Tion
1.
a suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs or stems not identical with verbs, whether as expressing action (revolution; commendation), or a state (contrition; starvation), or associated meanings (relation; temptation).
suffix
1.
indicating state, condition, action, process, or result: election, prohibition Compare -ation, -ion
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noun 1. a slender or pointed end or extremity, especially of anything long or tapered: the tips of the fingers. 2. the top, summit, or apex: the tip of the mountain. 3. a small piece or part, as of metal or leather, forming or covering the extremity of something: a cane with a rubber tip. […]
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- Tipcart
noun 1. a cart with a body that can be tipped or tilted to empty it of its contents.
- Tipcat
noun 1. a game in which a short piece of wood, tapered at both ends, is struck lightly at one end with a bat, causing the wood to spring into the air so that it can be batted for a distance. 2. Also called pussy. the tapered piece of wood used in this game. noun […]
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passing over; ford, one of the boundaries of Solomon’s dominions (1 Kings 4:24), probably “Thapsacus, a great and wealthy town on the western bank of the Euphrates,” about 100 miles north-east of Tadmor. All the land traffic between the east and the west passed through it. Menahem undertook an expedition against this city, and “smote […]