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tightrope
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
WordNet
n. tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
Wikipedia
Tightrope is a 1984 American suspense thriller produced by and starring Clint Eastwood and written and directed by Richard Tuggle.
Tightrope is the debut album from Australian pop singer Stephanie McIntosh, which was released on 11 September 2006, and re-released on 19 March 2007. It was released to the UK on 20 August 2007 with an alternate track listing and cover, but some Australian editions of the album have been seen in UK music stores such as HMV.
"Tightrope" is the second single from singer and actress, Stephanie McIntosh from the album of the same title, Tightrope. "Tightrope" was confirmed as the second single on The Steph Show. It was released on 21 October 2006 in Australia only, as due to poor sales of the album. Included with the single release are a set of free Habbo Hotel stickers.
"Tightrope" is the opening track to A New World Record by Electric Light Orchestra.
Recorded in 1976 at Musicland, Munich, West Germany, the song features a dramatic orchestral opening before transforming into an upbeat rock song. Although never released as a single, the song was a fan favorite and was performed live at every ELO concert including the Zoom tour in 2001. It had been remastered in 2000 and included on the box set Flashback It is the opening number of set four on the 2016 Alone in the Universe tour.
Tightrope walking is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope.
Tightrope may also refer to:
- Tightrope (TV series), a 1959–60 American television series starring Mike Connors
- Tightrope (film), a 1984 film starring Clint Eastwood
- Tightrope (novel), a 1999 children's book by Gillian Cross
- Tightrope Pictures, British television production company
- Tightrope, part of Operation Dominic I and II, the last atmospheric nuclear test by the United States, in 1962
Tightrope is a children's novel by Gillian Cross, published in 1999. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
It is about a teen girl named Ashley who receives A+'s in school and helps her sick mother through the day. However, she leads a double life. Her other name is Cindy and Cindy likes to sneak out and spray paint her name on large, untouched walls; it's her release. Unfortunately someone discovers her secret and is leaving nasty letters and horrible things in her backyard. Will she ever be able to live normal life again? Without these fears she will die and never ever live a happy life again?
"Tightrope" is a song by Australian rapper, Illy. Written by Mark Landon and Alasdair Murray and produced by the former under his stage name, M-Phazes the song was first released in March 2014 through Illy's record label, ONETWO as the fourth single from Illy's fourth studio album, Cinematic (2013).
"Tightrope" was well received by fans and was also singled out as one of the strongest tracks on Cinematic in Navarone Farrell's review of the latter for The AU Review.
"Tightrope" is a song recorded by American alternative rock band Walk the Moon. It was written by Chris Robinson, Eli Maiman, Kevin Ray, Nicholas Petricca and Sean Waugaman. The song appeared on the band's first major-label debut album, Walk the Moon, and was later included on its own self-titled EP as the lead track.
Tightrope EP is an EP by American indie rock band Walk the Moon. It was released digitally on January 18, 2013, by RCA Records. The EP was named after the opening track of the same name. A 2-color vinyl version of the EP was released on April 20, 2013.
"Tightrope" is a 2010 song by American singer Janelle Monáe, the second official single from The ArchAndroid.
The single premiered on February 11 on Pitchfork Media website, earning an immediate 9/10 rating and their coveted "Best New Music" tag with the companion song, " Cold War", debuting the following day via Monáe's official website.
The official remix, titled "Tightrope (Wondamix)", features rappers B.o.B and Lupe Fiasco. The song is also featured in the video game Just Dance 3. It was featured during the end credits for Happy Feet Two, in a version that interpolates some singing from one of the characters. The song also featured on the third season finale of teen drama 90210.
Tightrope is the 1977 debut solo album of jazz guitarist Steve Khan.
Usage examples of "tightrope".
Through trial and error, I arrived at the best item on the menu to help me tiptoe across that tightrope between hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia that every person with diabetes walks.
Iraqis have learned to adapt and survive in this Orwellian nightmare, but they live their lives on a tightrope, knowing that the slightest misstep could plunge them into a vat of acid--figuratively or literally.
The Ropewalkers danced on their tightrope, this time the boy and a younger girl, who did a backward somersault while an older man stood under her as if to catch her if she fell.
Florian or Colonel Ramrod to excuse them from the next show, and often just minutes before they were due to go on, for fear that the cramps or the diarrhea were about to strike when they were variously on the trapeze, on a rosinback horse, on the tightrope or in one of the wild animal cages.
Her tightrope act had brought the audience to a standing ovation at both the afternoon and evening shows, and now she was repeatedly trying to convince Edge that his own voltige act was, in fact, much more dangerous than her own.
At this moment, Boom-Boom Beck was kneeling on it, and he and a Slovak on the other center pole were adjusting the turnbuckles and tension of the tightrope that crossed the fifty-foot space between them.
Darren shows no interest in the conversation and is walking along the kerbstones in imitation of a tightrope walker, inches from the traffic.
Christine knew that was why credit managers occasionally risked extending credit or approved checks in slightly doubtful cases, walking a mental tightrope as they did.
The days of explanation, questions and answers, the tightrope walk across the politics of cleanup and cover-up had taken more out of her than the sustained chant-shape.
The curbing of the pista and the perimeter of the promenade space outside it, the two center poles and the tightrope all were outlined with those points and nimbuses of light.
He held center stage, right at the seawall itself, performing unlilsely feats of juggling, general legerdemain, and Robin Williams-like improvisational comedy-on a tightrope, balanced high above water that had not yet made up its mind whether it was Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.
He hadn't cried at all from the beating, had lain there on the ground for a few moments after the brief blackout, and then had dragged himself up and made it agonizingly to the locker room at school, walking as if on a tightrope and one misstep would send him hurtling into depths below: oblivion.
Here, as nowhere else, one walks a tightrope between overexplaining and overassuming, between boring the reader with too many details and losing the reader by not providing enough.
While in the world outside (which I began to doubt still existed), Pam became Prime Minister again, Blondin walked across Niagara on a tightrope, someone invented the steam road-roller, people read A Tale of Two Cities (I know these things 'cos I looked them up in an encyclopedia the other day), and my loving Elspeth, I have reason to suspect, misbehaved in a potting-shed at Windsor Castle with that randy little pig the Prince of Wales, who at that time was just beginning to notice that girls were different from fellows, somehow.
For some two decades it had been a Game so fragile that it seemed as if it were really being played with glass beads, a seemingly glassy game almost empty of content, a seemingly coquettish and wanton pastime full of frail embellishments, an airy dance, sometimes a tightrope dance, with the subtlest rhythmic structure.