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tick-tock [tick-tock 词源字典]: "The sound of a large clock ticking", Mid 19th century: imitative; compare with tick¹.[tick-tock etymology, tick-tock origin, 英语词源]
trigone: "A triangular region or tissue, particularly the area at the base of the urinary bladder, between the openings of the ureters and urethra", Mid 19th century: from French, from Latin trigonum 'triangle'.
tenuity: "Lack of solidity or substance; thinness", Late Middle English: from Latin tenuitas, from tenuis 'thin'.
turnsole: "A Mediterranean plant of the spurge family, whose flowers are said to turn with the sun", Late Middle English: from Old French tournesole, based on Latin tornare (see turn) + sol 'sun'.
times: "Multiply (a number)", Late 20th century: use as a verb of times expressing multiplication (dating from late Middle English): see time (sense 5 of the noun).
trihedral: "(Of a solid figure or body) having three sides or faces (in addition to the base or ends); triangular in cross section", Late 18th century: from Greek tri- 'three' + hedra 'base' + -al.
tautegorical: "Of a symbol (usually in mythology or religion): signifying only itself, as opposed to representing or standing for something else; existing to draw attention to its own existence; (also) of or relating to this kind of symbolism", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), poet, critic, and philosopher. From tauto- + -egorical.
teres: "Either of two muscles passing below the shoulder joint from the scapula to the upper part of the humerus, one ( teres major) drawing the arm towards the body and rotating it inwards, the other ( teres minor) rotating it outwards", Early 18th century: modern Latin, from Latin, literally 'rounded'.
trihedron: "A solid figure having three sides or faces (in addition to the base or ends)", Early 19th century: from tri- 'three' + -hedron, on the pattern of words such as polyhedron.
thenar: "Relating to the rounded fleshy part of the hand at the base of the thumb (the ball of the thumb)", Mid 17th century: from Greek, literally 'palm of the hand, sole of the foot'.
toxophilite: "A student or lover of archery", Late 18th century: from Toxophilus (a name invented by Roger Ascham, used as the title of his treatise on archery (1545), from Greek toxon 'bow' + -philos 'loving') + -ite¹.
Testudines: "An order of reptiles which comprises the turtles, terrapins, and tortoises. They are distinguished by having a shell of bony plates covered with horny scales, and many kinds are aquatic", Modern Latin (plural), based on Latin testa 'shell'.
tautochronism: "The property of being a tautochrone", Early 19th cent. From tautochrone + -ism, after French tautochronisme.
taniwha: "A water monster of Maori legend", Maori.
testudo: "(In ancient Rome) a wheeled screen with an arched roof, used to protect besieging troops", Late Middle English: from Latin, literally 'tortoise', from testa 'tile, shell'.
thalassic: "Relating to the sea", Mid 19th century: from French thalassique, from Greek thalassa 'sea'.
thaumatrope: "A scientific toy devised in the 19th century, consisting of a disc with a different picture on each of its two sides, these appearing to combine into one image when the disc is rapidly rotated", Early 19th century: from Greek thauma 'marvel' + -tropos '-turning'.
thrutch: "A narrow gorge or ravine", Old English (as a verb), of West Germanic origin.
thurifer: "An acolyte carrying a censer in a religious ceremony", Mid 19th century: from late Latin, from Latin thus, thur- 'incense' (from Greek thuos 'sacrifice') + -fer '-bearing'.
tiffin: "A snack or light meal", Early 19th century: apparently from dialect tiffing 'sipping', of unknown origin.