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| TIMBER | | n. - wood prepared for building, carpentry, etc.
- piece of wood or beam, esp. As the rib of a vessel.
- large standing trees.
- (esp. As int.) Warning cry that a tree is about to fall. [old english, = building] | |
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| TIMBRE | | n. Distinctive character of a musical sound or voice apart from its pitch and volume. [greek: related to *tympanum] | |
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| TIMELY | | adj. (-ier, -iest) opportune; coming at the right time. timeliness n. | |
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| TIMING | | n. - way an action or process is timed.
- regulation of the opening and closing of valves in an internal-combustion engine. | |
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| TINDER | | n. Dry substance that readily catches fire from a spark. tindery adj. [old english] | |
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| TINGLE | | —v. (-ling) 1 feel a slight prickling, stinging, or throbbing sensation.
- cause this (the reply tingled in my ears). —n. Tingling sensation. tingly adj. [probably from *tinkle] | |
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| TINKER | | —n. - itinerant mender of kettles and pans etc.
- scot. & ir. Gypsy.
- colloq. Mischievous person or animal.
- spell of tinkering. —v. - (foll. By at, with) work in an amateurish or desultory way.
- work as a tinker. [origin unknown] | |
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| TINKLE | | —v. (-ling) (cause to) make a succession of short light ringing sounds. —n. - tinkling sound.
- colloq. Telephone call. tinkly adj. [imitative] | |
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| TINPAN | | alley n. World of composers and publishers of popular music. | |
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| TINPOT | | attrib. Adj. Cheap, inferior. | |
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