Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 65

Transportable (a.) Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.

Transportal (n.) Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another.

Transportance (n.) Transportation.

Transportant (a.) Transporting; /avishing; as, transportant love.

Transportation (n.) The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

Transportation (n.) Transport; ecstasy.

Transported (a.) Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced.

Transporter (n.) One who transports.

Transporting (a.) That transports; fig., ravishing.

Transportingly (adv.) So as to transport.

Transportment (n.) The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation.

Transposable (a.) That may transposed; as, a transposable phrase.

Transposal (n.) The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed; transposition.

Transposed (imp. & p. p.) of Transpose

Transposing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transpose

Transpose (v. t.) To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.

Transpose (v. t.) To change; to transform; to invert.

Transpose (v. t.) To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.

Transpose (v. t.) To change the natural order of, as words.

Transpose (v. t.) To change the key of.

Transposer (n.) One who transposes.

Transposition (n.) The act of transposing, or the state of being transposed.

Transposition (n.) The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.

Transposition (n.) A change of the natural order of words in a sentence; as, the Latin and Greek languages admit transposition, without inconvenience, to a much greater extent than the English.

Transposition (n.) A change of a composition into another key.

Transpositional (a.) Of or pertaining to transposition; involving transposition.

Transpositive (a.) Made by transposing; consisting in transposition; transposable.

Transprint (v. t.) To transfer to the wrong place in printing; to print out of place.

Transprose (v. t.) To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose.

Transregionate (a.) Foreign.

Transshaped (imp. & p. p.) of Transshape

Transshaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transshape

Transshape (v. t.) To change into another shape or form; to transform.

Transship (v. t.) To transfer from one ship or conveyance to another.

Transshipment (n.) The act of transshipping, or transferring, as goods, from one ship or conveyance to another.

Transubstantiate (v. t.) To change into another substance.

Transubstantiate (v. t.) To change, as the sacramental elements, bread and wine, into the flesh and blood of Christ.

Transubstantiation (n.) A change into another substance.

Transubstantiation (n.) The doctrine held by Roman Catholics, that the bread and wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.

Transubstantiator (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation.

Transudation (n.) The act or process of transuding.

Transudation (n.) Same as Exosmose.

Transudatory (a.) Of or pertaining to transudation; passing by transudation.

Transuded (imp. & p. p.) of Transude

Transuding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transude

Transude (v. i.) To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.

Transume (v. t.) To change; to convert.

Transsummer (n.) See Transom, 2.

Transumpt (n.) A copy or exemplification of a record.

Transumption (n.) Act of taking from one place to another.

Transumptive (a.) Taking from one to another; metaphorical.

Transvasate (v. t.) To pour out of one vessel into another.

Transvasation (n.) The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.

Transvection (n.) The act of conveying or carrying over.

Transverberate (v. t.) To beat or strike through.

Transversal (a.) Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.

Transversal (n.) A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.

Transverse (a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.

Transverse (n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.

Transverse (n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Transversed (imp. & p. p.) of Transverse

Transversing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Transverse

Transverse (v. t.) To overturn; to change.

Transverse (v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Transversely (adv.) In a transverse manner.

Transversion (n.) The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Transvert (v. t.) To cause to turn across; to transverse.

Transvertible (a.) Capable of being transverted.

Transvolation (n.) The act of flying beyond or across.

Trant (v. i.) To traffic in an itinerary manner; to peddle.

Tranter (n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.

Trapped (imp. & p. p.) of Trap

Trapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trap

Trap (v. t.) To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

Trap (n.) An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.

Trap (a.) Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

Trap (n.) A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

Trap (n.) Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

Trap (n.) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

Trap (n.) The game of trapball.

Trap (n.) A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

Trap (n.) A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.

Trap (n.) A wagon, or other vehicle.

Trap (n.) A kind of movable stepladder.

Trap (v. t.) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

Trap (v. t.) Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

Trap (v. t.) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

Trap (v. i.) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

Trapan (n.) A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan.

Trapanned (imp. & p. p.) of Trapan

Trapanning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trapan

Trapan (v. t.) To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.

Trapanner (n.) One who trapans, or insnares.

Trapball (n.) An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

Trapdoor (n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

Trapdoor (n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.

Trape (v. i.) To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse.

Trapes (n.) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

Trapes (v. i.) To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.

Trapezate (a.) Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

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