The meaning of Tailor

verb

Make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.

Usage examples:

Hospitals have had to be adapted for modern medical practice

verb

Make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

verb

To adjust to different conditions or uses, or to change to meet different situations

verb

Alter or move (something) slightly in order to achieve the desired fit, appearance, or result.

Usage examples:

He smoothed his hair and adjusted his tie

verb

Alter or regulate so as to conform to a standard

verb

To change something slightly to make it fit, work better, or be more suitable

Usage examples:

[ t ] adjust the angle of your monitor so you can easily read it., [ i ] you need time to adjust to…

verb

Change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.

Usage examples:

Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage

verb

To change a characteristic, often slightly, or to cause this to happen

Usage examples:

[ t ] the coat was too long, so i took it back to the store to have it altered., some things in lif…

verb

To change the appearance, character, or structure of something, or to be changed in this way

Usage examples:

Just last week, the company agreed to alter some of its business practices., if they want to contin…

verb

Make receptive or aware.

Usage examples:

A society more attuned to consumerism than ideology

verb

To make someone able to understand or recognize something

Usage examples:

My ears are beginning to attune to the subtle differences in intonation., his previous experience a…

verb

Make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.

Usage examples:

Both parties voted against proposals to change the law

noun

An act or process through which something becomes different.

Usage examples:

The change from a nomadic to an agricultural society

noun

A person or company that makes or sells clothes or cloth.

Usage examples:

Mps who railed against the destruction of traditional steel and coal industries are quite happy to …

verb

Change the form, character, or function of something.

Usage examples:

Modernization has converted the country from a primitive society to a near-industrial one

noun

A person who has been persuaded to change their religious faith or other belief.

Usage examples:

He is a recent convert to the church

verb

To change the character, appearance, or operation of something

Usage examples:

[ t ] we converted our oil furnace to gas to save money., [ i ] most of the families in the communi…

noun

A person or company that makes or supplies theatrical or fancy-dress costumes.

Usage examples:

A theatrical costumier

noun

A person who makes and rents out costumes, especially for use in a theatre

noun

A fashion designer who manufactures and sells clothes that have been tailored to a client's specific requirements and measurements.

Usage examples:

Clothes of luxurious fabrics, cut by top couturiers to fit them to perfection

noun

A person or company that designs, makes, and sells expensive fashionable clothing

Usage examples:

In 1960 pierre cardin became the first couturier to design men's clothes., yves saint laurent was t…

verb

Modify (something) to suit a particular individual or task.

Usage examples:

The software can be customized to the developing needs of your students

verb

To make or change something according to a customer's or user's particular needs

Usage examples:

Employees can customize the software to suit their needs., customize sth (to sth) the basic design …

verb

Make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object.

Usage examples:

He cut his toe on a sharp stone

noun

A stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane.

Usage examples:

He could skin an animal with a single cut of the knife

verb

Separate with or as if with an instrument

noun

A person whose job is making women's clothes.

Usage examples:

At the same time there were harness makers, tailors, dressmakers, builders, blacksmiths, wheelwrigh…

noun

Someone who makes women's clothes, especially as a job

noun

A popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration, or behaviour.

Usage examples:

The latest parisian fashions

verb

Make into a particular form.

Usage examples:

The bottles were fashioned from green glass

combining form

In the manner of something specified.

Usage examples:

The masts extend concertina-fashion

adjective

Of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose.

Usage examples:

The house was not fit for human habitation

verb

Be of the right shape and size for.

Usage examples:

Those jeans still fit me

noun

The particular way in which something, especially a garment or component, fits.

Usage examples:

The dress was a perfect fit

noun

A toothed wheel that works with others to alter the relation between the speed of a driving mechanism (such as the engine of a vehicle) and the speed of the driven parts (the wheels).

Usage examples:

A racing bike with ten-speed gears

verb

Prepare, adjust, or equip for a particular purpose or need.

Usage examples:

They gear workouts to your specific needs

noun

(in a machine) a wheel having pointed parts around the edge that come together with similar parts of other wheels to control how much power from an engine goes to the moving parts of a machine

Usage examples:

[ u ] use second gear going up a steep hill., camping gear, [ t ] our program is geared to the need…

verb

Make partial or minor changes to (something).

Usage examples:

She may be prepared to modify her views

verb

To change something slightly, esp. to improve it or make it more acceptable or less extreme

Usage examples:

The school board decided to modify its existing employment policy.

verb

To slightly change something such as a plan, method, or law, usually to improve it or make it more acceptable

Usage examples:

All files are marked with the date and time they were last modified., we modified some of the wordi…

noun

A fashionable milliner or dressmaker.

Usage examples:

It's the sort of city where a burglar, a banker, a taxi-driver, an academician, a modiste, and a pu…

noun

A person who makes fashionable clothes for women

Usage examples:

He was the son of fashionable parisian modistes.

noun

A hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material when it cools and hardens.

Usage examples:

The smith would pour the molten metal into the shaped mould

verb

Form (an object) out of malleable material.

Usage examples:

Mould the figure from white fondant

noun

A furry growth of minute fungi occurring typically in moist warm conditions, especially on food or other organic matter.

Usage examples:

Mould may flourish unhindered

noun

A shop selling men's clothing.

Usage examples:

Gentlemen's outfitters are traditionally independent clothing shops, often family-run, trading in m…

noun

A store that sells equipment for activities done outdoors, for example, hunting, fishing, or sailing

Usage examples:

A fishing/hunting outfitter, a gentlemen's/men's outfitter

verb

Shape or form (something) differently or again.

Usage examples:

The decrees will thoroughly reshape poland's economy

verb

To change the character or organization of something

Usage examples:

Baby boomers continue to reshape society as they age., governments have sought to reduce or reshape…

verb

To make an organization, industry, system, etc. operate differently

Usage examples:

The company will have to lose jobs to reshape the business., the proposal is an effort to reshape h…

noun

A woman who sews, especially one who earns her living by sewing.

Usage examples:

A cloud of lint hovered over the seamstresses and their sewing machines like a multicolored fog ove…

noun

A woman whose job is sewing, esp. clothes

noun

The external form, contours, or outline of someone or something.

Usage examples:

She liked the shape of his nose

verb

Give a particular shape or form to.

Usage examples:

Most caves are shaped by the flow of water through limestone

abbreviation

Supreme headquarters allied powers europe.

noun

A particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way.

Usage examples:

Different styles of management

verb

Archaic term for stylus (sense 2).

suffix

(forming adjectives and adverbs) in a manner characteristic of.

Usage examples:

Family-style

noun

A set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt.

Usage examples:

A pinstriped suit

verb

Be convenient for or acceptable to.

Usage examples:

What time would suit you?

verb

To be convenient or work well for someone or something

Usage examples:

What time suits you best?, the job of a salesman seems to suit him., that new hairstyle really suit…

verb

Make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts.

Usage examples:

Trim the grass using a sharp mower

noun

Additional decoration, typically along the edges of something and in contrasting colour or material.

Usage examples:

A red blazer with gold trim

adjective

Neat and smart in appearance; in good order.

Usage examples:

His face was freshly shaved, his clothes neat and trim

noun

A melody, especially one that characterizes a particular piece of music.

Usage examples:

She left the theatre humming a cheerful tune

verb

Adjust (a musical instrument) to the correct or uniform pitch.

Usage examples:

He tuned the harp for me

noun

A series of musical notes, esp. one that is pleasant and easy to remember; a melody

Usage examples:

That’s a very pretty tune., this piano is out of tune (= the notes are too high or low)., paul just…