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tail
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?l, IPA(key): /te?l/
- Homophones: tale, tael
- Rhymes: -e?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English tail, tayl, teil, from Old English tæ?l (“tail”), from Proto-Germanic *taglaz, *tagl? (“hair, fiber; hair of a tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *do?- (“hair of the tail”), from Proto-Indo-European *de?- (“to tear, fray, shred”). Cognate with Scots tail (“tail”), Dutch teil (“tail, haulm, blade”), Low German Tagel (“twisted scourge, whip of thongs and ropes; end of a rope”), German Zagel (“tail”), dialectal Danish tavl (“hair of the tail”), Swedish tagel (“hair of the tail, horsehair”), Norwegian tagl (“tail”), Icelandic tagl (“tail, horsetail, ponytail”), Gothic ???????????????? (tagl, “hair”). In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.
Noun
tail (plural tails)
- (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.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- 1862, Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (volume 16, page 83)
- It was soon over, and the unmoved magistrate calmly ordained that Deborah Williams, Elizabeth and Faith Wilson, should be tied to a cart's tail, and thus led through the principal streets of the town, receiving during their progress twenty lashes each, well laid on, upon the naked back.
- 1862, Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (volume 16, page 83)
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- Synonym: descender
- (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.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (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.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- (mining) A tailing.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- caudal
Verb
tail (third-person singular simple present tails, present participle tailing, simple past and past participle tailed)
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- Tail that car!
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- This vessel tails downstream.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman, probably from a shortened form of entail.
Adjective
tail
- (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
- estate tail
Noun
tail
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- tail male — limitation to male heirs
- in tail — subject to such a limitation
Related terms
- entail
References
Anagrams
- ATLI, Ital, Ital., LIAT, LITA, Lita, TILA, Ta-li, Tila, alit, alti, ital, ital., lait, tali
Middle English
Noun
tail
- Alternative form of tayl
Welsh
Noun
tail m (plural teiliau)
- shit, dung
Derived terms
- maer biswail
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shoot
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?u?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: chute
Etymology 1
From Middle English shoten, from Old English sc?otan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutan?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”). Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian ??????? (kidát?), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian ???? (?ost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.
Verb
shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)
- To launch a projectile.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- Synonym: (of an arrow) loose
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
- Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.
- 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To dismiss or do away with.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To move or act quickly or suddenly.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VII
- It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- She [...] shoots the Stygian sound.
- 2005, R. G. Crouch, The Coat: The Origin and Times of Doggett's Famous Wager (page 40)
- It was approaching the time when watermen would not shoot the bridge even without a passenger aboard.
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
- 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
- The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would not shoot while that blows.
- 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb
- an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
- c. 1608-1610, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Coxcomb
- (informal, transitive) To send to someone.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (sports) To act or achieve.
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To make the stated score.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To develop, move forward.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- 1709, John Dryden, Georgics
- But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
- 1709, John Dryden, Georgics
- To grow; to advance.
- Well shot in years he seemed.
- 1728, James Thomson, "Spring"
- Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
- Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49
- There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers Chapter 49
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works
- two Pieces of Wood are Shot (that is Plained) or else they are Pared [...] with a Pairing-chissel
- 1677, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, The Doctrine of Handy-works
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.W
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan
- The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Dying Swan
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shoot.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Catalan: xut
- ? Greek: ???? (sout)
- ? Persian: ???? (šut)
- ? Portuguese: chuto, chute
- ? Romanian: ?ut
- ? Vietnamese: sút
Translations
Noun
shoot (plural shoots)
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- Prune off yet also superfluous branches, and shoots of this second spring.
- A photography session.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
- In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)
- That there was no evidence before the jury that at the time of the accident the timber shoot was worked by the defendant company.
- 1891, New South Wales. Supreme Court, The New South Wales Law Reports (volume 12, page 238)
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
Derived terms
- (hunt or shooting competition): turkey shoot
Descendants
- Catalan: xut
- Portuguese: chuto
Translations
Etymology 2
Minced oath for shit.
Interjection
shoot
- A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
- Didn't you have a concert tonight?
- Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...
Synonyms
- (mild expletive): darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar
Translations
Anagrams
- Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh
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