tame
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English tam
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tame (comparative tamer, superlative tamest)
- Not or no longer wild; domesticated
- They have a tame wildcat.
- (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
- The lion was quite tame.
- Not exciting
- This party is too tame for me.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Quotations[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not wild
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Verb[edit]
tame (third-person singular simple present tames, present participle taming, simple past and past participle tamed)
- (transitive) to make something tame
- He tamed the wild horse.
- (intransitive) to become tame
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to make something tame
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to become tame
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Inari Sami[edit]
Noun[edit]
tame
Swedish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tame
- absolute definite natural masculine form of tam.