Usually means: Domesticated, trained, controlled by humans.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tame: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tame: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tame: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tame, tame: Wordnik
  7. tame: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Tame, tame: Wiktionary
  9. tame: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tame: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tame: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tame: Dictionary.com
  13. tame (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tame: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TAME (airline), TAME, Tame (analytic tool), Tame: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tame: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tame: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tame: Rhymezone
  19. tame: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tame: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tame: Free Dictionary
  22. tame: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tame: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. tame: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. tame: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tame (airline), tame: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tame: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TAME: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tame: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. TAME: Energy Terms
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tamable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not or no longer wild; domesticated.
adjective:  (chiefly of animals) Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact.
adjective:  (figurative) Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of a non-Westernised person, accustomed to European society.
adjective:  Not exciting.
adjective:  Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a knot) Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
verb:  (transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.
verb:  (intransitive) To become tame or domesticated.
verb:  (transitive) To make gentle or meek.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, dialect) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A river in the West Midlands, Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, a tributary to the Trent.
noun:  A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Goyt at Stockport, then becoming the River Mersey.

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