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addition, total, tabulation, itemization, listing, calculation,
computation: According to my tally, you owe œ156.72. 4 ticket,
label, mark, marker, tag, tab: Each plant can be identified by
its own tally. 5 counterfoil, stub, counterpart, duplicate,
mate: If you lose your tally you cannot get back your luggage.
tame adj. 1 tamed, docile, disciplined, obedient, domesticated,
house-broken, trained, broken: He used to keep a tame fox in
his back garden. 2 mild, gentle, fearless, unafraid: It is
amazing how tame animals can be when they do not perceive man as
a threat. 3 tractable, pliant, compliant, meek, submissive,
mild, under (someone's) control or thumb, subdued, suppressed;
unassertive, feeble, ineffectual, timid, timorous, cowardly,
pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, faint-hearted, white-livered,
lily-livered, yellow, Colloq wimpish: Charles is far too tame
to defy Kate. 4 boring, tedious, tiresome, dull, insipid,
bland, lifeless, flat, vapid, prosaic, humdrum, bland,
unexciting, uninspired, uninspiring, run-of-the-mill, ordinary,
uninteresting, dead, Colloq wishy-washy: As a nightclub, the
place is much too tame for my tastes.
--v. 5 break, domesticate, train, house-train, gentle, master,
subdue, subjugate: The brown bear is a most difficult animal to
tame. 6 calm, subdue, control, mollify, pacify, mute, temper,
soften, curb, tone down, moderate, mitigate, tranquillize:
After a week the Lord tamed the violent sea and our tiny craft
was allowed to continue.
tamper v. interfere, meddle, intermeddle, intrude, tinker, mess (about
or around), Colloq fiddle or fool (about or around), monkey
(around), muck (about): Anyone caught tampering with the
machinery will be prosecuted.
tang n. 1 pungency, piquancy, bite, zest, zestiness, sharpness,
poignancy, spiciness, nip, edge, spice, taste, flavour, savour,
aroma, smell, odour, Colloq zip, kick: Ginger root gives the
dish just the right tang. 2 tinge, flavour, hint, suggestion,
soup‡on, trace, dab, smack, touch, smattering: The new version
has the tang of the original without its obsolete words. 3
prong, tab, projection, tongue, strip, tine, shank, pin, spike:
The tang of a good knife goes right through to the end of the
handle.