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If you're on a long radial line the voltage at the head end might be 126 just to get it to be 118 at the tail end.

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the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tail gathered in one view.

noun

the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

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the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm"

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any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tail.

noun

the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

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the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm"

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any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

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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?"

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a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

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(usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head

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the rear part of an aircraft

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the rear part of a ship

verb

go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

verb

remove or shorten the tail of an animal

verb

remove the stalk of fruits or berries

Example sentences

If you're on a long radial line the voltage at the head end might be 126 just to get it to be 118 at the tail end.

And they were on the tail-end of a civil war before the USA invaded, and now the USA wants them to vote together.

If you focus on what other people have done, you'll end up chasing your tail trying to compete with an idealized notion of 20 different people.

Most interesting part is that if you move in for the tail end of high school you get 0% covered to prevent people from temporarily joining the community just for the tuition.

It's time that we acknowledged that the ecosystem has changed: the slow upgrading tail grows smaller all the time, as the cutting edge absorbs more of the mindless browser population.

> Why all the mediocre product that's the tail end of pumping billions of dollars into R&D staffed by largely the same folks Tesla has been hiring?In an established firm, existing product lines pay the bills.

Why all the mediocre product that's the tail end of pumping billions of dollars into R&D staffed by largely the same folks Tesla has been hiring?edit to be clear I'm not just talking about electric cars, but cars in general.

The 90-day tail for exercise upon termination of a service relationship applies only to ISOs and not to NQOs but, of course, ISOs have other advantages and they are what is typically offered in VC-backed ventures.

I can still knock together a shell script, tail -f a logfile and pipe it through grep, get some vague clue about why something crashed by casting my eye over a Java exception error, and make a lazy developer deeply uncomfortable when he realises that - would you believe it!

Unfortunately, the OOP fad dovetailed with the 1990s-ongoing attempt to commoditize programming talent and we ended up with a generation of mediocre programmers who took OOP to mean "Go out and build massive, complex, over-featured objects", not "Here are tools to reduce complexity when needed".

As sperm travels in this coated tube, the ionic attraction causes damage on a cellular level in the sperm, the pull effect effectively destroying the sperm "tail" and preventing it from fertilizing a female but without hormonal/medical methods!For me, as an engineer, this was a true revelation.