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How to pronounce “tight”
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Pronunciation guide for tight
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tight with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Googled The End of the World As We Know It
And if you're an engineer and maybe living in this tight community, you have the advantage
- Definition summary
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce tight
Googled The End of the World As We Know It
And if you're an engineer and maybe living in this tight community, you have the advantage
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tight”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
- (of a space, design or arrangement) Narrow, such that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
- Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
- (slang) Intoxicated; drunk.
- (slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- (slang, Northern England, chiefly Liverpool) Mean; unfair; unkind.
- (of time) Limited or restricted.
- (obsolete) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
- (obsolete) Handy; adroit; brisk.
- (poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
- (poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
- (US, slang, motor racing) With understeer, primarily used to describe NASCAR stock cars.
- (New York, slang) Angry or irritated.
- (slang, vulgar) Of a person, having a tight vagina or anus.
- [Adverb]
- Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
- Soundly.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete) To make tight; tighten.
- (obsolete, of a vessel) To make water-tight.
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