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Failing vs Tailing - What's the difference?

failing | tailing |

As verbs the difference between failing and tailing

is that failing is while tailing is .

As nouns the difference between failing and tailing

is that failing is weakness; defect while tailing is the act of following someone.

As a preposition failing

is if the preferred or prior option is not possible.

failing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • weakness; defect
    • His worst failing is his temper.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • if the preferred or prior option is not possible
    • A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.

    tailing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of following someone.
  • (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (obsolete) sexual intercourse
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * tailings