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📖 Определения и значения для слова tail

📒 the part that sticks out at the back of the body of a bird, an animal or a fish, which the animal can move from side to side or up and down

  • The dog ran up, wagging its tail.
  • My dog loves to chase his tail.
  • The male has beautiful tail feathers.

📒 having the type of tail mentioned

  • a white-tailed eagle

📒 the back part of a plane, spacecraft, etc.

  • The plane's tail section had broken off.

📒 a part of something that sticks out at the back like a tail

  • the tail of a kite

📒 the last part of something that is moving away from you

  • the tail of the procession
  • the truck at the tail of our convoy

📒 a long jacket divided at the back below the waist into two pieces that become narrower at the bottom, worn by men at very formal events

  • The men all wore top hat and tails.

📒 the side of a coin that does not have a picture of the head of a person on it, used as one choice when a coin is tossed to decide something

📒 a person who is sent to follow somebody secretly and find out information about where that person goes, what they do, etc.

  • The police have put a tail on him.

📒 to be unable to understand something

  • I couldn't make head nor tail of what he was saying.

📒 to be very busy but in fact achieve very little

📒 used to ask somebody which side of a coin they think will be facing upwards when it is tossed in order to decide something by chance

📒 if cars, etc. are nose to tail, they are moving slowly in a long line with little space between them

  • The traffic was nose to tail for miles.

📒 following behind somebody very closely, especially in a car

  • There’s been a white van sitting on my tail for the past ten miles.

📒 an unpleasant feature that comes at the end of a story, an event, etc. and makes it less good, successful, etc.

📒 used to describe a situation in which the most important aspect is being influenced and controlled by somebody/something that is not as important

📒 to run away from a fight or dangerous situation

  • When they heard the sirens, they turned tail and ran.

📒 feeling ashamed or unhappy because you have been defeated or punished

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