Fabric or other material that trails.
trailing
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for trailing.
Editorial note
The relay doesn't have to be in orbit around Pluto, it could be trailing the impacter and fly by.
Quick take
Fabric or other material that trails.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of trailing gathered in one view.
That follows behind; especially, that is attached and pulled behind.
(rail transport, of points and crossovers) That converge in the direction of travel.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for trailing.
noun
Fabric or other material that trails.
adjective
That follows behind; especially, that is attached and pulled behind.
adjective
(rail transport, of points and crossovers) That converge in the direction of travel.
Example sentences
The relay doesn't have to be in orbit around Pluto, it could be trailing the impacter and fly by.
Its not a particularly easy to read format, and when the nesting is deep its easy to loose a brace, or not notice a trailing comma in a list.
It's interesting how GitHub, the defacto standard for hosted solutions, is considerably trailing GitLab and Stash in the self-hosted world.
There is the obvious trend at 0 degrees and then a noticeable high density from 0-15 degrees before then trailing off.
It is probably trailing several weeks behind the dev branch, but I don't think it is very far behind.
My team added something four weeks ago that might be an idea to try - we're still trailing it ourselves.
Yes - at least, from a sample size of 1 (me) I like the old cronolog way of doing this, and it means I don't get the rotate-a-day-later-to-avoid-trailing-lines-in-compressed-logfiles issue.
The trailing edge of the programming wold moves slowly so you have a few years to move onto the next trend before you become obsolete.
I agree that the opportunity to encode funny service names in hexadecimal trailing address space is an upside to eliminating ports.
Side question: I wonder how HN let this be posted as a duplicate - just the trailing slash in the URL?
It's also easier to keep clean commits (no trailing comma issue).
Mods, please add the missing trailing 'l' to the title.
Quote examples
Hell - They may even be trying to get "the action shot" by trailing the helicopter etc etc.
# trim off trailing spaces alias rstrip='sed -i "s/[ \t]*$//"' # delete.pyc files alias delpyc='find.
If you throw this in a library it would take you years to be able to identify it,” he said' - Aside from the fact it'll be trailing a wire plugged into a power outlet.
If a "leading city" is one with no schools, no parks, no services, and no culture, where you wait in line for an hour for the bus, I'll go ahead and choose a trailing city, thanks.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use trailing in a sentence?
The relay doesn't have to be in orbit around Pluto, it could be trailing the impacter and fly by.
What does trailing mean?
Fabric or other material that trails.
What part of speech is trailing?
trailing is commonly used as noun, adjective.