Definition von tai̇l im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- tail
- One who surreptitiously follows another
- tail
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus
- tail
- Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind
- tail
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse
- tail
- All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on
- tail
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y
- tail
- 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.
- tail
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage
- tail
- The tail-end of a creature (buttocks, even if tailless) or 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.
- tail
- 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
- tail
- Sexual intercourse
I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
- tail
- To surreptitiously follow and observe
- tail
- The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers
- tail
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part
- tail
- The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail
- tail
- {n} the hinder part
- tail
- {v} to pull by the tail
- tail
- the rear of the skateboard, from the back truck bolts to the end
- tail
- Feathers extending from the rear of the bird
- tail
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times
- tail
- 1) The end of a line 2) A line attached to the end of a wire to make it easier to use 3) To gather the unused end of a line neatly so that it does not become tangled
- tail
- 1 The very rearmost section of a ski 2 The entire rear section, from the back of the binding to the very end
- tail
- A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes
- tail
- This term has been used to describe both the exposure that exists after expiration of a policy and the coverage that may be purchased to cover that exposure On "occurrence" forms a claims tail may extend for years after policy expiration, and the losses may be covered On "claims made" forms tail coverage may be purchased to extend the period for reporting covered claims beyond the normal policy period
- tail
- {f} remove the tail of an animal; furnish with a tail; come after, follow behind; gradually stop or disappear; follow a person in order to observe his activities
- tail
- To tail someone means to follow close behind them and watch where they go and what they do. Officers had tailed the gang from London during a major undercover inquiry He trusted her so little that he had her tailed. = shadow
- tail
- 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
- The rear of a container
- tail
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream
- tail
- In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid
- tail
- The part of the dog that wags
- tail
- If you toss a coin and it comes down tails, you can see the side of it that does not have a picture of a head on it
- tail
- the rear part of an aircraft
- tail
- go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
- tail
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- tail
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- tail
- The tail of an animal, bird, or fish is the part extending beyond the end of its body. a black dog with a long tail. + -tailed -tailed white-tailed deer
- tail
- 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
- tail
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue
- tail
- The tail-end of a creature (buttocks, even if tailless) or object, e.g. the rear of an aircrafts fuselage, containing the tailfin
- tail
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem
- tail
- The payment stream and/or balloon payment of an income stream subsequent to another party's right and interest in the income stream Usually the back half of the payment stream when another party has purchased the front half
- tail
- Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, as opposed to the head, or the superior part
- tail
- To pull or draw by the tail
- tail
- You can use tail to refer to the end or back of something, especially something long and thin. the horizontal stabilizer bar on the plane's tail
- tail
- cannot make head or tail of something: see head. Being in tail: a tail estate. to follow someone and watch what they do, where they go etc. Extension of the vertebral column beyond the trunk, or any slender projection resembling such a structure. In fishes and other animals living completely or partly in water, it is very important to movement through water. Many tree-dwelling animals (e.g., squirrels) use the tail for balance and as a rudder when leaping; in some (e.g., certain monkeys), it is adapted for grasping. Birds' tail feathers aid in flight maneuverability. Other animals use their tails for defense (e.g., porcupines), social signals (e.g., dogs and cats), warning signals (e.g., deer and rattlesnakes), and hunting (e.g., alligators). whip tailed ray free tailed bat white tailed deer
- tail
- The lower loop of the letters g, q, and y in the roman alphabet
- tail
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- tail
- Limitation; abridgment
- tail
- A thin, relatively short extension of the rear of the hindwing In some species, such as the Hairstreaks, it is thought to mimic insect antennae and thus mislead bird predators into biting at the wrong end and only getting a mouthful of wing while the butterfly escapes in the opposite direction
- tail
- 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,"
- tail
- The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal
- tail
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; the reverse
- tail
- Commonly refers to the difference between the average and stop prices in Treasury cash auctions
- tail
- If a man is wearing tails, he is wearing a formal jacket which has two long pieces hanging down at the back
- tail
- Bottom edge of a leaf, board, or bound volume; that is, the surface on which a volume rests when shelved upright (LBI Standard, Glossary, p 17)
- tail
- the rear part of a ship
- tail
- The back end of the board, from the back two truck bolts, to the tip of the deck
- tail
- In flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability
- tail
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- tail
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- tail
- {i} rear appendage on some animals; longer section at the back of an evening dress or jacket; detective who follows a person and keeps track of his activities; woman as a sex object (Derogatory Slang); buttocks, derriere (Slang)
- tail
- the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm"
- tail
- Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin
- tail
- output the last part of files
- tail
- The bottom portion of the backbone of a bound volume
- tail
- employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall
- tail
- noun The part of the skateboard intended to be the rear end when riding
- tail
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything
- tail
- The short piece of the case rim at the small end of the harpsichord
- tail
- 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
- tail
- The distal tendon of a muscle
- tail
- male member of a person animal
- tail
- (1) In US Treasury cash auctions, refers to the differences between the average " issue price" and the "stop out price" (2) In the repo market, a dealer establishes a tail when it deliberately makes the reverse repo for longer than the repo in the hope that the interest rates will fall, lowering the cost of the remaining part of the reverse repo
- tail
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- tail
- in previously glaciated areas, a tapering ridge of debris that has been protected from erosion by a glacier by being on the sheltered side of a lump (crag) of more resistant rock
- tail
- The comet's tail is its most distinctive feature The tail always points away from the Sun! These appendages come in a variety of shapes and lengths that can vary from a small fraction of a degree, to the rare few that cover a significant portion of the sky
- tail
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded
- tail
- Bottom of the book, esp at the spine
- tail
- See Tailing, n
- tail
- Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail
- tail
- (1) The difference between the average price in Treasury auctions and the stopout price (2) A future money market instrument (one available some period hence) created by buying an existing instrument and financing the initial portion of its life with a term repo (3) The extreme ends under a probability curve (4) The odd amount in an MBS pool
- tail
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body the rear part of an aircraft (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements any projection that resembles the tail of an animal remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- tail
- Same as Tailing, 4
- tail
- A tailed coat; a tail coat
- tail
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- tail
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- tail
- The remaining reserves after a project financing has been repaid Sometimes refers to the residual value
- tail
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile
- tail
- {s} of or pertaining to a tail; situated in the tail or rear section (as of an aircraft)
- tail
- emphasis If you say that you have your tail between your legs, you are emphasizing that you feel defeated and ashamed. His team retreated last night with tails tucked firmly between their legs
- tail
- It is formed of the permanent elongated style
- Tail End Charlie
- The man guarding the rear of a patrol
- Tail End Charlie
- the last aircraft in a formation
- Tail End Charlie
- the rear gunner in a bomber
- tail away
- To gradually subside or diminish; to tail off
- tail between one's legs
- A reaction to a confrontation, specifically one with excessive shame and hurt pride
- tail block
- A block having a rope about it, and on an end hanging several feet from it. (FM 55-501)
- tail dragger
- one who delays or is constantly late
- tail dragger
- An alternative spelling of taildragger
- tail draggers
- plural form of tail dragger
- tail end
- The rear end of anything; of a person or animal, the butt, buttocks; hindquarters, rump
- tail fins
- plural form of tail fin
- tail gunner
- One who operates the gun or guns in in the tail of a military aircraft, usually a bomber
- tail gunner
- One whose function in an organization is to defend it from attackers, for example, in public relations or public affairs
- tail lift
- A mechanical device permanently fitted to the back of a vehicle, designed to facilitate the transfer of goods from ground level onto the vehicle
- tail lifts
- plural form of tail lift
- tail off
- to gradually subside or diminish; to tail away
- tail pad
- A deck grip pad at the rear (ie. tail) of a surfboard, for the surfer's back foot to stand on
2005: Gorilla grip uses high quality foam to make a tail pad that's lighter on your board and easier on your skin. — Tactics Board Shop advertisement.
- tail pads
- plural form of tail pad
- tail recursion
- The technique of writing a function so that recursive calls are only done immediately before function return, particularly when recursive control structures are used in place of iterative ones
- tail recursive
- A style of programming in which all functions are written so that recursive calls are made nowhere but immediately before function return
- tail recursive
- A program or function that is written or can be rewritten in a tail recursive style
- tail rhyme
- rhyme in which the rhyming lines in each verse are followed by a shorter line; these shorter lines sometimes rhyme with each other
- tail rhymes
- plural form of tail rhyme
- tail wagging the dog
- A minor or secondary part of something controlling the whole
- tail assembly
- the rear part of an aircraft
- tail away
- When a person's voice tails away or tails off, it gradually becomes quieter and then silent. His voice tailed away in the bitter cold air
- tail away
- tail off, diminish gradually, wane, subside gradually, fade
- tail coat
- evening suit with a tail in the back
- tail cut
- The plumb or square cut at the tail end of the rafter
- tail end
- The tail end of an event, situation, or period of time is the last part of it. Barry had obviously come in on the tail-end of the conversation
- tail end
- end, back end
- tail fan
- The fanlike posterior structure of a lobster, shrimp, or other crustacean, formed from the telson and the last pair of uropods and used for backward locomotion
- tail feather
- feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird
- tail fin
- {i} fin attached to the fish's tail; decorative protrusion resembling a fin on a car's rear fender; stabilizer being a part of the upright tail structure of a plane
- tail fin
- the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- tail gate
- a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end
- tail lamp
- lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle
- tail light
- one of the two red lights at the back of a vehicle
- tail light
- lamp located in the rear of an automobile
- tail of an aircraft
- rear part of an airplane, back of an airplane
- tail off
- When something tails off, it gradually becomes less in amount or value, often before coming to an end completely. Last year, economic growth tailed off to below four percent see also tail away
- tail off
- {f} tail away, diminish gradually, wane, subside gradually, fade
- tail plane
- horizontal part of a plane's tail intended to give equilibrium and stability
- tail rotor
- rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a single-rotor helicopter; keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor
- tail wheel
- rear wheel, back wheel
- tail wind
- wind that comes from behind, wind on one's back
- tail-light
- The tail-lights on a car or other vehicle are the two red lights at the back. = rear light
- chase tail
- Be on hunt for a (mostly sexual) partner
Let's go out clubbing tonight and chase some tail.
- fat tail
- A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0)
- fat tail
- A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance
- fat tail
- The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome
- fee tail
- An estate in land at common law wherein the land is inherited, but can not be sold, devised by will, or otherwise alienated by the owner, but which passes by operation of law to the owner's heirs upon his death
- heavy tail
- Fat tail
- in two shakes of a cow's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- in two shakes of a dog's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- in two shakes of a duck's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- in two shakes of a lamb's tail
- Alternative form of in two shakes
- long tail
- Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs
- long tail
- The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values
- long-tail boat
- Alternative spelling of longtail boat
- long-tail boats
- plural form of long-tail boat (alternative spelling of longtail boats)
- make head or tail of
- To determine to be good or bad
- make head or tail of
- To understand even minimally
See if you can make head or tail of this chapter. I'm baffled.
- nose to tail
- Moving slowly in this manner
- nose to tail
- Close to each other, one behind the other
- piece of tail
- Alternative form of piece of ass
- pin the tail on the donkey
- A common children's game involving pinning a piece of material on a specified spot while blindfolded
- pin the tail on the donkey
- Any attempt to aim something somewhither while handicapped in doing so
Without it, you may as well be playing pin the tail on the donkey with your marketing efforts.
- t-tail
- Type of aircraft that has the horizontal stabilizer situated atop, or near the top of, the vertical stabilizer
The C-5 Galaxy is the mightiest of all t-tails.
- tailed
- Simple past tense and past participle of tail
- tailed
- having the specified form of tail
It is a species of long-tailed mouse.
- tailing
- the act of following someone
- tails
- The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar
Tails, I win.
- tails
- Short for tailcoat
- tails
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tail
- tails
- plural form of tail
- turn tail
- To flee; to run away; to leave
He was the sort of man who, faced with the prospect of marriage, decided to turn tail and run rather than commit.
- whale tail
- An automotive spoiler
- whale tail
- An unintentional display of a thong etc above the waistband of trousers etc
- whale tail
- The tail of a whale
- whale's tail
- the distal bifurcation of the left anterior descending coronary artery
the distal birfucation, which is also known as the moustache, pitch fork, or whale's tail, in the left anterior descending coronary artery. , Eric J. Topol. Edition 4, illustrated. Elsevier Health Sciences, 2003. ISBN 0721694497.
- whale's tail
- The tail of a whale
- work one's tail off
- Work excessively or to the point of exhaustion
- work someone's tail off
- To cause someone to work hard, eg, as a supervisor
- Monkey tail tree
- (Botanik, Bitkibilim) Araucaria araucana (popularly called the monkey puzzle tree or monkey tail tree) is an evergreen tree growing to 40 metres (130 ft) tall with a 2 metres (7 ft) trunk diameter. The tree is native to central and southern Chile, western Argentina, and southern Brazil. Araucaria araucana is the hardiest species in the conifer genus Araucaria. Because of the species's great age it is sometimes described as a living fossil
- can't make head nor tail of something
- Not be able to understand something: "I can't make head nor tail of these instructions on the packet."
- cant make head nor tail of it
- (deyim) Not be able to understand something at all
- e-tail
- Retail business conducted online via the World Wide Web
- having a tiger by the tail
- Cope with an obsession; pursue an idea, a talent or even a vice obsessively; face a trying problem
- make head or tail of
- See the why of; finding a meaning in; understand. Used in negative, conditional, and interrogative sentences. "She could not make head or tail of the directions on the dress pattern. Can you make head or tail of the letter?"
- pin the tail
- (Oyunlar) Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a game played by groups of children. A picture of a donkey (or possibly another animal) is tacked to a wall within easy reach of the children (usually to a large cork bulletin board). Then each child in turn, one at a time, is blindfolded and handed a paper "tail" with a push pin or thumbtack poked through it. (The picture of the donkey is missing its tail). The blindfolded child is then spun around and around until he or she is probably disoriented (and possibly pleasantly dizzy). Then the child gropes around and tries to pin the tail on the donkey
- pin the tail on the donkey
- (Oyunlar) Pin the Tail on the Donkey is a game played by groups of children. A picture of a donkey (or possibly another animal) is tacked to a wall within easy reach of the children (usually to a large cork bulletin board). Then each child in turn, one at a time, is blindfolded and handed a paper "tail" with a push pin or thumbtack poked through it. (The picture of the donkey is missing its tail). The blindfolded child is then spun around and around until he or she is probably disoriented (and possibly pleasantly dizzy). Then the child gropes around and tries to pin the tail on the donkey
- turn tail
- (deyim) RUN AWAY, flee, bolt, make off, take to one's heels, cut and run, beat a (hasty) retreat; informal scram, scarper, skedaddle, vamoose
- whale tail
- Whale tail is a phrase describing the waistband of a thong or g-string when visible above the waistline of low-rise pants, shorts, or a skirt creating a shape resembling a whale's tail. The appearance of a whale tail is not always intentional
- Tailless
- acaudate
- Tailless
- ecaudate
- tail
- caudate
- tailed
- {s} having a tail
- tailed
- Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc
- tailer
- {i} one who follows, follower, trailer
- tailing
- present participle of tail
- tailing
- Called also tails
- tailing
- In facsimile systems, the excessive prolongation of the decay of the signal (188) Synonym hangover
- tailing
- 8 (a)
- tailing
- Sexual intercourse
- tailing
- The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus
- tailing
- A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together
- tailing
- following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines"
- tailing
- Same as Tail, n
- tailing
- The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall
- tailing
- The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff
- tailing
- A reduction in the quantity of an asset held in order to offset future income received by the asset
- tailing
- It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it
- tailing
- A term used to describe the asymmetrical shape of a peak, technically defined as having an asymmetry factor >1 -- Tee A T-shaped fitting used to connect three pieces of tubing [see graphic]
- tailing
- material rejected from a mill after the recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted
- tailing
- * A textile printing expression used when colors bleed or run into each other * A loose end left protruding at the base of a yarn cone or bobbin
- tailing
- Each drop of ink printed out of an ink jet printer has a tail or portion of the drop that is traveling slower than the main body As the drop travels farther from the print head, the tail gets longer If the tail gets too long or if the substrate is traveling too fast, the drop does not hit in just one spot but is spread out along the path of travel
- tailing
- the act of following someone secretly
- tailing
- {i} act of following
- tailless
- {s} lacking a tail
- tailless
- Having no tail
- tailless
- without a tail; not having a tail
- tails
- third-person singular of tail
- tails
- Formal dark suit with long dangly bits (the ``tails'') at the back of the jacket See `White Tie'
- tails
- Depleted uranium (cf enriched uranium), with about 0 3% U-235
- tails
- formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men
- tails
- plural of tail
- tails
- the last condensate collected from the still, also called the low wines