Tail

Definition: Tail

Tail

Adjective

1. (aeronautical) pertaining to the tail section of a plane.

Noun

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

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

3. Any projection that resembles the tail of an animal.

4. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.

5. A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.

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

7. The rear part of an aircraft.

8. The rear part of a ship.

Verb

1. Go after with the intent to catch.

2. Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.

3. Remove the stalk of fruits or berries.

Date "tail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Tail \Tail\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to German zagel, Icelandic tagl, Swedish tagel, Gothic tagl hair.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Satire	TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
Aerospace	1. The rear part of a body, as of an aircraft, a rocket, etc.2. The tail surfaces of an aircraft or rocket. (references)
Dream Interpretation	To dream of seeing only the tail of a beast, unusual annoyance is indicated where pleasures seemed assured. To cut off the tail of an animal, denotes that you will suffer misfortune by your own carelessness. To dream that you have the tail of a beast grown on you, denotes that your evil ways will cause you untold distress, and strange events will cause you perplexity. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Electrical Engineering	A single component at the end of a circuit. Source: European Union. (references)
Fine Arts	A narrow flat, or strip of canvas or other cloth, hung vertically from a border to the stage floor. Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	A)(Australia)that portion of a fire spreading directly into the wind; b)(Canada)that portion of a fire edge opposite the head; c)the slowest spreading portion of a fire edge. Source: European Union. (references)
Math	To differentiate parts of a structure, such as a graph, which locally look the same to all vertices. Usually implemented with randomization. (references)
Medicine	Each phage particle has a head. . . and a conspicuous tail. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. (also plural). The inferior, less valuable, or refuse part of anything; foots, bottoms, dregs; sediment. See also:tailings b. The poor grade of ore slime at the lower end of the slime box as it flows from the stamps c. The unexposed end of a brick or stone in a wall; a tailing d. The rear of a shovel deck e. The anchor end of a cable excavator f. A bar or barrier formed behind a small isle or a skerry. Also calledtrailing spit; banner bank. (references)
Multilingual Slang	Spanish (rabo). (references)
Post & Telecom	The permanent connection extending a telegraph station to a nearby centre, giving access to the long distance network. Source: European Union. (references)
	Jargon-applied to the synthetically developed, refreshed, past positions of an aircraft on a display, produced to give the same operational data as the after-glow of primary radar tracks on a real-time PPI. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	TAIL. A prostitute. Also, a sword. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Statistics	An area at the extreme of a randomisation distribution, where the degree of extremity is sufficient to be notable judged against some nominal alpha criterion value. Source: European Union. (references)
Transportation	The tail surfaces of an aircraft or rocket. Source: European Union. (references)
	The rear part of a body, as of an aircraft, a rocket, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tail

Synonyms: tail(a) (adj), after part (n), arse (n), ass (n), backside (n), behind (n), bottom (n), bum (n), buns (n), butt (n), buttocks (n), can (n), derriere (n), empennage (n), fag end (n), fanny (n), fundament (n), hind end (n), hindquarters (n), keister (n), nates (n), poop (n), posterior (n), prat (n), quarter (n), rear (n), rear end (n), rump (n), seat (n), shadow (n), shadower (n), stern (n), tail assembly (n), tail end (n), tooshie (n), tush (n), bob (v), chase (v), chase after (v), dock (v), dog (v), go after (v), tag (v), track (v), trail (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: shovelling (transportation).

Antonym: head (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adjunct	Rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece; flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix; (sequel); wing.
End	Noun: end, close, termination; desinence, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail; (rear); verge; (edge); tag, peroration; bonne bouche; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.
Pendency	Noun: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging; Verb: pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail
Rear	Occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone.
Sequel	Noun: sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece, heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tail

English words defined with "tail": Estate in tail ♦ Head or tail, horizontal tail ♦ Lion's tail, Lizard's tail, lobster tail ♦ Neither head nor tail ♦ Scansorial tail ♦ Tail coverts, tail end, tail feather, tail fin, tail rotor, To stave and tail, To tail in ♦ vertical tail ♦ white tail. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tail": butterfly tail ♦ Captain Cauf's Tail, Cow's Tail ♦ Grey Mare's Tail ♦ Long Tail ♦ Monkey with a Long Tail ♦ PLUG TAIL ♦ Salt on His Tail, self-cleaning tail pulley, SWING TAIL ♦ tail circuit, Tail Cloud, tail crab, tail fiber, tail pulley, tail recursion, tail recursion optimisation, tail section, tail shaft, tail unit, TICKLE TAIL ♦ Viral Tail Proteins. (references)

Etymologies containing "tail": Zonure. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Tail" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Scottish (substance), Welsh (dung, manure).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	When danger reared his ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) Come on, no one's going to be taken in by a guy with a long red pointy tail. Come on, what's he going to sound like (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.) Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it. (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby) The Americans have put a tail on Palmer (The Ipcress File; writing credit: Bill Canaway; Len Deighton)
Lyrics	Me and my white tail (Who Let The Dogs Out; performing artist: Baha Men) I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain (Daniel; performing artist: Elton John) They keep scratching me and pulling me at my coat tail (Get Away; performing artist: Jade) Yeah yeah yeah shake a tail feather baby (HARLEM SHUFFLE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)
Clever	A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. (references; author: Mark Twain) A person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as one hasn't. (references; author: Mark Twain) A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. (references; author: unknown)
Tongue Twisters	A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Weekend Tail (1972) Greek Tail (1968) Tiger by the Tail (1968) The Pink Tail Fly (1965) A Tiger's Tail (1965)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Otter Tail Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Lizard's Tail (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Black Tail (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Saint Tail - Girl of Justice (Vol. 5) (reference) Saint Tail - It's Show Time (Vol. 2) (reference) Saint Tail - Moonlight (reference) An American Tail (reference) An American Tail - The Mystery of the Night Monster (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	A Trick of the Tail [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) Cotton Tail (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Tail of the Sun (reference) Transition Networks Coax Balun Assemblies RJ11 No Tail Active Pins 3&4 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	LamsonSharp Tail Gater 4-Piece Stainless Steel and Rosewood Barbecue Tool Set (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mansonella ozzardi microfilaria. Tip of tail. Parasite. Credit: CDC.		Tip of tail, hookworm filariform larva. Roundworm, nematode, parasite. Credit: CDC.
	Lobster Tail Ice Formation on Aerosurface. Credit: NASA.		Humpback whale's - Megaptera novaeangliae - tail - distinctive markings allow identification of individual. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).
	Humpback whale -Megaptera novaeangliae - tail. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).		Young naturalist inspecting a horseshoe crab shell. The carapace was empty. If this was a live animal, picking up by tail could cause injury to the crab. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	A white tail deer amidst the pine and oak of the maritime forest. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Humpback whale tail in Iyoukeen Cove. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Precipitation intensity display of Hurricane Frances derived from tail doppler radar. Credit: Flying With NOAA.		Looking over tail rotor of Bell 212 helicopter to Dehavilland Twin Otter fixed- wing aircraft. Credit: Flying With NOAA.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Abraham Lincoln	How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
John Dryden	Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Josh Billings	Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
	Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Larry Bird	A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Sir Richard Burton	Conscience was born when man had shed his fur, his tail, his pointed ears.
Swedish Proverb	A peacock has too little in its head and too much in its tail.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	His Majesty calmly wagged the Royal tail.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	And then you must see her ears, and then you must see her tail, and that will astonish you.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The dull light fell more faintly upon the page whereon another equation began to unfold itself slowly and to spread abroad its widening tail.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The cat purred loudly, and the tip of its tail jerked back and forth
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	He was a lucky fox that left his tail in the trap
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Mexican free-tailed bats are easily recognized by their tails, which extend well beyond the tail membrane. (references)
		You will never forget that odor once you smell it. It comes from 2 glands located near the tail of the skunk. (references)
		The head and body together are about four inches long. Note that its tail is normally shorter than its body (about 2 - 4 inches long). (references)
Business		With regarding to industrial sharing, AEROSPATIALE MATRA manufactures the ATR wings and is responsible for the final assembly line, while ALIENA AEROSPAZIO produces the fuselage, tail and associated systems. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	IN':ARDS:, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Tail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.88% of the time. "Tail" is used about 2,496 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.88%	2,443	3,677
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.16%	29	64,444
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.76%	19	80,337
Noun (proper)	0.2%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	2,496	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "tail" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Tail	Last name	100	77,366
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name
USA	Otter Tail Corporation
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Expressions using "tail": Box tail ♦ burro's tail ♦ butterfly tail ♦ cat's tail ♦ coat tail ♦ dog's tail ♦ donkey's tail ♦ Dragon's tail ♦ duck tail ♦ Estate in tail ♦ estate in tail female ♦ estate in tail general ♦ estate in tail male ♦ estate tail ♦ Fee tail ♦ fee tail estate ♦ fish's tail ♦ fox tail ♦ Head or tail ♦ hold the tiger by the tail ♦ horizontal tail ♦ horse tail ♦ horse's tail ♦ kite tail ♦ lamb's tail ♦ Lion's tail ♦ Lizard's tail ♦ lobster tail ♦ luminous tail ♦ mare's tail ♦ mill tail ♦ neither head nor tail ♦ not be able to make either head or tail of ♦ Otter Tail County ♦ ox tail ♦ pig tail ♦ pony tail ♦ rat's tail ♦ rat's tail file ♦ Scansorial tail ♦ Scorpion's tail ♦ shirt tail ♦ single tail test ♦ small tail ♦ Sperm Tail ♦ sting in its tail ♦ swallow tail ♦ tail after ♦ tail along ♦ tail assembly ♦ tail away ♦ tail back ♦ Tail beam ♦ tail bone ♦ tail circuit ♦ tail coat ♦ tail comb ♦ Tail coverts ♦ tail end ♦ tail escapes ♦ tail feather ♦ tail fiber ♦ tail fin ♦ tail fly ♦ tail gate ♦ tail gunner ♦ tail guy morning ♦ tail heaviness ♦ tail hook ♦ Tail joist ♦ tail lamp ♦ tail light ♦ tail mark ♦ Tail of a comet ♦ Tail of a gale ♦ Tail of a lock ♦ tail of the class ♦ Tail of the trenches ♦ tail off ♦ tail on ♦ tail piece ♦ tail pipe ♦ tail plane ♦ tail recursion ♦ tail recursion modulo cons ♦ tail recursion optimisation ♦ tail rope ♦ tail rotor ♦ tail shock wave ♦ tail skid ♦ tail slide ♦ tail spin ♦ Tail spindle ♦ Tail stock ♦ tail unit ♦ tail wheel ♦ tail wind ♦ tenant in tail ♦ the dog wags his tail ♦ To stave and tail ♦ To tail in. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tail": tail-and-dog, tail-back, tail-backs, tail-bar, Tail-bay, tail-bell, tail-between-the-legs, tail-biting, tail-board, tail-coat, tail-crushing, tail-derived, tail-docked, tail-down, tail-dropping, tail-effect, tail-end, tail-ended, tail-ender, tail-enders, Tail-ends, tail-fan, tail-feather, tail-feathered-shakin', tail-feathers, tail-fin, tail-fins, tail-first, tail-gate, tail-gates, tail-gating, tail-gunner, tail-half, tail-heaviness, tail-heavy, tail-in, tail-length, tail-less, tail-lift, tail-light, tail-lights, tail-like, tail-low, tail-male, tail-mounted, tail-off, tail-parachute, tail-piece, tail-pieces, tail-pipe, tail-race, tail-reduction, tail-rhyme, tail-rudder, tail-sacrifice, tail-shaped, tail-shedding, tail-shunting, tail-signals, tail-skid, tail-skids, tail-spikes, tail-spin, tail-spine, tail-steady, tail-stem, tail-stock, tail-streamers, tail-strict, tail-stump, tail-swisher, tail-tip, tail-tips, tail-up, tail-wagger, tail-waggers, tail-wagging, tail-waggingly, tail-wags, Tail-water, tail-waving, tail-wheel, tail-wheels, tail-wind.
	Ending with "tail": cart-tail, pony-tail, Rats-tail, Red-tail, shirt-tail, top-to-tail.
	Containing "tail": band-tail pigeon, brown-tail moth, brush-tail porcupine, cat's-tail grass, Dog's-tail grass, Fish-tail burner, Fish-tail propeller, gold-tail moth, Hare's-tail grass, lizard's-tail family, meadow cat's-tail grass, rat's-tail cactus, rat-tail file, rat-tail fish, Squirrel-tail grass, X-tail-fin.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		stert. (various references)

Albanian		bisht (crook, fag end, flagellum, handle, prat, queue, scape, stalk, stem, stub, tail end, tip, train). (various references)

Arabic		‏قاد سيارة بالتلاصق مع الاخرى, ‏تعقب شخصا, ‏تعقب (carry, chase, dog, follow, hound, keep track of, pursue, set back), ‏ذيل ذنب, ‏ذيل السترة (skirt, tails), ‏ذيل (annexation, append, appendage, sequel, tailpiece, trail, underwrite), ‏ذنب ذيل, ‏جامع (copulate, cover, hump, lie with, make love, mosque, picker, poke, sex, terse, universal), ‏شرطي سري (operative), ‏دابرة. (various references)

Basque		isats. (various references)

Bulgarian		опашка (flapper, line, line up, petiole, queue, scut, stern, tail end), изтънен край, изчиствам дръжките на плодове, изчезвам (abscond, clear out, disappear, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, mosey, pass, pass away, pass off, shrink away, sweep away, vanish, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off), по-слаба част на отбор, постепенно намалявам, прибавям (add, add in, add on, admix, affix, append, eke out, interpolate, join, put in, stick in, superadd, supplement, tack, tag, tail on, take on, throw in), прикачам (tag), заден край, задник (arse, backside, breech, bum, buttocks, can, cheeks, posterior, rear, seat, stern), долен край (heel), нещо наподобяващо опашка, съгледвач (tracker), опашчица (small tail, stroke), вървя в края на процесия, вървя в края на върволица, край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up), крайчец, шлейф (trail), режа опашката, следя (gumshoe, keep an eye on, mouse, observe, ride herd on, shadow, stag, track, trail, watch), свита (entourage, equipage, escort, following, people, retinue, suite, tendance, train), нижа се (flow). (various references)

Chinese		尾巴 . (various references)

Czech		ocas. (various references)

Danish		hale (board the net, cauda, haul in, heave, tailing, tailings, tails). (various references)

Dutch		staart (cauda, hempen swab, rear arm, rump, shorter arm, tailing), schaduwen (hatch, shade, shadow). (various references)

Esperanto		vosto, gvatsekvi (shadow). (various references)

Faeroese		hali. (various references)

Farsi		تعقیب کردن (Chase-Chace, Follow, Pursue, Suit), عقب (Abaft, Back, Behind, Rear), دم (At, Blast, Breath, Instant, Minute, Moment, Train, Trice), دنباله (Appendix, Sequel, Stem, Suite, Trail, Train). (various references)

Finnish		häntä (brush, her, him), saparo (pigtail), pyrstö (empennage). (various references)

French		queue (tail fairing, tailing, tailings, tails). (various references)

Frisian		sturt. (various references)

German		Schwanz (caudal, dick, dong, end, prick, rear, tail end, trail), Schweif (trail, train), Wedel (fan, feather duster, fly whisk, frond, palm leaf, scut, sprinkler, twig, whisk), Rute (birch, cane, penis, pizzle, pole, prick, rod, rood, stick, switch, wand), heck (back, poop, poopdeck, rear, stern), Ende (bottom, branch, cessation, close, conclusion, death, decline, end, ending, exit, expiration, finish, finished, outcome, point, quietus, result, ruin, termination, terminus, tine, tip, upshot), beschatten (bird dog, overshadow, shade, shadow, to shade). (various references)

Greek		ουρά (cue, hooray, hurrah, hurray, queue). (various references)

Hawaiian		bisht. (various references)

Hebrew		להזדנב (follow, queue up, straggle, trail behind), לבלוש (check, detect, investigate, search closely), שובל (trail, wake), אליה (lobe of ear), זנב (appendage, butt, rear, stub, stump, tail end). (various references)

Hungarian		farok (dick, dickey, dicky, scut, train). (various references)

Indonesian		mengekori (walk behind), mengekor (dangle like a tail, trail), ekor (aftermath), buntut (aftermath, rear end). (various references)

Italian		coda (line, queue, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		尾行 (follow, shadow), 尾 (ridge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お (at, cord, drawing, figure, illustration, in, on, picture, ridge, strap, thong), テール , テイル , きび (20th of the sexagenary cycle, delicate signs, inner workings, leader, millet, niceties, subtlety), しっぽ, びぶ (caudal), びこう (beautiful port, faint light, follow, muzzle of a dog, N.B., nose and mouth, nostril, nostrils, note, provision for famine, remarks, shadow, the nasal cavity, traveling incognito), びよく (tail plane, wings of the nose), びじょう (adenoids, buckle, caudal, nasal polyps). (various references)

Korean		꼬리 (tails). (various references)

Manx		famman (appendage, queue, stem of note, tail end), arbyl (end, fluke of whale, queue, slick, stem of note, stern, train of dress). (various references)

Norwegian		hale (haul, lug). (various references)

Occitan		coa. (various references)

Papiamen		rabu, rabo. (various references)

Pig Latin		ailtay.(various references)

Portuguese		cauda (buttocks, rank, rear, trail), rabo (bum, posterior, stern). (various references)

Romanian		suitã (concatenation, retainers, retinue, series, succession, suite, train), se ţine scai, revers (reverse), pulpanã (lap, skirt), poalã (foot, hem, lap, skirt), frac (dress coat, evening dress, tails), fi umbrat cuiva, escortã (convoy, escort, retinue, screen, train), dos (back, back side, behind, bottom, buttock, facing, inside, rear, rearward, reverse, seamy side), codirlã (basket), coadã (brush, handle, pigtail, queue, rear, shaft, shank, staff, stalk, stem, trail, train, tress). (various references)

Russian		снабжать хвостом, следовать по пятам (tag), хвостовое оперение (empennage, tail group, tail-plane), хвост (queue, shank, tongue, trail), задняя часть (sterns). (various references)

Scottish		earball (a tail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trag (mark, print, scuff, spoor, strain, streak, tinge, trace, tracing, track, trail, vestige, wake), slediti u stopu, rep (coma, end, rear end, tail end, trail), pratiti (accompany, chaperon, convoy, escort, follow, follow up, keep an eye on, keep track of, shadow, tag), pratilac (accompanist, escort, retainer, satellite, sidesman), ograničenje prava nasledstva, kraj (beside, by, corner, end, finish, heelpiece, landscape, lappet, last, parts, tail end, termination, terminus). (various references)

Spanish		cola (bottom, cement, glue, gum, line, queue, rear, size, trail, train), rabo (scut). (various references)

Sranan		tere. (various references)

Swahili		mkia. (various references)

Swedish		svans (scut, trail, train), stjärt (ass, backside, bottom, rump), skört (skirt). (various references)

Tagalog		buntót. (various references)

Thai		เวลาสุดท้าย, ชายเสื้อ, ผู้ติดตาม (follower, lackey), ตัดหางสัตว์, ติดตาม (tag along, tail after), ปลิดก้านผลไม้, ซึ่งเกี่ยวกับส่วนหลัง. (various references)

Turkish		kuyruk (breech, brush, caudal, cue, line, queue, scut, tail fin, together, trail, train). (various references)

Turkmen		guяruk. (various references)

Ukrainian		іти слідом (follow), утворити хвіст, спадкоємне майно, хвіст (rudder), хвостовий (caudal, rear), те, що нагадує хвіст, кінчик (point), край (area, border, brim, brink, edge, edging, end, lip, list, margin, outskirts, rand, ridge, skirt, verge), обмежувати права, приєднувати до кінця, припасовувати хвіст. (various references)

Vietnamese		quay đít chạy mất quấy rầy ai, làm phiền ai, hổ thẹn chuồn mất, chim (lie), đoạn cuối. (various references)

Welsh		cwt (hut, queue, skirt, sty). (various references)

Yucatec		neh. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	kun. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	penis. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	steort. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	cue. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Ezekiel Chapter 24, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai embale eiV auton ta dicotomhmata pan dicotomhma kalon skeloV kai wmon eksesarkismena apo twn ostwn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Congere frusta eius in ea omnem partem bonam femur et armum electa et ossibus plena
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Put togidre the gobetis of it in to it, eche good part, and the thiy, and the shuldre, chosyn and ful of boonus.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Gather its pieces into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Ezekiel Chapter 24, Verse 4
Cebuano	Tiguma niini ang mga bahin sa unod, bisan pa ang tanan nga maayong bahin, ang paa, ang abaga; pun-a kini sa pinili nga mga bukog.
Chinese	將肉塊、就是一切肥美的肉塊、腿和肩都聚在其中．拿美好的骨頭把鍋裝滿。
Croatian	Baci u nj komade, sve najbolje komade mesa, but i pleæe! Napuni ga ponajboljim kostima!
Danish	læg Kødstykker i, alle Hånde gode Stykker, Kølle og Bov, fyld den med udsøgte Knogler;
Dutch	Doe zijn stukken te zamen daarin, alle goede stukken, de dij en den schouder, vul hem met de keur der beenderen.
Finnish	Kokoile siihen lihakappaleet - kaikki hyvät kappaleet, reittä ja lapaa - ja täytä se valituilla luilla.
French	Mets-y les morceaux, tous les bons morceaux, la cuisse, l`épaule; remplis-la des meilleurs os.
German	tue die Stücke zusammen darein, die hinein sollen, alle besten Stücke, die Lenden und Schultern, und fülle ihn mit den besten Knochenstücken;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Masukkan daging ke dalamnya daging yang paling baik mutunya; daging bahu dan daging paha serta tulang-tulang yang banyak sumsumnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	bubuhlah dalamnya akan segala penggal-penggal itu bersama-sama, yaitu segala penggal yang baik, paha yang di belakang dan paha yang di depan, penuhilah akan dia dengan tulang-tulang yang bersumsum,
Italian	Mettici dentro i pezzi di carne, tutti i pezzi buoni, la coscia e la spalla, e riempila di ossi scelti;
Maori	Kohikohia

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
tail light	721	lobster tail recipe	71
black tail	537	camp tail white	71
euro tail light	327	hard tail clothing	70
black tail magazine	324	pin the tail on the donkey	70
white tail deer	282	tail lamp	69
tail	208	led tail light	65
clear tail light	207	feather lyrics shake tail	61
shake a tail feather	171	white tail	56
tail of the dragon	170	apc tail light	55
feather shake tail ya	148	red tail boas	53
red tail hawk	140	custom tail light	52
altezza tail light	138	whale tail	52
feather lyrics shake tail ya	134	mermaid tail	51
red tail boa	125	lobster tail	48
black blu cantrell tail	120	feather lyrics nelly shake tail ya	48
hard tail	118	golf red tail	48
american tail	88	feathers shake tail	46
saint tail	87	red shark tail	42
tail light cover	75	red tail golf course	40
park tail white	73	hamster wet tail	35
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Tail of a venetian barque" by Marc Habermacher Commentary: "Tail of a venetian barque (classical)."	"Tiger on your tail" by Martin Kessel Commentary: "Tail of an F16 at RAF Waddington 2003 Nikon d100."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Tail

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

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Thoreau, Henry David

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