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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tuft, tussocknoun

    a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

  2. tuftnoun

    a bunch of feathers or hair

Wiktionary

  1. tuftnoun

    A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

  2. tuftnoun

    A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

  3. tuftnoun

    A small clump of trees or bushes.

  4. tuftnoun

    A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

  5. tuftnoun

    A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

  6. tuftverb

    To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

  7. tuftverb

    To form into tufts.

  8. tuftverb

    To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.

  9. tuftverb

    To be formed into tufts.

  10. Etymology: toft(e), from tofe, toffe 'tuft', from Late Latin (near Vegezio) tufa 'helmet crest', from Germanic (compare ðūf 'tuft', þúfa 'mound', tuva 'tussock, grassy hillock'), from *þūƀōn, þūƀaz; akin to Latin tūber 'hump, swelling', Ancient Greek typhē 'cattail (used to stuff beds)'.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. TUFTnoun

    Etymology: tuffe, French.

    Upon sweet brier, a fine tuft or brush of moss of divers colours, you shall ever find full of white worms. Francis Bacon.

    It is notorious for its goatish smell, and tufts not unlike the beard of that animal. Henry More, Antidote against Atheism.

    A tuft of daisies on a flow’ry lay. Dryden.

    Near a living stream their mansion place
    Edg’d round with moss and tufts of matted grass. Dryden.

    The male among birds often appears in a crest, comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume, erected like a pinacle on the top of the head. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 265.

    Going a little aside into the wood, where many times before she delighted to walk, her eyes were saluted with a tuft of trees so close set together, as with the shade the moon gave through it, it might breed a fearful kind of devotion to look upon it. Philip Sidney.

    My house is at the tuft of olives hard by. William Shakespeare.

    With high woods the hills were crown’d;
    With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side,
    With borders long the rivers. John Milton, Par. Lost.

    In bow’r and field he sought, where any tuft
    Of grove, or garden-plot more pleasant,
    Their tendance, or plantation for delight. John Milton, P. L.

    Under a tuft of shade, that on a green
    Stood whisp’ring soft, by a fresh fountain side
    They sat them down. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. iv.

  2. To Tuftverb

    To adorn with a tuft; a doubtful word, not authorised by any competent writer.

    Sit beneath the shade
    Of solemn oaks, that tuft the swelling mounts,
    Thrown graceful round. James Thomson.

ChatGPT

  1. tuft

    A tuft is a bunch or cluster of small, often soft and flexible things, such as threads, grass, hair, or feathers, that are attached or held together at the base.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tuftnoun

    a collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers

  2. Tuftnoun

    a cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants

  3. Tuftnoun

    a nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them

  4. Tuftverb

    to separate into tufts

  5. Tuftverb

    to adorn with tufts or with a tuft

  6. Tuftverb

    to grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts

Wikidata

  1. Tuft

    In the aviation field, the term tuft refers to a strip of yarn or string of varying length attached to an aircraft surface in a grid pattern and imaged during flight. The motion of these tufts during flight can be observed and recorded in order to locate flow features such as boundary layer separation and reattachment. Tufting can be considered a technique for flow visualization, used in aeronautics flight testing to study air flow direction, strength, and boundary layer properties. The world's largest bed of tufts was created at NASA Ames Research Center to study air flow fields involving a helicopter's rotor disk.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tuft

    tuft, n. a green knoll: a grove, clump. [A.S toft—Ice. topt, tupt, a piece of ground.]

  2. Tuft

    tuft, n. a number of small things in a knot: a cluster: a dense head of flowers: (university slang) a titled undergraduate, from the tuft or tassel in the cap: an imperial.—v.t. to separate into tufts: to adorn with tufts.—adjs. Tuft′ed, Tuft′y.—ns. Tuft′-hunt′er, one over-eager to form acquaintance with persons of rank or consequence: a mean hanger-on of the great; Tuft′-hunt′ing, the practice of a tuft-hunter. [O. Fr. tuffe (Fr. touffe), from the Teut., as Low Ger. topp, Ger. zopf.]

Etymology and Origins

  1. Tuft

    See “Toff.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. TUFT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Tuft is ranked #29309 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Tuft surname appeared 807 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Tuft.

    76.2% or 615 total occurrences were White.
    20.9% or 169 total occurrences were Black.
    1.9% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.6% or 5 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tuft in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tuft in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of tuft in a Sentence

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  • twffyn, cudynWelsh
  • manojo, penacho, mechónSpanish
  • nukittaa, töyhtö, tupsulakki, tuftata, pusikko, nukka, takkuuntua, puska, tupsuFinnish
  • touffeFrench
  • tom, dual, dlaoiIrish
  • ciuffo, cespo, infiocchettare, zolla, ciocca, impennacchiare, rappa, nappina dorata, a forma di ciuffo, fiocco, ornare di ciuffi, macchia d'alberi, trapuntareItalian
  • pūrekirekiMāori
  • bundelen, bomengroep, bosje, pluk, bundelDutch
  • kępkaPolish
  • tufoPortuguese
  • smoc, flocRomanian
  • пучокRussian

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