tame meaning

[ teim ] Pronunciation:   "tame" in a sentence
Verb: tame  teym
  1. Correct by punishment or discipline
    - chasten, subdue 
  2. Make less strong or intense; soften
    "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
    - tone down, moderate 
  3. Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
    "tame the soil"
    - domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise [Brit] 
  4. Overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
    "He tames lions for the circus"
    - domesticate, domesticize, domesticise [Brit], reclaim 
  5. Make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans
    "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
    - domesticate
Adjective: tame (tamer,tamest)  teym
  1. Flat and uninspiring 
  2. 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" 
  3. Brought from wildness into a domesticated state
    "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
    - tamed 
  4. Very docile
    "tame obedience"
    - meek

Derived forms: tamed, tamer, tames, tamest, taming

See also: broken, broken in, cultivated, docile, domestic, domesticated, domestication, gentle, manipulable, quiet, subdued, tameable, tamed, tamely, tameness, tamer, tractable, unexciting

Type of: accommodate, adapt, alter, change, modify

Antonym: wild

Encyclopedia: Tame Tame, Arauca Tame, Colombia


[Medicine]
Arginine derivative which is a substrate for many proteolytic enzymes. As a substrate for the esterase from the first component of complement,it inhibits the action of C(l) on C(4).

Examples

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  1. like other tame cats, he had his claws.
  2. a boy was playing with a tame snake.
  3. fusion has not, so far, been tamed.
  4. it was eager to be tame and cultivated.
  5. i cannot bear them if they are tame and quiet.

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