tail

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈteɪ̯l/|[ˈtʰeɪ̯l]    /ˈteɪ̯l/|[ˈtʰeɪ̯l]|/ˈtæ̝ɪ̯l/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
    — tail male
    limitation to male heirs
  3. 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.
  4. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
  5. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
  6. The tail-end of any object.
    — And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]
  7. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  8. The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
  9. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
  10. The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
    — long tail
  11. One who surreptitiously follows another.
  12. The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
  13. The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  14. The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse. in-plural
  15. 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.
  16. The buttocks or backside. US,colloquial
    — 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.
  17. The penis of a person or animal. slang
  18. Sexual intercourse. slang,uncountable
    — I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
  19. The stern; the back of the kayak.
  20. 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
  21. The distal tendon of a muscle.
  22. A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
  23. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
  24. 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.
  25. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
  26. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  27. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
  28. A tailing.
  29. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
  30. A tailcoat. colloquial,dated
  31. Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
  32. The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
动词 v.
  1. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
  2. 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.
    — Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.
  4. To follow and observe surreptitiously. transitive
    — Tail that car!
  5. To pull or draw by the tail.
    — The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd
形容词 adj.
  1. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
    — estate tail

词形变化

tails plural tails present,singular,third-person tailing participle,present tailed participle,past tailed past

词汇关系

衍生词
antitail astrotail at the tail bangtail bang tail bang-tail barbtail beaver tail beavertail betail bigtail blue rat's tail bluetail boattail bobtail bonytail box tail bristle-tail bristletail broadtail broken tail broomtail browntail brown-tail moth bucktail burro's tail Cameroon scaly-tail cat-o'-nine-tails catstail cattail cat-tail sedge chase one's own tail chase tail cold tail comet tail cottontail cowtail cross-tail culvertail dead tail de-tail devil's tail dogstail dog's-tail grass dogtail dovetail drabble-tail draggle-tail dragon's tail ducktail emutail e-tail fantail fat-tail fat tail feathertail fee tail filetail firetail fishtail fish tail fish-tail flagtail flangetail flat-tail sea snake flickertail flufftail forcepstail forktail foxtail freetail frozen tail fuzztail gilt-tail globetail goldentail goldtail grow a tail hairtail hangtail hardtail hare's-tail haul tail have a tiger by the tail have one's tail up have the tiger by the tail have the world by the tail on a downhill pull heads or tails head to tail heavy tail heliotail hightail high-tail high-tail it hooktail horntail horsetail horse tail in two shakes of a cow's tail in two shakes of a dog's tail in two shakes of a duck's tail in two shakes of a lamb's tail jollytail kick some tail kicktail kick tail lamb's tails lashtail lay salt on someone's tail lemur-tail seahorse like a dog with two tails limber tail limber tail syndrome lion's tail lizard's tail lizard tail lobster-tail pot longtail long-tail boat long-tail Covid looptail lyretail mackerel sky and mare's-tails make lofty ships carry low sails mackerel sky and mare's-tails make tall ships carry low sails make head nor tail of make head or tail of make neither head nor tail of mare's-tail mare's tail mares' tails metaltail mill tail monkey tail monkey tail tree mousetail nail-tail wallaby needletail nose to tail on one's tail on someone's tail oxtail peacock's tail pentail petaltail petticoat tail piece of tail pigtail pincertail pintail pin the tail on the donkey ploughtail plowtail plume tail ponytail pony tail pseudotail pull the devil by the tail put salt on someone's tail quaketail quilltail raccoon tail racket-tail racquet-tail rat-tail rat-tail file rat-tail radish rat-tail splice redtail red tail disease ribbontail ringtail ring-tailed rooster-tail roostertail roughtail rubytail scaletail scissorstail scissortail sharptail shavetail sheartail sheath-tail bat shieldtail shirt-tail shorttail silktail silvertail singletail skunk tail snake tail Softail softtail spadetail spatuletail spiketail spindletail spinetail split-tail spread tail sprigtail springtail squaretail squirreltail stifftail sting in the tail streamertail stripetail stubtail swallowtail swallow-tail swimmer's tail swingletail swingtail swordtail tagtail tailable tailache tail away tailback tailband tail-bay tail-beam tailbeat tail between one's legs tailblock tail block tailboard tailbone tail bone tail boom tailbud tailbutter tail-buzzer tail call tail club tailcoat tail cone tailcord tailcuff tailcup tail down tail dragger taildragger tail-end tailend tail end tail-ender tailer taileron tail event tailfan tailfeather tailfin tailfirst tail flap tailflip tailflipping tailforemost tailgate tail grape tailgroup tail gunner tail-gut tail gut tailgut tailhead tailhole tailhook tail in tailism tailjob taillamp tail lamp tailless tail lift taillight taillike tail merging tailmost tail-napkin tail number tailnumber tail-off tail off tail packing tail pad tailpiece tailpin tailpipe tailplane tail plug tail-pod radish tail-pole tail pole tail question tailrace tail recursion tail recursive tail rhyme tailride tail risk tail rotor tail-shedding tailshield tailsitter tailskid tail-skid tail slate tailslide tail slide tailspin tailspot tail stall tailstand tailstock tailstrike tailswing tail swing tail tap tail valve tail vein tail-wagger tailward tailwards tailwater tailwheel tailwhip tail wind tailwind tailwise tapertail tapetail teeter-tail teeth-to-tail ratio the cow knows not the worth of its tail till it loses it the tail wags the dog thistletail thorntail threadtail tickle the dragon's tail tiger tail tigertail tiger tail seahorse top and tail top to tail trendle-tail trindle-tail triple-tail tripletail trundletail trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail T-tail turkey tail turntail twintail undertail veiltail wagtail wag-tail dance wax someone's tail wedgetail whale's tail whale tail whiptail whitetail white-tailed hawk wholetail wiretail with one's tail up work one's tail off work someone's tail off wrentail wrytail yellowtail

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *taglą
Proto-West Germanic *tagl
Old English tæġl
Middle English tayl
English tail
From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *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”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Saterland Frisian Tail (“tail, end”), West Frisian teil (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
词源 2
From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.
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