Tail

[teɪl] or [tel]

解释:

(noun.) the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body.

(noun.) the rear part of an aircraft.

(noun.) (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head.

(noun.) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.

(noun.) any projection that resembles the tail of an animal.

(verb.) remove the stalk of fruits or berries.

伊凡手打--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Limitation; abridgment.

(a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.

(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.

(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.

(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.

(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.

(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

(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.

(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.

(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.

(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

(v. t.) To pull or draw by the 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.

(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

克雷格编辑

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. End, extremity, fag-end, hinder part.[2]. Skirt, flap.[3]. (Mus.) Stem (of a note).

校对:马奇

解释:

n. (law) the term applied to an estate which is cut off or limited to certain heirs.—ns. Tail′āge Tall′āge.

n. the posterior extremity of an animal its caudal appendage: anything resembling a tail in appearance position &c.: the back lower or hinder part of anything: a retinue suite: a queue or body of persons in single file: anything long and hanging as a catkin train of a comet long curl of hair &c.: in Turkey a horse-tail formerly carried before a pasha as an emblem of relative rank.—n. Tail′-board the board at the hinder end of a cart or wagon which can be let down or removed for convenience in unloading.—adj. Tailed having a tail of a specified kind.—ns. Tail′-end the hind part of any animal the tip of the tail: the end or finish of anything the fag-end: (pl.) inferior corn sorted out from that of better quality; Tail′-feath′er one of the rectrices or rudder-feathers of a bird's tail; Tail′-gate the aft or lower gate of a canal lock.—n.pl. Tail′ings refuse dregs.—adj. Tail′less having no tail.—ns. Tail′piece a piece at the tail or end esp. of a series as of engravings; Tail′pipe the suction pipe in a pump.—v.t. to fasten something to the tail of as a dog to fix something to one by way of joke.—ns. Tail′race the channel in which water runs away below a mill-wheel; Tail′rope in coal-mining a rope extending from the hind part of a car or kibble in a slightly inclined passage by means of which the empties are drawn 'inby ' while the loaded cars are drawn 'outby.'—Lay or Put salt on the tail of (see Salt); Make neither head nor tail of anything (see Head); Turn tail to run away to shirk a combat; Twist the lion's tail (U.S.) to goad or insult the pacific and long-suffering British public feeling for political purposes in America; With the tail between the legs in a cowardly way after the manner of a beaten cur when he sneaks away.

校对:韦恩