Tight vs Limit - What's the difference?
tight | limit |
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
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Fitting close, or too close, to the body.
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Of a space, etc, narrow, so that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.
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Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.
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Under high tension.
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Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.
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Lacking holes; difficult to penetrate; waterproof.
* 1965 , MotorBoating , page 145
*2014 , Ian Black, "
*:Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.
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*:The odd thing was that Sunderland made the better start and showed early signs that they might pose serious problems to the Premier League’s tightest defence.
(lb) Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.
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*2001 , (Gaelic Storm), Johnny Tarr'' (on the album '' ):
*:Johnny walked into the Castle Bar, looking to get tight .
(lb) Intimately friendly.
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(lb) Extraordinarily great or special.
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Mean; unfair; unkind.
*1977 , Willy Russell, Our Day Out , Act One, Scene One:
*:Reilly: Ey, Miss, hang on, hang on... can we come with y', Miss? Can we?
*:Digga: Go on, Miss, don't be tight , let's come.
*2001 , Kevin Sampson, Outlaws , p.244:
*:"Ah leave him, ay!" goes one of the girls. "Don't be tight'." I turns to her. "Don't you think it's ' tight terrorising old ladies? Ay?"
*2011 , Andrew Hicks, "Thai Girl: A story of the one who said 'no'", unnumbered page :
*:"That's right ... so even when life's a grind, the Thais keep smiling. They think the farang are a miserable lot who have to get drunk to enjoy themselves."
*:"Dutch, that's tight mate, I mean what's wrong with getting pissed. When you're not working, you gotta have a good time," said Darren.
Miserly or frugal.
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(lb) Scarce, hard to come by.
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(rfd-sense) (ux) Not conceding many goals.
(lb) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:clad very plain, but clean and tight
*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
*:I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husbandfrom time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
(lb) Handy; adroit; brisk.
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(lb) Of a player, who plays very few hands. (rfex)
(lb) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands. (rfex)
Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.
Soundly.
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , chapter 21:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times ,
(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
(category theory) Given diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a cone (''L'', ''φ'') from ''L'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' is the ''limit'' of ''F'' if it has the universal property that for any other cone (''N'', ''ψ'') from ''N'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' there is a unique morphism ''u'' : ''N'' → ''L'' such that for all ''X'' ∈ Ob(''J ), .
(poker) Short for fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
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(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
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(logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
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(mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
As an adjective tight
is firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.As an adverb tight
is firmly, so as not to come loose easily.As a verb tight
is (obsolete) to tighten.As a noun limit is
limit (restriction).tight
English
Adjective
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- He reported the hull was tight and secure and did not leak a drop.
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November:
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
Synonyms
* (pushed/pulled together''): close, serried (''of ranks ), tight-fitting (of clothes) * (narrow ): narrow * (under high tension ): taut, tense, under tension * (well-rehearsed and accurate ): polished, precise * (intimately friendly ): close, close-knit, intimate * (slang: intoxicated''): ''See also * (slang: extraordinarily great or special ): ace, cool, fab, rad, slickAntonyms
* (pushed/pulled together''): baggy (''of clothing or other material ), loose, sagging, saggy, slack * (narrow ): broad, capacious, open, roomy, spacious, wide * (under high tension ): loose, relaxed, slack * (well-rehearsed and accurate ): slack, slapdash, sloppy * (slang: extraordinarily great or special ): crap, naff, pathetic, rubbishDerived terms
* airtight * as tight as a duck's arse, tight as a duck's arse * as tight as a gnat's chuff, tight as a gnat's chuff * dust-tight * finger-tight * in tight * light-tight * skintight * steamtight * supertight * tight as a tick * tightass * tight closure * tighten * tight end * tight-fisted * tight-fitting * tight-knit * tight-laced * tight lattice * tight-lipped * tightly * tightness * tightrope * tights * tightwad * tightwire * tighty whities * uptight * watertight * weathertightAdverb
(en adverb)- Make sure the lid is closed tight .
- Good night, sleep tight.
Synonyms
* (firmly ): fast, firmly, securely * (soundly ): soundly, wellAntonyms
* (firmly ): loosely * (soundly ): badly, fitfullyDerived terms
* hold tight * sit tight * sleep tightlimit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
“Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
- the dateless limit of thy dear exile
- The limit of your lives is out.
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Synonyms
* (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restrictionDerived terms
* age limit * central limit theorem * city limits * elastic limit * in the limit * limit down * limit up * limitation * limitless * lower limit * outer limit * the sky is the limit * to the limit * time limit * unlimited * upper limitDescendants
* German: (l)See also
* bound * functionAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ; see noun.Verb
(en verb)- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.