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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger

Meaning of "tightly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TIGHTLY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIGHTLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tightly 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 TIGHTLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Definition of tightly in the English dictionary

The first definition of tightly in the dictionary is in a manner that is stretched or drawn so as not to be loose; tautly. Other definition of tightly is in a manner that holds a person or thing firmly or securely. Tightly is also in a manner that is wrapped or fastened around something firmly or securely.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TIGHTLY


bipartitely
ˌbaɪˈpɑːtaɪtlɪ
brightly
ˈbraɪtlɪ
finitely
ˈfaɪnaɪtlɪ
forthrightly
ˈfɔːθˌraɪtlɪ
fortnightly
ˈfɔːtˌnaɪtlɪ
impolitely
ˌɪmpəˈlaɪtlɪ
knightly
ˈnaɪtlɪ
lightly
ˈlaɪtlɪ
nightly
ˈnaɪtlɪ
politely
pəˈlaɪtlɪ
rightly
ˈraɪtlɪ
sightly
ˈsaɪtlɪ
slightly
ˈslaɪtlɪ
sprightly
ˈspraɪtlɪ
titely
ˈtaɪtlɪ
tripartitely
traɪˈpɑːtaɪtlɪ
unsightly
ʌnˈsaɪtlɪ
uprightly
ˈʌpˌraɪtlɪ
Whiteley
ˈwaɪtlɪ
whitely
ˈwaɪtlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIGHTLY

tight-lipped
tight-rope walking
tightass
tightassed
tighten
tighten one´s belt
tightener
tightening
tightfisted
tightfistedness
tightish
tightishly
tightknit
tightness
tightrope
tightrope walker
tightrope walking
tights
tightwad
tightwire

WORDS THAT END LIKE TIGHTLY

apparently
constantly
currently
directly
distraughtly
downrightly
exactly
frequently
honestly
lichtly
midnightly
mostly
perfectly
recently
significantly
straightly
to get off lightly
tread lightly
unknightly
wightly

Synonyms and antonyms of tightly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tightly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIGHTLY

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

Translator English - Chinese

紧紧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fuertemente
570 millions of speakers

English

tightly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कसकर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بإحكام
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плотно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

firmemente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আঁটসাঁটভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fermement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dicht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

しっかりと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단단히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tightly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chặt chẽ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறுக்கமாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घट्टपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıkıca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

strettamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dobrze
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

щільно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σφιχτά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

styf
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tätt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tett
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tightly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TIGHTLY»

The term «tightly» is very widely used and occupies the 14.036 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TIGHTLY» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «TIGHTLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tightly.
1
Saul Bellow
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
2
Peter L. Berger
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
3
Jello Biafra
You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise Soviet-style censorship through creative omission.
4
Mark Bittman
Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
5
Michael Bloomberg
I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
6
Harold Brodkey
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
7
Georg Buchner
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
8
Herb Caen
The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.
9
Jan Chipchase
Tokyo - still - offers the most tightly integrated infrastructure, where smooth, technology-driven experiences take place when engaging in everyday actions, such as verifying personal identity, paying for goods, and buying tickets.
10
Dorothy Denning
With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIGHTLY»

Discover the use of tightly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tightly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way: A Novel
Generous in spirit and laugh-out-loud funny, here is a novel that introduces a tremendous new talent and deftly captures the alternately amusing and harrowing process of holding on until you find your way.
Bryan Charles, 2011
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Efficient Execution of Tightly-coupled Parallel Applications ...
A desired outcome of this work is the capability of delivering application performance in a Grid environment that is on par with the performance within a single cluster while simultaneously requiring few or no modifications to application ...
Gregory Allen Koenig, 2007
3
Building Tightly Integrated Software Development ...
1.4. Tightly. Integrated. Tools. Are. Needed. for. Software. Development. Processes. The aim of this section is to motivate the external behavior of IPSEN tools presented to the user (see chapter 2). Thereby, we mainly concentrate on the ...
Manfred Nagl, 1996
4
Hold Me Tightly: Devotions on a Mother's Love
These devotions take an uplifting look at your relationships with your children to help you get a clear picture of your relationship with God.
Catherine Duerr, 1996
5
Applications of Tightly Focused Ultrafast Laser in the ...
Kevin Ke. 0 100 200 300 400 500 3 10 20 33 40 m 80 10 20 3D 40 50 60 Time ( rreec) taesr Energy (nJ> Laser Biagy (nJ) Figure 3.3. Low-energy femtosecond laser-induced bubble dynamics. Bubbles created by tightly focused, femtosecond  ...
Kevin Ke, 2008
6
Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies
tightly coupled than a university where it does not matter much when the science or math or language requirement is met. 3. In tightly coupled systems, not only are the specific sequences invariant, but the overall design of the process allows  ...
Charles Perrow, 1984
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The Knotty Truth: Managing Tightly Coiled Hair at Home
"The Knotty Truth" is an opportunity to embrace the physical and mental journey of going natural. It's about so much more than hair: this book gives a voice to women with extremely coiled hair.
Myra Michele George, Penda James, Grey Storme, 2009
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Progress In Astronautics and Aeronautics: Global Positioning ...
The uncoupled and loosely coupled integration modes are inferior (in performance) to a tightly coupled mode because information inherent in the sensor measurements is lost in the receivers mechanization of the PVT solution; i.e., it is not ...
Bradford W. Parkinson, James J. Spilker, 1996
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IT Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building ...
6.3.4 Loosely coupled versus tightly coupled The notion of “loosely coupled” distributed systems is very alluring, and the IT industry has become very excited by the prospect. In reality, though, there is a spectrum between total looseness and ...
Chris Britton, Peter Bye, 2004
10
Sensory Mechanisms in Bacteria: Molecular Aspects of Signal ...
The MH regions are tightly packed and the kinase control region is loosely packed. (C) In the presence of a HAMP domain (light grey rectangles) that is functionally uncoupled from the transmembrane and periplasmic domains, either because ...
Stephen Spiro, Ray Dixon, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIGHTLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tightly is used in the context of the following news items.
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Luck Favors the Blackhawks as Tightly Contested Cup Final Swings …
TAMPA, Fla. — At one end of the ice, Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford's attempt to play the puck nearly turned into a catastrophe. Facing token ... «Bleacher Report, Jun 15»
2
Polling industry must be more tightly regulated, say Labour peers
Ed Miliband after Labour's general election defeat which flew in the face of opinion pollsters' predictions. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
UMobile grads asked to hold 'tightly' to beliefs amidst changing …
University of Mobile President Dr. Mark Foley challenged graduates of the Christian university to hold tightly to what they believe amidst a changing American ... «AL.com, May 15»
4
Girl needs her finger amputated after using a PLASTER
A four-year-old girl needs her finger amputated after her grandmother wrapped a plaster so tightly around it she cut off the circulation. The entire tip of ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
5
Doctors amputate finger of Chinese girl, 4, after tightly wound plaster …
A four-year-old Chinese girl had to have part of one of her fingers amputated after a sticking plaster was wound too tightly to bind a wound, the Yangtse Evening ... «South China Morning Post, May 15»
6
campaigns have a whiff of Pyongyang
Meanwhile, David Cameron has also been shielded from the masses by his media minders, who have operated a tightly controlled campaign that appears to ... «Financial Times, Apr 15»
7
In tightly ruled Saudi, Yemen war is 'something good'
This is wartime in Saudi Arabia, a tightly controlled Islamic kingdom where almost every audible voice is behind the three-week-old air campaign against Shiite ... «Yahoo News, Apr 15»
8
Are airplanes too tightly packed for passenger safety?
Enlarge Image Request to buy this photo Chicago Tribune file photo Passengers attempt to load carry-on luggage into overhead bins on a Southwest flight at ... «Columbus Dispatch, Apr 15»
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Dog found tied tightly at the waist was abused, says St. Louis …
A knotted rope was tied so tightly that it cut into the dog's lower waist and genitals. “It had to be on there for a while to get to the point where we got him,” said ... «STLtoday.com, Mar 15»
10
'Information is Tightly Controlled Here in Longkou'
Li Shufen is a resident of Longkou city, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, who recently posted to the Twitter-like platform Sina Weibo an account of a ... «Radio Free Asia, Mar 15»

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