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tail | til |

As a noun tail

is .

As an initialism til is

(internet slang) today i learned.

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

    See also

    * caudal

    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

    Anagrams

    * ----

    til

    English

    Alternative forms

    * 'til

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (nonstandard) until, till
    • {{quote-magazine
    , date= , year=c1390 , month= , first=Geoffry , last=Chaucer , author= , coauthors= , title=The Canterbury Tales , passage=He slepeth...Al nyght til the sonne gan aryse. }}
    {{quote-magazine
    , date= , year=2010 , month=May , first=James , last=Parker , author= , coauthors= , title=Revenge of the Wimps , volume=305 , issue=4 , page=38 , magazine=The Atlantic Monthly , publisher= , issn= citation , passage=EVEN IF YOU MAKE ME WRITE IN THIS EVERY DAY TIL THEY LET ME OUT OF HERE }}

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (nonstandard) until, till
    • {{quote-book
    , year=1425 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Wycliffe , title=Wycliffe Bible , chapter=Ezekial 1:27 , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=Fro þe leendis]] of hym & aboue, & fro þe [[lende, leendis of him til beneþe I sa? þe licnesse of fier.}}
    {{quote-magazine
    , date= , year=2004 , month=Nov , first= , last= , author= , coauthors=Harper, Gary W. / Gannon, Christine / Watson, Susan E. / Catania, Joseph A. / Dolcini, M. Margaret , title=The Role of Close Friends in African American Adolescents' Dating and Sexual Behavior , volume=41 , issue=4 , page=351-362 , magazine=Journal of Sex Research , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=I just don't know how to just come out in the blue and say it, so I just wait til it comes up... }}
    {{quote-magazine
    , date=Winter , year=2008 , month= , first=Michael , last=Copperman , author= , coauthors= , title=Gone , volume=39 , issue=3 , page=139-145 , magazine=Arkansas Review , publisher=Arkansas State University , issn= , url= , passage=Let him wander round and kids gone meddle him til he get to fighting again. }}
  • (archaic) ~ to : as far as; down to; up to, until
    • {{quote-book
    , year=1425 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Wycliffe , title=Wycliffe Bible , chapter=Ezekial 40:15 , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page= , passage=He maad frountis by sixti cubitis ... and bifore the face of the ?ate that lastid til to the face of the porche of the ynner ?ate, fifti cubitis.}}

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words ----