Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or quality of being tight, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being tight.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or degree of being
tight
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
- noun extreme stinginess
- noun a tight feeling in some part of the body
- noun the spatial property of being crowded together
- noun lack of movement or room for movement
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Examples
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Air tightness is determined with a blower door test which pressurizes (and depressurizes) the house to 50 Pascals.
Passive Aggressive: “Passive” Home Construction Comes to Seattle « PubliCola 2010
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St. Louis OF Jim Edmonds is day-to-day with groin tightness after leaving Thursday's game.
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Brazilian supply still months away, near term tightness should support.
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Brazilian supply still months away, near term tightness should support.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page James Cordier 2010
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India is a "potential important contributor to medium-term tightness of the iron ore market,"
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Clijsters later played down the injury she described as tightness in her left hip, saying she will undergo an MRI next week to make sure it is nothing serious.
Taipei Times 2010
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This credit tightness translates into smaller positions held for shorter durations that provide greater liquidity in case of sharp upward pressure in any of the various commodity markets.
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This credit tightness translates into smaller positions held for shorter durations that provide greater liquidity in case of sharp upward pressure in any of the various commodity markets.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2008
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This credit tightness translates into smaller positions held for shorter durations that provide greater liquidity in case of sharp upward pressure in any of the various commodity markets.
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Indian companies felt marginally relieved on Monday after the Reserve Bank of India cut the cash reserve ratio by 50 basis points as most of them expected only short-term tightness to ease a bit.
rediff.com 2008
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Consistency is definitely key, and a notion of “tightness” is important too (the set of possible theme entries shouldn’t be too much bigger than the theme set that appears in the puzzle).
Square Theory Adam Aaronson 2025
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