Crossword clues for tame
tame
- Like petting-zoo animals
- Like petting zoo animals
- Like most pets
- Make the wild mild
- Make less wild
- Like pets
- Far from racy
- Like circus animals
- Hardly risque
- Get control of
- Gentle, as a horse
- Unlikely to excite
- Soothe, as a savage beast
- Rather dull
- Not wild at all
- Not very racy
- Not very edgy
- Not too exciting
- Not particularly exciting
- Not feisty
- Not at all wild
- Not apt to bite
- Meek and mild
- Manage, as unruly hair
- Like animals in a petting zoo
- Like a broken horse
- Kind of dull
- Hardly daring
- Far from edgy
- Doesn't support
- Do some circus work
- Change from wild to mild
- Broken, say
- Broken on the ranch
- Break, as a wild horse
- Unlikely to titillate
- Unlikely to claw or bite
- Unlikely to attack
- Unlike a mustang
- Teach, in a way
- Suitable for a petting zoo
- Submissive — pedestrian
- Serviceable but harmless
- Safe to pet, as an animal
- Responding to commands, say
- Ready for the circus
- Opposite of edgy
- Not wild, like an animal
- Not wild, as house pets
- Not the least bit scandalous
- Not that exciting
- Not spicy, so to speak
- Not risque at all
- Not needing to be broken
- Not exactly thrilling
- Not exactly exciting
- Not at all ferocious
- Make manageable
- Make jump through hoops, maybe
- Like the sexual references in PG-13 movies
- Like the rides in a kiddie park
- Like soft rock
- Like housepets
- Like ballad
- Like animals that aren't wild
- Like an obedient animal
- Like an animal that won't attack
- Like a gentle G-rated movie, say
- Like a broken bronc
- Like a "broken" horse
- Less than exciting
- Lacking in edge
- Journey "Can't ___ the Lion"
- Having hardly any spice
- Hardly thrill-filled
- Hardly envelope-pushing
- Hardly controversial
- Hardly boundary-pushing
- Hardly a threat
- Gentle, as zoo animals
- Gentle Pixies song?
- Far from titillating
- Far from feisty
- Far from daring
- Far from controversial
- Docile, as a circus lion
- Docile in disposition
- Crack the whip
- Busted, like a bronco
- Broken, as a wild bronco
- Broken on a ranch
- Broken by a dude
- Break, so to speak
- Break, as a beast
- Break from the wild side?
- Blandly uncontroversial
- ___ Impala
- Housebroken
- Gentle, as petting-zoo animals
- Hardly boisterous
- Break, in a way
- Hardly racy
- Watered down
- Busted, as a horse
- Mild, not wild
- Subdued Pixies song?
- Domesticated — dull
- Unracy
- Docile, like a house pet
- Unexciting
- Unlikely to bite, like a pet dog
- Crack the whip at, maybe
- Like kiddie rides
- Lacking thrills
- Broken, in a way
- Far from risquГ©
- Bring under control, like an animal
- Easily calmed
- Break, as a horse
- Not electric
- Easy to manage
- Crack the whip at, perhaps
- Barely risquГ©
- Not exciting
- No longer wild, like a horse
- Lacking spice
- Not feral
- Rein in
- Make gentle
- Wild's opposite
- Spiritless
- Sans spice
- Get under control
- PG-rated
- Broken, as a bronco
- Civilize
- See 58-Across
- Zestless
- What Petruchio's Kate became
- Milky
- Emulate Clyde Beatty
- Make less feral
- Bring to heel
- Far from feral
- Hardly feisty
- Not racy
- Unresisting
- Friendly to humans
- Make a beast behave
- Do some broncobusting
- Like a pussycat
- Bring to submission
- Flat
- Lacking zest
- Not tantamount to a catamount
- Tractable
- Break a bronco
- Insipid
- Emulate Petruchio
- Harness
- How Kate ended up
- Antonym of feral
- Dull, as a party
- Feral's opposite
- What Kate became
- Lacking excitement
- Gentle hint, a member assumes
- Cultivated part of flower, trimming both sides
- Submissive - pedestrian
- Not exciting; cooperative
- Far from risqué
- Broken in, as a horse
- Barely risqué
- Uninspiring team beaten
- Unexciting team lost
- Unexciting European, dull revolutionary
- Unexciting cinematography only partly rejected
- Under control
- Tone down
- Not wild, as a horse
- Hardly exciting
- Hardly heart-pounding
- Not so tough
- Unlikely to offend
- Far from exciting
- Not very exciting
- Not likely to bite
- Lacking in excitement
- No longer feral
- Far from shocking
- Broken to the saddle
- Easy to handle
- Make docile
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tame \Tame\, v. t. [Cf. F. entamer to cut into, to broach.] To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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.
--Fuller.
Tame \Tame\, a. [Compar. Tamer; superl. Tamest.] [AS. tam; akin to D. tam, G. zahm, OHG. zam, Dan. & Sw. tam, Icel. tamr, L. domare to tame, Gr. ?, Skr. dam to be tame, to tame, and perhaps to E. beteem. [root]6
Cf. Adamant, Diamond, Dame, Daunt, Indomitable.] 1. Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
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Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.
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Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
Syn: Gentle; mild; meek. See Gentle.
Tame \Tame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Taming.] [AS. tamian, temian, akin to D. tammen, temmen, G. z["a]hmen, OHG. zemmen, Icel. temja, Goth. gatamjan. See Tame, a.]
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To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
They had not been tamed into submission, but baited into savegeness and stubbornness.
--Macaulay. To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from tame (adj.), or altered by the form of the adjective from Old English temian "subdue, make tame," from Proto-Germanic *tamjan- (cognates: Old Norse temja, Old Frisian tema, Middle Dutch temmen, Old High German zemmen, German zähmen, Gothic tamjan). Related: Tamed; taming.
early Middle English tame "in a state of subjection, physically subdued, restrained in behavior" (c.1200); of animals "domesticated, reclaimed from wildness," also, of persons, "meek, gentle-natured, compliant, intent on homely or domestic activities" (mid-13c.), from oblique forms of Old English tom, tam "domesticated, docile," from Proto-Germanic *tamaz (cognates: Old Norse tamr, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch tam, Old High German zam, German zahm "tame," Gothic tamjan "to tame"), from PIE *deme- "to constrain, to force, to break (horses)" (cognates: Sanskrit damayati "tames;" Persian dam "a tame animal;" Greek daman "to tame, subdue," dmetos "tame;" Latin domare "to tame, subdue;" Old Irish damnaim "I tie up, fasten, I tame, subdue").\n
\nA possible ulterior connection is with PIE *dem- "house, household" (see domestic (adj.)). Meaning "spiritless, weak, dull, uninspiring, insipid" is recorded from c.1600. Related: Tamely; tameness.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 Not or no longer wild; domesticated 2 (context chiefly of animals English) mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact 3 Not exciting 4 Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 5 (context mathematics of a knot English) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. v
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1 (context transitive English) to make something #Adjective 2 (context intransitive English) to become #Adjective Etymology 2
vb. (context obsolete UK dialect English) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
WordNet
adj. flat and uninspiring
very restrained or quiet; "a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed" [ant: wild]
brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries" [syn: tamed] [ant: wild]
very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes [syn: meek]
v. correct by punishment or discipline [syn: chasten, subdue]
make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" [syn: tone down, moderate]
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise]
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim]
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [syn: domesticate]
Wikipedia
TAME or TAME EP Linea Aerea del Ecuador is an airline founded in 1962. TAME (pronounced "tah-may") is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ecuador. TAME headquarters are in Quito, Pichincha Province and the main hub is Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito. The airline was formed by the Air Force of Ecuador. In 2011, it became a commercial entity and now provides domestic, international and charter flights.
Tame is an analytic research tool for Twitter, developed in 2012 by Arno Dirlam (CTO), Frederik Fischer (CEO) and Torsten Müller (CCO).
Tame is a spin-off from Humboldt University of Berlin. The team of journalists and developers aimed to design a context search engine in real time for Twitter. It ranks the frequency of hashtags being used, users being mentioned and links being shared the most. Tame is mainly used by journalists (e.g. ZDF, ARD, Die Zeit), politicians, PR and marketing experts as well as NGOs.
Tame is located in Berlin and San Francisco.
Through crowdinvesting at Companisto, Tame was able to collect € 250.000 (ca. US $ 335.000) venture capital. It was Winner of the German Silicon Valley Accelerator 2013. Additionally, Tame gained further financing from “Pro FIT” program by Investitionsbank Berlin in six-figure amount in 2013. It was presented as a start-up at the German social media conference re:publica and at ARTE Future.
Usage examples of "tame".
Pael, our tame Academician, had identified it as a fortress star from some kind of strangeness in its light.
The observations of such individuals will be more complicated to analyze than those of constant-velocity observers, whose motion is more serene, but nevertheless we can ask whether there is some way of taming this complexity and bringing accelerated motion squarely into our newfound understanding of space and time.
Many were accompanied by tame animals and Alec smiled to himself, wondering if he and his father had trapped any of these hawks or spotted cats.
When I perceived that no man had regard to mee, that was so tame and gentle an Asse, I stole out of the gate that was next me, and then I ran away with all force, and came to Cenchris, which is the most famous towne of all the Carthaginians, bordering upon the Seas called Ageum, and Saronicum, where is a great and mighty Haven, frequented with many a sundry Nation.
I defended myself as best I could, but my excuses were rather tame, about which I did not trouble myself.
Lourdusamy -- then a young, minor functionary in the Vatican diplomatic machine -- with guiding the anguished and pain-ridden ex-Hyperion pilgrim, Father Lenar Hoyt, to finding the secret that tamed the cruciform to an instrument of resurrection.
Garp confessed his lust for Cushie Percy and rendered a suitably tame version of the consummation scene.
The reason the dasht is so sore is that I busted up his attempt to have the Lady Fouri kidnaped by his gang of tame bandits.
The manner in which Lincoln succeeded in taming this lion to his will, by frankly recognizing his great qualities, by giving him the most generous confidence, by aiding him in his work to the full of his power, by kindly concession or affectionate persuasiveness in cases of differing opinions, or, when it was necessary, by firm assertions of superior authority, bears the highest testimony to his skill in the management of men.
The hooftracks, and the tracks of Roland, led down past the tame dromes and into the cloud.
Festival in the streets of a City that covered half a planet, a city that was not, except by Dane, called Dullsville, on a world that was not called Tame.
Such an one is he, and I will tame him with harshness and duress till I be certain of him.
Something that might tame the fae at last, and bring peace to a planet that had rarely known anything but chaos.
They had implements also, and weapons of war beautifully fashioned from flint, ivory, and the horns of deer, and they wove cloth such as that of her garments from the wool of tame beasts and dyed it with the juices of herbs, different from those that bore the seeds which they ate.
Houdini did, and saw a tame fistic encounter followed by an equally mechanical reconciliation.