Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
trancing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Trance |
trangram |
noun |
Something intricately contrived; a contrived; a puzzle. |
tranquil |
adjective |
Quiet; calm; undisturbed; peaceful; not agitated; as, the atmosphere is tranquil; the condition of the country is tranquil. |
transact |
verb t. |
To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent., To conduct matters; to manage affairs. |
transcur |
verb i. |
To run or rove to and fro. |
transept |
noun |
The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts. |
transfer |
verb t. |
To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion., To make over the possession or control of; to pass; to convey, as a right, from one person to another; to give; as, the title to land is transferred by deed., To remove from one substance or surface to another; as, to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone., The act of transferring, or the state of being transferred; the removal or conveyance of a thing from one place or person to another., The conveyance of right, title, or property, either real or personal, from one person to another, whether by sale, by gift, or otherwise., That which is transferred., A picture, or the like, removed from one body or ground to another, as from wood to canvas, or from one piece of canvas to another., A drawing or writing printed off from one surface on another, as in ceramics and in many decorative arts., A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another., A pathological process by virtue of which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side. |
transfix |
verb t. |
To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart. |
tranship |
verb t. |
Same as Transship. |
transire |
noun |
A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit. |
transmew |
verb t. & i. |
To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose. |
transmit |
verb t. |
To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another., To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity. |
transude |
verb i. |
To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood. |
transume |
verb t. |
To change; to convert. |