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tight in English:

1. fitting your body very closely fitting your body very closely



English word "tight"(fitting your body very closely) occurs in sets:

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2. tight tight


Sit tight.
A lot of companies are going under lately because banks are so tight with their money.
Hold on tight, otherwise you will fall off.
Bodybuilding is his hobby so he has a very firm tight body with lots of muscle definition.
Insurance companies everywhere are facing hard times and have become even more tight fisted about payouts.
I fastened the box tight with a rope so that it wouldn't break up.
Monetary policy in United States has been characterized by tight credit over the months.
What're you doing? "The household books. Our finances are pretty tight so we have to do things properly."
A tight belt will interfere with circulation of the blood.
Kim is so tight, if you stuck a lump of coal up her ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond!
Even though Mr Smith was very wealthy, he was a tight wad.
There are going to be 100 people at the meeting. It will be a tight fit.
1) If sth is tight is secure and not easily moved, tense, firm, or that it fits too closely 2) something difficult to deal with’ and ‘that allows little time or space in between things.’// 3) figurative, slang (stingy, miserly) tacaño
A skin site with minimal wrinkling and not covered by tight clothing is recommended.
A sick soul that holds on tight to anger and hate will never heal until it lets go of those demons.

3. clinging


She was clinging to her father.
We are still clinging to the dreams of our youth.
She was still clinging to the hope that her dog would be found alive.
Or perhaps she was clinging for her life.
His clinging wife was always afraid that he would find another woman.
Fungi married algae... clinging to rock, and eating...
Stop clinging to your glory days, or you'll be left behind.

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4. very close



5. clothes or shoes that are tight fit the body too closely and are uncomfortable



6. loose


I usually toss my loose change into my desk drawer.
After tying up loose ends on the house, the carpenter gave the painter approval to begin work.
As a prank, some students let three goats loose inside their school after painting the numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the sides of the goats. The teachers spent most of the day looking for goat number 3.
loose trousers
I usually cut loose a bit and drink plenty before a day off work but if my drinks are cut with tochu tea then I get absolutely no hangover.
Let us students contribute to the welfare of the victims of the earthquake; even loose change will go a long way.
With his wife and children in the country, he was at loose ends for something to do.
It would be a shame for a young man to be at loose ends just because he can't get the kind of job he wants.
There have been a lot of clothes lately that fit tightly and I don't like it. I prefer clothes with a loose design.
Recently, I feel like the number of women with loose morals is increasing.
If you cannot get the patch to stick successfully, remove the loose patch and use a new patch.
By the way, your hair looks beautiful when left loose.
Isn't it better to get drunk and cut loose once in a while and blow off the tension of daily frustration?
Why don't you try expressing your opinion a little more gently? Think about how he feels getting told flatly that he's being cut loose.

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7. pressed


Did he have his trousers pressed?
She pressed the switch.
He pressed me to stay a little longer.
I am pressed for time.
Tom pressed his ear against the wall to see if he could hear what his parents were discussing in the next room.
She pressed her lips firmly together.
And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America. The heartache and the hope, the struggle and the progress. The times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes, we can.
People in that country are pressed by hunger.
I was pressed by their questioning and slipped into telling an obvious lie.
When I put 100 yen in and pressed the button to buy a coffee at the vending machine, four cans dropped down all at once!
She seemed pressed for time and often glanced at the clock on the wall.
We pressed on, regardless.
Be like the palm tree - the more it gets pressed by the cliff, the quicker and more beautiful its rise to the top.
She pressed her lips together and willed herself not to cry.
If you pressed that button, the engine would stop.

English word "tight"(pressed) occurs in sets:

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8. well fitting



English word "tight"(well fitting) occurs in sets:

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9. narrow


What narrow stairs!
My what a narrow waist! Her face is small, she really looks just like a doll!
You are in a narrow rocky shaft. There is some light shining from far above. Below you is the cave you started in. What do you do now?
We sped into the narrow track, hardly dropping any speed. "It's a short cut!" "Oi! It's a footpath!!"
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Why do physicists converge? Because they're monotonous and narrow.
Hutongs are a type of narrow street, most commonly associated with Beijing, China.
He who walks the straight and narrow path must resist temptations of all sorts.
Microfibre cloth is cloth woven from fibres as narrow as a hundredth of the width of a hair.
The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
Businesses perceive as competitors a narrow range of the business world; there are many cases where they don't understand their real rivals.
We will be able to narrow this gap and, reduce some of the social problems. that come from this economic inequality.
What we cannot agree to, however, is a narrow understanding of this whole problem.!
I narrowed my eyes when I heard his words.
There's such a narrow margin between giving an acceptable tip and a generous one.