英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Troop
(n.)
Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or
dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a
captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company
in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
Troop
(n.)
A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
Troop
(n.)
A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
Troop
(v. i.)
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or
troops.
Troop
(v. i.)
To march on; to go forward in haste.
Troopbird
(n.)
Any troupial.
Trooped
(imp. & p. p.)
of Troop
Trooper
(n.)
A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the
horse of a cavalryman.
Troopfowl
(n.)
The American scaup duck.
Troopial
(n.)
Same as Troupial.
Trooping
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Troop
Troopmeal
(adv.)
By troops; in crowds.
Troopship
(n.)
A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a
transport.
Troostite
(n.)
Willemite.
Tropaeolin
(n.)
A name given to any one of a series of orange-red
dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid
derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so
called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium
(Tropaeolum).
Trope
(n.)
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from
that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as
changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of
giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
Trope
(n.)
The word or expression so used.
Tropeine
(n.)
Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived
from the alkaloidal base tropine.
Trophi
(n. pl.)
The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including
the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their
appendages.
Trophic
(a.)
Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing;
as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on
nutrition.