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Meaning of "tautly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAUTLY

tautly  [ˈtɔːtlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAUTLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tautly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES TAUTLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tautly in the English dictionary

The first definition of tautly in the dictionary is in a way that is tightly stretched; tensely. Other definition of tautly is in a way that shows someone is very lean with firm muscles. Tautly is also in a way that shows nervous strain or stressed.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAUTLY


absolutely
ˌæbsəˈluːtlɪ
astutely
əˈstjuːtlɪ
completely
kəmˈpliːtlɪ
courtly
ˈkɔːtlɪ
discreetly
dɪˈskriːtlɪ
distraughtly
dɪˈstrɔːtlɪ
expertly
ˈɛkspɜːtlɪ
Hartley
ˈhɑːtlɪ
heartly
ˈhɑːtlɪ
incompletely
ˌɪnkəmˈpliːtlɪ
minutely
maɪˈnjuːtlɪ
neatly
ˈniːtlɪ
overtly
əʊˈvɜːtlɪ
partly
ˈpɑːtlɪ
portly
ˈpɔːtlɪ
shortly
ˈʃɔːtlɪ
smartly
ˈsmɑːtlɪ
sweetly
ˈswiːtlɪ
thwartly
ˈθwɔːtlɪ
uncourtly
ʌnˈkɔːtlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAUTLY

taut
tauten
tautness
tautochrone
tautochronism
tautochronous
tautog
tautologic
tautological
tautologically
tautologies
tautologise
tautologism
tautologist
tautologize
tautologous
tautologously
tautology
tautomer
tautomeric

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAUTLY

apparently
constantly
correctly
currently
devoutly
directly
exactly
frequently
greatly
honestly
independently
instantly
mostly
perfectly
recently
roundaboutly
significantly
slightly
stoutly
strictly

Synonyms and antonyms of tautly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tautly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAUTLY

Find out the translation of tautly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tautly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tautly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拉紧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tensamente
570 millions of speakers

English

tautly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tautly
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بانشداد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

туго
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tautly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tautly
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tendu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tautly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

straff
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ぴんと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

긴장하여
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tautly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tautly
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tautly
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तुटकपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tautly
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

teso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozciągniętej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

туго
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

întinsă de-a
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τεντωμένη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

strak
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sträckt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spennes
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tautly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTLY»

The term «tautly» is regularly used and occupies the 95.688 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTLY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tautly

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTLY»

Discover the use of tautly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tautly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the ...
The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to the legend of Custer's Last Stand.
Nathaniel Philbrick, 2010
2
Tight and Taut Submanifolds
The three-torus can be tautly embedded with codimension one as a tube in R4 around a torus of revolution T2 C R3 Cl4, and with codimension 2 as T2 x S1 CM5. One can tautly embed S1 x S2 with codimension 1 as a cyclide of Dupin ( see ...
Thomas E. Cecil, Shiing-shen Chern, Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper, 1997
3
Thesaurus of Claim Construction
7,013,284 (705/9) Claim: 1 Filed: 1999. Accenture Global Services GmbH et al v. Guidewire Software 07-00826 (D. De. March 5, 2010) Stage: Claim Construction. ReEx: 90/010,201, 90/010,713. Tautly holding The term “tautly holding” ...
Robert C. Kahrl, Stuart B. Soffer, Stuart Soffer, 2010
4
Handbook of Differential Geometry
T. Ozawa [1986] showed that the codimension of a taut substantial embedding of the product of two spheres, Sp X Sq, p < q, is either 1 or q — p + 1, and that a connected sum of such products of two spheres cannot be tautly embedded into ...
F.J.E. Dillen, L.C.A. Verstraelen, 1999
5
The Federal Reporter: With Key-number Annotations ...
It had apparently never been conceived of by Brown or any one else that, by tautly stretching a wire horizontally, a car or carrier 'rigidly attached below the way to wheel hangers having grooved wheels, placed, one behind the other, on the ...
Robert Desty, United States. Court of Claims, James Wells Goodwin, 1900
6
Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of ...
Accordingly, we need to tweak the sentence to clear up that ambiguity, and we do it this way: “A large hand grabbed my hair, sharply forcing my head back, jarring my neck, tautly stretching my muscles.” Or even better because it picks up and ...
Brooks Landon, 2013
7
4-manifolds and Kirby Calculus
We call a configuration Cp ⊂ X tautly embedded if for each basic class K we have K(s i )=0(i = 2,... ,p − 1) and |K(s1)| ≤ p. Exercises 8.5.17. (a) Check that a section of E(4) gives a tautly embedded copy of C2 ⊂ E(4). More generally, show that ...
Robert E. Gompf, András Stipsicz, 1999
8
Gauge Theory and the Topology of Four-Manifolds
This was the situation in the previous section where we studied log transforms. In this section, we assume that we are not in the special case. We say that a configuration is tautly embedded if (15) is satisfied for each Ui of the configuration and ...
Robert Friedman, John W. Morgan
9
Savage Betrayal
But, let's face it, people in glass houses should not throw stones,' he muttered tautly, and looked at her, a dark tide of colour drenching his hard cheekbones. ' When I finally found you again I too behaved in an indefensible manner. I was so  ...
Lynne Graham, 2011
10
Double Indemnity
First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir. From the Trade Paperback edition.
James M. Cain, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAUTLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tautly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
AD's Aesthete Discovers a Perfect Multi-Season Room
... banquette, the last two tautly dressed in orange Venetian sailcloth—a trend of the early and mid-20th century that really should come back into favor. A bit of ... «Architectural Digest, Jul 15»
2
The Earworms Playlist: 7 new tracks we can't stop listening to
Where most of that genre deals in tautly regimented rhythms, Ought's wonky music seems to meander with no discernible purpose. In the best possible way. «WOW24/7, Jul 15»
3
Ballet Folklórico de México review – Riverdance's fuschia-coloured …
... the energy high, both in show-off solo turns and in the ensemble numbers, with close and high male-voice harmonies, insistent horns and tautly strung guitars, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
4
Loz Speyer review – genre-bending trumpeter deserves a bigger …
The bright brass-and-reeds hook of Stratosphere released supple, Ornette Coleman-inflected alto-sax variations from Hathaway, and a tautly logical Speyer ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Joanne Froggatt to star in new ITV drama Dark Angel
The combination of a tautly written script, an outstanding cast and great producers in World Productions make this a really exciting addition to the ITV drama ... «ITV News, Jun 15»
6
Remembrance of Things Lost
My parents never shot home movies and they took family photos only rarely, on ceremonial occasions when everyone was compelled to smile tautly and mask ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
7
'Ida' Wins Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
The tautly made "Ida," a period film that plunges into a dark chapter of Polish history of German occupation during World War II via a young nun who discovers ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
8
Bernice Gordon, doyenne of the crossword puzzle, dies at 101
Bernice Gordon, a doyenne of the crossword whose tautly constructed puzzles appeared for six decades in newspapers across and down the United States, ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
9
A glimpse of the legacy
Noted Telugu scholar and translator R. Shanta Sundri translated 23 tautly-crafted Telugu short stories. Titled “Jharoka” (Glimpse), the stories seem a perfect ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
10
Film Review: Ex_Machina
Ex_Machina is a tautly wound, understated, minimalist psychological sci-fi thriller with a third act so gripping the audience won't know what to believe and ... «DIY Magazine, Jan 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tautly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tautly>. May 2024 ».
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