Definition of taut

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Taut (a.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

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Chub :: Chub (n.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc..
Wapp :: Wapp (n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.
Timenoguy :: Timenoguy (n.) A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
Tautology :: Tautology (n.) A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison..
Tautomeric :: Tautomeric (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, tautomerism..
Tautologize :: Tautologize (v. i.) To repeat the same thing in different words.
Tautological :: Tautological (a.) Involving tautology; having the same signification; as, tautological expression..
Toght :: Toght (a.) Taut.
Tautegorical :: Tautegorical (a.) Expressing the same thing with different words; -- opposed to allegorical.
Identical :: Identical (a.) Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological..
Taught :: Taught (a.) See Taut.
Tautomerism :: Tautomerism (n.) The condition, quality, or relation of metameric substances, or their respective derivatives, which are more or less interchangeable, according as one form or the other is the more stable. It is a special case of metamerism; thus, the lactam and the lactim compounds exhibit tautomerism..
Tort :: Tort (a.) Stretched tight; taut.
Tautoousious :: Tautoousious (a.) Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature.
Tautologist :: Tautologist (n.) One who uses tautological words or phrases.
Tetaug :: Tetaug (n.) See Tautog.
Tautoousian :: Tautoousian (a.) Alt. of Tautoousiou.
Tautologous :: Tautologous (a.) Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological.
Tautophonical :: Tautophonical (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound..
Blackfish :: Blackfish (n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
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