| tale |
A tale is a story, especially a story that is long or tells about interesting or strange things. |
| talent |
A talent is an ability to do something well. |
| talk |
When you talk, you use words to say things. |
| tall |
When someone is tall, it means that their body is big from their head to their feet. When buildings or trees are tall, they go up high. [2 definitions] |
| tambourine |
A tambourine is a small drum in the shape of a circle that you hold in one hand. A tambourine has round metal things attached around the outside so you can just shake the tambourine along with music to make sounds, or you can hit it with your other hand too. Some tambourines are just a circle of wood with the same kind of metal pieces that hit each other when you shake the tambourine. |
| tame |
When an animal is tame, it has grown up with humans. Tame animals are gentle and not afraid of people. |
| tan |
Tan is a light brown or yellowish brown color. [2 definitions] |
| tank |
A tank is a large container that holds water or some other liquid or gas. If a car uses gasoline, the car has a tank inside that holds the gasoline. |
| Tanzania |
Tanzania is a country in Africa. Tanzania lies on the coast of the Indian Ocean. Some of its neighbors are Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique. Tanzania has both mountains and flat lands. The highest mountain in Africa is in Tanzania. It is called Mount Kilimanjaro. Tanzania has three very large lakes along its borders. They are Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake Malawi. Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa, and Lake Tanganyika is the deepest. |
| Tanzanian |
When something is Tanzanian, it is from the country of Tanzania, or it has to do with the people or culture of Tanzania. |
| tap1 |
When you tap something, you hit it just a little, usually with your finger or your toes. For example, you might tap something on a computer with your finger. Or you might tap the floor with your toes. Sometimes when you tap something, you hold it and hit something else with it lightly. |
| tape |
Tape is a long narrow strip of plastic, cloth, or paper that has glue on one side. Tape is used to stick things together. [4 definitions] |
| tape measure |
A tape measure is a tool for measuring how long something is. It is made of a long, narrow piece of metal, fabric, or thin plastic. |
| target |
A target is a thing that you aim at and want to hit. |
| task |
A task is a thing that someone has to do. Washing the dishes and taking out the garbage are tasks. |
| taste |
When you taste something, you find out its flavor by putting it in your mouth or on your tongue. [4 definitions] |
| tattle |
When you tattle, you tell something bad that you know about someone to another person like a parent or a teacher. |
| tax |
A tax is money that people pay to a government. The government uses the money to give services to people and to pay everyone who works for the government. Taxes pay for things like roads, bridges, schools, police, and firefighters. Money from taxes is also used to help old people and others who cannot work anymore. |
| taxi |
A taxi is a car that takes people where they want to go. People pay money to ride in a taxi. They pay their money to a driver, who sits in the front. In big cities in America, taxis are often yellow. The word taxi comes from the longer word taxicab. Most people don't use the longer word anymore, but sometimes people use the word cab for the same meaning as taxi. |
| tea |
Tea is a drink that is made by putting certain kinds of dried leaves in very hot water for a short time. There are many kinds of tea. Some people drink hot tea with sugar or a little milk. People drink cold tea too, after the tea is cool. Many people in America like to drink cold tea with a slice of lemon. |
| teach |
When someone teaches people, they show them how to do something, or they help them learn about something. |