| table |
A table is a piece of furniture. It has a flat top and legs that hold the top up. We often use a table when we eat or study or make something. We also use a table as a place to put things. |
| tablespoon |
A tablespoon is a certain amount of liquid or other substance. We often use tablespoons to measure small amounts of things when we cook. A large spoon used for serving food holds about one tablespoon. A tablespoon is equal to three teaspoons. A short way of writing tablespoon or tablespoons is tbs. |
| tablet |
A tablet is a small thing that has medicine in it. You take it into your body through your mouth. A tablet is the same thing as a pill. [3 definitions] |
| taco |
A taco is a food that we often eat for lunch or dinner. It is made with a flat, round "shell" made of corn or wheat. The fried or baked shell is folded over, and things like meat, beans, cheese, and lettuce are put inside. |
| tadpole |
A tadpole is a young frog. A tadpole has a tail and lives in water. As a tadpole gets older, it grows legs and loses its tail. |
| tag1 |
A tag is a small thing that is attached to another thing and tells you something about it. You often see tags in a store, especially a store that sells clothes. There are tags on things to tell how much they cost or what size they are. A tag is often a small piece of thick paper, but sometimes it is a small piece of cloth or other material. |
| tail |
The tail is the part of an animal that sticks out at the back of its body. Some animals, like rabbits, have short tails. Other animals, like some lizards, have a very long tail. |
| tailor |
A tailor is a person who makes or fixes clothes so that they fit a person well. |
| Taiwan |
Taiwan is an island in the Pacific Ocean. It is near the east coast of China. Most of Taiwan is covered by mountains, but some areas are flat. Taiwan has some very large cities, and many of the people have jobs in factories making things such as computers and clothing. |
| Tajikistan |
Tajikistan is a country in Asia. Some of its neighbors are China, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan. Tajikistan is covered by mountains. Many of them are very high and have snow on top all the time. These mountains are home to a rare and beautiful type of leopard called a snow leopard. People in Tajikistan speak a language called Tajik. |
| take |
If you take something, you pick it up with your fingers or somehow get it into your hands. [5 definitions] |
| take away |
When you take away something from another thing, you make that thing less in amount--like when you have too much butter on your sandwich and you take away some. After you take away some butter, you have less on your sandwich. When we work with numbers in school, we sometimes add them together, like when we add 2 and 2 to make 4. Another thing we do is to take away one number from another number, like when we take away 2 from 4. When we take away 2 from 4, what we have left is 2. When we take away one number from another number, what we are doing is called subtracting. |
| take care of |
When you take care of someone, you give them your attention and do things to make sure they are OK. If you take care of an animal or thing, you do things to keep them safe or in good condition. |
| take off |
When you take off something, it is not there anymore. When you take off your coat, you are not wearing your coat anymore. [2 definitions] |
| take up |
When something takes up space, it fills the space or uses the space. If your bedroom is small, your bed will probably take up most of the space. |
| 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. |