Meaning

4 senses
  1. The act of following someone.

    the act of following someone secretly

  2. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

  3. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

  4. (obsolete)The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Tailings from the gold mine poisoned the land for kilometres around.

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Forms

plural: tailings
Singulartailing
Pluraltailings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of following someone secretly:shadowing

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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