Used in a Sentence

tain

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tain.

Editorial note

It took his despise for Dukat and Tain dying for him to develop an affiliation with the Federation.

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Quick take

A town (royal burgh) in Ross-shire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7882).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tain gathered in one view.

noun

A town (royal burgh) in Ross-shire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7882).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tain.

noun

A town (royal burgh) in Ross-shire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7882).

Example sentences

1

It took his despise for Dukat and Tain dying for him to develop an affiliation with the Federation.

2

My main take away from your comment is that Keith Alexander is Enabran Tain & that I feel like the US is approximating the Cardassian Union more everyday.

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However, it is quite possible that an attacker is able to modify a keyfile to a cer- tain extent while that keyfile at the same time remains perfectly secret and unknown to him.

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This allows file names that con‐ tain newlines or other types of white space to be correctly interpreted by programs that process the find output.

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The way to get what I want would be to look into the code be­fore run­ning it and se­lec­tive­ly dis­able cer­tain be­haviour.

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> (x + (if is_true(): 1 else: 2)) [is invalid in Python] be­cause the if–else con­di­tional is a state­ment, and can only be used in cer­tain positions.

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Maybe the primary maintainer, after accepting a contribution, has to mind consistency with a feature, they now have to make Tain they don't care about from the start and is in the way for a feature they'd like.

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Curiosly, doesn't the GPL even imply that if you pre-tain an LLM with GPLed code and use it to generate code (Claude Code etc.) that all generated code -- as derived intellectual property that it clearly is -- must also be open sourced as per GPL terms?

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> This simplistic view leads to the assumption that one can ob- > tain the performance benefits of a column-store using a row-store: > either by vertically partitioning the schema, or by indexing every column so that columns can be accessed independently.

Quote examples

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You never know who might be trying to follow." -Enabran Tain(DS9) Cardassian quotes aside, this is obviously a joke.

2

Also reminds me of this Pratchett quote (about "a horse" carved in The Chalk): > Tain't what a horse looks like.

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After "Time Train", I saw "Timer Tain" and couldn't figure out what a "Tain" or an "eTain" was.

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I even saw "Tim Ere Tain" before I saw "Time Retain".

Proper noun examples

1

Then I’ve tried ‘Allan Holdsworth Sixteen Men of Tain’ and at least it found some jazz tracks.

2

Tain't Scheme---err Racket, 'tis Common Lisp, warts and all...

3

'Tain't no way to get around the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tain in a sentence?

It took his despise for Dukat and Tain dying for him to develop an affiliation with the Federation.

What does tain mean?

A town (royal burgh) in Ross-shire, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NH7882).

What part of speech is tain?

tain is commonly used as noun.