Definition of Tight

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Definition of Tight

Tight

of Tie

p. p. of Tie.

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

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.

Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or other garment.

Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy.

Close; parsimonious; saving; as, a man tight in his dealings.

Not slack or loose; firmly stretched; taut; -- applied to a rope, chain, or the like, extended or stretched out.

Handy; adroit; brisk.

Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.

Pressing; stringent; not easy; firmly held; dear; -- said of money or the money market. Cf. Easy, 7.

To tighten.

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Tight Quotations

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
Annie Leibovitz

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.
Jimmy Buffett

We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.
Shia LaBeouf

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Jim Harrison

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
Arthur Ashe

Tight Translations

tight in Dutch is stipt, nauwsluitend, streng, nauw
tight in German is eng, Dicht, fest, fest, dicht
tight in Italian is teso, scarso, fisso, impermabile
tight in Latin is angustus
tight in Portuguese is firmemente

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