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Tightness   /tˈaɪtnəs/   Listen
Tightness

noun
1.
A state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit.  Synonym: stringency.
2.
A tight feeling in some part of the body.  Synonym: constriction.  "She felt an alarming tightness in her chest" , "Emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
3.
The spatial property of being crowded together.  Synonyms: compactness, concentration, denseness, density.
5.
Lack of movement or room for movement.  Synonym: tautness.






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"Tightness" Quotes from Famous Books



... a growing feeling of suffocation and tightness about her throat and heart, for the droop ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry

... Sindhus then, accompanied by Duryodhana, repaired that very night to Drona (the generalissimo of the Kuru army). Then, O king, having touched Drona's feet with reverence, and taken his seat with humility, he asked the preceptor these words—In hitting the aim, in hitting it from it distance, in tightness of hand, and in the force of the stroke, O illustrious one, tell the difference between myself and Phalguna! O preceptor, I wish to know accurately the difference as regards proficiency (in the science of arms) between myself and Arjuna! ...
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 • Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... of treating acute inflammatory conditions necessitates close supervision until the correct degree of tightness of ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... natives now mounted the raft, and, after dividing themselves into pairs, and taking hold of the slew-ropes in their hands, pulled them up as tight as they could. By this effort they caused the cylinder to turn round till its further revolutions were stopped by the increasing tightness of the hawser, which was wound on the cylinder as fast as the slew-ropes were wound off it. When all the ropes had been drawn equally tight, and the whole party of men had been ranged along the top in an ...
— The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from - Fragments of Voyages and Travels • Basil Hall

... fumes of ammonia are intensely irritating, and may give rise to laryngitis, bronchitis, and even pneumonia. Nitric acid fumes sometimes produce no serious symptoms for an hour or more, but there may then be coughing, difficulty of breathing, and tightness in the lower part of the throat, followed by capillary bronchitis (see ...
— Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology • W. G. Aitchison Robertson


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