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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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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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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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oh. silly me.
I guess I should have read it a bit more simultenaciously.
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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.
I love tempe, but the resemblance between tempe and cheese escapes me. Can't find a decent picture online. I suppose it does look a bit cheeselike in the online pictures, but in real life they don't look the same at all.
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It's got a sort of cheeselike texture, in a floppy sort of way.
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Not when it's hot from being fried it doesn't.
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not when it's hot from being fried
Well, neither does cheese.
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Dear Faldage: the best way to fry cheese is i;n a ;microwqve. I used to like cheddar on toast, in the old days when they made toasters to that you could grill things under them. But it was tricky to get it crisped just right, and very difficult to avoid burning the edges of the toast. When I got my first microwave, I discovered that I could just put the cheddar on a Pyrex plate and with short burst of heat get it all nicely crisped. It would not stick very hard to the pyrex plate.Then it could be put onto a slice of toast. Frying cheese in a pan would just make a mess.
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Has television killed bridge yet?
Not in this household :)
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bridge on television? I remember a show from the early 60s with sotto voce commentary by a well-known bridge name. can anyone recall the name of the show (and the commentator)?
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No, I can't from the 60s - but there was a series in (I think) the 80s on BBC which had Jeremy Flint (perhaps presenting?) and a number of other good players like Zia Mahmoud - the format was a kind of over-the-shoulder style in which each player would v/o their thinking process before each bid was revealed. This 're-enactment' created studious interest for the afficianados, but sluggish TV for the great illiteratti, so was replaced with yet another makeover/cookery/gardening programme...
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