tail

noun · verb · adjectiveA1

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noun

Plural noun:

tails

1.
(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
Most primates have a tail and fangs.
2.
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.
3.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
4.
The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
5.
The tail-end of any object.
6.
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
7.
(astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
8.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
9.
(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
long tail
10.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
11.
(cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
12.
(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
Đồng nghĩa: descender

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

tails

V_ing/Gerund

tailing

V_ed/pp

tailed

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

Tính từ

adjective

1.
(law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
estate tail

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From Middle English tail, taile, taille, tayil, tayl, tayle, tayll, teil, tæȝel, from Old English tæġel, tæġl (tail), from *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (hair, fiber; hair of a tail), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (hair of the tail), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (to tear, fray, shred). 2 cog Cognate with Zagel, tagl, tagel, 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻; also, dlȁka (single hair), dlaka, dezî,.