tightly
/ˈtʌɪtli
/adverb
1Closely and firmly: my hand gripped tightly onto the knife my eyes were tightly shut a tightly sealed container...
- The aphid feeds within the whorl of the upper leaves, causing the leaf to remain tightly rolled.
- Very little odor will be released from tightly covered storage structures.
- The floors are locally quarried slate, hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns.
1.1With very firm or strict control: the government tightly controlled the movement of money public companies are tightly regulated...
- The idea was to test his exchange rate hypothesis in a tightly specified model.
- All minerals are regulated very tightly in the blood.
- The author's study is more tightly restricted to a single saint, John the Evangelist.
1.2In a disciplined or well coordinated manner: tightly choreographed dance moves tightly reasoned arguments...
- The San Francisco firm cut its campus housing teeth on a pair of tightly budgeted graduate residences at the university.
- Legumes generally grow for some time past the corn harvest, and can take land away from the tightly scheduled sequential cropping typical of Asian agriculture.
- It is useful to have such an overview in one volume, though I regret it was not more tightly edited.