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Definitions: Tautness |
TautnessNoun1. The physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body". 2. Lack of movement or room for movement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TautnessSynonyms: tenseness (n), tension (n), tensity (n), tightness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: looseness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tautness |
| English words defined with "tautness": droop ♦ flag ♦ sag, swag. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tautness": POULTICE-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| "Tautness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tautness" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tautness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | توتر (in a stew, strain, stress, tauten, tense, tenseness, tension, tensity, tighten). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опънатост, изпънатост (tension). (various references) | |
French | tension, contraction. (various references) | |
German | Straffheit (erectness, firmness, strictness, tenseness, tightness). (various references) | |
Greek | ένταση (connotation, deepness, intension, intensity, intensity of noise, loudness, strain, stress, tension, volume of noise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szorosság (fastness, tightness). (various references) | |
Manx | chionnid (austerity, compactness, stiffness, strain, tenseness, tension). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | autnesstay.(various references) | |
Russian | натянутость (tension). (various references) | |
Ukranian | натягнутість. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính căng tình trạng tốt tính căng thẳng, tình trạng căng thẳng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | intentionum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tautness": tautnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Tautness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taugness, taunest. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unstates. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: attunes, nutates, statues, tautens, tetanus, unseats, unstate. | |
-2 letters: anuses, assent, astute, attune, nutate, sanest, sautes, stanes, states, statue, status, stunts, sunset, suttas, tasset, tastes, taunts, tauten, unseat, unsets, usneas. | |
-3 letters: antes, asset, aunts, easts, etnas, nates, neats, nests, netts, sanes, sates, saute, seats, sensa, setts, stane, state, stats, stets, stuns, stunt, suets, sutta, tasse, taste, tates, taunt, tauts, teats, tents, testa, tests, tunas, tunes, unset, usnea. | |
-4 letters: anes, ante, ants, anus, ates, aunt, east, eats, etas, etna, neat, ness, nest, nets, nett, nuts, sane, sans, sate, seas, seat, sent, seta, sets, sett, stat, stet, stun, sues, suet, suns, tans, tass, tate, tats, taus, taut, teas, teat, tens, tent, test, tets, tuna, tune, tuns, tuts, uses, utas. | |
-5 letters: ane, ant, ass, ate, att, eat, eau, ens, ess, eta, nae, net, nus, nut, sae, sat, sau, sea, sen, set, sue, sun, tae, tan, tas, tat, tau, tea, ten, tet, tun, tut, uns, use, uta, uts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tetanuses. | |
+2 letters: astuteness, austenites, enthusiast, resultants, staunchest, subtenants, sultanates, tantaluses, tautnesses, transmutes, tungstates, unstablest. | |
+3 letters: abstentious, adjustments, antitussive, enthusiasts, menstruates, neutralists, restaurants, sansculotte, scatterguns, substantive, tactfulness, transudates, understates, unresistant, unsaturates, unsteadiest. | |
+4 letters: adventurists, antitrusters, antitussives, astutenesses, countryseats, degustations, enthusiastic, ostentatious, outdatedness, outdistances, sansculottes, southeastern, sternutators, strangulates, substantiate, substantives, supernatants, superstation, sustentation, sustentative, tastefulness, ultimateness, unchastities, unrestraints, unsystematic. | |
+5 letters: attitudinises, counterblasts, counterstains, counterstates, disquantities, educationists, encrustations, fortunateness, guesstimating, instantaneous, instrumentals, menstruations, readjustments, resuscitating, resuscitation, sequestrating, sequestration, sternutations, stupefactions, subdebutantes, substantiated, substantiates, substantively, substantivize, superstations, sustentations, tactfulnesses, transvaluates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 75 74 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- ..- - -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01110101 01110100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a u t n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0075 0074 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5467878680718585 |
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