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The part that sticks out and trails at the very back of an animal's body — the hindmost, trailing end, the bit that follows along behind everything else.

可以想成動物身體最後面那條伸出來、拖在後頭的尾巴。它有兩個關鍵點:它在「最後/最末端」,而且它「跟在身體後面走」。後…更多收起可以想成動物身體最後面那條伸出來、拖在後頭的尾巴。它有兩個關鍵點:它在「最後/最末端」,而且它「跟在身體後面走」。後面的意思,有的抓住「末端」這一面,有的抓住「緊跟在後」這一面。

原始詞典資料39 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Tailname

  • 1

    astronomynatural-sciencesA Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and the tail of Azure Dragon.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tail.

tailnoun詞源 1/ˈteɪ̯l/

  • 1

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

    • Most primates have a tail and fangs.
  • 2

    An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails; a strand of material hanging from something.

    • Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.
    • Using a thin tapestry needle, weave the warp tails back into the fabric in a warpwise direction and trim off the excess.
  • 3

    The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

  • 4

    The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

  • 5

    The tail-end of any object.

    • And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]
    • 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.
  • 6

    The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

  • 7

    astronomynatural-sciencesThe visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

  • 8

    The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

另外 23 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsThe part of a distribution most distant from the mode.

    • long tail
  • 10

    One who surreptitiously follows another.

  • 11

    ball-gamescricketgamesThe lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

  • 12

    mediapublishingtypographyThe lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

  • 13

    The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.

  • 14

    mathematicssciencesAll the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

    • A sequence (a#95;n) is said to be frequently 0 if every tail of the sequence contains 0.
  • 15

    The buttocks or backside.

    • 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.
    • They were wont to wipe their tailes [translating cul] (this vaine superstition of words must be left unto women) with a sponge, and that's the reason why Spongia in Latine is counted an obscene word[…].
  • 16

    slangThe penis of a person or animal.

  • 17

    slangSexual intercourse.

    • I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
    • “Innarested in a little tail t’night?” “Me?” I said. Which was a very dumb answer, but it’s quite embarrassing when somebody comes right up and asks you a question like that.
  • 18

    The stern; the back of the kayak.

  • 19

    A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

    • Ah! if you Saxon Duinhé-wassal (English gentleman) saw but the chief with his tail on. […] that is, with all his usual followers
  • 20

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe distal tendon of a muscle.

  • 21

    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesA filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.

  • 22

    A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

  • 23

    medicinesciencessurgeryA 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.

  • 24

    One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

  • 25

    nauticaltransportA rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

  • 26

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

  • 27

    businessminingA tailing.

  • 28

    architectureThe bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

  • 29

    datedA tailcoat.

  • 30

    businesselectricalelectrical-engineeringSynonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).

  • 31

    chemistrynatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.

tailverb詞源 1/ˈteɪ̯l/

  • 1

    architectureTo hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

  • 2

    nauticaltransportTo swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

    • This vessel tails downstream.
  • 3

    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.
  • 4

    To follow and observe surreptitiously.

    • Tail that car!
  • 5

    To pull or draw by the tail.

    • The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd

tailadj詞源 2/ˈteɪ̯l/

  • 1

    lawLimited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

    • estate tail

tailnoun詞源 2/ˈteɪ̯l/

  • 1

    lawLimitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

    • tail male
    • in tail

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。