Definition of Tyr, Meaning of Tyr, Translation of Tyr

Tyr Click to Search Tyr
noun (Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu • Syn: Tyrr • Topics: Norse mythology • Instance Hypernyms: Norse deity

tyramine Click to Search tyramine
noun amino acid derived from tyrosine; has a sympathomimetic action; found in chocolate and cola drinks and ripe cheese and beer - example : patients taking MAOIs should avoid foods containing tyramine • Hypernyms: amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid

Tyranni Click to Search Tyranni
noun New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers • Syn: suborder Tyranni • Hypernyms: animal order • Member Holonyms: Passeriformes, order Passeriformes • Member Meronyms: tyrannid, Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae, Pipridae, family Pipridae, Furnariidae, family Furnariidae, Formicariidae, family Formicariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, family Dendrocolaptidae

tyrannic Click to Search tyrannic
adjective characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty - example : an authoritarian regime - example : autocratic government - example : despotic rulers - example : a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war - example : a tyrannical government • Syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannical • Similar to: undemocratic • Derivationally related forms: tyranny (for: tyrannical), tyranny, despot (for: despotic), dictator (for: dictatorial), autocrat (for: autocratic)

tyrannical Click to Search tyrannical
adjective 1. characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty - example : an authoritarian regime - example : autocratic government - example : despotic rulers - example : a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war - example : a tyrannical government • Syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic • Similar to: undemocratic • Derivationally related forms: tyranny, tyranny (for: tyrannic), despot (for: despotic), dictator (for: dictatorial), autocrat (for: autocratic) 2. marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior - example : the oppressive government - example : oppressive laws - example : a tyrannical parent - example : tyrannous disregard of human rights • Syn: oppressive, tyrannous • Similar to: domineering • Derivationally related forms: tyrant (for: tyrannous), tyranny, oppressiveness (for: oppressive), oppress (for: oppressive)

tyrannicide Click to Search tyrannicide
noun killing a tyrant • Hypernyms: murder, slaying, execution

tyrannid Click to Search tyrannid
noun a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni • Hypernyms: passerine, passeriform bird • Hyponyms: New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird, manakin, ovenbird, antbird, ant bird, woodhewer, woodcreeper, wood-creeper, tree creeper, pitta • Member Holonyms: Tyranni, suborder Tyranni

Tyrannidae Click to Search Tyrannidae
noun New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada • Syn: superfamily Tyrannidae • Hypernyms: bird family • Member Holonyms: Tyranni, suborder Tyranni • Member Meronyms: New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird, Tyrannus, genus Tyrannus, Contopus, genus Contopus, Sayornis, genus Sayornis, Pyrocephalus, genus Pyrocephalus, Cotingidae, family Cotingidae, Pittidae, family Pittidae, Muscivora, genus Muscivora

tyrannise Click to Search tyrannise
verb 1. rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner - example : her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her • Syn: tyrannize, domineer • Derivationally related forms: tyrant (for: tyrannize) • Hypernyms: strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s somebody 2. rule a country as a tyrant • Syn: tyrannize, grind down • Derivationally related forms: tyrant (for: tyrannize) • Hypernyms: dictate • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something

tyrannize Click to Search tyrannize
verb 1. rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner - example : her husband and mother-in-law tyrannize her • Syn: tyrannise, domineer • Derivationally related forms: tyrant • Hypernyms: strong-arm, bully, browbeat, bullyrag, ballyrag, boss around, hector, push around • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s somebody - example : Sam cannot tyrannize Sue 2. rule a country as a tyrant • Syn: tyrannise, grind down • Derivationally related forms: tyrant • Hypernyms: dictate • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something

tyrannosaur Click to Search tyrannosaur
noun large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America • Syn: tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex • Hypernyms: theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur • Member Holonyms: genus Tyrannosaurus

tyrannosaurus Click to Search tyrannosaurus
noun large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America • Syn: tyrannosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex • Hypernyms: theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur • Member Holonyms: genus Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus rex Click to Search Tyrannosaurus rex
noun large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America • Syn: tyrannosaur, tyrannosaurus • Hypernyms: theropod, theropod dinosaur, bird-footed dinosaur • Member Holonyms: genus Tyrannosaurus

tyrannous Click to Search tyrannous
adjective marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior - example : the oppressive government - example : oppressive laws - example : a tyrannical parent - example : tyrannous disregard of human rights • Syn: oppressive, tyrannical • Similar to: domineering • Derivationally related forms: tyrant, tyranny (for: tyrannical), oppressiveness (for: oppressive), oppress (for: oppressive)

Tyrannus Click to Search Tyrannus
noun type genus of the Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers • Syn: genus Tyrannus • Hypernyms: bird genus • Member Holonyms: Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae • Member Meronyms: kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus

Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis Click to Search Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis
noun a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird • Syn: grey kingbird, gray kingbird, petchary • Hypernyms: kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus

Tyrannus tyrannus Click to Search Tyrannus tyrannus
noun large American flycatcher • Syn: kingbird • Hypernyms: New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird • Hyponyms: Arkansas kingbird, western kingbird, Cassin's kingbird, Tyrannus vociferans, eastern kingbird, grey kingbird, gray kingbird, petchary, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis • Member Holonyms: Tyrannus, genus Tyrannus

Tyrannus vociferans Click to Search Tyrannus vociferans
noun a kingbird seen in the southwestern United States; largely grey with a yellow abdomen • Syn: Cassin's kingbird • Hypernyms: kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus

tyranny Click to Search tyranny
noun 1. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) (Freq. 3) • Syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism • Derivationally related forms: Stalinist (for: Stalinism), absolutistic (for: absolutism), absolutist (for: absolutism), dictator (for: dictatorship) • Hypernyms: autocracy, autarchy • Hyponyms: police state 2. dominance through threat of punishment and violence • Syn: absolutism, despotism • Derivationally related forms: tyrannical, absolutist (for: absolutism), tyrannic • Hypernyms: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control

tyrant Click to Search tyrant
noun 1. a cruel and oppressive dictator (Freq. 1) • Syn: autocrat, despot • Derivationally related forms: despotic (for: despot), despotical (for: despot), autocratic (for: autocrat), tyrannous, tyrannize • Hypernyms: dictator, potentate • Hyponyms: czar 2. in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it • Hypernyms: ruler, swayer • Instance Hyponyms: Dionysius, Dionysius the Elder 3. any person who exercises power in a cruel way - example : his father was a tyrant • Derivationally related forms: tyrannous • Hypernyms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul

tyrant bird Click to Search tyrant bird
noun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing • Syn: New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher • Hypernyms: tyrannid • Hyponyms: kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens, phoebe, phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe, vermillion flycatcher, firebird, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, cotinga, chatterer, scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficata • Member Holonyms: Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae

tyrant flycatcher Click to Search tyrant flycatcher
noun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing • Syn: New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant bird • Hypernyms: tyrannid • Hyponyms: kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus, pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens, phoebe, phoebe bird, Sayornis phoebe, vermillion flycatcher, firebird, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, cotinga, chatterer, scissortail, scissortailed flycatcher, Muscivora-forficata • Member Holonyms: Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae

tyre Click to Search tyre
noun hoop that covers a wheel - example : automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air • Syn: tire • Hypernyms: hoop, ring • Hyponyms: car tire, automobile tire, auto tire, rubber tire, pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre, wagon tire

Tyre Click to Search Tyre
noun a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks • Syn: Sur • Instance Hypernyms: city, metropolis, urban center, port • Part Holonyms: Lebanon, Lebanese Republic

Tyrian purple Click to Search Tyrian purple
noun 1. a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically • Hypernyms: dye, dyestuff 2. a vivid purplish-red color • Hypernyms: reddish purple, royal purple

tyro Click to Search tyro
noun someone new to a field or activity • Syn: novice, beginner, tiro, initiate • Derivationally related forms: initiate (for: initiate), begin (for: beginner) • Hypernyms: unskilled person • Hyponyms: abecedarian, apprentice, learner, prentice, cub, greenhorn, rookie, landlubber, lubber, landsman, newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant, tenderfoot, trainee

tyrocidin Click to Search tyrocidin
noun a basic polypeptide antibiotic derived from a soil bacterium; a major component of tyrothricin • Syn: tyrocidine • Hypernyms: antibiotic, antibiotic drug • Substance Holonyms: tyrothricin

tyrocidine Click to Search tyrocidine
noun a basic polypeptide antibiotic derived from a soil bacterium; a major component of tyrothricin • Syn: tyrocidin • Hypernyms: antibiotic, antibiotic drug • Substance Holonyms: tyrothricin

Tyrol Click to Search Tyrol
noun a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy • Syn: Tirol • Derivationally related forms: Tyrolean • Instance Hypernyms: state, province • Part Holonyms: Austria, Republic of Austria, Oesterreich, Italy, Italian Republic, Italia

tyrolean Click to Search tyrolean
noun soft green felt hat with a feather or brush cockade • Syn: tirolean • Hypernyms: hat, chapeau, lid

Tyrolean Click to Search Tyrolean
I noun a native or inhabitant of the Tyrol • Hypernyms: European II adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Tyrol or its people - example : Tyrolean yodeling • Syn: Tyrolese • Pertains to noun: Tyrol (for: Tyrolese), Tyrol • Derivationally related forms: Tyrol

Tyrolean Alps Click to Search Tyrolean Alps
noun a popular tourist area in the Tyrol • Instance Hypernyms: range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains • Part Holonyms: Alps, the Alps, Italy, Italian Republic, Italia, Austria, Republic of Austria, Oesterreich

Tyrolese Click to Search Tyrolese
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the Tyrol or its people - example : Tyrolean yodeling • Syn: Tyrolean • Pertains to noun: Tyrol, Tyrol (for: Tyrolean) • Derivationally related forms: Tyrol (for: Tyrolean)

tyrosine Click to Search tyrosine
noun an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones (Freq. 3) • Hypernyms: amino acid, aminoalkanoic acid

tyrosine kinase inhibitor Click to Search tyrosine kinase inhibitor
noun a drug used in cases of chronic myeloid leukemia • Hypernyms: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug

tyrosinemia Click to Search tyrosinemia
noun autosomal recessive defect in tyrosine metabolism resulting in liver and kidney disturbances and mental retardation • Hypernyms: autosomal recessive disease, autosomal recessive defect

tyrothricin Click to Search tyrothricin
noun a mixture of antibiotics applied locally to infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria • Hypernyms: antibiotic, antibiotic drug • Substance Meronyms: tyrocidine, tyrocidin

Tyrr Click to Search Tyrr
noun (Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu • Syn: Tyr • Topics: Norse mythology • Instance Hypernyms: Norse deity

Tyrrhenian Sea Click to Search Tyrrhenian Sea
noun an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily • Instance Hypernyms: sea • Part Holonyms: Mediterranean, Mediterranean Sea

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