dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/tet_MW.json

{
  "tetartohedral":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having one fourth the number of planes required by complete symmetry \u2014 compare hemihedral , holohedral":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1858, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Greek tetartos fourth; akin to Greek tettares four \u2014 more at four":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "te-\u02cct\u00e4r-t\u0259-\u02c8h\u0113-dr\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115124",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "tetartohedrism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality of crystallizing tetartohedrally":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tetartohedr al + -ism":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8h\u0113\u02ccdriz\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-130539",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "tetchy":{
    "antonyms":[
      "thick-skinned"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": irritably or peevishly sensitive : touchy":[
        "the tetchy manner of two women living in the same house",
        "\u2014 Elizabeth Taylor \u20201975"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a morose and tetchy resident of a nursing home",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "During Wednesday\u2019s tetchy question-and-answer session in Parliament, few Conservative lawmakers said Mr. Johnson should be fired. \u2014 Max Colchester, WSJ , 25 May 2022",
      "Diagnosis can be a tetchy subject in neurodiversity. \u2014 Nancy Doyle, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "For all the tetchy lockdown sparring in between these scenes, there\u2019s finally something to be said for togetherness. \u2014 Guy Lodge, Variety , 14 Oct. 2021",
      "No wonder Biden is tetchy when asked about the subject. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 July 2021",
      "The travel show in which a tetchy British comedian joins celebrities on jaunts to various international locales",
      "But pursuing less tetchy relations with China, the policy of the KMT for decades, is becoming ever less marketable. \u2014 The Economist , 13 June 2020",
      "Some of the friction \u2014 never mind the crises at hand \u2014 may also stem from tetchy personal relations. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 25 Apr. 2020",
      "In 2017, parts of Silver Springs State Park had to be shut down because the monkeys were getting tetchy about human visitors. \u2014 Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine , 26 Feb. 2020"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1596, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from obsolete tetch habit":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8te-ch\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "huffy",
      "thin-skinned",
      "ticklish",
      "touchy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-020321",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "tetartoconid":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the posterior medial cusp of a lower molar tooth":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "t\u0259\u0307\u02cct\u00e4rt\u0259\u02c8k\u014dn\u0259\u0307d"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tetartocone, tetarcone + -id":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-150000"
  },
  "tetanus":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an acute infectious bacterial disease characterized by tonic spasm of voluntary muscles especially of the jaw and caused by an exotoxin of a clostridium ( Clostridium tetani ) which is usually introduced through a wound \u2014 compare lockjaw":[],
      ": the bacterium that causes tetanus":[],
      ": prolonged contraction of a muscle resulting from rapidly repeated motor impulses":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tet-\u1d4an-\u0259s, \u02c8tet-n\u0259s",
      "\u02c8tet-n\u0259s",
      "\u02c8te-t\u0259-n\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In 16 states, rates for kids entering kindergarten were at least 95 percent for measles shots and for the combination diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough shot. \u2014 NBC News , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "In 16 states, rates for kids entering kindergarten were at least 95% for measles shots and for the combination diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough shot. \u2014 Lindsey Tanner, Chicago Tribune , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "On the one hand, tetanus shots can stay durable for over 30 years. \u2014 Dr. Genevieve Yang, ABC News , 3 June 2022",
      "The victims: more than a dozen walkers and bikers, including several who have required urgent medical care, tetanus shots and antibiotics. \u2014 James V. Grimaldi, WSJ , 1 May 2022",
      "National coverage for the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella), DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus , pertussis) and chickenpox vaccines during the 2020-2021 school year fell to about 94 percent, under the 95 percent target. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "For example, a typical American by age 90 will have received 14 tetanus doses between their primary series and boosters altogether. \u2014 Bydr. Jay Bhatt Anddr. Atul Nakhasi, ABC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "In Michigan, researchers found that the slide in routine vaccination also encompassed adults, who missed out on tetanus , shingles, and pneumonia vaccines. \u2014 Maryn Mckenna, Wired , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Attorney General Jason Miyares said in an advisory opinion to Governor Glenn Youngkin that the General Assembly could have added Covid-19 to the list of diseases requiring vaccination, like mumps or tetanus . \u2014 Bloomberg.com , 27 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin, from Greek tetanos , from tetanos stretched, rigid; akin to Greek teinein to stretch \u2014 more at thin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-215215"
  },
  "tetany":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a condition of physiological calcium imbalance marked by tonic spasm of muscles and often associated with deficient parathyroid secretion":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8te-t\u0259-n\u0113",
      "\u02c8tet-\u1d4an-\u0113, \u02c8tet-n\u0113",
      "\u02c8tet-n\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The veterinarian was at the farm checking the cows for grass tetany . \u2014 Michael M. Phillips, WSJ , 10 June 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary, from Latin tetanus":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1885, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-225550"
  },
  "tetart-":{
    "type":[
      "combining form"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one fourth":[
        "tetarto hedral"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary, from Greek, from tetartos ; akin to Greek tettares, tessares four":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011840"
  },
  "tetartocone":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the posterior medial cusp of an upper molar tooth":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "t\u0259\u0307\u02c8t\u00e4rt\u0259\u02cck\u014dn"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tetartocone from tetart- + cone; tetarcone contraction of tetartocone":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043101"
  },
  "tetanogenic":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": producing tetanus":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6tet\u1d4an\u0259\u00a6jenik"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tetan- + -genic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051704"
  },
  "tetartemorion":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a small coin struck in Athens and in several small city-states of the ancient Greeks : a quarter obol":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "t\u0259\u0307\u02cct\u00e4rt\u0259\u02c8m\u014dr\u0113\u02cc\u00e4n",
      "-\u0113\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "tetartemorion from Greek tetart\u0113morion , from tetart\u0113 one fourth (from feminine of tetartos ) + morion part, portion, diminutive of moros part (akin to Greek meros part); tartemorion from Greek tart\u0113morion , short for tetart\u0113morion":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-051806"
  },
  "tetanize":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to induce tetanus in":[
        "tetanize a muscle"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8te-t\u0259-\u02ccn\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1849, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-060922"
  },
  "tetraethyl lead":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a heavy oily poisonous liquid Pb(C 2 H 5 ) 4 used especially formerly as an antiknock agent":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccte-tr\u0259-\u02cce-th\u0259l-\u02c8led",
      "\u02ccte-tr\u0259-\u02cceth-\u0259l-\u02c8led"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But humanity didn\u2019t enter uncharted territory until the first gallon of gasoline was sold with tetraethyl lead in 1923. \u2014 Michael J. Coren, Quartz , 16 June 2022",
      "There was tetraethyl lead , used in making gasoline, sludge, asphalt, hydrocarbon liquids and vapors, solvents such as kerosene, acidic residue and asbestos. \u2014 Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "One of the greatest historical sources of lead exposure was the use of tetraethyl lead in petrol at the beginning of the 20th century. \u2014 Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes , 28 Dec. 2021",
      "Frank Howard of Standard Oil argued that tetraethyl lead was diluted at over 1,000 to 1 in gasoline and therefore posed no risk to the average person. \u2014 Bill Kovarik, The Conversation , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "Similarly, several decades later, the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline raised environmental concerns, but was tolerated as a necessary lubricant for the adoption of the internal combustion engine. \u2014 New York Times , 18 June 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1923, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-123543"
  },
  "tetaniform":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": resembling tetanus or tetany":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-n\u0259\u02ccf\u022frm"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary tetan- + -iform ; originally formed as French t\u00e9taniforme":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-153253"
  },
  "Tet":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the Vietnamese New Year observed during the first several days of the lunar calendar beginning at the second new moon after the winter solstice":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8tet"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Vietnamese t\u1ebft":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1885, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154551"
  },
  "tetan-":{
    "type":[
      "combining form"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tetanus":[
        "tetano genic",
        "tetan iform"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Greek, from tetanos":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203059"
  },
  "tetraethyl orthosilicate":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": ethyl silicate":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-232946"
  },
  "tetraethyl":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": containing four ethyl groups in the molecule":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6te\u2027tr\u0259+"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary tetra- + ethyl":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011350"
  },
  "tetrahedrite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fine-grained gray mineral (Cu,Fe) 12 Sb 4 S 13 that is isomorphous with tennantite, consists of a sulfide of copper, iron, and antimony and often also contains zinc, lead, mercury, or silver, occurs in characteristic tetrahedral crystals and also in massive form, and is often a valuable ore of silver and is also worked for copper (hardness 3\u20134, specific gravity 4.4\u20135.1)":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German tetra\u00ebdrit , from Late Greek tetraedros having four faces + German -it -ite":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-024752"
  }
}