These are the meanings of the letters TLPAETN when you unscramble them.
- Latent (a.)
Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.
- Latten (n.)
A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.
- Latten (n.)
Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets; as, gold latten.
- Patent (a.)
A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
- Patent (a.)
A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
- Patent (a.)
A writing securing to an invention.
- Patent (a.)
Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
- Patent (a.)
Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
- Patent (a.)
Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
- Patent (a.)
Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
- Patent (a.)
The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
- Patent (v. t.)
To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
- Patten (n.)
A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
- Patten (n.)
A stilt.
- Planet (n.)
A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
- Planet (n.)
A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
- Platen (n.)
Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
- Platen (n.)
The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.
- Platen (n.)
The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- Talent (v. t.)
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and a denomination of money equal to 60 minae or 6,000 drachmae. The Attic talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
- Talent (v. t.)
Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93/ lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.
- Talent (v. t.)
Inclination; will; disposition; desire.
- Talent (v. t.)
Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30).