Tail (IPA: /ˈteɪɫ/)
| Tail (n.) |
Limitation; abridgment. |
| Tail (a.) |
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail. |
| Tail (n.) |
The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. |
| Tail (n.) |
Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin. |
| Tail (n.) |
Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part. |
| Tail (n.) |
A train or company of attendants; a retinue. |
| Tail (n.) |
The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "LFT heads or tails, RHT" employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall. |
| Tail (n.) |
The distal tendon of a muscle. |
| Tail (n.) |
A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style. |
| Tail (n.) |
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. |
| Tail (n.) |
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. |
| Tail (n.) |
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. |
| Tail (n.) |
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. |
| Tail (n.) |
Same as Tailing, 4. |
| Tail (n.) |
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile. |
| Tail (n.) |
See Tailing, n., 5. |
| Tail (v. t.) |
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. |
| Tail (v. t.) |
To pull or draw by the tail. |
| Tail (v. i.) |
To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into. |
| Tail (v. i.) |
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream. |
| Tail |
Rear appendage of organism |
| Tail |
Standard UNIX utility |
| Tail |
Diacritical mark |
| Tail |
Chinese constellation |
| Tail |
Single by Powderfinger |
| Tail Synonyms |
Fanny, Posterior, Bottom, Bum, Hindquarters, Rear, Nates, Tooshie, Backside, Tail End, Arse, Buttocks, Fundament, Derriere, As, Stern, Can, Buns, Behind, Hind End, Prat, Butt, Keister, Seat, Tush, Rear End, Rump |
| Tail Synonyms |
Tail End, Fag End |
| Tail Synonyms |
Shadower, Shadow |
| Tail Synonyms |
Stern, After Part, Poop, Quarter |
| Tail Synonyms |
Tail Assembly, Empennage |
| Tail Synonyms |
Tail End |
| Tail Synonyms |
Tag Along, Trail, Track, Give Chase, Chase Away, Chase, Dog, Chase After, Go After, Tag |
| Tail Synonyms |
Bob, Dock |
| TAIL (Acronym / Abbreviation) |
Thermal asymmetric interlaced |
Tail Rhymes
