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tachisme

noun, a type of action painting evolved in France in which haphazard dabs and blots of colour are treated as a means of instinctive or unconscious expression

tachyon

noun, physics a hypothetical elementary particle capable of travelling faster than the velocity of light

Tacoma

noun, a port in W Washington, on Puget Sound: industrial centre. Pop: 196 790 (2003 est)

Taejon

noun, a city in W South Korea: market centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 1 464 000 (2005 est)

take in

verb, to comprehend or understand

taken

verb, the past participle of take

take on

verb, to employ or hire

takin

noun, a massive bovid mammal, Budorcas taxicolor, of mountainous regions of S Asia, having a shaggy coat, short legs, and horns that point backwards and upwards

Taoism

noun, the philosophy of Lao Zi, the Chinese philosopher (?604–?531 bc), that advocates a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events

Tasman

noun, Abel Janszoon ('ab&l 'jansu:n). 1603–59, Dutch navigator, who discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Tonga and Fiji Islands (1642–43)

Tasmania

noun, an island in the S Pacific, south of mainland Australia: forms, with offshore islands, the smallest state of Australia; discovered by the Dutch explorer Tasman in 1642; used as a penal colony by the British (1803–53); mostly forested and mountainous. Capital: Hobart. Pop: 479 958 (2003 est). Area: 68 332 sq km (26 383 sq miles). Former name (1642--1855): Van Diemen's Land

Tasmanian

adjective, of or relating to Tasmania or its inhabitants

taxeme

noun, linguistics any element of speech that may differentiate one utterance from another with a different meaning, such as the occurrence of a particular phoneme, the presence of a certain intonation, or a distinctive word order

taxman

noun, a collector of taxes

taxon

noun, biology any taxonomic group or rank

taxonomy

noun, a) the branch of biology concerned with the classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure, origin, etc b) the practice of arranging organisms in this way