Index of English words, starting with "tr"

(1) - Trophy (n.) Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.
(2) - Trophy (n.) Anything taken from an enemy and preserved as a memorial of victory, as arms, flags, standards, etc.
(3) - Trophy (n.) The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.
(4) - Trophy (n.) A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.

(1) - Tropic (a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
(2) - Tropic (n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
(3) - Tropic (n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
(4) - Tropic (n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
(5) - Tropic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

(1) - Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
(2) - Tropical (n.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.