tight
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
a tight sponge; a tight knot
Pull your seatbelts tight before takeoff.
- 2.
(of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
The passageway was so tight we could barely get through.
They flew in a tight formation.
- 3.
Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
Their marching band is extremely tight.
- 4.
(slang)Intoxicated; drunk.
We went drinking and got tight.
- 5.
(slang)Extraordinarily great or special.
That is one tight bicycle!
- 6.
(Northern England, slang)(slang, Northern England, chiefly Liverpool) Mean; unfair; unkind.
- 7.
(of time) Limited or restricted.
We had a very tight schedule.
- 8.
(obsolete)Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
- 9.
(obsolete)Handy; adroit; brisk.
- 10.
(poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.
- 11.
(poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.
- 12.
(US, slang)(US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
Hold on tight to the rope.
- 2.
Soundly.
Good night, sleep tight.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(obsolete)To make tight; tighten.
- 2.
(obsolete)(obsolete, of a vessel) To make water-tight.
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From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (dense, thick, tight), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch, pull).