Explore Tail through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like rear or ending. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Tail meaning
- The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
Synonyms of Tail
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Using Tail
- The main meaning on this page is: The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca. | An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. | The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- Useful related words include: tail end, rear, stern, back.
- Possible Dutch translations are: schaduwen, beschatten.
- In the example corpus, tail often appears in combinations such as: the tail, tail end, tail is.
Example sentences (20)
They will have a slender single tail, a forked tail, a swirl-type tail, or the boot/paddle tail.
For example, tossing a fair coin twice will yield "head-head", "head-tail", "tail-head", and "tail-tail" outcomes.
Finally, a separate prop of Godzilla's tail was also built for close up practical shots when its tail would be used (such as the scene where Godzilla trips Kong with its tail).
Tail-sitter main A tail-sitter sits vertically on its tail for takeoff and landing, then tilts the whole aircraft forward for horizontal flight.
The goat on the left has a short goat tail, but the Greek satyr on the right has a long horse tail, not a goat tail (Attic ceramic, 520 BC).
The tail rotor is driven from the main transmission, via the two directional gearboxes which provide a tail rotor speed approximately six times that of the main rotor to increase tail rotor effectiveness.
It did have an interesting feature, though: The nose gear assembly was capable of “kneeling,” putting the airplane in a nose-low, tail-high attitude, allowing Furies to be placed very close together when parked nose-to-tail.
The relatively large T4 looks like a hybrid of a lunar lander and a syringe, using its long tail fibers to land on E. coli cells and puncturing the bacteria's outer membrane with its tail tube.
The J-20 has a low radar cross-section, low jet engine intakes, canard delta configuration, diverterless supersonic inlet (DSI) V-shaped tail and tail fins.
Both the male and female have very bright, ginger-green upper-part plumage while the tail feathers have a metallic blue-green gloss with the outer three tail feathers (the feathers the bird uses to direct flight) on each side are white.
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As part of the study, the researchers examined over 70 tail vertebrae and partial tail skeletons featuring splits that ran through their vertebrae.
You can even watch some earthworms having sex right cut an earthworm in half, the head might grow a new tail, but the original tail will die.
A chemically synthesized c-terminal tail is then grafted onto insulin by reverse proteolysis using the inexpensive protease trypsin; typically the lysine on the c-terminal tail is protected with a chemical protecting group to prevent proteolysis.
Additionally, no tail recursion ever occurs on a child node, so the tail recursion loop can only move from a child back to its successive ancestors.
Appending one linked list to another can be inefficient unless a reference to the tail is kept as part of the List structure, because we must traverse the entire first list in order to find the tail, and then append the second list to this.
Because E is on the tail of P(E), the probability to draw a state x with E(x) on the tail of P(E) is proportional to P(E), which is small by definition.
Because the dorsal and ventral portions of the its tail angle inward toward a point to create a clear angle, the tail is said to be notched.
Because the tail is an extension of the animal's spine, a supple tail is desirable as it shows that the horse is supple through its back.
Each performs a different function, fine-tuning how the wakeboard rides through the water according to its width from tip to tail, fin setup, rocker and tip and tail shape.
Common combinations with tail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tail 58×
- tail end 21×
- tail is 17×
- tail and 16×
- its tail 15×
- and tail 12×
- tail of 10×
- his tail 6×
- otter tail 6×
- long tail 5×