taut

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  1. adjective Pulled or drawn tight; not slack. See Synonyms at tight.
  2. adjective Strained; tense: nerves taut with anxiety.
  3. adjective Kept in trim shape; neat and tidy.
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  • By Susen Foster A majestic 22-foot-tall Native American -- bow taut, arrow poised -- protects this capital city from the evils facing mankind. —  High Plains Journal
  • And when describing how they stay so taut, the explanation is generally this. —  The Guardian World News
  • The 20-pound-test mono twanged taut, the angler heaved back on the white finger-thick glass rod and the foraging bull redfish felt for the first time the sudden surge of resistance.
  • It is thought that inertia -- the physics theory stating that matter retains its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force -- will cause the cable to stay stretched taut, allowing the elevator to sit in geostationary orbit. —  News4Jax.com - Local News
  • If Miró ever knew the meaning of "taut," the seven films in this retrospective certainly do not prove it. —  GreenCine Daily
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tight ·  tense ·  rigid ·  supple ·  muscular ·  shapely ·  breathless ·  elastic ·  silky ·  shiny ·  bare ·  fragile
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English tohte, distended, perhaps ultimately from Old English togian, to drag; see tow1.

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  1. Early modern English taught; from Middle English toght, a variant of tight: see tight. The form taut cannot be explained as coming directly from Danish tæt.
 

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