trail¹ /trāl/

1. To draw along behind or near the surface
2. To drag wearily
3. To drag along
4. To lag behind
5. To track, follow or hunt
6. To make (a path or track) through
7. To advertise (a forthcoming programme, etc) by trailer
8. To carry (a weapon) with the butt near the ground, or horizontally
9. To lead on
10. To quiz (informal)
11. To cover with a trailing ornament

1. To be drawn out in length
2. (of eg a garment) to hang, float, or drag loosely behind
3. (of eg a plant) to sprawl over the ground or a support
4. To straggle or lag
5. To drag oneself along
6. To tail off (with away or off)
7. To move with slow sweeping motion or with dragging drapery
8. To be losing in a game or competition

1. A track or series of marks left by a person, animal, etc moving over a surface
2. A track or scent, eg of hunted game
3. A beaten path in the wilds
4. A path or route
5. Anything drawn out in length or dragging behind
6. A train or tail
7. An act or manner of trailing
8. A television or cinema trailer
9. The track of a star on a stationary photographic plate
10. The part of a gun-carriage resting on the ground behind
11. The distance between the point at which a steered wheel meets the ground and that at which the intersection of a swivel-pin axis meets the ground (motoring)

trailˈable adjective

trailˈer noun

1. A person who trails
2. A tracker
3. A creeping plant
4. An esp two-wheeled cart, towed or dragged by a car, bicycle or tractor
5. The rear section of an articulated lorry
6. A house on wheels, a caravan (N American)
7. A short film or broadcast advertising a forthcoming entertainment on television or in the cinema
8. The blank piece of film at the end of a reel

To advertise (a programme, etc) by trailer

trailˈing adjective

trailˈingly adverb

trailˈless adjective

trail bike noun

A motorcycle suitable for riding over rough ground and tracks

trailˈblazer noun

1. A pioneer
2. A person or thing that leads the way in anything

trailˈblazing adjective and noun

trailer park noun (N American)

An area reserved for mobile homes

trailer trash noun (US derogatory)

Poor and uneducated people, typically living in trailer parks

trailer truck noun (US)

An articulated lorry

trailing arbutus see arbutus

trailing edge noun

1. The rear edge of a wing, aerofoil or propeller
2. The falling portion of a pulse signal (telecommunications)

trailing vortex noun (aeronautics)

The vortex passing from the tips of the main surfaces of an aircraft and extending downstream and behind it

trail mix noun

A mixture of pieces of dried fruit (eg bananas, dates, pineapple, apricots, etc) nuts and seeds eaten as a snack, orig by hikers

trailˈ-net noun

A dragnet

trail a pike (obsolete)

To serve as a soldier

trail away or off

(esp of a sound) to become fainter

trail one's coat

To invite a quarrel

trail² /trāl/

An aphetic form of entrail

T or t /tē/

1. The twentieth letter in the modern English alphabet, nineteenth in the Roman, its sound usu a voiceless alveolar stop produced with the tip of the tongue in contact with teeth, gums or palate
2. Anything shaped like the letter T (also tee)

Tˈ-bandˈage noun

A bandage composed of two strips fashioned in the shape of the letter T

Tˈ-bar noun

1. A metal bar with cross-section in the shape of the letter T
2. A type of ski-lift (also Tˈ-bar lift)

Tˈ-bone noun

A bone shaped like a T, esp in a large steak cut from the sirloin of beef

Tˈ-cart noun

A four-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage, usu used for pleasure-trips, with a T-shaped body

Tˈ-cloth noun

A type of plain cotton, orig made for export to India and China and stamped with a T

Tˈ-cross noun

A tau cross

Tˈ-junction noun

A road junction in the shape of a T

Tˈ-plate noun

A T-shaped plate, eg for strengthening a joint in a wooden framework

Tˈ-rail noun

A rail with T-shaped cross-section

Tˈ-shaped adjective

Tˈ-shirt see under tee¹

Tˈ-square noun

A T-shaped ruler

Tˈ-strap noun

A T-shaped strap on a shoe

T-zone noun

The roughly T-shaped area of the face comprising forehead, nose and chin

marked with a T

Branded as thief

to a T

With perfect exactness

T or T.

1. Tenor (music)
2. Tera-
3. Thailand (IVR)

Tˈ-cell noun

A type of lymphocyte involved in cellular immunity that matures (in mammals) in the thymus gland, eg a cytotoxic T-cell able to kill virus-infected cells

Tˈ-commerce noun

The use of television as a medium for commercial transactions such as shopping and banking

Tˈ-group noun (psychology)

(sensitivity-training group) an encounter group whose purpose is to improve the communication skills of individual members by discussion and analysis of the roles that they each adopt habitually in their dealings with others

Tˈ-lymphocyte noun

A T-cell

T

1. (as a medieval Roman numeral) 160
2. Surface tension
3. Tesla (SI unit)
4. Tritium (chem)

T̄

(medieval Roman numeral) 160000

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