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I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.
Giles Andreae

Meaning of "tautness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAUTNESS

tautness  [ˈtɔːtnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAUTNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tautness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TAUTNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tautness in the English dictionary

The first definition of tautness in the dictionary is the fact or quality of being tightly stretched; tension. Other definition of tautness is the fact or quality of being very lean with firm muscles. Tautness is also the fact or quality of being showing nervous strain; stress.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TAUTNESS


acuteness
əˈkjuːtnɪs
alertness
əˈlɜːtnɪs
astuteness
əˈstjuːtnɪs
brightness
ˈbraɪtnɪs
completeness
kəmˈpliːtnɪs
curtness
ˈkɜːtnɪs
discreteness
dɪsˈkriːtnɪs
effeteness
ɪˈfiːtnɪs
expertness
ˈɛkspɜːtnɪs
fitness
ˈfɪtnɪs
hotness
ˈhɒtnɪs
incompleteness
ˌɪnkəmˈpliːtnɪs
irresoluteness
ɪˈrɛzəluːtnɪs
neatness
ˈniːtnɪs
pertness
ˈpɜːtnɪs
resoluteness
ˈrɛzəluːtnɪs
shortness
ˈʃɔːtnɪs
smartness
ˈsmɑːtnɪs
tartness
ˈtɑːtnɪs
witness
ˈwɪtnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAUTNESS

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAUTNESS

adeptness
aptness
aquafitness
bluntness
business
compactness
correctness
expert witness
eyewitness
flatness
lightness
physical fitness
pleasantness
political correctness
promptness
robustness
softness
sweetness
tightness
vastness
wetness

Synonyms and antonyms of tautness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tautness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAUTNESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

绷紧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tirantez
570 millions of speakers

English

tautness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ताना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الإنشداد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

упругость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tautness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tautness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tension
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketenangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spannung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

張り
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

팽팽함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tautness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tautness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tautness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दळणवळण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tautness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tautness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ciągnięcie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пружність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tautness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tautness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tautness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tautness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tautness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tautness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTNESS»

The term «tautness» is regularly used and occupies the 101.226 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAUTNESS» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «TAUTNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tautness.
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Giles Andreae
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAUTNESS»

Discover the use of tautness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tautness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The determination of sag and tension in transmission line ...
to the total load, let this ratio be designated by / and oalled the "Tautness" of the wire. m«„+«M- i T\ - T _ Vertex tension Tautness ( f ) » * Total load "Taut" is the nautioal term for drawn tight. "Tautness" seems an appropriate name for this ratio,  ...
Kuo Tsun Long, Pao Kien Swan, 1914
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Lie Sphere Geometry: With Applications to Submanifolds
In this section, we prove that tautness is invariant under Lie sphere transformations. A proof of this result was first given in [37]. However, the proof that we give here is due to Álvarez Paiva [2], who used functions whose level sets form a ...
Thomas E. Cecil, 2008
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Tight and Taut Submanifolds
Thus, as long as f(M) lies in the appropriate space and the image Tf(M) is an immersed hypersurface, tautness is preserved. However, for certain values of t, a parallel hypersurface ft contains focal points of the original hypersurface / ...
Thomas E. Cecil, Shiing-shen Chern, Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper, 1997
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Aerial Age Weekly
Bearing on this property several new words, such as "tauten," tautness," and " tautometer," not appearing, I believe, in any standard dictionary, have had to be coined, but they have the advantage of being readily understandable. The power of ...
‎1919
5
Air Service Information Circular
As each series was completed, each panel was tested, face and back, to determine (a) the tautness of the covering, (b) the tensile strength, (0) the tearing resistance, (d) a visual and manual inspection of the condition of the covering. ' pxwfim ...
‎1921
6
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3: Affirmations ...
Tautness of feeling, not "depth," characterizes what is strongest in post-Cubist art. The taking up of slack, the flattening out of convexities and concavities — the ambitious contemporary artist presents, supposedly, only that which he can vouch ...
Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian, 1995
7
Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships Between ...
Tautness. of. Entanglements. Earlier in this chapter I referred to Darwin's entangled bank. So what is the difference between the use of the term entanglement in this book and the use of the term to refer to ecological symbiosis and mutual or ...
Ian Hodder, 2012
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Faulty Foundations: Soviet Economic Policies, 1928-1940
It follows that an optimal degree of arnbitiousness, of tautness, lies somewhere between points C and E. At C the tautness curve is upward sloping, and a higher targeted growth rate can be expected to yield a higher actual growth rate. At E the  ...
Holland Hunter, Janusz M. Szyrmer, 2014
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Handbook of Finite State Based Models and Applications
Tautness Functions A policy has a condition delimiting a region where a given event can or cannot lay in. When such an event is inside two or more overlapping regions, what is called a “modality” conflict may arise. We are concerned about ...
Jiacun Wang, 2012
10
Differentiable and Complex Dynamics of Several Variables
According to [272], Loo-tautness is called tautness and Lo-tautness is called tightness. Obviously, if M is Lp-taut, then M is Lp-tight. What about converse? 5.5 Relations between hyperbolicity and tautness Lemma 5.13 ([138]) Let 5.4.
Pei-Chu Hu, Chung-Chun Yang, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAUTNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tautness is used in the context of the following news items.
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New Gear VR Title 'Solitaire Jester' Is Beautiful and Engaging and It …
In the end, I really enjoyed Solitaire Jester, despite the tautness of the muscles holding up my brain case—sublimated by the added fact that the game is free ... «Road to VR, Jul 15»
2
Marion Cotillard Didn't Wear a Naked Dress to Leo's Gala
As models are wont to do around DiCaprio, they wore all manner of semi-sheer sexy gowns that left no doubts as to the legginess of their legs or the tautness of ... «Fashionista, Jul 15»
3
After glow: The best after-sun products
Limbs will be left with a subtle, non-sticky sheen while any tautness caused by the elements – or hotel air conditioning – will be banished. It's truly divine. «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
Why Sit-Ups Don't Work
... day - if they're not combined with the correct diet and combination of other exercises, they will have little to no effect on the tautness of our tummies. Shocked? «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
5
LETTER: Haley bowed to public pressure on flag removal
So, it cannot be taken as a political advantage or one seen to be a viaduct to cultural tautness over the years. Gov. Haley's firebrand shake-up may have fizzled ... «Cheraw Chronicle, Jul 15»
6
Röschmann and Uchida make simpatico partners in heartfelt night of …
The power of this voice is in its weight, its strong spine, and in its thrilling tautness. There is also a warm glow in it, like light shone through amber. «New York Classical Review, Apr 15»
7
LNG Markets Analysis: Asian LNG Price Rally Stalls Despite Plant …
Plant outages in the Middle East and Pacific basin failed to re-inject tautness into an abundantly supplied market as March's rally in LNG spot prices collapsed in ... «PR Newswire, Apr 15»
8
It's Hard to Lift Wages if the Fed Doesn't Make It a Priority
There are too many other factors driving wages, she argues, making their growth an unreliable benchmark of job market tautness. She cited productivity growth; ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
9
The Vinyl Voyager: "In the Court" with King Crimson's debut …
Smashing together a torrential downpour of instrumentation with impeccable structure and tautness, the album opener is the perfect precursor for the aural ... «The State Press, Feb 15»
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Lonnae O'Neal: What should happen after the Cindy Crawford photo …
The smooth tautness of youth has been replaced. She is still fit, but her skin tells stories of time and children across the length of her form. “It is real, it is honest, ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»

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