Tail vs. Tale

Tailnoun

(anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

Tailnoun

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

Tailnoun

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

Tailnoun

(astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

(statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.

Tailnoun

One who surreptitiously follows another.

Tailnoun

(cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

Tailnoun

(typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

(mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

Tailnoun

The buttocks or backside.

Tailnoun

(slang) The penis of a person or animal.

Tailnoun

Sexual intercourse.

Tailnoun

(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.

Tailnoun

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

Tailnoun

(anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.

Tailnoun

(entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

(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.

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

(nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

Tailnoun

(music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

Tailnoun

(mining) A tailing.

Tailnoun

(architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

Tailnoun

A tailcoat.

Tailnoun

(legal) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

Tailverb

(transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.

Tailverb

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

Tailverb

(nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

Tailverb

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

Tailverb

To pull or draw by the tail.

Tailadjective

(legal) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

Tailnoun

Limitation; abridgment.

Tailnoun

The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.

Tailnoun

Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.

Tailnoun

Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, - as opposed to the head, or the superior part.

Tailnoun

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

Tailnoun

The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; - rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.

Tailnoun

The distal tendon of a muscle.

Tailnoun

A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

Tailnoun

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.

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

Same as Tailing, 4.

Tailnoun

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

Tailnoun

See Tailing, n., 5.

Tailnoun

the long visible stream of gases, ions, or dust particles extending from the head of a comet in the direction opposite to the sun.

Tailnoun

In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.

Tailnoun

A tailed coat; a tail coat.

Tailnoun

In airplanes, an airfoil or group of airfoils used at the rear to confer stability.

Tailnoun

the buttocks.

Tailnoun

sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual intercourse; as, to get some tail; to find a piece of tail. See also tailing{3}.

Tailadjective

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.

Tailverb

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

Tailverb

To pull or draw by the tail.

Tailverb

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

Tailverb

To swing with the stern in a certain direction; - said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

Tailnoun

the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

Tailnoun

the time of the last part of something;

Tailnoun

any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

Tailnoun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Tailnoun

a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

Tailnoun

(usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head

Tailnoun

the rear part of an aircraft

Tailnoun

the rear part of a ship

Tailverb

go after with the intent to catch;

Tailverb

remove or shorten the tail of an animal

Tailverb

remove the stalk of fruits or berries

Tailnoun

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

Tailnoun

a slender backward prolongation of each hindwing in some butterflies.

Tailnoun

a thing resembling an animal's tail in its shape or position, typically extending downwards or outwards at the end of something

Tailnoun

the rear part of an aeroplane, with the tailplane and rudder

Tailnoun

the lower or hanging part of a garment, especially the back of a shirt or coat

Tailnoun

a tailcoat, or a man's formal evening suit with a tailcoat

Tailnoun

the luminous trail of particles following a comet.

Tailnoun

the lower end of a pool or stream

Tailnoun

the exposed end of a slate or tile in a roof

Tailnoun

an extremity of a curve approaching the horizontal axis of a graph, especially that of a frequency distribution.

Tailnoun

the end of a long train or line of people or vehicles

Tailnoun

the final, more distant, or weaker part of something

Tailnoun

the end of the batting order, with the weakest batsmen

Tailnoun

a person secretly following another to observe their movements

Tailnoun

a person's buttocks

Tailnoun

a woman's genitals.

Tailnoun

women collectively regarded in sexual terms

Tailnoun

the side of a coin without the image of a head on it (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner)

Tailnoun

limitation of ownership, especially of an estate or title limited to a person and their direct descendants

Tailverb

follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret

Tailverb

follow

Tailverb

(of an object in flight) drift or curve in a particular direction

Tailverb

remove the stalks or ends of (fruit or vegetables) in preparation for cooking.

Tailverb

pull on the end of (a rope) after it has been wrapped round the drum of a winch a few times, in order to prevent slipping when the winch rotates.

Tailverb

join (one thing) to another.

Tailverb

provide with a tail

Tail

The tail is the section at the rear end of certain kinds of animals’ bodies; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. It is the part of the body that corresponds roughly to the sacrum and coccyx in mammals, reptiles, and birds.

Talenoun

An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

Talenoun

A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

Talenoun

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.

Talenoun

(slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.

Talenoun

(obsolete) Number; tally; quota.

Talenoun

(obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.

Talenoun

(obsolete) Speech; language.

Talenoun

(obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.

Talenoun

A count; declaration.

Talenoun

A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.

Talenoun

A report of any matter; a relation; a version.

Taleverb

To speak; discourse; tell tales.

Taleverb

To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

Talenoun

See Tael.

Talenoun

That which is told; an oral relation or recital; any rehearsal of what has occured; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.

Talenoun

A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.

Talenoun

A count or declaration.

Taleverb

To tell stories.

Talenoun

a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program;

Talenoun

a trivial lie;

Talenoun

a fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted

Talenoun

a lie.

Talenoun

a number or total