TL
Translingual
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TL
Symbol
TL
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Timor-Leste since 2002.
- Synonyms: TLS (alpha-3 2002–present), TP (1975–2002, as East Timor)
English
Noun
TL (plural TLs)
- (translation studies) Initialism of target language.
- Antonym: SL
- (informal) Abbreviation of translator.
- (informal) Abbreviation of translation.
- (Internet) Abbreviation of timeline; also tl.
- Abbreviation of turntable ladder.
- Abbreviation of team leader.
- (ecology) Initialism of trophic level.
- Abbreviation of Turkish lira.
- Synonym: ₺
- (slang, dated) Initialism of trade-last.
- 1922, Thomas Lansing Masson, Our American Humorists, page 201:
- Nothing about my natural charms no more, an egg's age since anybody had called me to 1 side and whispered "I got a T. L. for you. Gertie thinks your ears is immense."
- 1997, Joan Mellen, Hellman and Hammett, page 71:
- So autobiographical was The Children's Hour that there are even “TL's” between the children, those “trade lasts” in which people must come up with compliments they have heard about each other, a game which amused Lily […]
Spanish
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