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taut 音标拼音: [t'ɔt] a. 拉紧的,整洁的,紧张的 拉紧的,整洁的,紧张的 taut adj 1: pulled or drawn tight; " taut sails"; " a tight drumhead"; " a tight rope" [ synonym: { taut}, { tight}] 2: subjected to great tension; stretched tight; " the skin of his face looked drawn and tight"; " her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow" Taut \ Taut\, a. [ Dan. t[ ae] t; akin to E. tight. See { Tight}.] 1. ( Naut.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Snug; close; firm; secure. [ 1913 Webster] { Taut hand} ( Naut.), a sailor' s term for an officer who is severe in discipline. [ 1913 Webster] 56 Moby Thesaurus words for " taut": all ataunto, anxious, apprehensive, ataunt, bungup and bilge- free, close, dragged out, drawn, drawn out, elongated, extended, firm, in suspense, in trim, keyed- up, lengthened, neat, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, orderly, pokerlike, prolongated, prolonged, protracted, pulled, quivering, ramrodlike, renitent, rigid, rodlike, shipshape, smart, spruce, spun out, starched, starchy, stiff, stiff as buckram, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched tight, strung out, tense, tidy, tight, trig, trim, under a strain, unrelaxed, uptight, virgate, with bated breath, with muscles tense
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