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How to pronounce “tuft”
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Pronunciation guide for tuft
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tuft with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Conception to birth -- visualized
Take a look at this little tuft of capillaries.
- Definition summary
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce tuft
Conception to birth -- visualized
Take a look at this little tuft of capillaries.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tuft”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
- A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
- A small clump of trees or bushes.
- (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
- (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
- (transitive) To form into tufts.
- (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
- (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.
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