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Tight   /taɪt/   Listen
adjective
Tight  adj.  (compar. tighter; superl. tightest)  
1.
Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.
2.
Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight.
3.
Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.
4.
Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy. "Clad very plain, but clean and tight." "I'll spin and card, and keep our children tight."
5.
Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings. (Colloq.)
6.
Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.
7.
Handy; adroit; brisk. (Obs.)
8.
Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy. (Slang)
9.
(Com.) Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.


verb
Tie  v. t.  (past & past part. tied, obs. tight; pres. part. tying)  
1.
To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "Tie the kine to the cart." "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck."
2.
To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument."
3.
To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. "In bond of virtuous love together tied."
4.
To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. "Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind."
5.
(Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.
6.
To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
To ride and tie. See under Ride.
To tie down.
(a)
To fasten so as to prevent from rising.
(b)
To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.
To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action.


Tight  v. t.  To tighten. (Obs.)


Tie  v. i.  (past & past part. tied, obs. tight; pres. part. tying)  To make a tie; to make an equal score.


Tight  v.  obs. P. p. of Tie.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Tight" Quotes from Famous Books



... and hunt up one of those places that Carrie Nation missed in the shuffle and there, with one arm glued tight around the bar rail, he would fasten his system to a jag which would last ...
— Get Next! • Hugh McHugh
... and that a man like Rushbrook, who bought pictures by the yard,—equally of the unknown struggling artist and the famous masters,—was no true patron of Art. Rushbrook made no attempt to recover his lost prestige, and once, when squeezed into a tight "corner," and forced to realize on his treasures, he put them up at auction and the people called them "daubs;" their rage knew no bounds. It was then that an unfettered press discovered that Rushbrook never was a Maecenas at all, ...
— A Sappho of Green Springs • Bret Harte
... tall tortoiseshell comb, round which a magnificent plait of hair was twisted, formed a frame to her lovely countenance, whose paleness bordered on the olive. Her foot, worthy of a Chinese beauty, was extended on the front of the calash, showing a delicate satin shoe and a tight silk stocking with coloured clocks. One of her hands, slender and well formed, although a little sun-burnt, played with the corners of her mantilla, and on the other, which held a white handkerchief, sparkled several silver ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... "I've been in some tight places before," went on Tom, as he sat down in an easy chair, "and I've had any number of shocks when I've been experimenting, but this was a sort of double combination, and it sure had me guessing. But I'm feeling ...
— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton
... and injured its quota of books, some of which could only be restored to available use by re-binding, and even then the leaves were left water-stained in part. See to it that your library roof is water-tight, or the contents of your library will be constantly exposed to damage against ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford


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