All English words - page 5788

Meanings of Tailgates:

noun

A hinged flap at the back of a truck that can be lowered or removed when loading or unloading the vehicle.

Usage examples:

The android made slow progress, and she was impatient, so she went outside to the truck and lowered…

verb

Drive too closely behind (another vehicle).

Usage examples:

He started tailgating the motorist in front

Meanings of Tailgating:

verb

Drive too closely behind (another vehicle).

Usage examples:

He started tailgating the motorist in front

noun

A hinged flap at the back of a truck that can be lowered or removed when loading or unloading the vehicle.

Usage examples:

The android made slow progress, and she was impatient, so she went outside to the truck and lowered…

Meanings of Tailing:

noun

The residue of something, especially ore.

Usage examples:

Tailings from the mine may contaminate local waterways

verb

Follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret.

Usage examples:

A flock of paparazzi had tailed them all over london

Meanings of Tailing-off:

phrasal verb

To become gradually less or smaller

Usage examples:

Profits tailed off in the last half of the year.

Meanings of Tailings:

noun

The residue of something, especially ore.

Usage examples:

Tailings from the mine may contaminate local waterways

Meanings of Taille:

noun

(in france before 1789) a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord.

Usage examples:

The main direct tax, the taille, was levied on persons in central provinces, but on land in periphe…

Meanings of Tailles:

noun

(in france before 1789) a tax levied on the common people by the king or an overlord.

Usage examples:

The main direct tax, the taille, was levied on persons in central provinces, but on land in periphe…

Meanings of Tailleur:

noun

A woman's tailor-made suit.

Usage examples:

A group of belles de jour ready for sin strutted down the oval runway in black velvet dresses with …

Meanings of Taillight:

noun

A red light at the rear of a motor vehicle, train, or bicycle.

Meanings of Taillights:

noun

A red light at the rear of a motor vehicle, train, or bicycle.

Meanings of Tailor:

noun

A person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets to fit individual customers.

Usage examples:

While custom tailors sold individually fitted suits and other personalized apparel, they increasing…

verb

Another term for bluefish.

Meanings of Tailor-made:

adjective

Specially made for a particular person, organization, or purpose

Usage examples:

All the facilities will be tailor-made., they primarily concentrate on developing tailor-made produ…

Meanings of Tailorbird:

noun

A small southern asian warbler that makes a row of holes in one or two large leaves and stitches them together with cottony fibres or silk to form a container for the nest.

Usage examples:

Collected here in 1945, the tailorbirds remained ignored until a 2001 expedition revisited the mass…

Meanings of Tailored:

adjective

(of clothes) smart, fitted, and well cut.

Usage examples:

A tailored charcoal-grey suit

verb

(of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers.

Usage examples:

He was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in london

Meanings of Tailoress:

noun

A female tailor.

Usage examples:

Jane had started working as a tailoress to boost her family's income

Meanings of Tailoring:

noun

The activity or trade of a tailor.

Usage examples:

They learnt woodwork, tailoring, and other trades

verb

(of a tailor) make (clothes) to fit individual customers.

Usage examples:

He was wearing a sports coat which had obviously been tailored in london

Meanings of Tailors:

noun

A person whose occupation is making fitted clothes such as suits, trousers, and jackets to fit individual customers.

Usage examples:

While custom tailors sold individually fitted suits and other personalized apparel, they increasing…

verb

Another term for bluefish.

Meanings of Tailpiece:

noun

A part added to the end of a story or piece of writing.

Usage examples:

There was a tailpiece to the article

Meanings of Tailpipe:

noun

The rear section of the exhaust pipe of a motor vehicle.

Usage examples:

Some of the subtle alterations include a tailpipe covered by the rear air dam as well as enlarged a…

Meanings of Tailpipes:

noun

The rear section of the exhaust pipe of a motor vehicle.

Usage examples:

Some of the subtle alterations include a tailpipe covered by the rear air dam as well as enlarged a…

Meanings of Tailplane:

noun

A horizontal aerofoil at the tail of an aircraft.

Usage examples:

While dimensionally and aerodynamically identical to the original tailplane, the new tail slashes t…

Meanings of Tails:

noun

The hindmost part of an animal, especially when prolonged beyond the rest of the body, such as the flexible extension of the backbone in a vertebrate, the feathers at the hind end of a bird, or a terminal appendage in an insect.

Usage examples:

The dog's tail began to wag frantically

verb

Follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret.

Usage examples:

A flock of paparazzi had tailed them all over london

plural noun

The side of a coin that does not have an image of a head on it

phrase

The side of a coin that does not have a picture of someone's head on it

Usage examples:

Heads we move to france, tails to canada., she tossed the coin and it came down tails., you choose:…

Meanings of Tailspin:

noun

A spin by an aircraft.

Usage examples:

About 600 miles out, erwin broadcast a frantic message that he was in a tailspin and headed for the…

verb

Become increasingly chaotic and out of control.

Usage examples:

An economy tailspinning into chaos

Meanings of Tailspins:

noun

A spin by an aircraft.

Usage examples:

About 600 miles out, erwin broadcast a frantic message that he was in a tailspin and headed for the…

verb

Become increasingly chaotic and out of control.

Usage examples:

An economy tailspinning into chaos

Meanings of Tailstock:

noun

The adjustable part of a lathe holding the fixed spindle.

Usage examples:

The first step was to chuck it up in the lathe and, using an end mill in the tailstock, remove the …