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Definition: Tai |
TaiAdjective1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand of its people; "Siamese kings"; "the Thai border with Laos". 2. Of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; "Thai tones". 3. Of or relating to Thailand or its peoples or languages or culture; "Siamese kings"; "Different Thai tribes live in the North of the country"; "the Thai border with Laos". Noun1. A native or inhabitant of Thailand. 2. The most widespread and best known of the Kadai family of languages. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Tai" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be very large". |
Date "Tai" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Temps Atomique International (TAI) or International Atomic Time is a very accurate and stable time scale. It is an average of the time kept by many cesium clocks (atomic clocks) all over the world, and has been available since 1955.
True high-precision TAI times can only be determined after the fact, as atomic time is determined by the reconciliation of the observed differences between an ensemble of atomic clocks maintained by a number of national time bureaux. This is done under the auspices of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. However, atomic clocks are so accurate that only the most precise time computations need to use these corrections, and most time service users use atomic clocks that have been previously referenced to TAI to estimate TAI times for most purposes.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the basis for legal time worldwide and follows TAI (see below) exactly except for an integral number of seconds, presently 32. These leap seconds are inserted on the advice of the International Earth Rotation Service (IERS) (website) to ensure that, on average over the years, the Sun is overhead within 0.9 seconds of 12:00:00 UTC on the meridian of Greenwich
See also:
External links:
- Time and frequency transfer
- Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "International Atomic Time."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The languages of the Tai family are found in Southeast Asia. Britannica claims this language family was formerly considered to be part of the Sino-Tibetan languages, but that most of the similarities are incidental and that the relationship appears to be false. It also mentions suggestions that the Tai are closer to the Austronesian languages.
- south-western group
- Thai or Siamese (Thailand)
- Lao or Laotian (Laos, Thailand)
- Shan language (Burma)
- Yuan language (Thailand)
- central and northern groups (China)
- Nung
- Tho
- Kam-Sui group
- Kadai group (China, Yunnan)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tai languages."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TAI | English | Transport Analysis International | N/A |
TAI | French | Temps Atomique International | N/A |
TAI | Italian | Trattamento automatico dell'informazione | Computing |
TAI | Spanish | Tiempo atómico internacional | Nuclear Energy & Physics, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TaiSynonyms: Siamese (n), Thai (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tai |
| English words defined with "Tai": Black Tai, Bouyei, Buyi ♦ Central Thai, Chinese Shan ♦ Dehong Dai ♦ Kam Muang, Khamti, Khuen ♦ Lao ♦ Nung ♦ Red Tai ♦ Saek, Shan, Siamese, Southern Tai ♦ Tai Dam, Tai Long, Tai Lue, Tai Nuea, Tai Yuan, Tay, Thai, Tho ♦ White Tai ♦ Xishuangbanna Dai ♦ Yay ♦ Zhuang. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Tai": International Atomic Time. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Tai": Daimio. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tai" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Bemba (tie), Finnish (or), Maori (tide), Swahili (necktie, tie), Vietnamese (souse, tab). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Look, it's Tai. Where are you (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Lyrics | I need a chick that practice Tai Chi (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) Himitsu wo shiri tai (Mr. Roboto; performing artist: STYX) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Zhong tai quan tan sheng si zhan (1974) Go-Nin Raidaa tai kingu Daaku (1974) Jin yong lü tai (1974) Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Taigichuan (Tai Chi), a kind of slow-motion martial art, is regarded as a healthy exercise ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |  | Entering Honolulu harbor during her shakedown cruise, 9 July 1934. Photographed by Tai Sing Loo. Credit: NAVY. |
 | In Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, circa 1939. Photographed by Tai Sing Loo. Trenton is carrying SOC floatplanes on her catapults. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photographed by Tai Sing Loo in Pearl Harbor, circa the middle or later 1930s. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Situation - Scientist became ill after conducting an autopsy on a wild chimpanzee in the Tai Forest. (references) | |
Economic History | Laos | The official and dominant language is Lao, a tonal language of the Tai linguistic group. (references) |
Laos | The Lao are descended from the Tai people who began migrating southward from China in the first millennium A.D. Mountain tribes of Miao-Yao, Austro-Asiatic, Tibeto-Burman--Hmong, Yao, Akha, and Lahu--and Tai ethnolinguistic heritage are found in northern Laos. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tai" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "Tai" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 81.82% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Tai" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tai | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,151 |
| Tai | Last name | 1,000 | 10,287 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Hong Kong | Luen Tai Group Limited | Malaysia | Tai Wah Garments Manufacturing Berhad |
| Singapore | Wing Tai Holdings Limited | South Korea | Tai Lim Packaging Industries Co., Ltd. |
| Taiwan | Chien Tai Cement Company Limited | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Tai": black Tai ♦ Chih tai ♦ Red Tai ♦ southern Tai ♦ Tai Chi ♦ Tai Dam ♦ Tai Long ♦ Tai Lue ♦ Tai Nuea ♦ Tai Yuan ♦ White Tai. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Tai": tai-boxing, Tai-chi, tai-fing, tai-pan, tai-ping, tai-yu. | |
Ending with "Tai": chen-tai, Kam-Tai. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
kobe tai | 3,954 | kobe tai free pic | 50 |
tai chi | 2,633 | game pei tai | 43 |
tai | 297 | lyrics mai shu tai | 42 |
mai tai | 293 | kobe tai nude | 42 |
tai chi chuan | 237 | tai pan | 38 |
chung tai taiwan | 191 | tai kwon do | 34 |
mai shu tai | 155 | chen tai chi | 33 |
mai recipe tai | 149 | kobe tai hardcore | 33 |
tai bo | 143 | taoist tai chi | 32 |
tai chi sword | 131 | kobe tai movie | 31 |
kobe tai pic | 111 | tai ji | 30 |
play tai | 98 | tai chi form | 29 |
kobe tai gallery | 80 | kobe tai anal | 29 |
tai chi video | 80 | tai chi class | 29 |
nan tai taiwan | 76 | tai seng | 28 |
bronx chi ny tai | 72 | kwan tai | 27 |
kobe tai mpeg | 71 | hong tai travel | 27 |
kobe tai free | 69 | sora tai | 25 |
kobe tai picture | 65 | hanaukyo maid tai | 25 |
pai tai | 54 | free kobe tai mpeg | 25 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Tai"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 太湖 . (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 太極拳 (grand ultimate fist, Tai Chi Chuan). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいきょくけ" (grand ultimate fist, Tai Chi Chuan). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aitay.(various references) | |
Russian | тай. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Tai": taiga, taigas, taiglach, tail, tailback, tailbacks, tailboard, tailboards, tailbone, tailbones, tailcoat, tailcoated, tailcoats, tailed, tailender, tailenders, tailer, tailers, tailfan, tailfans, tailgate, tailgated, tailgater, tailgaters, tailgates, tailgating, tailing, tailings, taillamp, taillamps, taille, tailles, tailless, tailleur, tailleurs, taillight, taillights, taillike, tailor, tailorbird, tailorbirds, tailored, tailoring, tailorings, tailors, tailpiece, tailpieces, tailpipe, tailpipes, tailplane, tailplanes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Tai": centai, chigetai, litai. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Tai": abstain, abstained, abstainer, abstainers, abstaining, abstains, appertain, appertained, appertaining, appertains, ascertain, ascertainable, ascertained, ascertaining, ascertainment, ascertainments, ascertains, attain, attainabilities, attainability, attainable, attainder, attainders, attained, attainer, attainers, attaining, attainment, attainments, attains, attaint, attainted, attainting, attaints, aventail, aventails, backstairs, bangtail, bangtails, battailous, betaine, betaines, blacktail, blacktails, bloodstain, bloodstained, bloodstains, bobtail, bobtailed, bobtailing, bobtails. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ait. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-t" | |
-1 letter: ai, at, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-t" | |
+1 letter: adit, airt, aits, alit, anti, bait, dita, fiat, gait, ikat, iota, lati, pita, sati, tail, tain, tali, taxi, vita, wait. | |
+2 letters: actin, adits, admit, afrit, agist, airth, airts, aitch, alist, ambit, amity, antic, antis, astir, atilt, atria, atrip, attic, audit, await, axite, baith, baits, batik, biota, cacti, coati, davit, dicta, ditas, entia, faint, faith, fiats, gaits, giant, habit, ikats, inapt, iotas, irate, krait, laith, laity, lathi, litai, litas, maist, matin, ostia, paint, patin, patio, pieta, pinta, pitas, plait, ratio, retia, riant, riata, saint, saith, satin, satis, sitar, spait, staid, staig, stain, stair, stoai, stria, tabid, tacit, tafia, taiga, tails, tains, taint, takin, tamis, tapir, tapis, tarsi, tawie, taxis, telia, tenia, terai, tiara, tibia, tical, tidal, tilak, tinea, titan, tragi, traik, trail, train, trait, triac, triad, trial, tsadi, twain, vatic, vista, vitae, vital, vitta, waist, waits, witan. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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