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taut
| tautaug
| tautegorical
| tauten
| tautly
| tautness
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective taut has 2 senses
- taut(s = adj.all) tight - pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" Derived form noun tautness2
- taut(s = adj.all) Array - subjected to great tension; stretched tight; "the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; "her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow" Derived form noun tautness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
taut, a. [Dan. tæt; akin to E. tight. See Tight.].
- Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained. [1913 Webster]
- Snug; close; firm; secure. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
taut, adj.
1 (of a rope, muscles, etc.) tight; not slack.
2 (of nerves) tense.
3 (of a ship etc.) in good order or condition.
1 (of a rope, muscles, etc.) tight; not slack.
2 (of nerves) tense.
3 (of a ship etc.) in good order or condition.
Derivative
tauten v.tr. & intr. tautly adv. tautness n.
Etymology
ME touht, togt, perh. = TOUGH, infl. by tog- past part. stem of obs. tee (OE teon) pull
THESAURUS
taut
all ataunto, anxious, apprehensive, ataunt, bungup and bilge-free, close, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, extended, firm, in suspense, in trim, keyed-up, lengthened, neat, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, orderly, pokerlike, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, quivering, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, shipshape, smart, spruce, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, strung out, tense, tidy, tight, trig, trim, under a strain, unrelaxed, uptight, virgate, with bated breath, with muscles tenseROGET THESAURUS
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Junction
N junction, joining, joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation, annexion, annexation, annexment, astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation, accouplement, marriage infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation, meeting, reunion, assemblage, coition, copulation, sex, sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse, love-making, joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation, commissure, seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch, link, miter mortise, closeness, tightness coherence, combination, annexationist, joined, joint, conjoint, conjunct, corporate, compact, hand in hand, firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved, inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable, jointly, in conjunction with, fast, firmly intimately, tria juncta in uno.
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