英语词汇“tail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tail1

/teɪl

noun

1The hindmost part of an animal, especially when prolonged beyond the rest of the body, such as the flexible extension of the backbone in a vertebrate, the feathers at the hind end of a bird, or a terminal appendage in an insect: the dog’s tail began to wag frantically...

Lastly, all chordates have a post-anal tail, or extension of the notochord and nerve cord past the anus.
The tail, like the rest of the body, had no internal skeleton and was reinforced only by lines of scales.
During the acupuncture stimulation, animals were kept in plastic holders with their tails and hind legs protruding out.

Synonyms

hindmost part, back end, appendage;

brush, scut, dock;

tailpiece, tail feathers;

hind part, hindquarters

technical cauda, uropygium

1.1A slender backward prolongation of each hindwing in some butterflies.The butterflies have tiger striped underwings and little black tails on their back wings.

2A thing resembling an animal’s tail in its shape or position, typically extending downwards or outwards at the end of something: the tail of a capital Q...

A number of Matisse's kite tails bear a shape that is ubiquitous in her oeuvre.
Shaped like a kite, trailing its tail along the sea, Myanmar is the largest country on the Southeast Asian mainland.
Next minute there are balloons with brightly coloured tails floating at ceiling level above Elvis' head.

2.1The rear part of an aeroplane, with the tailplane and rudder: the fuselage tapers sharply towards the tail...

Use the rudder to keep the tail right behind the nose, independent of what you're doing with the ailerons.
The tail unit comprises all-moving horizontal tail surfaces and a single-fin vertical tail fitted with a rudder.
Before departing they are instructed to try and photograph identification numbers or aircraft tails, if possible, and bring back the evidence.

2.2The lower or hanging part of a garment, especially the back of a shirt or coat: he wiped his hands on the tail of his grubby vest he stormed off, the tails of his jacket flapping behind him...

The tail of his shirt and parts of his pants and underpants were burned.
Nicanor wore a multicolored striped oxford shirt with the tails tied at his waist.
While she had been reading, he had unbuttoned the dark green cotton shirt and untucked the tails from his jeans.

2.3 (tails) informal A tailcoat, or a man’s formal evening suit with a tailcoat: the men looked debonair in white tie and tails...

A tuxedo is required, and can include more formal tuxedos, such as evening tails.
He came faultlessly dressed in the formal white tie and tails, nor did he regale us with wise-cracking anecdotes about the music or some of his funny experiences in the past.
It is shown alongside DiCaprio's dress coat with tails.

2.4The luminous trail of particles following a comet.It is this solar wind - seen only in comet tails - that carries storms from the Sun to Earth....

The refrigerator-sized satellite will collect dust particles from the tail of comet Wild 2 as the two pass each other on Friday morning.
They noted that comets had two tails - one of dust, one of ions - and only the dust tail could be explained by the pressure of sunlight pushing against the comet.

2.5The lower end of a pool or stream: shallow riffles and the tails of pools are prime feeding areas...

When we arrived I could see at the tail of the pool a super looking slack on the left hand bank which literally screamed chub.
As I fished through the tail of the pool I allowed the fly to swing into the slow shallow water close to my bank.
On reaching the tail of the Pool just below the power lines I hooked a fish, which I soon realised, was substantial.

2.6The exposed end of a slate or tile in a roof: the slates are dressed with the bevelled tail and edge characteristic of thick, square stone roofing...

If the walls are crooked, the rafter tails will also be crooked.
Nail a 1 x 6 facia board to seal and trim the end grain of the rafter tails.
Try to correct this problem; but if you are unable to, pop a chalk line across the rafter tails and trim them with your saw before attaching the sheathing.

2.7 Mathematics An extremity of a curve approaching the horizontal axis of a graph, especially that of a frequency distribution.The mean is higher than that because you have some real significant weight gain at the far right end of the tail of the bell curve....

In that research, biologically meaningful T base estimates were obtained by excluding both lower and upper tails of cumulative germination curves, as was done here.
A kind of occupational Darwinism ensures that such people are way up on the upper tail of the curve of verbal facility.

3The end of a long train or line of people or vehicles: a catering truck at the tail of the convoy...

If menaced with an attack, the divisions at the head and tail of the convoy will keep their positions and repel the enemy by their fire should he attack.
I lingered at the very tail of the crowd, trying to stay in the growing neutral zone between the cops and the rioters.

3.1The final, more distant, or weaker part of something: the tail of a hurricane...

We got hit by the tails of the summer hurricanes and were switching between day and night shoots a lot.
The sting of this title is in its tail: traditionally we have had dictionaries of Hellenic or Egyptian or Roman mythologies.
The pancreatic head lies cephalad to and well to the right of the umbilicus, and the tail of the pancreas extends to the spleen.

Synonyms

rear, end, back, extremity, conclusion;

bottom, lowest part

British informal fag end

close, end, conclusion, termination, tail end

3.2 Cricket The end of the batting order, with the weakest batsmen: McDermott worked his way through the tail, finishing with ten wickets...

Aided by some resourceful batting from the tail, Durham's last five wickets added 181 runs, and by the close Somerset had lost four big wickets.
Andy Harris cleaned up the tail to finish with 4 for 41 despite suffering a hand injury in the field.
He and Darren Cousins have been opening the bowling for Northants, and Blain has also been contributing with the bat from his position deep in the tail.

4 informal A person secretly following another to observe their movements: I can’t put a tail on him, I don’t know where he’s gone...

Then again Jack had a reason to drive evasively; even if he hadn't detected a tail, which was likely.
In a scene right out of The Sopranos, a tail followed a BFI truck out of the Lincoln Tunnel one evening and nearly ran it off the road in New Jersey.

Synonyms

detective, investigator, private investigator, shadow

informal sleuth, private eye, tec

North American informal gumshoe, bogey, dick, private dick, shamus

5 informal, chiefly North American A person’s buttocks: the coach kicked Ryan in his tail...

An honest man would have packed his bags, hopped in his truck, and hauled tail out of that place a long time ago.

5.1 vulgar slang A woman’s genitals.

5.2 [mass noun] informal Women collectively regarded in sexual terms: my wife thinks going out with you guys will keep me from chasing tail

6 (tails) The side of a coin without the image of a head on it (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner): the chances of heads and tails in the long run are equal...

Each coin has one side smoothed down flat and in theory this should be the tails side of the coin since it is illegal to deface an image of the monarch in England.
I toss opportunities like coins, and call tails when I've already caught a glimpse of the queen's crown.
A mick is a throw of two tails; the tails side of a coin, or, the heads side of a coin.

verb [with object]

1 informal Follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret: a flock of paparazzi had tailed them all over London...

Richard Tomlinson is racing down the autostrada just outside Rimini with two Italian secret service men tailing him.
Ilyich growled, but knew that he was outmatched for the time being, so with great reluctance, he bolted out of the room as fast as possible, with Jerwon and Greg tailing him closely.
Online shopping is hot this year with famous folk, since schlepping to FAO Schwartz with an entourage and a legion of paparazzi tailing you tends to negate the warm, holiday glow!

1.1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] Follow: they went to their favourite cafe—Owen and Sally tailed along...

The decking market in Australia is huge, obviously tends to follow and tail along with the housing market in Australia.
Behind us my guards and H'risnth's entourage tailed along, Kh'hitch engaged in a subdued exchange with the ambassador.
When he's on a job on the weekend, she's usually right beside her dad, tailing along.

Synonyms

follow, shadow, stalk, trail, track, hunt, hound, dog, trace, pursue, chase, give chase to, run after, keep under surveillance

2 [no object, with adverbial of direction] North American (Of an object in flight) drift or curve in a particular direction: the next pitch tailed in on me at the last second...

He also is following through better, which keeps his throws from tailing to the right or sailing high.
However, with the wind at his back, Bart Daly cruelly missed the forty-five and his side's last chance tailed to the right and wide.
To be fair to Carlow a number of good shots tailed out side and they were also missing two key players.

3Remove the stalks or ends of (fruit or vegetables) in preparation for cooking.Top and tail the green beans and cook them in salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes till tender, then drain them and rinse under cold, running water....

Top and tail the green beans, peel the baby onions or cut the spring onion into 2.5cm pieces.
Top and tail the green beans, then cook in boiling salted water until very tender.

4Pull on the end of (a rope) after it has been wrapped round the drum of a winch a few times, in order to prevent slipping when the winch rotates.While someone pulled the rope down the mast, which came through some jammers, another crew tailed the rope around the winch.

5 archaic Join (one thing) to another.Each new row of houses tailed on its drains to those of its neighbours, without any inquiry being made as to whether they were on the same level or not.

Phrases

chase one's (own) tail

on someone's tail

the tail of one's eye

the tail wags the dog

with one's tail between one's legs

with one's tail up

Phrasal verbs

tail back

tail something in (or into)

tail off (or away)

Derivatives

tailless

/ˈteɪlləs

/ adjective ...

The comet, tailless and misshapen, appeared as expected in 1839 and 1846, before vanishing, confounding astronomers who waited patiently in 1852, 1859 and 1866.
Chimpanzees are large, hairy and tailless; females weigh between 30-40 kg, while males can reach 180 kg.
Towhees were abundant, and I saw a newly fledged, almost tailless cardinal crashing around in a bush.

Origin

Old English tæg(e)l, from a Germanic base meaning 'hair, hairy tail'; related to Middle Low German tagel 'twisted whip, rope's end'. The early sense of the verb (early 16th century) was 'fasten to the back of something'.

The base of the Old English word tail meant ‘hair’ or ‘hairy tail’. The opposite side of a coin to heads has been tails since the 1680s or thereabouts—it is so called because it is the ‘reverse’ or ‘rear’ of the main or front side. A dog's tail is a good indicator of its mood, and this has given us various expressions. Someone who appears ashamed or dejected has been described since the Middle Ages as having their tail between their legs. Alternatively, someone with their tail up is in a confident or cheerful mood. Sometimes the usual roles in an organization are reversed, and a less important part dictates what is going to happen. When that occurs, someone may comment that the tail is wagging the dog. As a verb (early 16th century) the original sense was ‘fasten to the back of something’, with the meaning ‘follow closely’ developing from this at the beginning of the 20th century.

Rhymes

tail2

/teɪl

noun [mass noun] Law, chiefly historical

Limitation of ownership, especially of an estate or title limited to a person and their direct descendants: the land was held in tail general...

The Legislature, when giving to lands held in tail general the descendible quality of estates in fee, treats them as lands capable of being devised..

Origin

Middle English (denoting a tallage): from Old French taille 'notch, tax', from taillier 'to cut', based on Latin talea 'twig, cutting'.

单词	tail
释义	tail1 /teɪl / noun 1The hindmost part of an animal, especially when prolonged beyond the rest of the body, such as the flexible extension of the backbone in a vertebrate, the feathers at the hind end of a bird, or a terminal appendage in an insect: the dog’s tail began to wag frantically... Lastly, all chordates have a post-anal tail, or extension of the notochord and nerve cord past the anus. The tail, like the rest of the body, had no internal skeleton and was reinforced only by lines of scales. During the acupuncture stimulation, animals were kept in plastic holders with their tails and hind legs protruding out. Synonyms hindmost part, back end, appendage; brush, scut, dock; tailpiece, tail feathers; hind part, hindquarters technical cauda, uropygium 1.1A slender backward prolongation of each hindwing in some butterflies.The butterflies have tiger striped underwings and little black tails on their back wings. 2A thing resembling an animal’s tail in its shape or position, typically extending downwards or outwards at the end of something: the tail of a capital Q... A number of Matisse's kite tails bear a shape that is ubiquitous in her oeuvre. Shaped like a kite, trailing its tail along the sea, Myanmar is the largest country on the Southeast Asian mainland. Next minute there are balloons with brightly coloured tails floating at ceiling level above Elvis' head. 2.1The rear part of an aeroplane, with the tailplane and rudder: the fuselage tapers sharply towards the tail... Use the rudder to keep the tail right behind the nose, independent of what you're doing with the ailerons. The tail unit comprises all-moving horizontal tail surfaces and a single-fin vertical tail fitted with a rudder. Before departing they are instructed to try and photograph identification numbers or aircraft tails, if possible, and bring back the evidence. 2.2The lower or hanging part of a garment, especially the back of a shirt or coat: he wiped his hands on the tail of his grubby vest he stormed off, the tails of his jacket flapping behind him... The tail of his shirt and parts of his pants and underpants were burned. Nicanor wore a multicolored striped oxford shirt with the tails tied at his waist. While she had been reading, he had unbuttoned the dark green cotton shirt and untucked the tails from his jeans. 2.3 (tails) informal A tailcoat, or a man’s formal evening suit with a tailcoat: the men looked debonair in white tie and tails... A tuxedo is required, and can include more formal tuxedos, such as evening tails. He came faultlessly dressed in the formal white tie and tails, nor did he regale us with wise-cracking anecdotes about the music or some of his funny experiences in the past. It is shown alongside DiCaprio's dress coat with tails. 2.4The luminous trail of particles following a comet.It is this solar wind - seen only in comet tails - that carries storms from the Sun to Earth.... The refrigerator-sized satellite will collect dust particles from the tail of comet Wild 2 as the two pass each other on Friday morning. They noted that comets had two tails - one of dust, one of ions - and only the dust tail could be explained by the pressure of sunlight pushing against the comet. 2.5The lower end of a pool or stream: shallow riffles and the tails of pools are prime feeding areas... When we arrived I could see at the tail of the pool a super looking slack on the left hand bank which literally screamed chub. As I fished through the tail of the pool I allowed the fly to swing into the slow shallow water close to my bank. On reaching the tail of the Pool just below the power lines I hooked a fish, which I soon realised, was substantial. 2.6The exposed end of a slate or tile in a roof: the slates are dressed with the bevelled tail and edge characteristic of thick, square stone roofing... If the walls are crooked, the rafter tails will also be crooked. Nail a 1 x 6 facia board to seal and trim the end grain of the rafter tails. Try to correct this problem; but if you are unable to, pop a chalk line across the rafter tails and trim them with your saw before attaching the sheathing. 2.7 Mathematics An extremity of a curve approaching the horizontal axis of a graph, especially that of a frequency distribution.The mean is higher than that because you have some real significant weight gain at the far right end of the tail of the bell curve.... In that research, biologically meaningful T base estimates were obtained by excluding both lower and upper tails of cumulative germination curves, as was done here. A kind of occupational Darwinism ensures that such people are way up on the upper tail of the curve of verbal facility. 3The end of a long train or line of people or vehicles: a catering truck at the tail of the convoy... If menaced with an attack, the divisions at the head and tail of the convoy will keep their positions and repel the enemy by their fire should he attack. I lingered at the very tail of the crowd, trying to stay in the growing neutral zone between the cops and the rioters. 3.1The final, more distant, or weaker part of something: the tail of a hurricane... We got hit by the tails of the summer hurricanes and were switching between day and night shoots a lot. The sting of this title is in its tail: traditionally we have had dictionaries of Hellenic or Egyptian or Roman mythologies. The pancreatic head lies cephalad to and well to the right of the umbilicus, and the tail of the pancreas extends to the spleen. Synonyms rear, end, back, extremity, conclusion; bottom, lowest part British informal fag end close, end, conclusion, termination, tail end 3.2 Cricket The end of the batting order, with the weakest batsmen: McDermott worked his way through the tail, finishing with ten wickets... Aided by some resourceful batting from the tail, Durham's last five wickets added 181 runs, and by the close Somerset had lost four big wickets. Andy Harris cleaned up the tail to finish with 4 for 41 despite suffering a hand injury in the field. He and Darren Cousins have been opening the bowling for Northants, and Blain has also been contributing with the bat from his position deep in the tail. 4 informal A person secretly following another to observe their movements: I can’t put a tail on him, I don’t know where he’s gone... Then again Jack had a reason to drive evasively; even if he hadn't detected a tail, which was likely. In a scene right out of The Sopranos, a tail followed a BFI truck out of the Lincoln Tunnel one evening and nearly ran it off the road in New Jersey. Synonyms detective, investigator, private investigator, shadow informal sleuth, private eye, tec North American informal gumshoe, bogey, dick, private dick, shamus 5 informal, chiefly North American A person’s buttocks: the coach kicked Ryan in his tail... An honest man would have packed his bags, hopped in his truck, and hauled tail out of that place a long time ago. 5.1 vulgar slang A woman’s genitals. 5.2 [mass noun] informal Women collectively regarded in sexual terms: my wife thinks going out with you guys will keep me from chasing tail 6 (tails) The side of a coin without the image of a head on it (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner): the chances of heads and tails in the long run are equal... Each coin has one side smoothed down flat and in theory this should be the tails side of the coin since it is illegal to deface an image of the monarch in England. I toss opportunities like coins, and call tails when I've already caught a glimpse of the queen's crown. A mick is a throw of two tails; the tails side of a coin, or, the heads side of a coin. verb [with object] 1 informal Follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret: a flock of paparazzi had tailed them all over London... Richard Tomlinson is racing down the autostrada just outside Rimini with two Italian secret service men tailing him. Ilyich growled, but knew that he was outmatched for the time being, so with great reluctance, he bolted out of the room as fast as possible, with Jerwon and Greg tailing him closely. Online shopping is hot this year with famous folk, since schlepping to FAO Schwartz with an entourage and a legion of paparazzi tailing you tends to negate the warm, holiday glow! 1.1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] Follow: they went to their favourite cafe—Owen and Sally tailed along... The decking market in Australia is huge, obviously tends to follow and tail along with the housing market in Australia. Behind us my guards and H'risnth's entourage tailed along, Kh'hitch engaged in a subdued exchange with the ambassador. When he's on a job on the weekend, she's usually right beside her dad, tailing along. Synonyms follow, shadow, stalk, trail, track, hunt, hound, dog, trace, pursue, chase, give chase to, run after, keep under surveillance 2 [no object, with adverbial of direction] North American (Of an object in flight) drift or curve in a particular direction: the next pitch tailed in on me at the last second... He also is following through better, which keeps his throws from tailing to the right or sailing high. However, with the wind at his back, Bart Daly cruelly missed the forty-five and his side's last chance tailed to the right and wide. To be fair to Carlow a number of good shots tailed out side and they were also missing two key players. 3Remove the stalks or ends of (fruit or vegetables) in preparation for cooking.Top and tail the green beans and cook them in salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes till tender, then drain them and rinse under cold, running water.... Top and tail the green beans, peel the baby onions or cut the spring onion into 2.5cm pieces. Top and tail the green beans, then cook in boiling salted water until very tender. 4Pull on the end of (a rope) after it has been wrapped round the drum of a winch a few times, in order to prevent slipping when the winch rotates.While someone pulled the rope down the mast, which came through some jammers, another crew tailed the rope around the winch. 5 archaic Join (one thing) to another.Each new row of houses tailed on its drains to those of its neighbours, without any inquiry being made as to whether they were on the same level or not. Phrases chase one's (own) tail on someone's tail the tail of one's eye the tail wags the dog with one's tail between one's legs with one's tail up Phrasal verbs tail back tail something in (or into) tail off (or away) Derivatives tailless /ˈteɪlləs / adjective ... The comet, tailless and misshapen, appeared as expected in 1839 and 1846, before vanishing, confounding astronomers who waited patiently in 1852, 1859 and 1866. Chimpanzees are large, hairy and tailless; females weigh between 30-40 kg, while males can reach 180 kg. Towhees were abundant, and I saw a newly fledged, almost tailless cardinal crashing around in a bush. Origin Old English tæg(e)l, from a Germanic base meaning 'hair, hairy tail'; related to Middle Low German tagel 'twisted whip, rope's end'. The early sense of the verb (early 16th century) was 'fasten to the back of something'. The base of the Old English word tail meant ‘hair’ or ‘hairy tail’. The opposite side of a coin to heads has been tails since the 1680s or thereabouts—it is so called because it is the ‘reverse’ or ‘rear’ of the main or front side. A dog's tail is a good indicator of its mood, and this has given us various expressions. Someone who appears ashamed or dejected has been described since the Middle Ages as having their tail between their legs. Alternatively, someone with their tail up is in a confident or cheerful mood. Sometimes the usual roles in an organization are reversed, and a less important part dictates what is going to happen. When that occurs, someone may comment that the tail is wagging the dog. As a verb (early 16th century) the original sense was ‘fasten to the back of something’, with the meaning ‘follow closely’ developing from this at the beginning of the 20th century. Rhymes ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, rail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale tail2 /teɪl / noun [mass noun] Law, chiefly historical Limitation of ownership, especially of an estate or title limited to a person and their direct descendants: the land was held in tail* general... The Legislature, when giving to lands held in tail general the descendible quality of estates in fee, treats them as lands capable of being devised.. See also fee tail. Origin Middle English (denoting a tallage): from Old French taille* 'notch, tax', from taillier 'to cut', based on Latin talea 'twig, cutting'.
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