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adj
- resembling a tail
- situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises
- constituting or relating to a tail
- (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
- (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
adv
noun
noun
- (heraldry) An animal's tail.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, less common in North America) A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
- (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
- A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- (now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
- (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- a braid of hair at the back of the head
- a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
verb
noun
- a short erect tail
- A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
- (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
- (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
- (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
- large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain
- An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
- A bobtail squid.
- (poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.
- (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
- A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
- The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer.
- A bobtail skink.
adj
verb
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- maneuver into a dock
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- To join two moving items.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
noun
- A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.
- The forked tail of a swallow.
- Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
- Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.
- a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back
noun
- (mining) A tailing.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (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.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (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.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
noun
- Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
- Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
- The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
- The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
- (computing, networking) The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- Change from one product or service provider to another.
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
verb
noun
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
verb
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
noun
- The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- The hinder part of anything.
- A bird, the black tern, seabird.
- (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
- (figurative) The post of management or direction.
- the rear part of a ship
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
adj
verb
noun
- (heraldry) An animal's tail.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, less common in North America) A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt with in sequence (i.e., the one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on), and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
- (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (in the case of a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack where these ends coincide.
- A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
- (now historical) A men's hairstyle with a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
- (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- a braid of hair at the back of the head
- a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
verb
noun
- a short erect tail
- A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
- (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
- (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
- (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
verb
noun
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
- large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain
- An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
- A bobtail squid.
- (poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.
- (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
- A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
- The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer.
- A bobtail skink.
adj
verb
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- maneuver into a dock
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- To join two moving items.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
noun
- A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.
- The forked tail of a swallow.
- Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
- Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.
- a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back
noun
- (mining) A tailing.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (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.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (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.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
noun
- Back-and-forth movement of an animal's tail, etc.
- Corporal punishment by use of a switch (twig or twigs).
- The movement of a locomotive from one track to another.
- The transference of an investment from one fund to another.
- (computing, networking) The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- Change from one product or service provider to another.
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
verb
noun
- a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
- a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
- stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
- plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- (Internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.
- (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
- The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- (British, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
- (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
verb
- communicate or signal with a flag
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- provide with a flag
- decorate with flags
- become less intense
- (computing) To signal (an event).
- (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
- (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- (computing) To set a program variable to true.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- (biology) In female canids, to signal mating readiness by moving the tail aside to expose the vulva.
- (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
noun
- The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- The hinder part of anything.
- A bird, the black tern, seabird.
- (nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
- (figurative) The post of management or direction.
- the rear part of a ship
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
adj
verb
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- the solid bony part of the tail of an animal as distinguished from the hair
- any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
- an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out
- a platform where trucks or trains can be loaded or unloaded
- A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- (UK, nautical) The body of water next to and around a pier.
- (graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications by their icons, and switching between running applications.
- Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially bitter dock (Rumex obtusifolius), and used as potherbs and in folk medicine, especially in curing nettle rash.
- (theater) Ellipsis of scene-dock.
- The area of arrival and departure of a train in a railway station.
- A leather case used to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- (US, nautical) A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port; usually for loading and unloading.
- An act or instance of docking; joining two things together.
- (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance for providing the necessary electrical charge for its autonomy, or as a hardware extension for additional capabilities.
- (law) Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- The fleshy root of an animal's tail; specifically after clipping or cutting.
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- maneuver into a dock
- deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty
- deduct from someone's wages
- come into dock
- (intransitive, slang, vulgar) In male homosexual sex, to engage in docking, the inserting of the tip of one participant's penis into the foreskin of the other participant.
- (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- (transitive, cooking) To pierce holes, as pricking dough with a fork, to prevent excessive rising in the oven.
- (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from (someone).
- (astronautics) To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- (transitive) To clip or cut off a section of an animal's tail; to practise a caudectomy.
- To join two moving items.
- (transitive) To place (an electronic device) in its dock.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where it snaps into place.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the wages of (a person).
noun
- (mining) A tailing.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (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.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (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.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
verb
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
adj
- resembling a tail
- situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises
- constituting or relating to a tail
- (anatomical terms of location and direction) Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
- (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
adv
noun
adj
noun
noun
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- A short, or deliberately shortened tail.
- large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy bluish-grey-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to the Roman occupation of Britain
- An animal that has a bobtail, such as certain canines or nags.
- A bobtail squid.
- (poker, often attributive) An open-ended straight or four flush.
- (agriculture) A tractor which performs without its trailer.
- A tractor-trailer that is relatively short in length.
- The tractor unit of a semi-truck without a trailer.
- A bobtail skink.