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tams
English
Noun
tams
- plural of tam
Anagrams
- AMTs, ASTM, ATMs, MAST, MTAs, Mast, Mats, Stam, amts, mast, mast-, mats, stam
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?ms
Adjective
tams
- Partitive form of tam
Anagrams
- mast, stam
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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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