Trail vs Y - What's the difference?
trail | y |
(label) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
(label) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(label) To leave (a trail of).
(label) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 29, author=Keith Jackson, work=Daily Record
, title= (label) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
(label) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
* (1816-1855)
The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
The twenty-fifth letter of the .
Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
close front rounded vowel
Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
Image:Latin Y.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Y , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter Y.png, Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur
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As a proper noun trail
is a city in british columbia.As a letter y is
the letter y with a (l) above itself.trail
English
Verb
(en verb)- "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.
SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0, passage=Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.}}
- (Longfellow)
- I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.
