T

1. The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
2. A tag. See Tag, 2.
3. A loop for pulling or lifting something.
4. A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
5. A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
6. a small projecting piece of a file folder, file card, or similar sheet used in a filing system, on which a notation is written to permit convenient search for the folder, card, etc.
7. a bill or check for some purchase, as in a restaurant; as, the salesman will pick up the tab.
8. a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard which advances the carriage or curser to the next (preset) tab position; -- used especially to type or print text or numbers in columns.
9. One who wears a tabard.
10. A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.
11. A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
12. A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
13. A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
14. An old maid or gossip.
15. Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
16. Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
17. A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
18. (Jewish Antiq.) A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship.
19. Hence, the Jewish temple; sometimes, any other place for worship.
20. Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.
21. Any small cell, or like place, in which some holy or precious things was deposited or kept.
22. (Naut.) A boxlike step for a mast with the after side open, so that the mast can be lowered to pass under bridges, etc.
23. Of or pertaining to a tabernacle, especially the Jewish tabernacle.
24. Formed in latticework; latticed.
25. Of or pertaining to huts or booths; hence, common; low.
1. The ornamental receptacle for the pyx, or for the consecrated elements, whether a part of a building or movable.
2. A niche for the image of a saint, or for any sacred painting or sculpture.
3. Hence, a work of art of sacred subject, having a partially architectural character, as a solid frame resting on a bracket, or the like.
4. A tryptich for sacred imagery.
5. A seat or stall in a choir, with its canopy.
T bandage (Surg.),
a bandage shaped like the letter T, and used principally for application to the groin, or perineum.
T cart ,
a kind of fashionable two seated wagon for pleasure driving.
T iron
1. A rod with a short crosspiece at the end, -- used as a hook.
2. Iron in bars, having a cross section formed like the letter T, -- used in structures.
T rail ,
a kind of rail for railroad tracks, having no flange at the bottom so that a section resembles the letter T.
T square ,
a ruler having a crosspiece or head at one end, for the purpose of making parallel lines; -- so called from its shape. It is laid on a drawing board and guided by the crosspiece, which is pressed against the straight edge of the board. Sometimes the head is arranged to be set at different angles.
To a T ,
exactly, perfectly; as, to suit to a T.