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Definition: Tauten |
TautenVerb1. 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: TautenSynonym: firm (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tauten |
| Specialty definitions using "tauten": doping. (references) |
| "Tauten" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Tauten" is used about 10 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tauten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tauten": tautened, tautening, tautens. (additional references) | |
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"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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: attune, nutate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-t-t-u" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-t-t-u" | |
+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. | |
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