tail
tail is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Limitation; abridgment. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Limitation; abridgment.
- adjective. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
- noun. The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
- noun. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
- noun. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
- noun. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- noun. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
- noun. The distal tendon of a muscle.
- noun. A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
- noun. 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.
- noun. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- noun. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- noun. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- noun. Same as Tailing, 4.
- noun. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
- noun. See Tailing, n., 5.
- transitive verb. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- transitive verb. To pull or draw by the tail.
- intransitive verb. To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
- intransitive verb. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
- noun. the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- noun. the rear part of a ship
- noun. the rear part of an aircraft
- noun. (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- noun. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"
"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
- noun. a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- noun. any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- noun. the time of the last part of something
"the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"
"the tail of the storm"
- verb. remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- verb. remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- verb. go after with the intent to catch
"The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"
"the dog chased the rabbit"
Synonyms
poop, quarter, stern, empennage, arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rump
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tail:
alit, atli, ital, lait, lati, tali
Common word forms
tails, tailed, tailer, tailing, tailless
Words from these letters
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