TANDEM
\tˈandəm], \tˈandəm], \t_ˈa_n_d_ə_m]\
Definitions of TANDEM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem"
By Princeton University
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one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A team of horses harnessed one before the other.
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One after another; - said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
By Oddity Software
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A team of horses harnessed one before the other.
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One after another; - said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast.
By Noah Webster.
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Arranged one behind another.
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A pair of horses harnessed one before the other; a bicycle or tricycle for two, with one seat placed before the other.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Applied to the position of horses harnessed singly one before the other instead of abreast.
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A team of horses (usually two) so harnessed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Arranged one before the other.
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Two or more horses harnessed in single file.
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A cycle with seat for two persons, one behind the other.
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One before the other.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Singly; one before the other-applied to horses harnessed one before another instead of abreast.
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Two horses harnessed tandem in a light two-wheeled vehicle. Note.-This word seems to have originated in the university slang application of the Eng. meaning "at length" of L. tandem, which, however, has really no connection whatever with the thing signified.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
