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tame
adj. trained, domesticated; gentle; submissive, obedient; dull, boring
 
v. domesticate; subdue, master; restrain, control


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TAME
TAME (Línea Aérea del Ecuador) is an airline based in QuitoEcuador. It is the commercial branch of the Ecuadorian Air Force and operates scheduled domestic flights and international services in South America and the Caribbean.
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Tame
To tame is the act of domesticating wild animals and can also mean several things:One of the two River Tames in England:The River Tame, Greater Manchester The River Tame (West Midlands) and the Tame ValleyThe Colombian town and municipality of Tame, in the Arauca DepartmentRio Tame a river in northeastern Colombia. "Tame", a song by the Pixies from their 1989 album DoolittleOptional but less frequent spelling of TAME (IATA code: EQ), an airline that belongs to the Ecuadorian military
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tame
Verb
1. correct by punishment or discipline
(synonym) chasten, subdue
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
2. make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
(synonym) tone down, moderate
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
3. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"
(synonym) domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise
(hypernym) adapt, accommodate
(classification) plant, flora, plant life
4. overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons"
(synonym) domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) break in, break
(verb-group) domesticate
(derivation) tamer
(classification) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
5. make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
(synonym) domesticate
(hypernym) adapt, accommodate
(verb-group) domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim
(classification) animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
Adjective
1. flat and uninspiring
(similar) unexciting
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"
(antonym) wild
(similar) subdued
(see-also) quiet
3. brought from wildness into a domesticated state; "tame animals"; "fields of tame blueberries"
(synonym) tamed
(antonym) wild, untamed
(similar) broken, broken in
(see-also) tractable, manipulable
(attribute) tameness, domestication
4. very docile; "tame obedience"; "meek as a mouse"- Langston Hughes
(synonym) meek
(similar) docile


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Tame
(v. t.)
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  
 
(superl.)
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
  
 
(superl.)
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
  
 
(superl.)
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  
 
(a.)
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
  
 
(a.)
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
  

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