straightedge vs tame

straightedge

adj
  • Living one's life opposing or eschewing the use of substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. 

noun
  • A flat, rectangular tool used to draw, cut or check the straightness of straight lines. 

tame

adj
  • Of a person, well-behaved; not radical or extreme. 

  • Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless. 

  • Mild and well-behaved; accustomed to human contact. 

  • Not or no longer wild; domesticated. 

  • Capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain. 

  • Not exciting. 

verb
  • To make gentle or meek. 

  • To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. 

  • To become tame or domesticated. 

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