Meaning of 'tail' (Webster Dictionary)
- Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
- Limitation; abridgment.
- The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an
animal.
- Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in
shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
- Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything,
-- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head,
effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression
"heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of
deciding some point by its fall.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is
formed of the permanent elongated style.
- 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.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting
the bandage one or more times.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be
lashed to anything.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or
downward from the head; the stem.
- Same as Tailing, 4.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate
or tile.
- See Tailing, n., 5.
- To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon
a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of
a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely
to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
Meaning of 'tail' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Example in sentence:- are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?;
- he deserves a good kick in the butt
Meaning (2):
- the time of the last part of something
Example in sentence:- the fag end of this crisis-ridden century;
- the tail of the storm
Meaning (3):
- go after with the intent to catch
Example in sentence:- the dog chased the rabbit;
- The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
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