TAUTEN

tauten, firm

(verb) make taut or tauter; “tauten a rope”

tauten, firm

(verb) become taut or tauter; “Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly”; “the rope tautened”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

tauten (third-person singular simple present tautens, present participle tautening, simple past and past participle tautened)

(transitive) To make taut; to taut.

(ergative) To become taut.

Anagrams

• attune, nutate

Source: Wiktionary



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23 November 2024

THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.

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