Tiff

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tiff
    n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: {bicker}, {bickering},
         {spat}, {tiff}, {squabble}, {pettifoggery}, {fuss}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tiff \Tiff\, n. [Originally, a sniff, sniffing; cf. Icel. ?efr a
   smell, ?efa to sniff, Norw. tev a drawing in of the breath,
   teva to sniff, smell, dial. Sw. t["u]v smell, scent, taste.]
   1. Liquor; especially, a small draught of liquor. "Sipping
      his tiff of brandy punch." --Sir W. Scott.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A fit of anger or peevishness; a slight altercation or
      contention. See {Tift}. --Thackeray.
      [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tiff \Tiff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tiffed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tiffing}.]
   To be in a pet.
   [1913 Webster]

         She tiffed with Tim, she ran from Ralph. --Landor.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tiff \Tiff\, v. t. [OE. tiffen, OF. tiffer, tifer, to bedizen;
   cf. D. tippen to clip the points or ends of the hair, E. tip,
   n.]
   To deck out; to dress. [Obs.] --A. Tucker.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Tagged Image File Format
TIFF

   <file format, graphics> (TIFF) A {file format} used for
   still-image {bitmaps}, stored in tagged fields.  {Application
   programs} can use the tags to accept or ignore fields,
   depending on their capabilities.

   While TIFF was designed to be extensible, it lacked a core of
   useful functionality, so that most useful functions (e.g.
   {lossless} 24-bit colour) requires nonstandard, often
   redundant, extensions.  The incompatibility of extensions has
   led some to expand "TIFF" as "Thousands of Incompatible File
   Formats".

   Compare {GIF}, {PNG}, {JPEG}.

   (1997-10-11)
from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
TIFF
       Tag / Tagged Image File Format (Aldus)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiff":
      altercate, altercation, argument, bicker, bickering, blood feud,
      brawl, broil, caterwaul, contention, controversy, differ,
      difference of opinion, disagreement, dispute, donnybrook,
      donnybrook fair, dudgeon, embroilment, fall, falling-out, ferment,
      feud, fight, flite, fliting, fracas, fret, fume, fuss, have words,
      high dudgeon, huff, imbroglio, join issue, logomachy, miff,
      misunderstanding, open quarrel, pet, pique, polemic, quarrel,
      rhubarb, row, run-in, set to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl,
      spar, spat, squabble, stew, strife, tussle, vendetta, words,
      wrangle
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