Tame vs Thame - What's the difference?
tame | thame |
Not or no longer wild; domesticated
(chiefly, of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact
Not exciting
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
* Roscommon
(mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
to make something
to become
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
* Fuller
(Scotland, obsolete) them
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As an adjective tame
is not or no longer wild; domesticated.As a verb tame
is to make something tame.As a pronoun thame is
them.tame
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- They have a tame wildcat.
- The lion was quite tame .
- This party is too tame for me.
- For a thriller, that film was really tame .
- tame slaves of the laborious plough
Quotations
* (English Citations of "tame")Synonyms
* (not exciting) dull, insipidAntonyms
* (not wild) wild * (mild and well-behaved) gentle * (not exciting) exciting * (mathematics) wildDerived terms
* tamely * tamenessVerb
- He tamed the wild horse.
Derived terms
* tamerExternal links
* ("tame" on Wikipedia)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(tam)- In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
Anagrams
* * * * English ergative verbs ----thame
English
Pronoun
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