Tail

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.

   “Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.”

3. isim The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
4. isim The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
5. isim The tail-end of any object.

   “And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]”

6. isim The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
7. isim The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
8. isim The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
9. isim The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.

   “long tail”

10. isim One who surreptitiously follows another.
11. isim The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
12. isim The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
13. isim The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
14. isim All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

    “A sequence (a#95;n) is said to be frequently 0 if every tail of the sequence contains 0.”

15. isim The buttocks or backside.

    “By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.”

16. isim The penis of a person or animal.
17. isim Sexual intercourse.

    “I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.”

18. isim The stern; the back of the kayak.
19. isim A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

    “Ah! if you Saxon Duinhé-wassal (English gentleman) saw but the chief with his tail on. […] that is, with all his usual followers”

20. isim The distal tendon of a muscle.
21. fiil To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
22. fiil To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

    “This vessel tails downstream.”

23. fiil To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

    “Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.”

24. fiil To follow and observe surreptitiously.

    “Tail that car!”

25. fiil To pull or draw by the tail.

    “The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd”

26. sıfat Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

    “estate tail”

27. isim Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

    “tail male”

28. özel isim A Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and the tail of Azure Dragon.

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tail.”