taught vs taut :

taught vs taut

taught or taut

Taut means to stretch something very tight to its extreme.

"The jump rope is taut hence useless for what you intend to use it for."

Taught on the other hand is the past tense of teach which means to impart knowledge into learners or students.

"He taught me a lot when I was younger."


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Definitions
  taut
  • s  pulled or drawn tight
    taut sails
  • s  subjected to great tension; stretched tight
    her nerves were taut as the strings of a bow
News & Articles
  taught
  • Finches sing like birds -- and their dad taught them how
    By Jennifer ViegasDiscovery NewsIt goes a little something like this: A young male zebra finch, whose father taught him a song, shared that song with a brother, with the two youngsters then creating new tunes based on dad’s signature sound.The musical bird family, described in the latest Biology Letters, strengthens evidence that imitation between siblings and similar-aged youngsters facilitates ...
    June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
  • Finches sing like birds -- and their dad taught them how
    By Jennifer ViegasDiscovery NewsIt goes a little something like this: A young male zebra finch, whose father taught him a song, shared that song with a brother, with the two youngsters then creating new tunes based on dad’s signature sound.The musical bird family, described in the latest Biology Letters, strengthens evidence that imitation between siblings and similar-aged youngsters facilitates ...
    June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
  • Sex and Superheroines
    Editor's Note: Christina Blanch is a comics scholar. Cofounder of CAPE, she recently taught a new online course on Gender through Comic Books.
    June 13, 2013 - CNN
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