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soft
English
Etymology
From Middle English softe, from Old English s?fte, alteration of earlier s?fte (“soft”), from Proto-West Germanic *samft? (“level, even, smooth, soft, gentle”) (compare *s?miz (“agreeable, fitting”)), from Proto-Indo-European *semptio-, *semtio-, from *sem- (“one, whole”). Cognate with West Frisian sêft (“gentle; soft”), Dutch zacht (“soft”), German Low German sacht (“soft”), German sanft (“soft, yielding”), Old Norse sœmr (“agreeable, fitting”), samr (“same”). More at seem, same.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?ft, IPA(key): /s?ft/
- (Conservative RP) IPA(key): /s??ft/
- (General American) enPR: sôft, IPA(key): /s?ft/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /s?ft/, enPR: s?ft
- Rhymes: -?ft
Adjective
soft (comparative softer, superlative softest)
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- (of cloth or similar material) Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- (of a sound) Quiet.
- Gentle.
- There was a soft breeze blowing.
- c. 1533, William Tyndale, An exposicion upon of Mathew
- The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, To a Highland Girl
- A face with gladness overspread, / Soft smiles, by human kindness bred.
- 1815, William Wordsworth, To a Highland Girl
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica
- The deceiver soon found this soft place of Adam's.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
- Not bright or intense.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- (linguistics) Voiced; sonant.
- 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- DH represents the voiced (soft) th of English these clothes.
- 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
- (linguistics, rare) voiceless
- (linguistics, Slavic languages) palatalized
- (slang) Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- (of water) Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- (Britain, colloquial) Foolish.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
- He made soft fellows stark noddies, and such as were foolish quite mad.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
- (physics) Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- (of a person) Physically or emotionally weak.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- (Britain, of a man) Effeminate.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- 1673, Edward Browne, A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria, Styria, Bulgaria, Thessaly, Austria, Serbia, Carynthia, Carniola, and Friuli
- The sun, shining upon the upper part of the clouds […] made the softest lights imaginable.
- 1673, Edward Browne, A Brief Account of some Travels in Hungaria, Styria, Bulgaria, Thessaly, Austria, Serbia, Carynthia, Carniola, and Friuli
- (photography, of light) Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- (computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
- (of a drug) Not likely to cause addiction.
Synonyms
- (giving way under pressure): see Thesaurus:soft
- (of a cloth): non-abrasive, fluffy
- (gentle): gentle, light, nesh
- (of a sound): quiet
- (lacking strength or resolve): meek, mild, wimpy, nesh
- (foolish): daft, foolish, silly, stupid
Antonyms
- (giving way under pressure): hard, resistant, solid, stony
- (of a cloth): abrasive, scratchy
- (gentle): harsh, rough, strong
- (acute): hard
- (of a sound): loud
- (lacking strength or resolve): firm, strict, tough
- (of water): hard
- (foolish): sensible
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mollify
Interjection
soft
- (archaic) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
Adverb
soft (comparative more soft, superlative most soft)
- (obsolete) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Noun
soft (plural softs)
- A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede Part I, Chapter 9
- It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch.
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede Part I, Chapter 9
- (motorsports) Ellipsis of soft tyre (A tyre whose compound is softer than mediums, and harder than supersofts.)
- (colloquial) A soft sound or part of a sound.
- 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro (page 103)
- The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]
- 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro (page 103)
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English soft(ware).
Noun
soft m
- (colloquial) software, program
- 18 March 1999, CD-R 74min X 80min, Group cz.comp.ibmpc:
- Zajimalo by mne, zda jsou tyto CD schopna pracovat na plnou kapacitu s normalnimi vypalovackami a beznym softem nebo je na ne potreba mit extra vypalovadlo i soft?
- 19 March 2009, Zalohovaci SW, Group cz.talk:
- Pokud t?ch dat máte víc, pak tím TARem sta?í zálohovat základ systému a zbytek ?ešit zálohovacím softem, kterej umí d?lit archiv na n?kolik pásek.
- 2 April 2010, gsm modul / telefon, Group cz.comp.linux:
- ma nekdo nejake zkusenosti s takovym zarizenim ci softem kterym to ovladat?
- 18 March 1999, CD-R 74min X 80min, Group cz.comp.ibmpc:
Declension
Further reading
- soft in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
- soft in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English soft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?ft/
Noun
soft m (plural softs)
- (sexuality) soft porn
- (computing, uncountable) Software.
- (computing, countable) A piece of software.
Adjective
soft (plural softs)
- softcore (pornography)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English soft.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?ft/
Adjective
soft (invariable)
- soft (tone etc; temporary (computing))
References
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English soft(ware).
Noun
soft m inan
- (colloquial) software, program
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tame
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?m, IPA(key): /te?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
- Homophone: Thame
Etymology 1
From Middle English tame, tome, weak inflection forms of Middle English tam, tom, from Old English tam, tom (“domesticated, tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tam (“tame”), from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“brought into the home, tame”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh?- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognate with Scots tam, tame (“tame”), Saterland Frisian tom (“tame”), West Frisian tam (“tame”), Dutch tam (“tame”), Low German Low German tamm, tahm (“tame”), German zahm (“tame”), Swedish tam (“tame”), Icelandic tamur (“tame”).
The verb is from Middle English tamen, temen, temien, from Old English temian (“to tame”), from Proto-West Germanic *tammjan, from Proto-Germanic *tamjan? (“to tame”).
Adjective
tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)
- Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
- Antonym: wild
- (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
- Synonym: gentle
- (figuratively) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
- Not exciting.
- Synonyms: dull, flat, insipid, unexciting
- Antonym: exciting
- Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
- a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Paraphrase on the 148th Psalm
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
- a. 1685, Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Paraphrase on the 148th Psalm
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Antonym: wild
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:tame.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
- (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
- (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
- Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
- 2006, Gayle Soucek, Doves (page 78)
- (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
- to tame a rebellion
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- tame on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English tamen (“to cut into, broach”). Compare French entamer.
Verb
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
- 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State
Anagrams
- AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Team, Tema, mate, maté, meat, meta, meta-, team
Inari Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *?ëm?.
Noun
ta?e
- glue
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Japanese
Romanization
tame
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English tam, tom, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (“tame”).
Adjective
tame
- (of animals) tame, domesticated
- (of plants) cultivated, domesticated
- overcome, subdued
- (of people) meek, compliant
- (anatomy, medicine, of a fistula) inner, interior
Alternative forms
- tam; tom, tome (early Southwest and Southwest Midlands)
Descendants
- English: tame
- Scots: tame
References
- “t?me, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Verb
tame (third-person singular simple present tameth, present participle tamynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tamed)
- Alternative form of tamen (“to cut, carve”)
Etymology 3
Noun
tame (uncountable)
- (Northern) Alternative form of tome (“freetime”)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
tame
- (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of tam
- (non-standard since 2012) plural of tam
Swedish
Adjective
tame
- absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.
Anagrams
- meta, team, tema
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