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Meanings of tightness in English
Portuguese
parcimónia Catalan
mesquinesa Extreme stinginess.
The spatial property of being crowded together.
Synonyms
Examples for "tautness"
Examples for "tautness"
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.
Usage of tightness in English
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.
6
These containers were nothing like true barrels for strength, water-tightness, or cost.
7
Philadelphia point guard Ben Simmons missed the game due to back tightness.
8
In the past when Shorts has experienced tightness, he has missed time.
9
Millsap missed his third game in a row with left knee tightness.
10
Rewatching it recently, I was surprised by the tightness of its construction.
11
He felt that familiar tightness in his chest again at the thought.
12
Arkoniel inhaled deeply, trying to ease the growing tightness in his chest.
13
India is experiencing a bout of cash tightness that started in mid-November.
14
He was very hoarse, and complained of a tightness in his chest.
15
He knew that, but he couldn't help the tightness in his chest.
16
They relieved the tightness of my heart, the band across my brain.
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Translations for tightness
Tightness through the time
Tightness across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common