What does TAME mean?
Definitions for TAME
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Princeton's WordNet
tameadjective
flat and uninspiring
tameadjective
very restrained or quiet
"a tame Christmas party"; "she was one of the tamest and most abject creatures imaginable with no will or power to act but as directed"
tame, tamedadjective
brought from wildness into a domesticated state
"tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
meek, tameverb
very docile
"tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes
tame, chasten, subdueverb
correct by punishment or discipline
tone down, moderate, tameverb
make less strong or intense; soften
"Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tameverb
adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
"domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tameverb
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
"He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
domesticate, tameverb
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
"The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
Wiktionary
tameverb
to make something tame
He tamed the wild horse.
tameverb
to become tame
tameadjective
Not or no longer wild; domesticated
They have a tame wildcat.
tameadjective
Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
The lion was quite tame.
tameadjective
Not exciting
This party is too tame for me.
tameadjective
Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
TAMEadjective
Etymology: tame , Saxon; taem, Dutch; tam, Danish.
Thales the Milesian said, That of all wild beasts a tyrant is the worst, and of all tame beasts a flatterer. Addison.
If you should need a pin,
You could not with more tame a tongue desire it. William Shakespeare.And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
Their courage with hard labour tame and dull. William Shakespeare.A most poor man made tame to fortune’s blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
Am pregnant to good pity. William Shakespeare, King Lear.Praise him each savage furious beast,
That on his stores do daily feast;
And you tame slaves of the laborious plough,
Your weary knees to your Creator bow. Wentworth Dillon.To Tameverb
Etymology: gatamgan, Gothick; temean , Saxon; tammen, Dutch.
Those that tame wild horses,
Pace ’em not in their hands to make ’em gentle;
But stop their mouths with stubborn bits. William Shakespeare.If the heavens do not their visible spirits
Send quickly down to tame the offences,
Humanity must perforce prey on itself. William Shakespeare, King Lear.They cannot tame
Or overcome their riches! not by making
Baths, orchards, fish-pools, letting in of seas
Here, and then there forcing them out again. Ben Jonson.A puling cuckold, would drink up
The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece. William Shakespeare.A race unconquer’d, by their clime made bold,
The Caledonians arm’d with want and cold,
Have been kept for you to tame. Edmund Waller.
Wikipedia
TAME
TAME or TAME EP Linea Aerea del Ecuador was an airline founded in Ecuador in 1962. TAME (pronounced "tah-meh") was the flag carrier and the largest airline of Ecuador. TAME headquarters were in Quito, Pichincha Province and the main hub was Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito. The airline was formed by the Air Force of Ecuador. In 2011, it became a commercial entity and provided domestic, international and charter flights. On May 20, 2020, the Ecuador government decided to cease all the operations and liquidate the airline.
ChatGPT
tame
Tame could be defined in multiple ways depending on the context, but generally, it means: 1) To domesticate or train an animal or plant to live in a human environment and be of use to humans. 2) Not wild, dangerous, or frightening; submissive or manageable. 3) Lacking in intensity, excitement, or risk; mild or dull.
Webster Dictionary
Tameverb
to broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out
Tame
reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird
Tame
crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless
Tame
deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery
Tameadjective
to reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast
Tameadjective
to subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth
Wikidata
TAME
TAME, is the flag carrier of Ecuador with its headquarters located in Quito, Pichincha. Its largest hub is Mariscal Sucre International Airport. It is the largest airline in Ecuador. The airline was founded on December 17, 1962 as Transportes Aereos Militares Ecuatorianos TAME. One of its objectives is to offer air transport for people and freight services to various cities in Ecuador as well as in two cities in Colombia, Cali and Bogota and one in Panama, Panama City. Moreover, TAME offers charter flights to: Cartagena, San Andres, Punta Cana, Jamaica, Havana, Varadero and Curaçao. Also, the airline works alongside several tour operators: Decameron, Viamerica, Feritur, PGV and Maxitravel. Tame changed its legal status in 2011: It is now a state owned company, but no longer under the administration of the Air Force. The company has expanded its domestic and international routes and renovated its fleet with new models, such as Airbus A330, Airbus A320 and A319, as well as Embraer 170 and 190, with this new fleet TAME covers various routes in Ecuador and at an international level, the airline offers scheduled flights as well as charter flights.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Tame
tām, adj. having lost native wildness and shyness: domesticated: gentle: spiritless: without vigour: dull, flat, uninspiring: wonted, accustomed.—v.t. to reduce to a domestic state: to make gentle: to reclaim: to civilise.—ns. Tāmabil′ity, Tāmeabli′ity, Tām′ableness, Tāme′ableness.—adjs. Tām′able, Tāme′able, that may be tamed; Tāme′less.—n. Tāme′lessness.—adv. Tāme′ly.—ns. Tāme′ness; Tā′mer, one who tames. [A.S. tam; cog. with Ger. zahm.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
TAME
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tame is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Tame surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tame.
78.7% or 159 total occurrences were White.
15.3% or 31 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
2.4% or 5 total occurrences were Black.
2.4% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
Anagrams for TAME »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of TAME in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of TAME in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of TAME in a Sentence
Croatian Prime Minister-designate Tihomir Oreskovic:
We all know that our (public) debt is at a worrying level of around 90 percent of gross domestic product. My goal is to talk to investors and share ideas on how to tame the debt and achieve better credit rating.
The Federal Reserve's dovish tone in its March meeting minutes along with tame wage growth numbers and news that the IMF lowered its outlook for global economic growth to 3.3% for 2019 were boons for longer-dated bond securities, investors were betting that neither the Fed nor other central banks were likely to hike rates anytime soon.
The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
AiR:
If there is Garbage in your Mind, and it’s full of junk, it’s time to Tame your ‘Monkey Mind’, and make it into a Monk!
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Translations for TAME
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- اليفArabic
- amansir, domar, mansCatalan, Valencian
- krotit, krotkýCzech
- tam, tæmmeDanish
- zähmen, [[zahm]] [[werden]], zahmGerman
- εξημερώνομαι, τιθασεύω, δαμάζω, ήμερος, εξημερώνωGreek
- domesticado, domar, manso, amansarSpanish
- kesyyntyä, kesy, kesyttääFinnish
- apprivoiser, apprivoisé, dompter, domestiquerFrench
- ceannsaich, ceannsaichte, callaichScottish Gaelic
- szelídHungarian
- ընտելանալ, ընտելացնել, ընտանիArmenian
- jinak, menjinakkanIndonesian
- spakur, gæfur, taminnIcelandic
- addomesticato, addomesticareItalian
- 飼いならすJapanese
- 길들다, 길들이다, 길들인Korean
- zamLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- jinakMalay
- temmen, tamDutch
- tam, temmes, temmeNorwegian
- oswajać, oswojonyPolish
- [[ser]] [[domado]], domar, domesticadoPortuguese
- приручи́ться, приручённый, ручной, приручи́ть, прируча́ться, прируча́тьRussian
- pripitomiti, pitom, припитомити, питомSerbo-Croatian
- tämja, tamSwedish
- మచ్చికTelugu
- เชื่องThai
- maamoTagalog
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