tame

«tame» in Mova's school dictionary: Of an animal: not wild or afraid of people, because it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (tame, tamer, tamest); verb (tame, tames, tamed, taming)

meaning for a pupil

1) Of an animal: not wild or afraid of people, because it has been trained or lives with people. tree →

2) (verb) To train a wild animal to live with people and obey them. tree →

3) Dull and not exciting. tree →

4) (verb) To control something strong or wild. tree →

5) Tame can also describe a person who is meek and does what others tell them to do. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, people tamed wild animals long ago — wolves became dogs, wild cats became pets; tame animals live calmly with people. In safety, even an animal that seems tame can bite, and wild animals in parks are never tame. In stories, a hero tames a horse or a dragon; a tame ending is boring. Phrases: «tame animals», «tame a horse», «a tame ending».

examples

• The deer in the park are quite tame. tree →
• Long ago, people tamed wolves, and they became dogs. tree →
• The horse was hard to tame. tree →
• Our pet rat is very tame and sits on my shoulder. tree →
• Even a tame animal may bite if it is frightened. tree →
• The film was quite tame — not scary at all. tree →
• She tamed her wild hair with a brush. tree →
• A wild fox is not tame, so keep away. tree →
• I must talk it over with my tame sweetheart. tree →

note

Comparatives: tamer, tamest. Opposite: «wild» or «fierce». Tame is not the same as «domesticated» (bred by people for many generations), though they are close.

In the corpora

• Zebras defend themselves with powerful kicks and bites that can badly injure a lion, and they have never been tamed like horses.
• Dogs came from wolves tamed more than 15,000 years ago, and even a Chihuahua has 42 teeth like a wolf.
• The dog was the first animal people ever tamed, long before anyone farmed.
• Not every animal can be tamed.
• Horses were first tamed about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago on the grasslands of what are now Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tame» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.