Vocabulary : Tractrix to Trader
Tractrix : A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.Trad : imp. of Tread.
Trade : A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. ;; Course; custom; practice; occupation; employment. ;; Business of any kind; matter of mutual consideration; affair; dealing. ;; Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter, or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. ;; The business which a person has learned, and which he engages in, for procuring subsistence, or for profit; occupation; especially, mechanical employment as distinguished from the liberal arts, the learned professions, and agriculture; as, we speak of the trade of a smith, of a carpenter, or mason, but not now of the trade of a farmer, or a lawyer, or a physician. ;; Instruments of any occupation. ;; A company of men engaged in the same occupation; thus, booksellers and publishers speak of the customs of the trade, and are collectively designated as the trade. ;; The trade winds. ;; Refuse or rubbish from a mine. ;; To barter, or to buy and sell; to be engaged in the exchange, purchas
Trade name : The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. ;; An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article to distinguish it as produced or sold by him. ;; The name or style under which a concern or firm does business. This name becomes a part of the good will of a business; it is not protected by the registration acts, but a qualified common-law protection against its misuse exists, analogous to that existing in the case of trade-marks.
Trade union : An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
