Meaning

32 senses
  1. The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

    Most primates have a tail and fangs.

    Schwanz, Schweif, Sterz

    хвостxvost

    хвістxvist

  2. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.

  3. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

    the time of the last part of something

  4. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

  5. The tail-end of any object.

    any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

  6. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

    хвостxvost

    хвістxvist

    the rear part of an aircraft

  7. The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

    Schweif

    хвостxvost

  8. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

  9. The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.

    long tail

    the rear part of a ship

  10. One who surreptitiously follows another.

  11. The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

  12. The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

Examples

401 sentences
  1. The boy caught the cat by the tail.

    Хлопчик схопив кота за хвіст.

    ruМальчик поймал кота за хвост.

    deDer Junge fasste die Katze beim Schwanz.

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  2. This kind of cat doesn't have a tail.

    Такі коти не мають хвостів.

    ruУ кошек этой породы нет хвоста.

    deDiese Katzenart hat keinen Schwanz.

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  3. A cat has a tail and four legs.

    Кіт має хвіст та чотири лапи.

    ruУ кошки есть хвост и четыре лапы.

    deEine Katze hat einen Schwanz und vier Beine.

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  4. The dog was wagging his tail.

    Собака виляв хвостом.

    ruСобака виляла хвостом.

    deDer Hund wedelte mit dem Schwanz.

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  5. Rabbits have long ears and short tails.

    У кролів довгі вуха та короткі хвости.

    ruУ кроликов длинные уши и короткий хвост.

    deKaninchen haben lange Ohren und kurze Schwänze.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
appendage of an animal — see also dock:
Русский
By meaning 2
surreptitious follower:
reverse side of a coin:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tail-end of a creature:
appendage of an animal — see also dock:

Origin

From Middle English tail, taile, taille, tayil, tayl, tayle, tayll, teil, tæȝel, from Old

From Middle English tail, taile, taille, tayil, tayl, tayle, tayll, teil, tæȝel, from Old English tæġel, tæġl (“tail”), from Proto-West Germanic *tagl, from Proto-Germanic *taglą (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to tear, fray, shred”).

From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.

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Forms

plural: tails
Singulartail

uncountable

Synonyms

135 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

295 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • wagging its tail
  • the dog's tail
  • dog's tail

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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