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Curtails vs Curtains - What's the difference?

curtails | curtains |

As verbs the difference between curtails and curtains

is that curtails is third-person singular of curtail while curtains is third-person singular of curtain.

As a noun curtains is

plural of lang=en.

curtails

English

Verb

(head)
  • (curtail)

    • curtail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cut short the tail of an animal
    • ''Curtailing horses procured long horse-hair.
  • To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
    • When the audience grew restless, the speaker curtailed her speech.
  • (figuratively) To limit or restrict, keep in check.
    • Their efforts to curtail spending didn't quite succeed.
  • * Macaulay
    • Our incomes have been curtailed ; his salary has been doubled.

    Synonyms

    * (animal's tail) crop, dock * shorten * behedge, control, limit, restrain

    Derived terms

    * curtailer * curtailment

    Related terms

    * curt * curtal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.

    • Anagrams

    *

    curtains

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end, death
    • It's curtains for you!
    "What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?''" / "''Curtains for them, when our sees them. "

    Verb

    (head)
  • (curtain)