तना हुआ (en. Taut)

Cerebral and visceral, soft and heavy, melodic and abrasive, tender and brutal, familiar and strange, western and eastern, beautiful and ugly, taut yet sprawling and epic, they are a tangle of contradictions.

Exercise is just to straighten the spine and keep the belly slightly taut.

Plagued by less than taut skin but don’t want to go the surgical route?

The silk was stretched taut over a wooden frame and coated with India rubber, and the oil colours applied to it were ‘old’, i.e. had been standing around for a while.

You can use a bent coat hanger for this or even just put a taut rubber band around the can and across the center of the top.

The possibility of hitting Pakistan’s food supply is regularly amped up by both Indian and Pakistani media, stretching perennially taut relations.

When the kite is flown with the line taut, the kite is deformed by the wind pressure, giving it a degree of stability.