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Meanings of
tautness
in English
Portuguese
tensão
Catalan
tensió
Spanish
tensión
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The physical condition of being stretched or strained.
tension
tenseness
tensity
Portuguese
tensão
Catalan
tibantor
Spanish
tensión
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Lack of movement or room for movement.
tightness
looseness
Catalan
tibantor
Synonyms
Examples for "
tightness
"
tightness
Examples for "
tightness
"
1
Gasoline gained on regional supply
tightness
in the key East Coast market.
2
Improvements include full insulation, double glazing, improved
air
-
tightness
,
ventilation and new heating.
3
Lakers reserve guard Alex Caruso left the contest with right calf
tightness
.
4
There is no such sense of strain and
tightness
in the atmosphere.
5
He left the game early on Wednesday with
tightness
in his back.
Usage of
tautness
in English
1
Infinite
tautness
between sense and form, sign and substance, matter and spirit.
2
The
tautness
of our rope shows she must still be holding on.
3
It feels like he's reaching down through years to touch this
tautness
.
4
His shoulders had the
tautness
of someone who is angry or afraid.
5
Experience had drawn Annja's reflexes to hair-trigger
tautness
where her survival was concerned.
6
Billy examined the
tautness
of the tent ropes and the fixedness of stakes.
7
He gestured to a messenger, swallowed the
tautness
of his throat.
8
The flatness of belly, the
tautness
of muscles as she strains against the manacles.
9
Scott knew it was a hanging
tautness
in his stomach.
10
His entire body hungered for keen sensation, something exciting and violent to relieve the
tautness
.
11
But he felt a
tautness
across his face: as though someone was pressing on it.
12
The creature startled, a muscular
tautness
rippling through her.
13
These happy circumstances did not take away any
tautness
from the performance of Fabio Capello's side.
14
Something else was hidden among the wrinkles, adding further
tautness
to his closed eyelids-an uneasy hesitancy.
15
The provocative move only accentuated the length of her legs and the
tautness
of her body.
16
André's cheerfully chubby face showed a certain
tautness
.
Other examples for "tautness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
tautness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
feel the tautness
carry tautness
certain tautness
due tautness
eager tautness
More collocations
Translations for
tautness
Portuguese
tensão
Catalan
tensió
tibantor
Spanish
tensión
Tautness
through the time