t
a random variable having a t distribution.
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'ta shortened form of it, before or after a verb, as in 'twas, 'tis, do't, see't.
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Tnounthe 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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T-(in designations of aircraft) trainer.
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-tvariant 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.
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t.abbreviationin the time of.
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T.abbreviationtablespoon; tablespoonful.
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the 20th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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any spoken sound represented by the letter T or t, as in tub, but, or butter.
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something having the shape of a T .
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a written or printed representation of the letter T or t.
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a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter T or t.
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Football. tackle.
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taken from.
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teaspoon; teaspoonful.
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temperature.
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tablespoon; tablespoonful.
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absolute temperature
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the 20th letter and 16th consonant of the modern English alphabet
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a speech sound represented by this letter, usually a voiceless alveolar stop, as in tame
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something shaped like a T
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teaspoon(ful)
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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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