Tauten

Definition: Tauten

Tauten

Verb

1. Become taut or tauter.

2. Make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope".

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

Date "tauten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references)

Synonym: Tauten

Crosswords: Tauten

Albanian

tendos (draw, exert, strain, stretch, subtend, tense, tighten, wrack), ndej (strain). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وتر (bow, catgut, chord, cord, gut, nerve, sinew, snare, strain, string, tendon, tense, tension), ‏حد (border, borderline, boundary, brim, confine, definition, delimit, edge, end, extreme, frontier, limit, margin, mourn, outline, restrict, terminus, utmost degree, verge), ‏توتر (in a stew, strain, stress, tautness, tense, tenseness, tension, tensity, tighten). (various references)

Bulgarian 

опъвам (bend, draw, pull, set up, strain, stretch, string up, tighten), опвам (tighten), изпъвам се (straighten, tense), изпъвам (straighten, strain, tense). (various references)

French

tendre, se tendre. (various references)

German

spannen (be taut, be tight, catch on to, clamp, draw, flex, get wise to, harness, strech, stretch, tense, tension, tighten, to stretch, wind up). (various references)

Hebrew 

למתוח (kid, pull, spoof, sprain, strain, stretch). (various references)

Hungarian

szorosra húz (to tauten), megfeszít (bent, bowse, tense, to bend, to strain, to take up the slack in a rope, to tally, to tense, to wind, wound). (various references)

Manx

chionney (clench, cog, erection, fasten, grit, inflate, momentum, oblige, press, pressurize, pump up, put on, screw up, straighten, strain, tighten). (various references)

Pig Latin

autentay.(various references)

Portuguese

retesar (screw, strain, strech, stretch), esticar (draw out, hold out, screw, spread, strain, strech, stretch, string, tighten). (various references)

Romanian

întinde (arrange, couch, dilate, draw, expand, extend, fling out, hang, lay on, lengthen, outspread, outstretch, pull, pull up, reach, set, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew, tighten, widen). (various references)

Russian 

туго натягиваться, туго натягивать, натягивать (draw, draw on, pull on, strain, stretch, string, tense, tighten). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatezati (tighten), naprezati (strain, tense, tighten). (various references)

Spanish

tensar (brace, pull, tense), estirar (crane, draw, draw out, extend, iron lightly, move out, overstretch, prick up, pull out, run the iron over, smooth back, spin out, strain, stretch, tense, tighten, tighten up, twang, undress, wrench). (various references)

Swedish

sträcka (distance, extend, haul, lap, length, reach, Rick, section, strain, stretch, sweep, way), spänna (brace, buckle, draw, put to, span, strain, stretch, string, tense, tighten). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ตึง (strain), ตึง (taut). (various references)

Turkish

kasmak (clamp, contract, flex, rotor, strain, stretch tight, tighten), germek (bag, distend, draw, hang on, lift, rack, span, sprawl out, stay, strain, stretch, stretch out, string, tense, tighten, tighten up), gerilmek (be stressed, be stretched, be tightened, distend, strain, tense). (various references)

Ukrainian

туго натягувати, натягуватися (tense, tighten), напружувати (apply, bend, exert, put forth, strain, string up, tension). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tauten": tautened, tautening, tautens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tauten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auten, Hauteyn, tarten, tasten, tatent, tatin, tatten, Tauchen, taufen, tauta, taute, tauted, tauve, taxten, testen, Tiumen, tooten, toten, touren, traten, Trautenau, tuften, Tuten, tuton. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: attune, nutate.

-1 letter: taunt.

-2 letters: ante, aunt, etna, neat, nett, tate, taut, teat, tent, tuna, tune.

-3 letters: ane, ant, ate, att, eat, eau, eta, nae, net, nut, tae, tan, tat, tau, tea, ten, tet, tun, tut, uta.

-4 letters: ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, nu, ta, un, ut.

+1 letter: attuned, attunes, nutated, nutates, nutmeat, taunted, taunter, tautens, tetanus, unstate.

+2 letters: abutment, autunite, debutant, earthnut, equitant, exultant, gauntest, gauntlet, intubate, nutmeats, outeaten, patulent, petulant, punctate, taunters, tautened, tautness, truanted, truncate, tunicate, uintaite, unhatted, unmatted, unstated, unstates, untasted.

+3 letters: abutments, antiquate, attenuate, auntliest, austenite, authentic, autunites, banquette, debutante, debutants, earthnuts, eventuate, executant, extenuate, flatulent, fortunate, gauntlets, humectant, infatuate, intubated, intubates, jauntiest, outeating, outlearnt, punctuate, quaintest, quittance, reductant, reluctant, resultant, subtenant, sultanate, tautening, tetanuses, transmute, tremulant, tribunate, truncated, truncates, tungstate, tunicated, tunicates, turbinate, turntable, uintahite, uintaites, unattuned, untainted, untreated, utterance.