tame
IPA: tˈeɪm
noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
- A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.
verb
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
adjective
- Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
- (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
- (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
- Not exciting.
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
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Examples of "tame" in Sentences
- The main point is to tame the mind.
- I thought my response was pretty tame.
- The battens will tame the luffing sails.
- Cows and dogs are tame under human beings.
- Tufted Coquettes are tame and approachable.
- I thought my response was plainspoken, but tame.
- It is the oldest ruined building in the Tame Valley.
- In the end it was English diplomacy that truly tamed the maharajas.
- The humans eventually managed to tame some of the dragons, and train them.
- "It all depends upon what you call tame, Mr. Bramshaw," was the somewhat sarcastic reply.
- At the farm in Middle Tennessee, they also had some chestnuts, which she called tame chestnuts.
- They have one small, ugly, yellow-coloured bull, which they call tame, and which the _mozos_ ride familiarly.
- Wild landscapes and wild weather, singly or together, create moments of great drama, exhilaration, liberation, even here in tame old Britain.
- Sonika Singh started making hand-painted sneakers as gifts for friends at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif., embellishing them with what she calls "tame graffiti."
- I love the over-the-top Beetlejuice-at-the-Ascot Gavotte statement gown (and hat!), and the ready-to-wear look, while relatively tame, is flattering, kicky, and still totally Mondo.
- Before long he had become what we call tame -- that is to say, his wings had been clipped; he was allowed out of his cage, because he could no longer fly away, and he sang when he was told, because he was whipped if he did not.
- In terms of the character of the master/journeyman/apprentice, what you get -- as a cost of removing writing from the hurly-burly world of rude market principles -- is a certain tame, politically correct liberalism (universally in effect throughout the American creative writing guild now), which makes appropriate, but extremely subdued, noises about political depredations.