 12. Ex. Lincoln's birthday comes on February twelfth. <DD> 2. one, or being one, of 12 equal parts. Ex. Two is a twelfth of twenty-four. </DL> <A NAME="twelfthday"> Twelfth-day, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the twelfth day after Christmas, January 6, the festival of the Epiphany, marking the traditional close of the Christmas season. </DL> <A NAME="twelfthnight"> Twelfth-night, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the evening (or sometimes the eve) of Twelfth-day or Epiphany, often celebrated as the end of the Christmas festivities. </DL> <A NAME="twelfthtide"> Twelfthtide, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the festive time of Twelfth-day and Twelfth-night. <DD> 2. =Twelfth-day. </DL> <A NAME="twelve"> twelve, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. one more than 11; 12. A year has twelve months. <DD> 2. a set of twelve things. <DD>adj. one more than 11; 12. </DL> <A NAME="twelve"> Twelve, noun. the, =Twelve Apostles.</DL> <A NAME="twelveapostles"> Twelve Apostles,<DL COMPACT><DD> the twelve disciples and associates of Jesus (Peter, James, John, Andrew, Thomas, James the Less, Jude, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, and Judas), who were chosen as His Apostles. </DL> <A NAME="twelvefold"> twelvefold, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. twelve times as much or as many. <DD> 2. having 12 parts. <DD>adv. twelve times as much or as many. </DL> <A NAME="twelvemo"> twelvemo, noun, pl. -mos, adjective. =duodecimo.</DL> <A NAME="twelvemonth"> twelvemonth, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a period of twelve months; year. </DL> <A NAME="twelvenote"> twelve-note, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) twelve-tone. </DL> <A NAME="twelvetables"> Twelve Tables,<DL COMPACT><DD> the early code of Roman law, drawn up in 451 and 450 B.C., containing the most important rules and serving as a basis for later legislation. </DL> <A NAME="twelvetone"> twelve-tone, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with a system of atonal music, established by Arnold Schonberg in 1924, which is based on all twelve semitones of the chromatic scale in an arbitrarily selected order without any tone center (tonic). <DD> 2. using such a system. Ex. a twelve-tone composer. </DL> <A NAME="twelvetonerow"> twelve-tone row, =tone row.</DL> <A NAME="twentieth"> twentieth, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. next after the 19th; last in a series of 20. <DD> 2. one, or being one, of 20 equal parts. </DL> <A NAME="twenty"> twenty, noun, pl. -ties, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> two times ten; 20. </DL> <A NAME="twentyfold"> twentyfold, adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. twenty times as much or as many. <DD> 2. having 20 parts. <DD>adv. twenty times as much or as many. </DL> <A NAME="twentyfourmo"> twenty-fourmo, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a size of a book, or of its pages, made by folding a sheet of paper twenty-four times. (Abbr:) 24mo. <DD> 2. a book having pages of this size. <DD>adj. of this size; having pages of this size. </DL> <A NAME="twentyish"> twentyish, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> about twenty years old; looking twenty years of age. Ex. a twentyish young man. </DL> <A NAME="twentyone"> twenty-one, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gambling game in which the players draw cards from the dealer in trying to come as close to a count of twenty-one (in adding the spots on the cards) as possible without going past it; blackjack; vingt-et-un. </DL> <A HREF="twentyth.dic">NEXT</A>