Tiff

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A (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.”

2. isim A 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.”

3. fiil To 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!”

4. isim Alternative letter-case form of TIFF (acronym of tagged image file format).
5. fiil Synonym of tiffin (“to eat a (light) midday meal or snack; to have lunch, to lunch”).

   “Go home, Jack. I will tiff with you to-day at half-past two.”

6. isim A 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?”

7. isim Liquor, especially diluted or poor quality liquor.
8. fiil To 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; […]”

9. fiil To 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?”

10. fiil To 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.”

11. isim The 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?”

12. özel isim Acronym of tagged image file format.
13. isim An image stored in the TIFF format.
14. isim A file using TIFF file format
15. özel isim A diminutive of the female given name Tiffany.
16. isim Alternative form of TIFF.