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tethered

[ teth-erd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

fastened or confined with or as if with a rope, chain, or the like to limit the range of movement:
On this field trip, students will have the opportunity to take a ride in a tethered hot-air balloon.
Too many lawmakers are partisan, inept, or too lightly tethered to reality.
Digital Technology. (of an electronic device) used to enable a wireless internet connection on another nearby device, often a laptop:
You can browse the web more securely using a tethered phone, because your information is being sent directly through the phone rather than over a public wireless hotspot.

This was a tethered reconnaissance balloon, as first used 220 years ago in the French Revolutionary War.

So here Clinton stands, tethered to a president who is neither loved nor feared.

Ida is a mystery of sorts, tethered to a road journey in a bleak postwar Poland.

Contrary to what critics insist, I saw no horses tethered in their stalls.

No rope was required to retain a baby after the mother was tethered to a tree.

He gave orders for the horses to be tethered a little distance in the rear of the camp, where they would be sheltered.

His horse was tethered below, behind another rock; and he felt positive that these men had not come upon it.

Barrington quieted his horse with soothing words, and dismounting, tethered him to a gate.

He was tethered in the centre of the arena, by one of his hind legs, to a stump about twelve inches high.

I call the Most High to witness—she submitted to all my demands meekly, as though she were no eaglet, but a tethered lamb!

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