What, for example, were Fraunhofer's lines? McArdle had just been studying the matter with the aid of ourtame scientist at the office, and he picked from his desk two of those many-coloured spectral bands which bear a general resemblance to the hat-ribbons of some young and ambitious cricket club.
(obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page290:
The victim was Captain Bickenson, who had gone there from Port Darwin to try the pearling grounds, and for this purpose employed a number oftame blacks about the schooner.
Wow! So the implication there is that even 12-year-olds in France will find the movietame. “Yes, eet was a, an amusing erotic trifle, I supposa. Ze love-making was passable, but, uh, belt play is a leettle pedestriahn, don’t you seenk?”.
2011,Steven Pinker,The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published2012, page744:
Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usuallytames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.
2018, Johannes Deutsch, “Exploring energy related knowledge in technology and natural science education: Uncovering energy related understanding of students in the German federal state North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of lower secondary education”, in Marc J. de Vrieset al., editors,Research in Technology Education: International Approaches,page45:
Due to his ingenuity Homo learned to unleash the energy of wood bytaming wild fire and stepped into the pyrocultural age.
None but Adrian could havetamed the motley population of London, which, like a troop of unbitted steeds rushing to their pastures, had thrown aside all minor fears, through the operation of the fear paramount.
In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps the poor from starving. Then hetameth his stacks of corn, which not his covetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need.
tame inMarja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022)Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[1], Tromsø: UiT
Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
tame (third-person singular simple presenttameth,present participletamende,tamynge,first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participletamed)
