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  • 21Tal|go — «TAL goh», noun. a lightweight railroad train with a very low center of gravity that enables it to travel at high speed around curves. ╂[< Spanish t(ren) a(rticulado) l(igero) (literally) a light jointed train + G(oicoechea), who invented it + …

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  • 22tal|i|on — «TAL ee uhn», noun. the principle of making the punishment just like the injury; an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retaliation. ╂[< Middle French talion < Latin tāliō, ōnis < tālis, such, the like] …

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  • 23tal|li|er — «TAL ee uhr», noun. 1. a) a person or thing that tallies. b) a person who keeps a tally. 2. the banker in certain card games …

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  • 24tal|ly — «TAL ee», noun, plural lies, verb, lied, ly|ing. –n. 1. a stick in which notches are cut to represent numbers. Tallies were formerly used to show the amount of a debt or payment. 2. a number or group used in tallying; lot: »The dishes were… …

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  • 25tal|ma — «TAL muh», noun. a kind of cape or cloak formerly worn by men or women: »He wore a wide hat and a talma a cloak with full, dashing lines (New Yorker). ╂[< François Talma, 1763 1826, a French tragedian] …

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  • 26Tal — Tal, Rechnungsmünze, so v.w. Tael …

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  • 27Tal. — Tal., Abkürzung für Talent …

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  • 28Tal — Tal, s. Täler …

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  • 29Tal — Tal, langgedehnter, verhältnismäßig schmaler Einschnitt der Erdoberfläche mit gleichsinnigem Gefälle; s. Penck, Morphologie der Erdoberfläche, 2. Teil, Stuttgart 1894 …

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  • 30tal — Mot Monosíl·lab Adjectiu invariable …

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