tame

tame /teim/
  • tính từ
    • đã thuần hoá, đã dạy thuần
      • a tame monkey: một con khỉ đã dạy thuần
    • lành, dễ bảo, nhu mì
      • a very tame animal: một con vật rất lành
    • đã trồng trọt (đất)
    • bị chế ngự
    • nhạt, vô vị, buồn tẻ
      • a tame basket-ball match: một trận đấu bóng rổ buồn tẻ
      • a tame story: một câu chuyện nhạt nhẽo
  • ngoại động từ
    • dạy cho thuần, thuần hoá; làm cho không sợ người, làm cho dạn
      • tiger is hard to tame: hổ khó dạy cho thuần
    • chế ngự, làm cho quy phục, làm cho (nhuệ khí, tinh thần...) nhụt đi
    • nội động từ
      • dạn đi, quen đi
      • trở nên nhạt nhẽo, trở nên vô vị

    Xem thêm: chasten, subdue, tone down, moderate, domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, domesticate, tamed, meek



    tame

    Từ điển Collocation

    tame adj.

    1 not afraid of people

    VERBS be, look, seem | become

    ADV. extremely, very | almost | quite

    2 boring

    VERBS appear, be, look, seem, sound | become | find sth I found office work very tame after army life.

    ADV. positively, very living a life that makes Wild West movies look positively tame | a bit, a little, pretty, rather, somewhat To us it was all pretty tame stuff.


    Từ điển WordNet

      v.

    • correct by punishment or discipline; chasten, subdue
    • make less strong or intense; soften; tone down, moderate

      Tone down that aggressive letter

      The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements

    • adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise

      domesticate oats

      tame the soil

    • overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim

      He tames lions for the circus

      reclaim falcons

    • make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; domesticate

      The horse was domesticated a long time ago

      The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog

      adj.

    • flat and uninspiring
    • 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

    • brought from wildness into a domesticated state; tamed

      tame animals

      fields of tame blueberries

    • very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes; meek

    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    tames|tamed|taming|tamer|tamest
    syn.: gentle mild obedient temperate

    ant.: wild