Tailor
['teɪlə] or ['telɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person whose occupation is making and altering garments.
(verb.) adjust to a specific need or market; 'a magazine oriented towards young people'; 'tailor your needs to your surroundings'.
Typist: Meg--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
(n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
(n.) The silversides.
(n.) The goldfish.
(v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
Edited by Benson
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Maker of men's clothes.[2]. (Ich.) Blue-fish, ship-jack, snapping mackerel (Temnodon saltator).
Editor: Patrick
Definition
n. one whose business is to cut out and make men's clothes:—fem. Tail′oress.—v.i. to work as a tailor.—v.t. to make clothes for.—ns. Tail′or-bird one of several Oriental small passerine birds which sew leaves together to form a nest: Tail′oring the business or work of a tailor.—adj. Tail′or-made made by a tailor esp. of plain close-fitting garments for women in imitation of men's.
Edited by Cathryn
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a tailor, denotes that worries will arise on account of some journey to be made. To have a misunderstanding with one, shows that you will be disappointed in the outcome of some scheme. For one to take your measure, denotes that you will have quarrels and disagreements.
Checked by Beth
Unserious Contents or Definition
One who takes your measure on first sight, gives you a fit, sews you up and follows suit until paid.
Editor: Sharon
Examples
- He had been a tailor in his time, and had kept a phaeton, he said. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This part, however, is very small in some, and very great in others, A master tailor requires no other instruments of trade but a parcel of needles. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of 'Hyams,' who was Oldacres tailor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We'll make the coats of some of these soldiers redder than ever the tailor did. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He's a tailor by trade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The tailors of Boston to whom he showed it were willing to admit its efficiency, but told him that he could never secure its general use, as such a proceeding would ruin their business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The university of smiths, the university of tailors, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Three hundred tailors were employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they had another contrivance for taking my measure. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Edison says: I get a suit that fits me; then I compel the tailors to use that as a jig or pattern or blue-print to make others by. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Singer machine met the demands of the tailoring and leather industries for a heavier and more powerful machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Silvia