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tail English

Meaning tail meaning

What does tail mean?
Definitions in simple English

tail Noun

— A tail is a long, thin part on the back end of an animal. The dog wags his tail (moves his tail quickly from side to side) when he sees his friend.

tail Verb

— If you tail someone, you follow them without them noticing; you observe them.

tail

— 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 (= fag end) the time of the last part of something the fag end of this crisis-ridden century the tail of the storm — noun any projection that resembles the tail of an animal — noun (= butt, fanny) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on he deserves a good kick in the butt are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? — 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 — verb remove the stalk of fruits or berries — verb remove or shorten the tail of an animal — verb (= chase, dog, go after) go after with the intent to catch The policeman chased the mugger down the alley the dog chased the rabbit — noun (= stern) the rear part of a ship

Synonyms tail synonyms

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tail English » English

end tail end rear east stern rump buttocks rear end butt backside back ass tooshie queue posterior nates hindquarters fanny bum bottom behind arse tush keister hind end fundament derriere buns track tag shadow seat prat follow caudal can trail go after dog chase after chase tailpiece tail assembly stalk quarter poop empennage dock after part tip

Topics tail topics

What do people use tail to talk about?
Universe, creation Sky Sun

Planet
Universe, creation Animal

Parts of an animal
Physical actions Move

Pursue
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Wind
Universe, creation Animal Parts of an animal

Parts of a fish
Universe, creation Animal Animal actions

Animal movement
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid
Physical actions Move Accompany

Follow
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation tail conjugation

How do you conjugate tail?

tail · verb

Examples tail examples

How do I use tail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Angels have two wings; the Devil has a tail.
The elephant has a short tail.
The dog tucked its tail.
Tom's dog has a long tail.
A rabbit has long ears and a short tail.
Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
It had the head of a woman, the body of a lion, the wings of a bird, and the tail of a serpent.
The boy caught the dog by the tail.
I can't make head or tail of those directions.
The dog wagged its tail.
The dog, wagging its tail, followed its master.
This type of cat has no tail.
The tail of a fox is longer than that of a rabbit.
That dog has a short tail.
The dog ate the fish, bones, tail and all.
It was naughty of Mary to pull the kitten's tail.
A puppy followed me wagging its tail.
My dog is wagging his tail.
A fish swims by moving its tail.
The boy caught the cat by the tail.
The dog was wagging his tail.
As a tadpole grows, the tail disappears and legs begin to form.

Movie subtitles

We're worms - we've got a head, we've got a tail.
He and Hayley had a nose-to-tail on her way back into town.
The tail numbers were falsified, and the chopper was repainted.
No, we'll just let the tail follow him.
The quadrumanous parents are surprised to see a monkey with no hair and no tail.
The consultation: the bark of palm.. is considered a good remedy to make the tail come out.
But after another 10 years, the tail,.. despite the packs of bark of palm, had not come out yet,..
Mr. Jordan, I wouldn't trust that man as far as I could throw a bull by the tail.
I CAN'T MAKE HEAD OR TAIL OUT OF IT.
Watch that tail!
If you let anything happen to him, you'll never wag that tail again.
She might sprout tail any moment. Does she stay human?
Go to the garage and tail him.
Mr. Cobb said stick to your tail.
Eagle Tail says last time he seen him, he was headed for the train.
Its tail comprises five prismatic joints.
Its tail ends in a sixth joint, a sac from which poison is injected by barbed sting.
A meteor is a star with a tail on it.
I cant make head or tail out of you, Mr Chang.
I can't make head or tail of it.
Watch that tail! He's still alive.
Hey, you! Let go of my tail!
When an English lion creeps up on a nest of French foxes. he wears a bushy tail.
I can't make head or tail of this navigation.
Mr Cobb said stick to your tail.
And it's got, like, this poison stuff that comes from the claws and the tail.
The tail numbers were falsified, chopper was repainted.
And she talks to the dog, who wags its tail.
Go on, tread on the tail o' me coat.
Alice, I think this one must belong in the tail.
Nonsense. You tried it in the tail yesterday and it didn't fit.
Never hang on to a leopard's tail!
The game was as crooked as a hog's tail.
Somebody pulled my tail.
I hope your tail holds out.
Put salt on his tail.

News and current affairs

According to evolutionary psychologists, such displays of blatant benevolence are the human equivalent of the male peacock's tail.
The government knows that it has a political tiger by the tail, but refuses to acknowledge it, either inside China or outside.
So, is Europe chasing its tail?
With uncertainty, volatility, and tail risks on the rise again, the correction could accelerate quickly.
Private flows are no longer the tail, but the dog that wags the development agenda.
His reason for doing so was to explain male peacocks' obviously hindering tail feathers and male lions' apparently useless manes.
But other real assets can provide a similar hedge, and those tail risks - while not eliminated - are certainly lower today than at the peak of the global financial crisis.
Indeed, Israel's critics were already arguing that this was another case of the tail wagging the dog - that Israel and its American lobby were trying to push the US into serving Israel's interests rather than its own.
China's inevitable growth slowdown, along with a large tail risk, threatens stable growth in Asian economies that have become increasingly interdependent.
With so many risks in so many places, investors, not surprisingly, will eventually prize liquidity in their portfolios, while shunning riskier fixed assets again when these tail risks materialize.
With that sentence, Draghi eliminated the perceived re-denomination tail risk that was highest in the case of Greece, but that was driving up borrowing costs in Spain, Italy, and Portugal as well.
In short, QE3 reduces the tail risk of an outright economic contraction, but is unlikely to lead to a sustained recovery in an economy that is still enduring a painful deleveraging process.
Male birds, for example, often have brightly colored plumage or intricate appendages, such as the Australian lyrebird's long tail.
In our new book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and I find that if financial crises hold one lesson, it is that their aftereffects have a very long tail.
But it wouldn't be easy, owing in part to the Taliban's fragmentation, with the tail (private armies and militias) wagging the dog.
Back then, markets were poor at correctly pricing low-probability, high-impact tail risks.
Indeed, as was the case with the global financial crisis, investors seem unable to estimate, price, and hedge such tail risks properly.
But there is a sting in the tail.
In Europe, the tail risk of a eurozone break-up and a loss of market access by Spain and Italy were reduced by last summer's decision by the European Central Bank to backstop sovereign debt.
Yes, all investors should have a very modest share of gold in their portfolios as a hedge against extreme tail risks.

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