Tail
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English
Noun
Tail (plural Tails)- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- When a grumpy client of the frat's annual carwash complained the tail of his menure-soiled tractor wasn't completely cleaned, the poor pledges had to drop trou and bend over to get their own tails paddled in public.
- An object or part thereof resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails or other multi-tail whip.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage
- Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (chiefly 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.
- (mathematics) (of a sequence) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (now colloquial) The buttocks or backside.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.49:
- They were wont to wipe their tailes [transl. cul] (this vaine superstition of words must be left unto women) with a sponge, and that's the reason why Spongia in Latine is counted an obscene word [...].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.49:
- (slang) The male member of a person or animal.
- After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent tail
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
- (kayaking) the stern; the back of the kayak.
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Verb
Tail (third-person singular simple present Tails, present participle Tailing, simple past and past participle Tailed)
- (transitive) To surreptitiously follow and observe.
Adjectives for Tail
real; curling; flickering; forked; prehen- sible; stumpy; monstrous; false; fantastic; lambent; lashing; deadly; stinging; scraggy.
Verbs for Tail
agitate—; cover—; fasten—; flick—; flour¬ish—; hitch—; infest—; swish—; toss—; wag—; whisk—; —balances; —collides with; —dangles; —dashes —hangs; — jerks; —lashes; —quivers —slaps; — smacks; —strikes; —sweeps —swings; — taps; —twitches; —whacks —whisks; — wiggles.
Thesaurus
Thule, Ultima Thule, acknowledgments, adherent, affix, aft, after, aftermost, afterpart, afterpiece, allonge, appendage, appendix, arm, arse, ass, attendant, back, back door, back matter, back seat, back side, backside, backward, bastard title, bedog, behind, bibliography, bitter end, bottom, bottom dollar, bough, boundary, braid, branch, breech, brush, buff, bum, bun, butt, butt end, buttocks, can, catch line, catchword, cauda, caudal, caudal appendage, caudate, caudated, caudation, caudiform, cavaliere servente, chase, cheeks, chignon, coda, codicil, coil, colophon, come after, come behind, commentary, conclusive, contents, contents page, copyright page, courtier, croup, cue, dangler, dedication, definitive, dependent, determinative, disciple, dock, dog, enclitic, endleaf, endmost, endpaper, endsheet, envoi, epilogue, errata, eventual, extreme, extremity, eye, fag end, fan, fanny, fantail, farthest, farthest bound, final, flag, flunky, flyleaf, folio, follow, follow a clue, follow up, follower, following, fore edge, foreword, front matter, go after, go behind, half-title page, hand, hanger-on, head, heel, henchman, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindhead, hindmost, homme de cour, hound, hunt down, imp, imprint, index, infix, inscription, interlineation, interpolation, introduction, joint, jumping-off place, keister, knot, last, leaf, leg, limb, limit, limiting, link, lobe, lobule, makeup, marginalia, member, move behind, nib, nose, nose out, note, occiput, offshoot, organ, page, parasite, partisan, pigtail, pinion, plait, point, polar, pole, posterior, postern, postscript, prat, preface, prefix, preliminaries, proclitic, public, pursue, pursuer, pursuivant, queue, rabbit, ramification, rattail, rear, rear end, rearmost, rearward, recto, retrograde, reverse, reverso, rider, rump, run down, run to earth, runner, running title, rusty-dusty, satellite, scholia, scion, sectary, shadow, signature, smell out, sniff out, spray, sprig, spur, stalk, stern, stooge, string along, stub, stump, subtitle, successor, suffix, supporter, switch, tab, table of contents, tag, tag after, tag along, tag end, tagtail, tail end, tailed, tailgate, taillike, tailpiece, tendril, terminal, terminating, terminative, text, tip, title, title page, topknot, trace, trace down, track, track down, trail, trail after, trailer, train, trainbearer, tread close upon, trim size, tuchis, tush, tushy, twig, twist, type page, ultimate, verso, votary, wake, ward heeler, wing
Etymology
From Old English tæġel. In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
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