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  • t
    t
    a random variable having a t distribution.
  • 't
    't
    a shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't.
  • T
    T
    noun
    the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
  • t-
    t-
  • T-
    T-
    (in designations of aircraft) trainer.
  • -t
    -t
    variant of -ed used in forming the past tense or past participle of certain verbs, usually occurring when the final consonant of the stem is voiceless, a lateral, or a nasal and there is internal vowel change in the root.
  • t.
    t.
    abbreviation
    in the time of.
  • T.
    T.
    abbreviation
    tablespoon; tablespoonful.
Synonyms

t

1 American  
Statistics.
  1. a random variable having a t distribution.

  2. the statistic resulting from a t-test.


't 2 American  
  1. a shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't.


T 3 American  
[tee] / ti /
Or t

noun

  • T's,
    plural
  • Ts,
    plural
  • t's,
    plural
  • ts
    plural
  1. the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

  2. any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter.

  3. something having the shape of a T .

  4. a written or printed representation of the letter T or t.

  5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter T or t.


idioms

  1. to a T, exactly; perfectly: Also to a tee

    That job would suit you to a T.

T 4 American  
[tee] / ti /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)
  1. T-shirt.


T 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. (used in combination) tera-.

  2. Electricity. tesla; teslas.

  3. temperature.


T 6 American  
Symbol.
  1. the 20th in order or in a series.

  2. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 160.

  3. surface tension.

  4. Chemistry. tritium. Also T

  5. Biochemistry.

    1. threonine.

    2. thymine.

  6. Photography. T number.

  7. Physics.

    1. tau lepton.

    2. time reversal.

  8. the launching time of a rocket or missile.

    T minus two.


t- 7 American  
  1. Chemistry. tertiary.


T- 8 American  
  1. U.S. Military. (in designations of aircraft) trainer.

    T-11.


-t 9 American  
  1. variant of -ed used in forming the past tense or past participle of certain verbs, usually occurring when the final consonant of the stem is voiceless, a lateral, or a nasal and there is internal vowel change in the root.

    slept; felt; dreamt.


t. 10 American  

abbreviation

  1. in the time of.


t. 11 American  

abbreviation

  1. Football. tackle.

  2. taken from.

  3. tare.

  4. teaspoon; teaspoonful.

  5. temperature.

  6. tenor.

  7. Grammar. tense.

  8. territory.

  9. time.

  10. tome.

  11. ton.

  12. town.

  13. township.

  14. transit.

  15. transitive.

  16. troy.


T. 12 American  

abbreviation

  1. tablespoon; tablespoonful.

  2. Territory.

  3. Township.

  4. Tuesday.


t 1 British  

symbol

  1. tonne(s)

  2. troy (weight)

  3. statistics distribution

  4. statistics See Student's t

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T 2 British  

symbol

  1. absolute temperature

  2. tera-

  3. chem tritium

  4. biochem thymine

  5. tesla

  6. surface tension

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abbreviation

  1. Thailand (international car registration)

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t 3 British  
/ tiː /

noun

  1. the 20th letter and 16th consonant of the modern English alphabet

  2. a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless alveolar stop, as in tame

    1. something shaped like a T

    2. ( in combination )

      a T-junction

  3. in every detail; perfectly

    the work suited her to a T

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t. 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. commerce tare

  2. teaspoon(ful)

  3. temperature

  4. music tempo

  5. tenor

  6. grammar tense

  7. ton(s)

  8. transitive

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't 5 British  

contraction

  1. it

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T- 6 British  

abbreviation

  1. trainer (aircraft)

    T-37

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T Scientific  
  1. Abbreviation of temperature, tesla, thymine

  2. The symbol for the isotope tritium.


T More Idioms  

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

Etymology

Origin of T4

First recorded in 1970–75

Origin of t.10

From the Latin word tempore

Example Sentences

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The global oil benchmark fell 1.8% to $98.92 a barrel, while WTI futures slipped 1.75% t $90.62 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

That means there is little or no boos t from forced buying, unlike when a company is added to the S&P 500.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

“Not at all – didn t see the press here 😬 and journalists write a lot of nonsense anyways,” she replied.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

"I let my teammates down tonight. … It's been a long season. Hate how it ended. t is gonna stick with me for a long time. Can't win with 5 turnovers."

From Salon Jan. 18, 2026

VOednejda>^7 t Kevin ran over to Alex as he was about to leave to get Julie.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

It's been similar in the US according to Sander van 't Noordende, the chief executive of Randstad, the world's biggest recruitment firm.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2025

“The decision to join U.S. Soccer wasn ‘t just about football for me,” Pochettino said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2024

RoboChem was developed by the group of Prof. Timothy Noël at the UvA's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences.

From Science Daily Jan. 25, 2024

Van ’t Schip’s previous coaching job was with the Greece national team two years ago.

From Washington Times Oct. 30, 2023

The first time my brother says ain 't my mother pulls a branch from the willow tree growing down the hill at the edge of our backyard.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

I started my T journey innocently enough, analyzing the #testosterone posts like a slightly judgmental anthropologist doing field research.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Tip Toe's creator Russell T Davies: 'I wish television could change the world'

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

While getting retested, I momentarily snapped out of my testosterone delusion and asked him whether overly high T might lead to any health problems.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

T cell receptor therapy, known as TCR therapy, is a form of cancer treatment that genetically modifies immune cells called T cells so they can recognize and attack cancer with high precision.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

Grandma still didn’t know about the T ride we’d taken, but I wasn’t about to mention it.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks

This can easily be found on the student’s t- table at the very bottom at infinite degrees of freedom remembering that at infinity the t-distribution is the normal distribution.

From Textbooks Nov. 29, 2017

The graph has included the sampling distribution of the differences in the sample means to show how the t- distribution aligns with the sampling distribution data.

From Textbooks Nov. 29, 2017

IsBell said he spreads that message at root beer float socials, game nights and other events wearing a Ron Paul t- shirt.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 2, 2012

The mill could buy the cotton, the mill could spin it, and make it into a t- shirt or underwear, but somebody’s got to take that off the shelf.

From BusinessWeek Aug. 29, 2011

In fact, other things being equal, it is preferable to place ĉi before rather than after the t- word, though both forms are equally correct.

From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by George Cox

That’s partly because the Fed’s monthly purchases of short-term T- bills are easing strains in overnight funding markets, while also keeping long-term rates steady by extension.

From MarketWatch Feb. 4, 2026

Include in your description the roles of antigens and antibodies, T- cells, B-cells, inoculation with vaccines, and the relative response times.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Philly's strength in 2021, however, is its defense, ranked 10th in scoring and seventh in total defense, compared to a Chiefs squad that's T- 31st and 30th in those respective categories.

From Fox News Sep. 30, 2021

Legere’s testimony regarding T-Mobile’s potential pricing strategy Thursday stemmed from a September 2019 T-Mobile document that made projections about T- Mobile’s future as a standalone company in 2020.

From Washington Times Dec. 12, 2019

Jan Sorensen leaned against a plywood garbage bin; Marty Johansson stood with his feet planted wide, his forearms folded across his bare chest, his T- shirt tucked into his pants waist.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

If I put in xiwi -t code . that -t flag tells it to open my app in a Chrome tab instead of an independent app window.

From The Verge Nov. 16, 2017

Now you run sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t xiwi -u -n xenial, replacing xenial with your chosen chroot name if you have something custom.

From The Verge Nov. 16, 2017

"How about h - a -t?" asked the Warden.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

"Well then, tell me, what does c - a -t spell?"

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

In gerfaut, gerfalcon, for Old Fr. gerfauc, the less familiar final -c was, as in boulevart, replaced by the more usual -t.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

Reality is that you are giving up your family time by doing the o. t. when they need you at work. 

From Time May 3, 2013

But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain."

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Dr. Gumpert: The T. B. death rate may have dropped, but there are now 1,500,000 cases of t. b. in Germany, more than one-fourth of them advanced.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Be a good boy and be careful. No, you can’t kiss me here. You >. »» can t. “All right.”

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

“Was that supposed to be comforting? Because, no offense, it wasn t.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

Museum paleontologists excavated some 70% of Thomas’s fossilized skeleton in the early 2000s, making it one of the most complete T. rex specimens ever found.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

His interests extended beyond jazz, and he did noteworthy collaborations with choreographer Bill T. Jones and classical pianist Ursula Oppens; in addition, he played with Bjork in the early 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

Russell T. Davies, the Swansea-born writer behind shows including Doctor Who and Channel 4's It's a Sin, also said online that he "can't wait".

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Medtronic, McCormick and T. Rowe Price are among the stocks that have outperformed the S&P 500 over the past three months—and have dividend yields of at least 3%.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

It poured rain on Monday—like the monsoon rains in India I read about in Hardy T. Lang's book.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Morgan Da Savage's rap went viral after she performed on DJ and producer Toddla T's independent music platform Steeze Factory.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

The 20th century became the age of the consumer, thanks in large part to Henry Ford, who needed someone to buy all of the Model T’s he was producing.

From Barron's Jan. 13, 2026

As we know, Henry Ford achieved huge efficiency gains by building his Model T’s on moving assembly lines.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

A witness at the trial testified that Vitanza was “Danny T’s right-hand man.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 2, 2024

Most of the other men had gone off to Big T’s to celebrate.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

“But he dots his Is and crosses his Ts and does all the right things.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

There were Ts embossed on the tongue and Ts on the sides.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2024

In recent weeks, the Cougs have left their Is undotted and their Ts without a cross, never more so than on these trick plays.

From Seattle Times Oct. 21, 2023

As California historian Kevin Starr wrote, Culver used gimmicks and giveaways and stunts like kids’ boxcar races, raffles, parades, and, memorably, a polo game played from the running boards of Model Ts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2023

He misses the press of people, the noise and chaos, black Model Ts rattling along the cobblestones, the treacly smell of street vendors’ peanuts roasting in sugar.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

“No matter what the federal government was doing, they knew that if they weren’t dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, they were going to get called to account,” Hilton said.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

"I had really dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of the experiment," he said.

From Science Daily May 18, 2026

Elliot: People always spell my name with two t's.

From BBC May 2, 2026

So homeowners, dot the i’s and cross the t’s when you sell—and be ready to show your work.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

I recognized your tiny handwriting right away, all wobbly and with those weird loops you put on top of your t's and i's.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

Shares in the French distiller initially fell on reports of talks with ts Kentucky-based peer, but investors changed their minds after the companies confirmed the talks.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 29, 2026

The company has repurchased $78 billion of stock since 2016 at an average price of $441, double the current share price, according to a presentation accompanying i ts third-quarter earnings relea External link se.

From Barron's Nov. 26, 2025

McChrystal Group did not respond to questions from The Times about ts next report.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2025

However the vandals somehow managed to spell the word 'out' with two ts.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2023

There the giant mountains of Oshkosh stand, And the icebergs gleam through the falling sand; ts on the palm-tree high, And the cannibals feast on bad-boy pie.

From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Mary Mapes Dodge

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