A man comes to Lubyanka (KGB headquarters) and says:
- I am a spy, I want to surrender.
He is asked:
- Whose spy are you?
He says:
- I am an American spy.
- Well, then, you need to go to room #5.
He goes to the room #5:
- I am an American spy, I want to surrender.
- Do you have weapons?
- Yes, I do.
- Please go to room #7.
He goes to the room #7:
- I"m a spy, I want to surrender, I have weapons.
- Please go to room #10.
He goes to the room #10:
- I"m a spy, I want to surrender, I have weapons.
- Do yo have communications equipment?
- Yes, I do.
- Please go to room #20.
He arrives to the room #20:
- I"m a spy, I have weapons and communications equipment, and I want to surrender.
He is asked:
- Do you have a mission?
- Yes, I do.
- Well, then go and execute your mission. Stop distracting people from their work!
- (attrib.) That reveals or betrays (tell-tale smile).
- automatic monitoring or registering device.
TEMERITY
n. Rashness; audacity. [latin temere rashly]
TEMPLATE
n. Piece of thin board or metal plate etc., used as a pattern in cutting or drilling etc. [originally templet, diminutive of temple, device in a loom to keep the cloth stretched]
TEMPORAL
adj. - worldly as opposed to spiritual; secular.
- of time.
- gram. Denoting time or tense (temporal conjunction).
- of the temples of the head (temporal artery). [latin tempus -por- time]
TEMPTING
adj. Attractive, inviting. temptingly adv.
TENANTRY
n. Tenants of an estate etc.
TENDENCY
n. (pl. -ies) (often foll. By to, towards) leaning or inclination. [medieval latin: related to *tend1]
TENEMENT
n. - room or flat within a house or block of flats.
- (also tenement-house or -block) house or block so divided. [latin teneo hold]
