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tail

/ˈteɪ̯l/

noun32

  1. an often long part of an animal's body, farthest from its head, which many animals can move
  2. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
  3. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  4. The tail-end of any object.
  5. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  6. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  7. The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
  8. The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  9. [in the plural] The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
  10. All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
  11. The stern; the back of the kayak.
  12. A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
  13. A tailing.
  14. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  15. The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
  16. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.
  17. The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  18. The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  19. A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
  20. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  21. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  22. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  23. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  24. Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
  25. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  26. (US, informal) The buttocks or backside.
  27. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
  28. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
  29. Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
  30. (informal, old-fashioned) A tailcoat.
  31. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  32. The distal tendon of a muscle.

verb5

  1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  2. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
  3. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
  4. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
  5. To pull or draw by the tail.

adjective1

  1. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
forms

tailed · tailing · tails

Phrases with tail

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