tame
see also: Tame
Pronunciation
Tame
Proper noun
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see also: Tame
Pronunciation
- IPA: /teɪm/
tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)
- Not or no longer wild; domesticated
- Antonyms: wild
- They have a tame wildcat.
- (chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
- Synonyms: gentle
- The lion was quite tame.
- Not exciting.
- Synonyms: dull, flat, insipid, unexciting
- Antonyms: exciting
- This party is too tame for me.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Antonyms: wild
- French: apprivoisé
- German: zahm
- Italian: addomesticato, domato
- Portuguese: domesticado
- Russian: приручённый
- Spanish: domesticado, manso
tame (tames, present participle taming; past and past participle tamed)
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- He tamed the wild horse.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
- Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- to tame a rebellion
- French: apprivoiser, domestiquer, dompter
- German: zähmen
- Italian: addomesticare, domare
- Portuguese: domar
- Russian: прируча́ть
- Spanish: amansar, domar, domeñar
- German: zahm werden
- Italian: addomesticato, essere domato
- Portuguese: ser domado, domar
- Russian: прируча́ться
tame (tames, present participle taming; past and past participle tamed)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
Tame
Proper noun
- Surname
- A river in Central England, tributary to the Trent.
- A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.
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