Taut

Definitions: Taut

Taut

Adjective

1. Pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "taut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Taut \Taut\, adjective. [Dan. t[ae]t; akin to English tight. See Tight.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Taut

Junction

Firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved ; inseparable, indissoluble, insecable, severable.

Crosswords: Taut

German (dews, thaws).

A Lesson Well Taut (1994)

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Books

• Bruno Taut : die Innenraumentwèurfe des Berliner Architekten (reference)

• Bruno Taut : eine Rede zu seinem fèunfzigsten Todestag (reference)

• Bruno Taut 1880-1938 : Ausstellung der Akademie der Kèunste vom 29. Juni bis 3. August 1980 (reference)

• Bruno Taut, 1880-1938 (reference)

• Crystal Chain Letters: Architectural Fantasies by Bruno Taut and His Circle (reference)

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Carl Aslakson ran a taut ship Party camp at Benjamin, Texas Triangulation party of Carl I. Aslakson.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wiredrag diagram The basic principle is to drag a wire attached to two vessels If the wire encounters an obstruction it will come taut and form a "V".Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Tu t'fourre une gousse d'ail tu sais bien ou...un méchant morceau d'flanelle su l'ventre et avec ca tu peux boire taut qu'tu vondras et t'F..du Cholera morbu!! / Ch. Nanteuil.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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He made the wire taut, then found a stick and slipped the pieces of meat along the wire until they were over the fire.

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Expressions using "taut": be taut ♦ become taut ♦ Taut hand ♦ taut wire gear ♦ to become suddenly taut ♦ To heave taut. Additional references.

Beginning with "taut": taut-faced, taut-stretched.

Ending with "taut": bar-taut.

Albanian

i tendosur (ding-dong, drawn tightly, stiff, strained, stretched, tense, tight), i nderë (extended, tense). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متوتر (edgy, high strung, in a state, nervous, on tenterhooks, strained, tense), ‏مشدود (tense, tight), ‏نظيف (clean, cleanly, fair, immaculate, neat, sanitary, spotless, spruce, stainless, tidy), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

строг (astringent, austere, censorious, close, firm, grim, hard, hard and fast, hard-grained, hardhanded, ironclad, narrow, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, sinewy, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, unaffable, uncharitable), стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, trim, well groomed), опънат (corded, strained, tight, unbending), напрегнат (breathless, exacting, excited, intense, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, overwrought, strenuous, tense, tight, uncool, uphill), принуден (forced), изпълнителен (administrative, efficient, executive, law abiding, ministerial). (various references)

Chinese 

觩 (bent upwards), 繃 (to bind, to have a taut face, to stretch, to tie), 拉紧 (tensed, Tensioned, tighten, tightened, tightening). (various references)

Czech

vypnutý, natažený (tense), napjatý (explosive, inflammable, tense, tight, tonic, uptight). (various references)

Danish

taut wire (taut wire gear), mens systemet med den udspaendte traad kraever brug af en wire til mekanisk at give meddelelse om positionen fra havbunden til overfladen,benytter de akustiske systemer lydboelger under vandet som den noedvendige kommunikationsforbindelse (the acoustic systems use underwater sound waves as the required communication link, while the taut line system requires use of a wire to mechanically communicate position from the ocean bottom to the surface), maaleline (taut wire gear), kraengningsmaaleren paa udspaendt traad,der normalt er en tyngderegistrerende anordning,kan ikke skelne mellem en aegte vinkel fra lodlinjen og en vandret acceleration (cannot distinguish between a true angle from the vertical and a horizontal acceleration, normally a gravity sensing device, the taut line inclinometer), kraengnings/maaling paa udspaendt traad anvendes med held,naar en flydende boreplatform,der enten er kabelforankret eller fastholdes dynamisk,skal fastholdes til et bestemt punkt (the taut line inclinometer system is successfully used to keep floating structures on station, whether they are dynamically positioned or anchored conventionally), inklinometer til stramt kabel (taut line inclinometer, taut line inclinometre, taut-wire angle indicator, taut-wire inclinometer, taut-wire inclinometre), grundkaede (ground warp, taut warp), blive haardt strammet (to become abruptly strained, to become suddenly taut). (various references)

Dutch

waar voor het spankabelsysteem een lijn nodig is om de positie vanaf de zeebodem langs mechanische weg aan het oppervlak door te geven,maken akoestische systemen gebruik van zich onder water voortplantende geluidsgolven als communicatiesysteem (the acoustic systems use underwater sound waves as the required communication link, while the taut line system requires use of a wire to mechanically communicate position from the ocean bottom to the surface), verschillende procédés zijn mogelijk bij het bebakenen en verankerd houden van een schip in volle zee,zoals de mechanische bebakening,de aan een gespannen draad hangende deviatiemeter,transponders,de bebakening door middel van elektromagnetische reactie (among others, responders and B.R.E.M.I.U.S.(buoying by electromagnetic response to ultrasonic interrogation), taut line inclinometer), spandraadinrichting (taut wire gear), plotseling hard aankomen (to become abruptly strained, to become suddenly taut), om tuilijnen op een vooraf bepaald spanningsniveau te houden,worden hydro-pneumatische spaninrichtingen aan elk van de vier putmondtuien en meestal ook aan de regelleidingen van de eruptieafsluiter bevestigd (hydropneumatic tensioners are applied to each of the four wellhead guidelines and normally to the blowout preventer control lines, in order to maintain guidelines taut at a preselected tension level), klinometer met gespannen draad (taut line inclinometer, taut line inclinometre, taut-wire angle indicator, taut-wire inclinometer, taut-wire inclinometre), ineens strak gaan staan (to become abruptly strained, to become suddenly taut), het uitzetten in de bouwput van de voor de onderbouw benodigde systeemlijnen komt neer op het overbrengen van de van tevoren met behulp van gespannen staaldraden bepaalde richtingen (establishing satisfactorily at the level of execution the alignments needed for placing the elements of the substructure consists of setting out on the plane of execution all directions previously determined by means of a taut line on the ideal plane), het procédé van de aan een gespannen draad hangende deviatiemeter wordt met succes toegepast om een dynamisch of kabelverankerd drijvend werktuig op een vaste plaats te houden (the taut line inclinometer system is successfully used to keep floating structures on station, whether they are dynamically positioned or anchored conventionally), grondketting (ground warp, taut warp), de spankabelhellingsmeter,normaliter ee,instrument ter bepaling van de zwaartekracht,kan onderscheid maken tussen een zuivere hoek ten opzichte van de verticale rechte en een horizontale versnelling (cannot distinguish between a true angle from the vertical and a horizontal acceleration, normally a gravity sensing device, the taut line inclinometer). (various references)

Farsi 

محکم کشیدن , مات کردن (Amaze, Checkmate), کشیده (Extensive, Linear, Long, Oblong), سفت (Astringent, Callous, Concrete, Fast, Hard, Inelastic, Ironclad, Stark, Stiff, Tenacious, Tense, Thick, Tight, Tough, Wiry), شق (Inelastic, Prick, Stiff, Tough, Wooden), درهم پیچیدن (Intersubjective, Tangle). (various references)

Finnish

piukka (tight), pingotettu (stretched), kireä (aspero, astringent, firm, rough, strict, tense, tight). (various references)

French

tendu, propre, chic (tailor made). (various references)

German

straff (close fitting, erect, firm, strict, tautly, tensely, tight, tighten), gespannt (agog, anxious, anxiously, close, curious, eager, eagerly, fancy, inquisitive, rapt, strained, tautly, tense, tensely, tensly). (various references)

Greek 

εν καλή κατάσταση, τεταμένοσ (strained, tense). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתוח (extending, jumpy, strained, stretched, stretching, strung, tense, tension, tenterhooks, tight, tightening), משוך (drawn, stretched over), מסו�"ר (arranged, fixed, made up, orderly, settled, shipshape, trim), �"רוך (bent, prepared, tense, trigger, vigilant). (various references)

Hungarian

feszes (slinky, starch, starched, starchy, stiff, stressful, tense, tight), szoros (cove, cramp, cramped, defile, gullet, narrow, narrows, near, pass, serried, strait, strict, tense, tight), kifeszített (extended, strung). (various references)

Indonesian

erat (close, firm, tight). (various references)

Italian

tirato (tense, tight), teso (aimed, drawn, strained, stressed, stretched, tense, tight, tighten, wound-up), stiracchiato, rigido (harsh, inflexible, martinet, numbly, primly, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, stark, stern, stiff, strait laced, stringent, wooden), in ordine (groovy, okay, Square), conciso (brief, concise, curt, neat, pithy, short, succinct, tabloid, terse, thumbnail). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突っ張る (to become stiff, to become taut, to insist on, to stick to, to support, to thrust). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つっぱる (to become stiff, to become taut, to insist on, to stick to, to support, to thrust). (various references)

Korean 

엄격한 (stringent). (various references)

Manx

chionn (austere, busy, delicate, erect, erect as penis, fast, firm, firmly, hard-pressed, hardy, inflated, speedy, stiff, stuck fast, tense, tight-fitting). (various references)

Pig Latin

auttay.(various references)

Portuguese

teso (rigid, stiff), tenso (strained, tense, tight), retesado (tense), esticado (outstretched, strained, tense, tight), em ordem (shipshape, straight, well done), em boas condições (viable). (various references)

Romanian

întins (broad, even, expanse, expansion, expansive, extensive, flat, flatly, large, lengthy, mighty, open, outspread, prone, recumbent, smooth, spacious, sprawling, strained, stretched, supine, tense, vast). (various references)

Russian 

строгий (astringent, austere, censorious, chaste, dour, hard, harsh, rigorous, severe, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, unaffable), очень высокий (mountain-high, skytall, topless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zategnut (strained, tense, tight), uredan (clean-cut, neat, orderly, shipshape, tidy), nategnut. (various references)

Spanish

tirante (anchor block, anchor wall, anchorage, binder, brace, bridle, collar beam, dead man, fall, gunning, guy wire, nail biting, shoulder strap, stay, stay rope, stay wire, steel wire stay, straining, straining beam, strap, stringent, tense, tension rod, tie, tie beam, tie rod, tie-rod, tight, tighten, trace, wind beam, windbrace, wire back-tie), tenso (concerted, fraught, heavy-laden, kickshaw, nail biting, strained, tense, uptight). (various references)

Swedish

spänd (excited, high strung, nervy, strained, tense, tight, uptight). (various references)

Thai

เกร็ง (เช่น กล้ามเนื้อเกร็ง), เป็นระเบียบ (just so), ตึงเครีย�", ตึง (tauten). (various references)

Turkish

gerili, gergin (drawn, high strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, on a knife-edge, on edge, on pins and needles, skittish, spread, stiff, strained, stressfull, stretched, tense, tight, uptight). (various references)

Ukranian 

справний (o.k., ok, okay, okey, serviceable), туго натягнутий, підтягнутий (smirk, tucked up). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "taut": tautaug, tautaugs, tauted, tauten, tautened, tautening, tautens, tauter, tautest, tauting, tautly, tautness, tautnesses, tautog, tautogs, tautological, tautologically, tautologies, tautologous, tautologously, tautology, tautomer, tautomeric, tautomerism, tautomerisms, tautomers, tautonym, tautonymies, tautonyms, tautonymy, tauts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Taut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atat, ataud, Attu, atu, atuz, etait, Etajul, jaut, naut, taat, tabt, tabut, taet, tagt, tagu, taht, taih, taiot, Taitz, takt, takum, talt, tamt, tapt, tast, Tatu, tatus, taub, taud, taudy, taui, tault, taum, taun, taup, taurt, tauta, taute, tauv, tauw, tauz, Tavua, tawt, taxt, teu, teut, Tiju, titu, tju, toait, toaut, tua, tuar, tuat, Tuath, tuit, tuo, tuta, tutt, Tuuta, Tuuth, twaut, vautt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: att, tat, tau, tut, uta.

-2 letters: at, ta, ut.

+1 letter: battu, gutta, sutta, taunt, tauts.

+2 letters: astute, attune, battue, catgut, guttae, kaputt, mutant, mutate, nutant, nutate, outact, outate, outeat, outsat, statue, status, suttas, taught, taunts, tauted, tauten, tauter, tautly, tautog, truant, tubate.

+3 letters: abuttal, abutted, abutter, actuate, acutest, attuned, attunes, bathtub, batteau, battues, buttals, catguts, curtate, cuttage, fatuity, guttate, mulatto, mutants, mutated, mutates, nutated, nutates, nutmeat, outacts, outcast, outdate, outeats, outfast, outlast, outrate, outstay, outtake, outtalk, outtask, outwait, quartet, scutate, situate, squatty, startup, statued, statues, stature, statusy, statute, stratum, stratus, tactful, tactual, takeout, tantrum, tapetum, tartufe, tatouay, taunted, taunter, tautaug, tautens, tautest, tauting, tautogs, tetanus, textual, titular, toluate, truants, tuatara, tuatera, tubaist, tugboat, turista, tutelar, unstate, upstart, upstate.

+4 letters: abutment, abuttals, abutters, abutting, actuated, actuates, actuator, adjutant, aflutter, altitude, altruist, amputate, anticult, antirust, antismut, aptitude, aquatint, astutely, attitude, attuning, autistic, autocrat, automata, automate, autotomy, autotype, autotypy, autunite, baguette, bathtubs, batteaux, butylate, butyrate, catapult, cultrate, cuttable, cuttages, cutwater, debutant, earthnut, equitant, eructate, eustatic, extubate, exultant, factotum, flautist, gauntest, gauntlet, gratuity, guttated, guttural, intubate, latitude, lustrate, lutanist, maquette, maturate, maturest, maturity, mulattos, mutating, mutation, mutative, mutilate, naturist, nutating, nutation, nuthatch, nutmeats, obturate, outacted, outbleat, outboast, outcaste, outcasts, outcatch, outcheat, outdated, outdates, outeaten, outfasts, outfeast, outlasts, outleapt, outmatch, outpaint, outrated, outrates, outskate, outsmart, outstand, outstare, outstart, outstate, outstays, outtakes, outtalks, outtasks, outthank, outtrade, outvaunt, outwaits, outwaste, outwatch, pantsuit, patulent, petulant, punctate, putative, quantity, quartets, rebuttal, retaught, rutilant, saturant, saturate, situated, situates, squatted, squatter, stakeout, standout, stardust, startups, statuary, statures, statuses, statutes, stratous, stratums, stuntman, substate, subtotal, subtract, tabouret, tabulate, taciturn, takeouts, tantalum, tantalus, tantrums, tartufes, tartuffe, tasteful, tatouays, taunters, taunting, tautaugs, tautened, tautness, tautomer, tautonym, textuary, textural, titanium, titanous, titulars, titulary, toluates, torquate, trapunto, traumata, truanted, truantry, truncate, tuataras, tuateras, tubaists, tubulate, tugboats, tunicate, turistas, turncoat, tutelage, tutelars, tutelary, tutorage, tutorial, uintaite, ultimata, ultimate, ultrahot, ultraist, unhatted, unmatted, unstated, unstates, untasted, untaught, upstarts, upstater, upstates, urticant, urticate, ustulate, watchout, watthour.

+5 letters: abruptest, abutments, acquittal, acquitted, acquitter, actuality, actuating, actuation, actuators, adjutants, altitudes, altruists, amputated, amputates, annuitant, antiquate, antiquity, antirusts, antitrust, antitumor, aptitudes, aquatints, astronaut, attenuate, attitudes, attribute, augustest, auntliest, austenite, austerest, austerity, auteurist, authentic, authority, autistics, autocrats, autograft, autolytic, automated, automates, automatic, automaton, autopilot, autoroute, autotelic, autotroph, autotypes, autunites, baguettes, banquette, barquette, beatitude, bratwurst, brutality, butterfat, butylated, butylates, butyrates, candytuft, catamount, catapults, commutate, cultivate, culturati, curettage, cutthroat, cutwaters, debutante, debutants, deuterate, disputant, earthnuts, elutriate, epaulette, eructated, eructates, eventuate, executant, extenuate, extubated, extubates, factotums, fatuities, faultiest, flatulent, flautists, fluctuant, fluctuate, footfault, fortunate, frustrate, fustigate, gauntlets, glutamate, gratitude, gratulate, guitarist, gustation, gustatory, guttation, gutturals, habituate, humectant, infatuate, intubated, intubates, jauntiest, latitudes, literatus, lustrated, lustrates, lutanists, maquettes, maturated, maturates, matutinal, micturate, mistaught, mouthpart, mulattoes, multiatom, multipart, multipath, multitask, mutations, mutilated, mutilates, mutilator, mutualist, mutuality, naturists, nonmutant, nurturant, nutations, obturated, obturates, obturator, outacting, outbleats, outboasts, outcastes, outcaught, outcheats, outdating, outdebate, outdreamt, outeating, outercoat, outfasted, outfeasts, outlasted, outlearnt, outpaints, outrating, outskated, outskates, outsmarts, outstands, outstared, outstares, outstarts, outstated, outstates, outstayed, outtalked, outtasked, outthanks, outtraded, outtrades, outvaunts, outwaited, outwasted, outwastes, pantsuits, paupiette, pituitary, platitude, plutocrat, pollutant, postfault, postulant, postulate, punctuate, pustulant, quaintest, quartette, quartzite, quittance, quotation, rebuttals, reductant, reluctant, reluctate, resultant, ritualist, rusticate, saturants, saturated, saturates, saturator, situating, situation, southeast, spatulate, squatters, squattest, squattier, squatting, stakeouts, standouts, starburst, stardusts, starfruit, statuette, statutory, stimulant, stimulate, stipulate, stirabout, submittal, substates, substrata, substrate, subtenant, subtotals, subtracts, sultanate, tablature, tabourets, tabulated, tabulates, tabulator, tactfully, tactually, tantalums, tarantula, tartuffes, tautening, tautology, tautomers, tautonyms, tautonymy, tessitura, tetanuses, textually, thumbtack, titaniums, titularly, tracksuit, transmute, trapuntos, traumatic, tremulant, tribulate, tribunate, tributary, triturate, truanting, truncated, truncates, trustable, tubulated, tubulates, tuitional, tungstate, tunicated, tunicates, turbinate, turnabout, turncoats, turntable, tutelages, tutorages, tutorials, uintahite, uintaites, ultimated, ultimates, ultimatum, ultrafast, ultraheat, ultraists, ultraleft, ultrasoft, ultrathin, unattuned, unhatting, unstating, untactful, untainted, untreated, upstarted, upstaters, urticants, urticated, urticates, utterable, utterance, vastitude, vaultiest, watchouts, watthours.

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