trident
trident
Definition
tri·dent (trīd′'nt)
noun
- a three-pronged spear used by the retiarius in ancient Roman gladiatorial combats
- a three-pronged fish spear
- Gr. & Rom. Myth. a three-pronged spear borne as a scepter by the sea god Poseidon, or Neptune
Etymology: L tridens (gen. tridentis) < tri-, tri- + dens, tooth
adjective
three-pronged
trident
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- hold: In his hand, Neptune held a huge trident.
- have: Indeed, he might really have impaled people, if he had had a trident.
- carry: Over his shoulder are heaped the folds of a net, and he carries a trident.
- use: It reports that the X15 Aylesbury to Milton Keynes service is to be double-decked using Tridents including the two currently at High Wycombe.
Adjective modifier
- red: Unusually two red Tridents follow each other down George Street.
- new: A Stagecoach Olympian, shortly to be replaced by new Tridents, round the Memorial on the 100 service.
- low: The unidentified bus is one of several transferred to the former Midland Red fleet from London service, ousted by low floor Tridents.
Modifies a noun
- passage: Downstream of the trident passage - pierces passage junction you come across two parallel quartz veins.
- driver: October 16th My trident driver still doesn't work.
- system: We have used the trident system as our testing ground for the ACE and aza-ACE methodology in order to assess coupling selectivities.
Noun used with modifier
- floor: The unidentified bus is one of several transferred to the former Midland Red fleet from London service, ousted by low floor Tridents.
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- tridimensional
- tried
- tried-and-true
- triennial
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- trier
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