tuft
IPA: tˈʌft
noun
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
- (transitive) To form into tufts.
- (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
- (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.
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Examples of "tuft" in Sentences
- The gift was an unusual tufted bedspread.
- Tufted Coquettes are tame and approachable.
- The tail is haired and has a distinct tuft at the end.
- The 3 dimensional morphology of the tufts in human enamel.
- The cheeks were distinctly whiskered and the ears were tufted.
- There are tufts of hair at the base of the claws on the hindfoot.
- The head is shaved, except a straight tuft, which is allowed to grow.
- This little tuft, which is altogether white, is the Hyperborean Hills.
- Macoun's Shining Moss was a large bryophyte with long greenish brown tufts.
- The corona of a rotifer is composed of several ciliated tufts around the mouth.
- I remember seeing these as a little girl...oh and the tuft is the end of the little girl's ponytail I think
- Svelte beauties leaned into tufted leather upholstery rubbing tanned shoulders with paunchy men in tailored haberdashery.
- I didn't recognize him sitting in the choir stall at first; what caught my attention was his biretta's distinctive blue tuft, which is proper to the Institute.
- -- B. togeanensis Sody, 1949: the largest species, it has sparser, shorter body than B. babyrussa and, in contrast to B. celebensis, the tail tuft is well developed.
- When boys are first shaved generally in the second or third year, a tuft is left on the crown and another over the forehead; but this is not the fashion amongst adults.
- ABOUT five years ago, fome men working in a quarry of that kind of ftone which in this part of the country we call tuft ■ *, at about five or fix feet below the furfiice,, in a very Iblid part of the rock, met with feveral fragments of the horns and bones of one or different animals.