Definitions for tuft
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. tuft, tussocknoun

   a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

2. tuftnoun

   a bunch of feathers or hair

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tuftnoun

   A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

2. tuftnoun

   A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

3. tuftnoun

   A small clump of trees or bushes.

4. tuftnoun

   A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

5. tuftnoun

   A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

6. tuftverb

   To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

7. tuftverb

   To form into tufts.

8. tuftverb

   To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.

9. tuftverb

   To be formed into tufts.

10. Etymology: toft(e), from tofe, toffe 'tuft', from Late Latin (near Vegezio) tufa 'helmet crest', from Germanic (compare ðūf 'tuft', þúfa 'mound', tuva 'tussock, grassy hillock'), from *þūƀōn, þūƀaz; akin to Latin tūber 'hump, swelling', Ancient Greek typhē 'cattail (used to stuff beds)'.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TUFTnoun

   Etymology: tuffe, French.

   1. A number of threads or ribbands, flowery leaves, or any small bodies joined together.

   Upon sweet brier, a fine tuft or brush of moss of divers colours, you shall ever find full of white worms. Francis Bacon.

   It is notorious for its goatish smell, and tufts not unlike the beard of that animal. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.

   A tuft of daisies on a flow’ry lay. Dryden.

   Near a living stream their mansion place
   Edg’d round with moss and tufts of matted grass. Dryden.

   The male among birds often appears in a crest, comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume, erected like a pinacle on the top of the head. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 265.

   2. A cluster; a plump.

   Going a little aside into the wood, where many times before she delighted to walk, her eyes were saluted with a tuft of trees so close set together, as with the shade the moon gave through it, it might breed a fearful kind of devotion to look upon it. Philip Sidney.

   My house is at the tuft of olives hard by. William Shakespeare.

   With high woods the hills were crown’d;
   With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side,
   With borders long the rivers. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   In bow’r and field he sought, where any tuft
   Of grove, or garden-plot more pleasant,
   Their tendance, or plantation for delight. John Milton, P. L.

   Under a tuft of shade, that on a green
   Stood whisp’ring soft, by a fresh fountain side
   They sat them down. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. iv.

2. To Tuftverb

   To adorn with a tuft; a doubtful word, not authorised by any competent writer.

   Sit beneath the shade
   Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts,
   Thrown graceful round. James Thomson.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tuft

   A tuft is a bunch or cluster of small, often soft and flexible things, such as threads, grass, hair, or feathers, that are attached or held together at the base.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tuftnoun

   a collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers

2. Tuftnoun

   a cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants

3. Tuftnoun

   a nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them

4. Tuftverb

   to separate into tufts

5. Tuftverb

   to adorn with tufts or with a tuft

6. Tuftverb

   to grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tuft

   In the aviation field, the term tuft refers to a strip of yarn or string of varying length attached to an aircraft surface in a grid pattern and imaged during flight. The motion of these tufts during flight can be observed and recorded in order to locate flow features such as boundary layer separation and reattachment. Tufting can be considered a technique for flow visualization, used in aeronautics flight testing to study air flow direction, strength, and boundary layer properties. The world's largest bed of tufts was created at NASA Ames Research Center to study air flow fields involving a helicopter's rotor disk.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tuft

   tuft, n. a green knoll: a grove, clump. [A.S toft—Ice. topt, tupt, a piece of ground.]

2. Tuft

   tuft, n. a number of small things in a knot: a cluster: a dense head of flowers: (university slang) a titled undergraduate, from the tuft or tassel in the cap: an imperial.—v.t. to separate into tufts: to adorn with tufts.—adjs. Tuft′ed, Tuft′y.—ns. Tuft′-hunt′er, one over-eager to form acquaintance with persons of rank or consequence: a mean hanger-on of the great; Tuft′-hunt′ing, the practice of a tuft-hunter. [O. Fr. tuffe (Fr. touffe), from the Teut., as Low Ger. topp, Ger. zopf.]

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Tuft

   See “Toff.”

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TUFT

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tuft is ranked #29309 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Tuft surname appeared 807 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tuft.
   
   76.2% or 615 total occurrences were White.
   20.9% or 169 total occurrences were Black.
   1.9% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.6% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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How to pronounce tuft?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tuft in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tuft in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of tuft in a Sentence

1. Geir Tuft:

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2. Cooper Smith:

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=tuft
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tuft
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=tuft
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tuft
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tuft
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=tuft
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=tuft
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html