<B>Territorial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of a United States Territory. <BR> <I>Ex. a Territorial legislature, Territorial laws.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) organized for home defense. <DD><I>noun </I> (British.) a soldier of the Territorial Army. </DL>
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<B>Territorial Army,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the portion of the British Army auxiliary to the regular army, especially for home defense; Home Guard. </DL>
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<B>territorial imperative,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Ethology.) the supposed innate character of certain animals to regard areas possessively and defend them from encroachment. <BR> <I>Ex. The "territorial imperative" does much to explain the causes of war, ... which I consider almost purely territorial (Konrad Lorenz).</I> </DL>
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<B>territorialism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the tendency among animals to defend their individual territories. <DD><B> 2. </B>a theory that gives predominance in a state to the landed class; landlordism. <DD><B> 3. </B>the theory of church government holding that ecclesiastical supremacy is inherently a prerogative of the civil power; territorial system. </DL>
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<B>territorialist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an advocate of territorialism. </DL>
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<B>territoriality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>territorial quality, condition, position, or status. <DD><B> 2. </B>a form of behavior in which an animal claims an area for itself and defends it from encroachment by others. <BR> <I>Ex. No room was left for doubting ... the territoriality of the owls (Scientific American). The cichlids' territoriality--defense of its territory--offers an interesting analogy to the institution of private property in the higher vertebrates (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>territorialize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make territorial. <DD><B> 2. </B>to associate with or allocate to a particular territory or district. <DD><B> 3. </B>to make larger by increasing the territory of. noun <B>territorialization.</B> </DL>
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<B>territorial system,</B> =territorialism.</DL>
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<B>territorial waters,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the waters inland or off the coastline of a nation over which the nation exercises jurisdiction. <BR> <I>Ex. Canada proposed that the limit of territorial waters should be six miles, with an additional six miles of exclusive fishing rights for the coastal State (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
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<B>territory, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>land; region. <BR> <I>Ex. to map an unexplored territory from the air. Much territory in the northern part of Africa is desert.</I> (SYN) tract, area. <DD><B> 2a. </B>land belonging to a government; land under the rule of a distant government. <BR> <I>Ex. Gibraltar is British territory.</I> (SYN) dominion. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=Territory.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a region assigned to a salesman or agent. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) the facts investigated by some branch of science or learning. <BR> <I>Ex. the territory of biochemistry.</I> (SYN) field. <DD><B> 5. </B>an area within definite boundaries, such as a nesting ground, in which an animal lives and from which it keeps out others of its kind. </DL>
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<B>Territory, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a district not admitted as a state but having its own lawmaking body. <BR> <I>Ex. Hawaii and Alaska were Territories before they became states.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a district with a somewhat similar status elsewhere, as in Australia or Canada. (Abbr:) Terr. </DL>
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<B>terror, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>great fear. <BR> <I>Ex. The child has a terror of thunder.</I> (SYN) fright, alarm, dread, consternation. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cause of great fear. <BR> <I>Ex. Pirates were once the terror of the sea. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>deliberate violence against persons or groups by a government or another group. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) a person or thing that causes much trouble and unpleasantness. <BR> <I>Ex. What an awful person! She must be a holy terror to live with (Sinclair Lewis).</I> </DL>
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<B>Terror, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a period when a community lives in fear of death or violence because of the methods used by a political party or group to win or keep power, such as the Reign of Terror in France. <DD><B> 2. </B>a group or movement using such methods. </DL>
<B>terrorism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of terrorizing; use of terror, especially the systematic use of terror by a government or other authority against particular persons or groups. <DD><B> 2. </B>a condition of fear and submission produced by frightening people. <DD><B> 3. </B>a method of opposing a government internally through the use of terror. </DL>
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<B>terrorist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who uses or favors terrorism. <BR> <I>Ex. Venezuelan terrorists attacked a prison in Caracas and about 600 prisoners were said to have escaped (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or by terrorists; terroristic. </DL>
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<B>terroristic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> using or favoring methods that inspire terror. </DL>
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<B>terrorize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to fill with terror. <BR> <I>Ex. The sight of the growling dog terrorized the little child.</I> (SYN) terrify. <DD><B> 2. </B>to rule or subdue by causing terror. (SYN) browbeat, intimidate. noun <B>terrorization.</B> noun <B>terrorizer.</B> </DL>
<B>terry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rough cotton cloth made of uncut looped yarn. </DL>
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<B>terry cloth,</B> =terry.</DL>
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<B>terse, </B>adjective, <B>terser,</B> <B>tersest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> brief and to the point (said of writing and speaking, or writers and speakers). <BR> <I>Ex. "No" was Father's terse reply when I asked to play after bedtime.</I> adv. <B>tersely.</B> noun <B>terseness.</B> </DL>
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<B>tertial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the flight feathers on the basal section of a bird's wing. <DD><I>noun </I> a tertial feather. </DL>
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<B>tertian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a fever, such as malaria, with a bad spell which recurs every other day. <DD><I>adj. </I> recurring every other day. </DL>
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<B>tertiary, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-aries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of the third order, rank, or formation; third. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Chemistry.) <DD><B> a. </B>of or having to do with a carbon atom joined to three other carbon atoms in a chain or ring. <DD><B> b. </B>resulting from the replacement of three atoms or groups. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=tertial.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>one of a bird's flight feathers; tertial feather. <DD><B> 2. </B>a lay member of the third order of certain monastic fraternities of the Roman Catholic Church, not subject to strict rules. </DL>
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<B>Tertiary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-aries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the earlier of the two periods making up the Cenozoic era, immediately following the Mesozoic. During this time the great mountain systems, such as the Alps, Himalayas, Rockies, and Andes, appeared, and rapid development of mammals occurred. <DD><B> 2. </B>the rocks formed during this period. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with this period or its rocks. </DL>
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<B>tertiary color,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a color formed by mixing two binary colors. </DL>
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<B>tertiary consumer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Ecology.) an animal that eats a secondary consumer in a food chain. In a food chain in which a grass-eating mouse (primary consumer) is devoured by a weasel (secondary consumer) and the weasel in turn is consumed by a hawk, the hawk is a tertiary consumer. </DL>
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<B>tertiary recovery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any method used to take oil from a well after secondary recovery has failed. <BR> <I>Ex. Oil companies are testing a number of tertiary recovery techniques to get at previously unrecoverable reserves ... By injecting air into oil-bearing rocks, it is possible to ignite some of the oil, making the rest thin enough for water-flooding (J. Tesar).</I> </DL>
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<B>tertiary root,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a branch of a secondary root. </DL>
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<B>tertiary syphilis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the last stage of syphilis, with severe lesions of skin, bones, and brain. </DL>
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<B>tertium quid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a third something related to two things or intermediate between two things. </DL>
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<B>tertius, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>third (used in prescriptions). <DD><B> 2. </B>(in some English schools) designating the youngest of three boys of the same surname. <BR> <I>Ex. Smith tertius hit the ball (London Times).</I> </DL>
<B>terza rima,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an Italian form of iambic verse consisting of ten-syllable or eleven-syllable lines arranged in tercets, the middle line of each tercet rhyming with the first and third lines of the following tercet (<I>aba, bcb, cdc,</I> and so on). Dante's <I>Divine Comedy</I> and Shelley's <I>Ode to the West Wind</I> are in terza rima. </DL>
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<B>terzet, </B>noun. =terzetto.</DL>
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<B>terzetto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ti.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) a trio, especially a vocal trio. </DL>
