All English words - page 5937

Meanings of Tithing:

noun

The practice of taking or paying a tithe.

Usage examples:

Receipts from tithing range from $2.5 billion to $4.3 billion each year

verb

Pay or give as a tithe.

Usage examples:

He tithes 10 per cent of his income to the church

Meanings of Tithingman:

noun

In anglo-saxon and later medieval england: the chief member of a tithing in a system of frank-pledge. later: a parish officer having the same role and function as a petty constable. compare headborough .

Meanings of Tithings:

noun

The practice of taking or paying a tithe.

Usage examples:

Receipts from tithing range from $2.5 billion to $4.3 billion each year

Meanings of Tithonic:

adjective

In the terminology of john william draper: designating the largely invisible light rays or components of light which cause chemical effects on photographic films, etc.; of or relating to such light (now recognized to be chiefly ultraviolet) or its effects. compare "actinic", chemical ray .

Meanings of Tithonicity:

noun

In the terminology of john william draper: the property by which solar radiation causes photochemical change, as in traditional photography. compare "actinism", tithonic .

Meanings of Tithonographic:

adjective

In the terminology of john william draper: of or relating to images produced using tithonic rays; tithonic.

Meanings of Tithonometer:

noun

In the terminology of john william draper: an instrument for measuring the intensity of tithonic rays.

Meanings of Tithonus:

proper noun

A trojan prince with whom the goddess aurora fell in love. she asked zeus to make him immortal but omitted to ask for eternal youth, and he became very old and decrepit although he talked perpetually. tithonus prayed her to remove him from this world and she changed him into a grasshopper, which chirps ceaselessly.

Meanings of Tithymal:

noun

Any of various plants of the genus euphorbia, especially those that were formerly used medicinally for their purgative properties; a spurge.

Meanings of Tithymalopsis:

noun

Any of various plants of the genus euphorbia, especially those that were formerly used medicinally for their purgative properties; a spurge.

Meanings of Titi:

noun

A small forest-dwelling monkey of south america.

Usage examples:

Robert wallace, working for the new york-based wildlife conservation society, was surveying in boli…

Meanings of Titian:

adjective

(of hair) bright golden auburn.

Usage examples:

A mass of titian curls

proper noun

(c.1488–1576), italian painter; italian name tiziano vecellio. the most important painter of the venetian school, he experimented with vivid colours and often broke conventions of composition. he painted many sensual mythological works, including bacchus and ariadne (c.1518–23).

Meanings of Titianesque:

adjective

Characteristic or reminiscent of the paintings of titian; specifically (with reference to hair) bright golden auburn or (more loosely) red in colour.

Meanings of Titillate:

verb

Arouse (someone) to interest or mild excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words.

Usage examples:

The press are paid to titillate the public

Meanings of Titillated:

verb

Arouse (someone) to interest or mild excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words.

Usage examples:

The press are paid to titillate the public

Meanings of Titillates:

verb

Arouse (someone) to interest or mild excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words.

Usage examples:

The press are paid to titillate the public

Meanings of Titillating:

adjective

Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious.

Usage examples:

She let slip titillating details about her clients

verb

Arouse (someone) to interest or mild excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words.

Usage examples:

The press are paid to titillate the public

Meanings of Titillatingly:

adverb

Using sexual images or descriptions, etc. that intentionally cause excitement, but not in a serious way

Usage examples:

The play contains some titillatingly realistic depictions of sexual acts., she kept crossing and un…

Meanings of Titillation:

noun

The arousal of interest or excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words.

Usage examples:

A literary form of popular entertainment and titillation

Meanings of Titillations:

noun

The arousal of interest or excitement, especially through sexually suggestive images or words.

Usage examples:

A literary form of popular entertainment and titillation

Meanings of Titillative:

adjective

Pleasantly exciting or stimulating; (now usually) arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; tending to titillate.

Meanings of Titillator:

noun

A person who or thing which titillates.

Meanings of Titillatory:

adjective

Pleasantly exciting or stimulating; (now usually) arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious, titillating.

Meanings of Titis:

noun

A small forest-dwelling monkey of south america.

Usage examples:

Robert wallace, working for the new york-based wildlife conservation society, was surveying in boli…

Meanings of Titivate:

verb

Make minor enhancements to.

Usage examples:

She slapped on her warpaint and titivated her hair