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#108594 07/23/03 05:24 PM
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television - What badword idiot put this in a list of “Words Appearing Infrequently”?

tellurian
adj.
5< L tellus, gen. telluris, the earth (< IE base *telo3, flat surface > THILL, DEAL3) + 3AN6 of the earth; terrestrial
n.
1 an inhabitant of the earth
2 an apparatus for demonstrating how the earth‘s position and movement (diurnal rotation, annual revolution, etc.) cause day and night and the cycle of the seasons: also tel[lu4ri[on 739n#, 3!n8

tellurium
n.
5ModL: coined (1798) by M. H. Klaproth (1743-1817), Ger chemist, for element discovered (1783) by F. J. M. von Reichenstein, Austrian mineralogist < L tellus, earth (see TELLURIAN) + 3IUM, in contrast to URANIUM6 a rare, tin-white, brittle, nonmetallic chemical element, belonging to the same family of elements as sulfur and selenium and occurring naturally in mineral tellurite and tellurides: it is used as a glass tint, as an alloying material, and in thermoelectric converters: symbol, Te; at. wt., 127.60; at. no., 52; sp. gr., 6.24; melt. pt., 449.5UC; boil. pt., 989.8UC

telos - defined by Scripps-Howard as “an ultimate end or object.”

tempeh
n.
a cheeselike high-protein food, orig. of Indonesia, made with cooked soybeans fermented with a rhizopus fungus and used as a meat substitute, in salads, etc.

temporal, temporality,

tenace
n.
5< Sp tenaza, lit., tongs, pincers < L tenaces, things that hold fast < tenax: see fol.6 Bridge an imperfect sequence of high cards in the same unit, as the ace and queen without the king
Has television killed bridge yet?

tenant, tenderfoot, tenderize, tendinitis, tendinous

tendu - extended in a taut manner, as a leg in ballet

tenor, tenorless, tensely, tentacled, tentative, tentiform, temire.

teonanacatl - Sacred Mushroom, source of psilocybin for those who want to go nutty

terbium
n.
5ModL: so named (1843) by Mosander, its discoverer, after Ytterby: see ERBIUM6 a silver-gray, soft, ductile chemical element of the rare-earth metals, found in gadolinite and other minerals: symbol, Tb; at. wt., 158.925; at. no., 65; sp. gr., 8.23; melt. pt., 1,356UC; boil. pt., 3,123UC

teredo
n.,
pl. 3dos or 3di[nes# 73di ncz#8 5ME < L < Gr tercdbn, borer, akin to teirein, to rub: see THROW6 any of a genus (Teredo) of long shipworms that feed on wood

tergiversate
vi.
3sat#ed, 3sat#ing 5< L tergiversatus, pp. of tergiversari, to turn one‘s back, decline, shift < tergum, the back (see fol.) + versari, to turn: see VERSE6
1 to desert a cause, party, etc.; become a renegade; apostatize
2 to use evasions or subterfuge; equivocate
ter#gi[ver[sa4tion
n.
ter4gi[ver[sa#tor
n.
Tergiferous
<XPAGE=1487Ter*gif"er*ous (?), a. [L. tergum the back + -ferous.] Carrying or bearing upon the back. Tergiferous plants (Bot.), plants which bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

teriyaki
n.
5Jpn < teri, nominal form of teru, to shine + yaki, nominal form of yaku, to broil: so called because the sauce makes the meat or fish shiny6 a Japanese dish consisting of meat or fish marinated or dipped in spiced soy sauce and broiled, grilled, or barbecued

tern - leave no stone unturned, no stern untoned, no tern unstoned

ternary
adj.
5ME < L ternarius < terni, three each < tres, THREE6
1 made up of three parts or things; threefold; triple
2 third in order or rank
3 Chem. of or containing three different atoms, elements, radicals, etc.
4 Math. a) having three as a base b) involving three variables
5 Metallurgy of an alloy of three elements
n.,
pl. 3ries [Rare] a group or set of three

Terpsichore - the Muse of dancing

terraciform
terrane - geology - deposits characterisiic of one part of the world, but identifiable in other parts of the world as result of actions of plate techtonics

ter[rene 7ter rcn$, t! rcn$, ter4cn#8
adj.
5ME < L terrenus: see TERRAIN6
1 of earth; earthy
2 worldly; mundane
n.
1 the earth
2 a land or territory

terreplein
n.
5Fr < It terrepieno < terrapienare, to fill with earth, terrace < terra (see TERRACE) + pienare, to fill < L plenus, full: see PLENTY6 a level platform behind a parapet, rampart, etc., where guns are mounted

territoriality, terror,

tessera, tessellate - tiles, tilage



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maybe everyone always says "TV" or "telly"?



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Or either, it appears infrequently in spelling bees.


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>“Words Appearing Infrequently”?

I suggest again that this means used infrequently in the spell-off.


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Ha! Pipped ya, tsuwm!


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a drive-by pipping!

wow. Reality TV, right here on the board.





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I suggest again

Wait a minute. Does this mean that I simultaneously pipped and mantled tsuwm?


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simultaneously

depends on your definition of simultaneously.
Galactically, yes.
locally, not so sure.



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#108603 07/23/03 07:11 PM
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By simultaneously pipping and mantling I was referring to one act (my post on infrequency in spelling bees) being an act of pipping (posting the same thing moments before tsuwm's post) and an act of mantling (saying the same thing he had said earlier in another thread).


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