Tail vs End - What's the difference?

In cricket terms the difference between tail and end

is that tail is the last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers while end is one of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

In mathematics terms the difference between tail and end

is that tail is all the last terms of a sequence, from some term on while end is an ideal point of a graph or other complex.

As nouns the difference between tail and end

is that tail is the caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus while end is the final point of something in space or time.

As verbs the difference between tail and end

is that tail is to follow and observe surreptitiously while end is to finish, terminate.

As an adjective tail

is limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

tail

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head'' and ''tail .

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

Most primates have a tail and fangs.

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

* (rfdate), Harvey:

Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as , a long tail.

One who surreptitiously follows another.

(cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g'', ''q'' or ''y .

(chiefly, in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.

(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

A sequence $(a_n)$ is said to be ''frequently $0$ '' if every tail of the sequence contains $0$ .

The buttocks or backside.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.

*, I.49:

They were wont to wipe their tailes .

(slang) The male member of a person or animal.

After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails''' were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent '''tail .

(slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.

I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.

(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 13:

The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail .

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

* (rfdate), Walter Scott:

"Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on."

(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

(surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

(mining) A tailing.

(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

Synonyms

* ass, poontang, poon, tang, pussy, punani

Derived terms

* cat-o'-nine-tails * chase one's tail * coattail * cocktail * have the world by the tail * rattail * shirttail * tailback * tailcoat * tail covert * tail-end * tail feather * tail fin * tailgate * tail lamp * tail light * tail-off * tailpiece * tailpipe * tailplane * tail-race * tail-skid * tailspin * tailstock * tailwheel * tailwind * turn tail * wagtail * whitetail * yellowtail

Verb

(en verb)

To follow and observe surreptitiously.

Tail that car!

(architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in'' or ''into

(nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

This vessel tails downstream.

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

* Fuller

Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed , continued uncancelled.

To pull or draw by the tail.

(Hudibras)

Etymology 2

From (etyl), probably from a shortened form of entail .

Adjective

(legal) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

estate tail

Noun

(en noun)

(legal) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

tail male — limitation to male heirs

in tail — subject to such a limitation

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end

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Noun

(en noun)

(rfc-sense) The final point of something in space or time.

* 1908: (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)

they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end .

* , chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}

The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

Is there no end to this madness?

Death, especially miserable.

He met a terrible end in the jungle.

I hope the end comes quickly.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end .

* (rfdate) Alexander Pope

unblamed through life, lamented in thy end

Result.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!

A purpose, goal, or aim.

* (rfdate) Dryden

Losing her, the end of living lose.

* (rfdate) Coleridge

When every man is his own end , all things will come to a bad end.

* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:

There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.

(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

* 1926 , , (The Great Gatsby) , Penguin 2000, p. 11:

Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].

(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

odds and ends

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Synonyms

* (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination * See also

Antonyms

* (final point of something) beginning, start

Derived terms

* at the end of the day * big end * bitter end * dead-end * East End * -ended * endless * endlike * endly * End of Days * end of the line * end of the road * endpaper * end piece, endpiece * end product * endsay * end times * end-to-end * endward * endways, endwise * high-end * know which end is up * living end * loose end * low-end * make ends meet * off the deep end * on end * rear end * short end of the stick * split end * The End * tight end * to this end * up-end * West End * week-end, weekend * without end

Verb

(en verb)

(ergative) To finish, terminate.

* Bible, (w) ii. 2

On the seventh day God ended his work.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I shall end this strife.

* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XLV, lines 7-8:

But play the man, stand up and end you

When your sickness is your soul.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-09, volume=409, issue=8861, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= How to stop the fighting, sometimes , passage=Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.}}

Tail vs End - What's the difference?

In cricket terms the difference between tail and end

In mathematics terms the difference between tail and end

As nouns the difference between tail and end

As verbs the difference between tail and end

As an adjective tail

tail

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end

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