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Definition: Tights |
TightsNoun1. Skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls. 2. Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tights" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of renaissances, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Industry | Designed to cover the feet and legs (hose) and the lower part of the body up to the waist (panty). Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hosiery describes undergarments worn directly on the feet and legs.Types of hosiery:
See also:
- Socks
- Stockings
- Tights
- Pantyhose
External links:
- Leggings
- History of hosiery
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hosiery."
Synonyms: TightsSynonyms: hose (n), leotards (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: tightest (industry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Pants, trousers, trowsers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls, smalls, small clothes; shintiyan; shorts, jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables; knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg, fillibeg; pants suit; culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tights |
| English words defined with "tights": Fleshings ♦ hose, hosiery ♦ maillot ♦ pantyhose. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tights": Acrobat ♦ Belvawney ♦ FLORADORA ♦ REDYE HAND. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Give me tiaras and boys in tights any day. (Center Stage; writing credit: Carol Heikkinen) I don't see Angel putting on tights. Oh, now I do and it's really disturbing (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) Would it kill him to put on some tights and a cape and garner us a little free publicity (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) Well, as soon as I catch you in a pair of tights, I'll get worried (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heller in Pink Tights (1960) Mother Wore Tights (1947) Arabian Tights (1933) A Pair of Tights (1929) Pink Tights (1920) | |
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| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Three women in tights and feathers. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Woman wearing brief costume, blue tights, pink cape with feathers in her hair. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Contortionist in tuxedo jacket, top hat, and tights performing surrounded by other performing contortionists. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They have red tights which wrinkle, and you can see their elbows darned with white thread |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Colombia | Also included are women and girls' lingerie including pantyhose, tights, stockings, hosiery, brassieres and panties. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | Labels for pants, skirts, pajamas, shorts, tights, or half-slips, must be affixed at any appropriate place, such as the inside waistband or inner facing of the ply. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tights" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.02% of the time. "Tights" is used about 315 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 (plural) | 93.02% | 293 | 16,984 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.4% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.59% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 315 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tights | 1,094 | opaque tights | 26 |
teen tights | 230 | infant tights | 25 |
girl tights | 158 | pic tights | 22 |
robin hood man in tights | 124 | woman tights | 21 |
man in tights | 85 | shiny tights | 20 |
boy tights | 76 | riding tights | 20 |
dance tights | 69 | sexy tights | 20 |
man tights | 68 | picture tights | 19 |
in tights woman | 54 | body tights | 18 |
ballet tights | 42 | lycra tights | 18 |
pantie hose tights | 42 | gallery tights | 18 |
white tights | 42 | running tights | 17 |
girl in tights | 37 | wrestling tights | 16 |
boy in tights | 36 | man tights wearing | 16 |
child dance tights | 34 | wool tights | 16 |
tights fetish | 32 | kid tights | 15 |
black tights | 30 | danskin tights | 15 |
child tights | 29 | fashion tights | 14 |
fishnet tights | 29 | pink tights | 14 |
spandex tights | 28 | dvd hood in man robin tights | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tights"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | triko (cardigan, Jersey, maillot, tricot, woolly), çorape (hose, hosiery, socks, stocking). (various references) | |
Arabic | لباس ضيق (skimpy), الدراءات المحكمة, ثوب مشدود لراقص الباليه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чоропогащи. (various references) | |
Chinese | 贴身衬衣. (various references) | |
Czech | trikot (Jersey, shirt), punèocháèe (pantyhose), šponovky. (various references) | |
Danish | stroempebukser (panty-hose). (various references) | |
Dutch | panty (panty-hose), kousbroek (panty-hose). (various references) | |
Finnish | trikoot (leotards), sukkahousut (panti-hose). (various references) | |
French | collants. (various references) | |
German | Strumpfhose (panty hose), Trikot (Jersey, leotard, shirt, singlet, tricot). (various references) | |
Greek | κολάν (leggings). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכ סי 'וף, 'מישו ים, 'רביו ים (pantihose). (various references) | |
Hungarian | harisnyanadrág (nylons, panty hose, pantyhose). (various references) | |
Italian | calzamaglia (leotard). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | タイアップ番組 (error which directly allows a run to score, four-in-hand, good hitting in which a run is scored, RBI, RBI hit, run-batted-in, run-batted-in hit, style, tidal, tie game, tie-up program, tight, tile, time, time clock, time is up, time machine, time-card, timely, timeout, timer, times, time-sheet, time-shift, time-stamp, timing, tire, title, title background, title-region, type, typewriter, typhoon, typing, typist, typography, tyre, video titler). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | タイツ . (various references) | |
Manx | troosyn (knickers, pants, slacks, trews, trouser), oashyryn bouinagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | traje justo de malha (maillot), meia-cueca (panty-hose), calças justas (maillot), "collants" (panty-hose). (various references) | |
Romanian | tricou (stockinet), costum de balerin. (various references) | |
Russian | трико (body stocking, bodysuit, leotard, maillot, tricot, tricots). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hula-hopke (leotard). (various references) | |
Spanish | mallas (netting). (various references) | |
Swedish | trikåer (leotard). (various references) | |
Turkish | tayt, kilotlu çorap. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | трико (tricot), колготки (bodystocking). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tights": sticktights. (additional references) | |
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"Tights" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hights, teaght, teight, thight, thights, tigh, Tighes, tigit, tigot, tigth, Tiphys, tites, tochts, wights. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tights" (pronounced tī"ts) |
| 3 | -ī" t s | bites, bytes, cites, delights, excites, fights, flights, heights, ignites, incites, invites, kites, knights, lights, mites, nights, nonwhites, recites, reunites, rewrites, rights, rites, sights, sites, slights, Stylites, unites, whites, Wrights, writes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: sight, tight. | |
-2 letters: ghis, gist, gits, hist, hits, sigh, sith, this. | |
-3 letters: ghi, git, his, hit, its, sit, tis. | |
-4 letters: hi, is, it, sh, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: gastight, gothites, lightest, outsight, rightest, rightist, shotting, shutting, straight, tightens, tightest, tithings, tonights. | |
+3 letters: brightest, catfights, fistfight, ghostiest, gnathites, goethites, lightfast, mightiest, mistaught, nightspot, outfights, outsights, rightists, rightmost, shuttling, skintight, slightest, spaghetti, spotlight, starlight, stitching, stithying, stoplight, straights, teethings, theurgist, thirsting, thrusting, tightness, tightwads, trithings, twilights. | |
+4 letters: distraught, doughtiest, eightieths, ethologist, fistfights, flightiest, footlights, fortnights, gastrolith, ghastliest, ghettoizes, ghostliest, ghostwrite, growthiest, haughtiest, hesitating, lengthiest, misthought, naughtiest, nightshirt, nightspots, nightstand, nightstick, nighttimes, postflight, retightens, shattering, shuttering, sightliest, spaghettis, spotlights, starlights, sticktight, stoplights, straighted, straighten, straighter, straightly, stretching, stringhalt, supertight, taillights, theurgists, tighteners, tightropes, tightwires, weightiest, whittlings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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