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tail noun

  /teɪl/
  • (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
  • The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
  • (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
  • (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
  • A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
  • 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.
  • (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
 coda
  • An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
 chioma, coda

tails noun

  /teɪlz/
  • The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar.
 croce, code

tail verb

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

tailed adjective

  /teɪld/
  • (often, in combination) Having a tail.
 lembo
heads or tails
testa o croce
cat-o'-nine-tails
gatto a nove code
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