Tail

  • 61tail — [OE] Tail comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taglaz, whose other modern descendants include German zagel ‘penis’ and Swedish tagel ‘horsehair’. This in turn went back to an Indo European *doklos, which had the general meaning ‘something long and… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 62tail — Хвост буквы (Tail)     Элемент формы знака, не кончающийся засечкой [короткий штрих на торце основного штриха] и обычно свисающий ниже линии шрифта [воображаемая линия, на которой располагаются буквы], например, у прописной латинской Q …

    Шрифтовая терминология

  • 63tail — i. The rear part of a body, as of an aircraft, a rocket, etc. ii. The tail surfaces of an aircraft or rocket …

    Aviation dictionary

  • 64tail — I. n. 1. Caudal appendage, hinder part. 2. Back part, lower part, inferior part. 3. End, extremity, fag end, conclusion. 4. Skirt, flap. 5. Catkin. 6. Train, retinue. 7. Horse tail, Turkish standard …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 65tail — 1. noun the tail of the queue Syn: rear, end, back, extremity, bottom Ant: head, front, start 2. verb; informal the detectives tailed him to his hide out Syn: follow …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 66tail — [OE] Tail comes from a prehistoric Germanic *taglaz, whose other modern descendants include German zagel ‘penis’ and Swedish tagel ‘horsehair’. This in turn went back to an Indo European *doklos, which had the general meaning ‘something long and… …

    Word origins

  • 67Tail Code — Tail codes are the markings usually on the vertical stabilizer of U.S. military aircraft that help characterize the aircraft s unit and/or base assignment and occasionally other information that is not unique. This is not the same as the serial… …

    Wikipedia

  • 68Tail beam — Tail Tail, n. [AS. t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [root]59.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. [1913 Webster] Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 69Tail coverts — Tail Tail, n. [AS. t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [root]59.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. [1913 Webster] Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 70Tail end — Tail Tail, n. [AS. t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [root]59.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. [1913 Webster] Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English