Entail

Definitions: Entail

Entail

Noun

1. Land received by fee tail.

Verb

1. Have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers".

2. Impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result; "What does this move entail?".

Date "entail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Entail:the restriction of property inheritance by limiting inheritance to the owner's lineal descendants. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Entail

Synonyms: implicate (v), imply (v), mean (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: entailing (food & agriculture, law).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cause	Procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke, entail, operate; elicit, provoke.
Latency Implication	Involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference; entail; whisper; (conceal).
Retention	Secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband; (store); reserve; have in stock, have on hand, keep in stock; (possess); entail, tie up, settle.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Entail

English words defined with "entail": Entailed, Entailing ♦ imply, Intail, involve ♦ motility, motion, move, movement ♦ Patroon. (references)

Specialty definitions using "entail": exceptional consignment, exceptional transport ♦ orange disks ♦ special consignment. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Does this proposition entail my dressing up as Little Bo Peep? (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	The Entail, Or, the Lairds of Grippy (World's Classics) (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	This substitution shall not entail any payment on the part of the French State. (reference)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Preoperative assessment should entail evaluation of the child in the home, social, and educational contexts to ensure that implantation is the proper intervention. (references)
		This should entail removal of an ellipse or core of full-thickness of skin and subcutaneous tissue at the most raised and irregular site, or, if this is not apparent, at an area of dark pigmentation. (references)
		Adjuvant therapy for colon and rectal carcinoma potentially affects 35,000 to 40,000 patients each year. These therapies, while bringing improved disease-free survival and overall survival, do entail longer and more complex treatments, and there is presently little information to answer questions regarding either physiologic or financial burdens experienced by patients undergoing adjuvant therapy either within or outside the clinical trials setting. (references)
Business		The GOP favors purchases which entail such agreements. (references)
		Restructuring will entail job losses and most likely a concentration of foreign ownership. (references)
		Services that entail financial transactions are, with a few exceptions, still in the development or testing phase. (references)
Economic History	North Korea	The use of government resources would entail reciprocity. (references)
	Panama	This will entail intensive use of wastewater treatment equipment and technology. (references)
	Syria	The realization of several of these projects would entail significant export opportunities for U.S. firms in the energy sector. (references)
Minorities	Liberia	The rituals involved have been reported in some cases to entail eating body parts, and the underlying religious beliefs may be related to incidents during the civil war in which faction leaders sometimes ate (and in which one faction leader had himself filmed eating) body parts of former leaders of rival factions. (references)
Political Economy	Western Sahara	In August Baker met with representatives of the Polisario to discuss a "third way" compromise, which would entail Western Saharan autonomy within the Kingdom of Morocco. (references)
Worker Rights	Bulgaria	When an employer decides to fire someone, they may do so under the law by simply not renewing their contract, rather than initiating a severance action that would entail payment of benefits. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bob Graham	That's not the definition of what engagement with Iraq would mean from the standpoint of most of our military. Fighting a war inside a city like Baghdad is not going to be a cakewalk and would probably entail significant exposure to casualties.
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"Entail" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 79.48% of the time. "Entail" is used about 385 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	79.48%	306	16,534
Lexical Verb (base form)	13.51%	52	47,145
Noun (singular)	7.01%	27	66,962
Total	100.00%	385	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "entail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lë trashëgim me kusht mostjetërsimi, detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie). (various references)

Arabic		‏ميراث (heritage, inheritage, inheritance, legacy, patrimony), ‏وقف الأملاك, ‏ورث (bequeath, confer, demise, devise, inheritance, will), ‏إستلزم (necessitate, presuppose, require), ‏أكلاك غير قابلة للتصرف. (various references)

Bulgarian		влека след себе си (involve), завещавам по определена линия, имот наследен със специален акт. (various references)

Chinese		需要 (Entailed, Entailing, Need, Needed, Needing, Needs). (various references)

Czech		zpùsobit (bring about, cause, inflict, make, raise, wreak), znamenat (add up to, betoken, connotate, connote, correspond, count, denote, designate, mean, purport, signify, spell), nést k sebou, být spojen. (various references)

Danish		fideikommis (entailed estate, entailing of real estate), baandlagt gods (entailed estate, entailing of real estate), baandlagt ejendom (entailed estate, entailing of real estate). (various references)

Dutch		fideï-commis (entailed estate, entailing of real estate). (various references)

Farsi		فرا>=<کردن , موجب شدن (Afford, Bring, Evince, Inbreed, Inure), متضمن بودن (Embody, Include, Presuppose), مستلزم بودن (Implicate, Implication), حمل کردن بر, حبس یاوقف کردن , شامل بودن (Comprise, Consist, Contain, Embrace, Encompass, Include), دربرداشتن (Bear, Comport, Comprise, Contain, Embody, Encircle, Include, Presuppose). (various references)

Finnish		sääntöperintö (entailed estate, entailing of real estate). (various references)

French		comporter. (various references)

German		nach sich ziehen (to entail). (various references)

Greek		συνεπάγομαι (imply, involve, necessitate). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"צריך (necessitate). (various references)

Hungarian		hitbizomány, ősiség. (various references)

Italian		eredit� (heredity, heritage, inheritance, legacy), lascito (bequest, legacy), lasciare in eredit� (devise, leave), implicare (connote, implicate, imply, involve, mean), fidecommesso (entailed estate, entailing of real estate), conseguenza inevitabile, comportare (acquit, act, imply, involve), assegnazione (allocation, allotment, assignation, assignment, binding, delivery, destination, endowment, entailment, grant, issuance, stacking allotment). (various references)

Korean		수반하십시�". (various references)

Manx		tayrn lesh (drag along), cur cairys eiraght er, cairys eiraght. (various references)

Norwegian		medføre (involve). (various references)

Pig Latin		entailay

Portuguese		vínculo (bond, knot, link, nexus, tie), ocasionar (bring on, cause, cause to take place, occasion), herança (bequest, estate, heirdom, heiress, heredity, heritage, inheritance, inheritress, patrimony, succession), fideicomisso (entailed estate, entailing of real estate), cimalha (talon, transom, transome). (various references)

Romanian		solicita (apply for, attract, beg, call on, cause, crave, drive, have, invite, request, require, require smth. of smb., solicit, strain, stress), moştenire inalienabilã, lãsa ca moştenire (endow), impune (assign, carry, compel, enforce, enjoin, force, get, impose, lay, lay on, protrude, rate, tax), implica (connote, implicate, imply, involve), determina (abstract, appoint, ascertain, bring, call forth, cause, conditional, convince, define, determine, dictate, draw, establish, find, fix, gather, govern, induce, infer, lead, make, mark out, modify, persuade, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, reason, urge), cauza (bring, cause, determine, draw on, inflict, make, occasion, procure, provoke), antrena (coach, drill, engage, fit, induct, inveigle, involve, pace, rally, stimulate, train), aduce dupã sine (draw on). (various references)

Russian		влечь за собой. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zahtevati (call for, claim, demand, postulate, request, require, seek, suggest), zahtev (application, claim, demand, postulate, request, requirement). (various references)

Spanish		vincular (attach, engage, link, link together, link up, obligate, oblige, tie together), suponer (expect, guess, involve, mean, presume, presuppose, pretend, say, suppose, surmise, trust), ocasionar (activate, bring about, cause, cause to take place, endanger, give, give rise to, induce, involve, jeopard, jeopardize, occasion, produce, throw up), imponer (deposit, enforce, enjoin, exact, give, hand down, impose, impose oneself, inflict, keep, lay, lay on, press, set, tax), implicar (embroil, implicate, imply, involve, predicate, purport), fideicomiso (entailed estate, entailing of real estate, trust), causar (activate, beget, bring, bring about, bring on, cause, develop, draw, give, give rise to, hole, inflict, occasion, precipitate, produce, put, raise, start, touch off), acarrear (bring on, carry, cart, cause, haul, involve, result in, ship, to bring in, to carry in, tote, transport). (various references)

Swedish		medföra (bring, bring with one, carry, implicate, imply, induce, involve, lead to, result in), fideikommiss (entailed estate, entailing of real estate, estate in reversion, remainder). (various references)

Thai		ส่งผลซึ่งไม่อาจหลีกเลี่ยงไ�"้. (various references)

Turkish		yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, bring about, call forth, cause, cut, evoke, give rise to, give smb. a lead, involve, lie behind, raise, set forward), satılmaması koşuluyla vermek, satılmaması koşuluyla verilen mülk, mülkiyeti muhafaza (arrestment), kaosamak, gerektirmek (beggar, call for, exact, imply, indicate, involve, necessitate, require, suppose, take, want), şarta bağlamak (condition, make conditional on, tie up). (various references)

Ukranian		спричиняти (bring to pass, cause, generate, induce, necessitate, occasion, promote, work), дарувати (bestow, confer, donate, gift, give, grant, handsel, present). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "entail": entailed, entailer, entailers, entailing, entailment, entailments, entails. (additional references)
	Words ending with "entail": aventail, disentail, ventail. (additional references)
	Words containing "entail": aventails, disentailed, disentailing, disentails, ventails. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Entail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aptamil, Bentil, enatail, enatal, Engai, enhail, enjail, enta, entain, entale, entally, entel, enti, entia, entrail, entraile, Estalia, est-il, etait, Etaul, etil, etnae, Fengtai, mentalix, mentawi, Neptali, Netsai, Ntuli, Penteli, Ventalin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "entail" (pronounced entā"l)
3	-t ā" l	curtail, detail, stale, tail, tale.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tenail, tineal.
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: alien, aline, anile, elain, elint, entia, inlet, laten, leant, liane, telia, tenia, tinea.
	-2 letters: alit, anil, ante, anti, elan, etna, ilea, lain, lane, late, lati, lean, lent, lien, line, lint, lite, nail, neat, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, tine.
	-3 letters: ail, ain, ait, ale, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: ailment, aliment, alunite, antlike, atingle, elastin, elating, elation, entails, gelatin, genital, inflate, latrine, lineate, nailset, pantile, ratline, reliant, retinal, salient, saltine, slainte, tenails, toenail, trenail, ventail.
	+2 letters: agential, ailments, alerting, alginate, alienate, alienist, aliments, allanite, altering, alunites, analcite, anthelia, anthelix, antileak, antileft, antilife, antimale, antipole, atheling, auntlier, auntlike, aventail, bailment, bidental, binately, bivalent, bleating, canticle, clarinet, cleating, cliental, dateline, delating, delation, dentalia, dentinal, divalent, elastins, elaterin, elations, entailed, entailer, entrails, ethnical, exalting, filament, flatline, galenite, gantline, gelatine, gelating, gelatins, gelation, genitals, gnatlike, inertial, inflated, inflater, inflates, innately, insolate, instable, insulate, integral, interlap, interlay, internal, interval, laitance, laminate, lankiest, latening, latinize, latrines, legatine, legating, legation, libelant, ligament, lineated, litanies, manliest, melanist, melanite, metaling, nailsets, natively, oriental, palatine, panelist, pantiled, pantiles, penality, petaline, pieplant, plainest, pleating, quantile, ratlines, relating, relation, retinals, retinula, salients, saltines, smaltine, stealing, tailbone, tangible, tanglier, tanklike, tapeline, teazling, tegminal, tenaille, tenurial, terminal, tideland, tinplate, toenails, tramline, trapline, treenail, trenails, triangle, triplane, valeting, venality, ventails, zenithal.
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