TIFFnoun/tɪf/

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  computer-graphicscomputingengineeringAn image stored in the TIFF format.

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA file using TIFF file format

Tiffname詞源 1

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  A diminutive of the female given name Tiffany.

tiffnoun詞源 1/tɪf/

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  informalA (generally small) argument or disagreement; a petty quarrel, a spat.

  • My Lord and I have had another little—Tiff, ſhall I call it? It came not up to a quarrel. Married people vvould have enough to do, if they vvere to trouble their friends every time they miſunderſtood one another.
  • There's Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here!
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  archaicinformalA brief outburst or period of bad temper; a snit; also (rare) any brief outburst (for example, of laughter).

  • [A]s if / Returning homevvards in a furious Tiff; / Your Hoſt declares, he's ſorry at his Heart, / And humbly acts the penitential Part.
  • Wilhelmina […] answered his romances and him with tiffs of laughter, in a prettily fleeting manner.

tiffverb詞源 1/tɪf/

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  informalTo be involved in a (generally small) argument or disagreement; to squabble.

  • I very much indeed approve / Of maidens moderating love / Until they've twenty pounds; / […] / Until the twenty pounds were safe, / She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph, / Squire nodded … deuce a curtsy!
  • Poor Newton! he little knew to what he owed that glance. The fact is, the Captain was late, and Miss Bowers tiffed.

tiffverb詞源 3/tɪf/

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  informalSynonym of tiffin (“to eat a (light) midday meal or snack; to have lunch, to lunch”).

  • Besides that one to which the permanent residence was attached, Mr. Augustus had several outlaying factories, which he visited from time to time, to superintend the manufacture of his indigo; at all of these he had little bungalows, or temporary abodes, where we tiffed and passed the heat of the day.
  • Go home, Jack. I will tiff with you to-day at half-past two.

tiffnoun詞源 4/tɪf/

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  archaicobsoleteslanginformalA small draught or sip of liquor (especially diluted or poor quality liquor) or punch.

  • Come, Captain, let not your noble Courage be caſt dovvn; vvhat ſay you to a Glaſs of vvhite VVine, or a Tiff of Punch, by VVay of VVhet?
  • "Good wife," said Skriegh, gathering up his mouth, and sipping his tiff of brandy punch with great solemnity […]
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  archaicobsoleteslanginformalLiquor, especially diluted or poor quality liquor.

  • By dint of drinking acid tiff, as above mentioned, and smoking segars, in which I am no novice, my Public are to be informed, that I gradually drank and smoked myself into a certain degree of acquaintance with un homme comme il faut [a proper man], one of the few fine old specimens of nobility who are still to be found in France; […]

tiffverb詞源 4/tɪf/

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  archaicobsoleteslanginformalTo drink (liquor), especially slowly or in small amounts; to sip.

  • Nor did the Doctor fail to go / To the bright region of the Row; / There tiff'd his punch and talk'd and smok'd, / Was sometimes grave and sometimes jok'd; […]

tiffverb詞源 5/tɪf/

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  archaicobsoleteslanginformalTo deck out or dress (someone or oneself, or their body or hair).

  • Is the Miſs under a force vvhen ſhe culls among her trinkets vvith curious toil to tiff herſelf out in the most engaging manner, or teazes pappa for money to buy a nevv-faſhioned ſilk?
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  archaicobsoleteslanginformalTo deck out or dress one's body or hair.

  • I never pin up my Hair vvith Proſe. I fancy ones Hair vvou'd not curl if it vvere pinn'd up vvith Proſe. […] Ay, poor Mincing tift and tift all the morning.

tiffnoun詞源 5/tɪf/

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  archaicobsoleterareslanginformalThe way in which one's body or hair is decked out or dressed.

  • Did you mark the beau Tiff of his VVig, vvhat a deal of Pains he took to toſs it back, vvhen the very VVeight thereof vvas like to dravv him from his Seat?

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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