Tamename

• 1

  A surname transferred from the nickname.

• 2

  A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.

• 3

  A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.

tameadj詞源 1/teɪm/

• 1

  Under human control.

• 2

  Docile or tranquil towards humans.

  • The lion was quite tame.
• 3

  Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.

  • What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of our tame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.
• 4

  obsoleteOf a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.

  • The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number of tame blacks about the schooner.
• 5

  Not exciting.

  • This party is too tame for me.
  • For a thriller, that film was really tame.
• 6

  Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.

  • tame slaves of the laborious plough
• 7

  mathematicssciencesCapable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.

tameverb詞源 1/teɪm/

• 1

  To make or become tame; to domesticate (an animal).

  • He tamed the wild horse.
  • Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.
• 2

  To make submissive.

  • The governor tames the engine.
• 3

  To take control of something that is unruly.

  • Police have to tame the riots.

tameverb詞源 2/teɪm/

• 1

  obsoletedialectalTo broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.

  • In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.