tail
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈteɪ̯l/|[ˈtʰeɪ̯l]
美 /ˈteɪ̯l/|[ˈtʰeɪ̯l]|/ˈtæ̝ɪ̯l/
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
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Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
— tail malelimitation to male heirs
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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.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
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The tail-end of any object.
— And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
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The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
— long tail
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
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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.
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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.
- The penis of a person or animal.
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Sexual intercourse.
— I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
- The stern; the back of the kayak.
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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
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- 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.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- A tailing.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- A tailcoat.
- Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
动词 v.
- To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
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To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
— This vessel tails downstream.
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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.
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To follow and observe surreptitiously.
— Tail that car!
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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.
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Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
— estate tail
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.
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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