Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical ornamental shrub (Cordyline fruticosa) native to Southeast Asia and Polynesia, having a terminal tuft of long narrow leaves and panicles of white, yellowish, or reddish flowers.
- noun The seventh tone in the diatonic scale in solfeggio.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Polynesia, the plant Cordyline terminalis, same as
ki ; in New Zealand, transferred to C. australis and C. indivisa, plants otherwise known as cabbage-palm, and, with the whole genus, as palm-lily. - noun In chem., the symbol for titanium.
- noun In solmization. See
si .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A syllable used in
solfège to represent the seventh note of amajor scale . - noun botany The "good luck plant", Cordyline fruticosa, an evergreen shrub.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii
- noun the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization
- noun a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The curtain descended slowly amidst sympathetic sobs and silence -- the musicians themselves, deeply moved, no doubt, with the sorrows of the scene, mournfully resumed their fiddles, and struck up "ti _ti_ tum _tiddle_ un _ti_ tum
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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I have beeen shooting 100 grain ti-2 broadheads with a 1 cut for about three years and i have shot 2 in the gut and recovered both within 150 yards.
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But since ti is very expansive and the effects on the number of immigrants is uncertain, i would go for a simpler suggestion.
Tyler Cowen on Mexican Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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By HAVOCK, December 23, 2009 @ 10: 38 am it is however, good to see that there MIGHT be a lot more action and mayhem in ti his version. .aside from killing off most Americans in the initial onslaught of the wave of course.
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I do think that the book has enough odds and ends in ti which are really good that someone who is already a Terry Pratchett fan should give it a read.
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I have beeen shooting 100 grain ti-2 broadheads with a 1 cut for about three years and i have shot 2 in the gut and recovered both within 150 yards.
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The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme):
The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Mccain, he should not be standing behind Bush, it is he who have gotten this in ti trouble with terrorist and the economy swituation here at home.
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Well, if ti is anything like the book, it would be as much "vomit" as anything else.
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The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme):
Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
oroboros commented on the word ti
Chemical element symbol for Titanium.
December 1, 2007