The act of following someone.
Used in a Sentence
tailing
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tailing.
Editorial note
Among other things you learn is that if someone is tailing you, there are two others tailing you (for redundancy).
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The act of following someone.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of tailing gathered in one view.
A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
(architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for tailing.
noun
The act of following someone.
noun
A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
noun
(architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Example sentences
Among other things you learn is that if someone is tailing you, there are two others tailing you (for redundancy).
If you want to search for what happened before you started tailing, you need to stop tailing and use less/grep/etc.
Correct, however the author is saying that there's no reason to ever use tail unless you're tailing multiple files, which is false.
Has anyone seen a life cycle analysis of decommissioning a coal or nuclear plant or managing tailing ponds?
It felt like entrapment at the time tailing someone with the intent to pull them over.
The cop immediately pulled out and began tailing me, but did not turn on his lights.
Superb, just installed it, setup took 1 minute and now I'm tailing 24 logs on one single page.
That only works if you only care about search results since you started tailing.
The fishing boat had no way of selling its catch or taking on more supplies without first losing the Sea Shepherds tailing them.
But how do you combine the two on the command line, so less is tailing the file AND highlighting a pattern when launched?
I could see that drive tailing off with kids and those kinds of deep commitments, though.
The ambient social networking is a side benefit, that ramped up following my adoption of foursquare, and is slowly tailing off as everyone drops swarm.
Quote examples
That specific MongoDB feature is "tailing the oplog", where the oplog is the capped collection with the idempotent commands that represent the changes in the database.
Meteor creates "live queries" by tailing the MongoDB oplog.
A really rolling road (Arizona has some of these) where the car might be one "roller" ahead of you but look a lot closer, then your car hits the brakes at the apex with a car tailing you.
This might already exist, but while tailing logs today I wished for a tool that would let me view a log file as its changing - like "tail -f" so new lines appear at the bottom, but with the added ability to scroll up, jump to any line, search etc like a text editor.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use tailing in a sentence?
Among other things you learn is that if someone is tailing you, there are two others tailing you (for redundancy).
What does tailing mean?
The act of following someone.
What part of speech is tailing?
tailing is commonly used as noun.