tai
IPA: tˈaɪ
noun
- A fish, the Japanese bream.
- A former settlement in Wugong, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China.
- A local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
- A female given name from Chinese.
- A branch of the Tai-Kadai language family, including Thai, Lao, Shan, and Zhuang.
- A descendant of speakers of a common proto-Tai language, including subpopulations which no longer speak a Tai language.
- A surname.
- Alternative form of Dai [A male given name from Welsh, a Welsh diminutive of David.]
- (organic chemistry) Short for trifluoromethylaminoindane. [A psychoactive drug and serotonin releasing agent.]
- Initialism of technical analysis indicator.
- Abbreviation of International Atomic Time, a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard.
- (business) Initialism of Toshiba America, Inc..
- (aerospace) Initialism of Turkish Aerospace Industries.
- (aviation) Initialism of Thai Airways International.
- (historical, aviation) Initialism of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux, a now defunct French airline.
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Examples of "tai" in Sentences
- The quintessential boat drink is the mai tai.
- Gavallan is an aspirant to the office of tai pan.
- Tai is the ugly duckling turned into the beautiful swan.
- Tai tai is Cantonese for 'supreme of the supreme,' or for someone's wife.
- The Tai Yuan are not in the schematic, neither are the Tai of western Laos.
- The night watchman attempts to extort Tai Hoi, selling the ring back to him.
- In this article, it's variously referred to as Tai Chi, tai chi, and Tai chi.
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