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tail

IPA(Pronunciation)
/teɪl/
Noun
 in-plural US colloquial slang uncountable dated
(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. / An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
Japanese Meaning
動物の後部にある尾、すなわち尻尾。 / 尻尾に似た形状の部分や物体（例: 猫の尾を彷彿とさせるもの）。
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犬はめまいがするまで自分の尾を追いかけた。

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(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
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An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
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The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
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The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
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The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
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The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
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(astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
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The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
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(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
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One who surreptitiously follows another.
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(cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
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(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
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(chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
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(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
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(now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
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(slang) The penis of a person or animal.
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(slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
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(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
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A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
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(entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
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A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
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(surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
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One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
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(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
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(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
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(mining) A tailing.
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(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
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(colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
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(electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)

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