taut

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Under tension, like a stretched bowstring, rope, or sail; tight.

   “The hawser was as taut as a bowstring, and the current so strong she pulled upon her anchor. All around the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.”

2. sıfat Not flabby; firm, toned; (of a person) having a lean, strong body.

   “I watched him from the side as he strode along. His walk was quite different; his face too looked tauter.”

3. sıfat Containing only relevant parts; brief and controlled.

   “If he curbs his swing a little and gets something crisper and tauter in his methods he may yet be very good.”

4. sıfat Experiencing anxiety or stress.

   “His outward appearance was calm, but inside he was very taut.”

5. sıfat Neat and well-disciplined; (by extension) efficient and in order.

   “[O]ur friend was a hearty toper in the days of his Whiggery, but no sooner turned one of the tautest of Tories, than he took to the tea-pot. It seems a thing against nature.”

6. sıfat Strong; uncompromising.

   “Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.”

7. fiil To make taut; to tauten, to tighten.

   “Men come down to the bare nail / suffer or inflict pain // life demands degradation / tauts the thread that hangs us all: [...]”