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Webster 1913 Edition

T

T

(tē)
,
the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§262-264, and also §§153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
The letter derives its name and form from the Latin, the form of the Latin letter being further derived through the Greek from the Phœnician. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. It is etymologically most nearly related to d, s, th; as in tug, duke; two, dual, L. duo; resin, L. resina, Gr.
ῥητίνη
, tent, tense, a., tenuous, thin; nostril, thrill. See
D
,
S
.
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
.
(a)
A rod with a short crosspiece at the end, – used as a hook.
(b)
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
.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition

T

T

is the twentieth letter of the English Alphabet, and a close consonant. It represents a close joining of the end of the tongue to the root of the upper teeth, as may be perceived by the syllables at, et, ot, ut, in attempting to pronounce which, the voice is completely intercepted. It is therefore numbered among the mutes, or close articulations, and it differs from d chiefly in its closeness; for in pronouncing ad, ed, we perceive the voice is not so suddenly and entirely intercepted, as in pronouncing at and et. T by itself has one sound only, as in take, turn, bat, bolt, smite, bitter. So we are accustomed to speak; but in reality, t can be hardly said to have any sound at all. Its use, like that of all mute articulations, is to modify the manner of uttering the vocal sound which precedes or follows it.
When t is followed by h, as in think and that, the combination really forms a distinct sound for which we have no single character. This combination has two sounds in English; aspirated, as in think, and vocal, as in that.

T

he letters ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, usually pass into the sound of sh, as in nation, motion, partial substantiate; which are pronounced nashon, moshon, parshal, substanshate. In the case, t loses entirely its proper sound or use, and being blended with the subsequent letter, a new sound results from the combination, which is in fact a simple sound. In a few words, the combination ti has the sound of the English ch, as in Christian, mixtion, question.

T

, as an abbreviation, stands for theologia; as, S.T.D. sanctoe theologioe doctor, doctor of divinity. In ancient monuments and writings, T is an abbreviature, which stands for Titus, Titius or Tullius. As a numeral, T, among the Latins, stood for 160, and with a dash over the top, T, for 160,000.
In music, T is the initial of tenor, vocal and instrumental; of tacet, for silence, as adagio tacet, when a person is to rest during the whole movement. In concertos and symphonies, it is the initial of tutti, the whole band, after a solo. It sometimes stands for tr. or trillo, a shake.

Definition 2024

T

T


T U+0054, T
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
← S
[U+0053] 		Basic Latin U →
[U+0055]
See also: Appendix:Variations of "t"

Translingual

Letter

T upper case (lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

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Symbol

T

  1. Symbol for tesla, the SI unit of magnetic flux density.
  2. Symbol for the prefix tera-
  3. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for thymine
  4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for threonine
  5. (mathematics) matrix transpose
  6. (chemistry) tritium

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Other representations of T:

English

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t, plural Ts or T's)

  1. The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
See also

Number

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰiː/
  • Rhymes: -iː
  • Homophones: te, tea, tee, ti

Abbreviation

T

  1. (ratings) teen
  2. (finance) taxable
  3. Tuesday
  4. (stock symbol) AT&T
  5. (rail transport, in multiple unit formations) trailer car.
  6. Popular term for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA; specifically, referring to the subway or train. E.g.: "I'm going to take the T"
  7. (sports) The sports statistic for ties in a given period under a given criteria
  8. (basketball) technical foul
  9. American Library Association. Abbreviation of twentieth, a book size range (12.5-15 cm in height).
  10. transgender (TG) or transsexual (TS) (used in contrast to cisgender M or F)
  11. testosterone
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American Sign Language

Letter

‎(Stokoe T)

  1. The letter T

Azeri

Letter

T upper case (lower case t)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/

Letter

T ‎(capital, lowercase t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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Esperanto

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /teː/
  • Homophone: Tee

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet.

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t/

Letter

T ‎(lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • (name of letter) IPA(key): /ti/
  • Homophone: ti
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/

Letter

T m, f ‎(invariable, lower case t)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called ti and written in the Latin script.

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Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t]

Letter

T

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

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Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [ti]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [t]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [t̚]

Letter

T

  1. The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Noun

T m (plural Ts)

  1. adaptor (device allowing more plugs at a socket)

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /te/

Letter

T (capital, lowercase t)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /T/. Preceded by Ş and followed by Ţ.

Saanich

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t/

Letter

T

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tiː/

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The 17th letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet.

Derived terms

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/

Letter

T ‎(lower case t)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

Letter

T ‎(capital, lowercase t)

  1. The 21st letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by Š and followed by U.

Somali

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /tæ/

Letter

T upper case (lower case t)

  1. The third letter of the Somali alphabet, called ta and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  1. The third letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by B and followed by J.

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Spanish

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [te˧˧/, /təːɰ˨˩]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [tej˧˧/, /təːɰ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [tej˧˥/, /təːɰ˨˩]
  • Phonetic: tê, tờ

Letter

T ‎(upper case, lower case t)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called tê or tờ and written in the Latin script.

See also

t

t


t U+0074, t
LATIN SMALL LETTER T
← s
[U+0073] 		Basic Latin u →
[U+0075]
See also: T and Appendix:Variations of "t"

Translingual

Letter

t lower case (upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

Pronunciation

Symbol

t

  1. (IPA) voiceless alveolar plosive.
  2. (mathematics, physics) time
  3. tonne

Usage notes

  • As a symbol meaning "time", t is italicised in print; for example, "the position at time t is x".

Noun

t

  1. (programming) (LISP) The atom representing true, as opposed to nil.

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Other representations of T:

English

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T, plural t's)

  1. The twentieth letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

See also

Number

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The ordinal number twentieth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called tee and written in the Latin script.

Azeri

Letter

t lower case (upper case T)

  1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Danish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Danish alphabet

Abbreviation

  1. ton

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eː
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

  • Previous letter: s
  • Next letter: u

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Egyptian

Noun

t
X2 		X4
Z2

  1. bread

Usage notes

Alternative forms:

X2
t

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called to and written in the Latin script.

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Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʰ/

Letter

t ‎(upper case T)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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French

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.
    • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Sa curiosité et son extravagance arrivèrent à ce point qu’il vendit plusieurs arpents de bonnes terres à labourer pour acheter des livres de chevalerie à lire.
      His curiosity and his extravagance came to the point that he sold several arpents of good working land to buy books of chivalry to read.

Interfix

t

  1. An interfix of liaison, used in inverted interrogative constructions between a third-person singular verb not already ending in t or d and its pronoun (il, elle or on).
    Y a-t-il un endroit, instead of *Y a il un endroit
    • 1965 November, Carlo François, "Poésie d'André Marissel", in The French Review, American Association of Teachers of French, Volume 39, Number 2, pages 265–274,
      Le jardinier-poète sait parfois qu’il est fécond et que son Arbre est fertile. Ne vainc-t-il pas la mort chaque fois qu’il plante un arbre-poème?

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German

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Derived terms

  • Wohlklangs-t

Related terms

  • t euphonicum

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t/

Letter

t ‎(upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Italian

Noun

t m, f ‎(invariable)

  1. See under T

Latin

Abbreviation

t

  1. Titus

Letter

t

  1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

References

  • T in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • t in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t]

Letter

T

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called tē and written in the Latin script.

See also

Livonian

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t̪/

Letter

t ‎(upper case T)

  1. The thirty-third letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Malay

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /teː/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t/, /ʈ/*

Letter

t

  1. The 20th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

Usage notes

  • /ʈ/ Retroflex, merge of rt.

Portuguese

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /te/

Letter

t (lowercase, capital T)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /t/. Preceded by ş and followed by ţ.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

  • (uppercase) T

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/

Letter

t ‎(Cyrillic spelling т)

  1. The 26th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by š and followed by u.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/

Letter

t ‎(upper case T)

  1. The thirtieth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /te/

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The 21st letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Turkish

Letter

t ‎(lower case, upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

See also

Turkmen

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /t/

Letter

t ‎(upper case T)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

See also

Etymology

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