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Tail Fin

Definitions: Tail Fin

Tail Fin

Noun

1. A stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane.

2. One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile.

3. The tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Tail Fin

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

A fin at the rear of a rocket or other body. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Tail Fin

Synonyms: caudal fin (n), fin (n), tailfin (n), vertical fin (n), vertical stabilizer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tail Fin

English words defined with "tail fin": Diphycercalheterocercal fin, homocercal fin, HypuralSeriola dorsalistripletailyellowtail. (references)

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Modern Translations: Tail Fin

Language Translations for "tail fin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Kielflosse (ventral fin). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

függõleges vezérsík (fin). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

テーベ物語 (beefsteak, project, tail, tail end, tail lamp, tailcoat, taillight, tailor, tailored, tailored suit, tailor-made, take, taste, Taylor system, tea, teeing ground, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, Tegafur, tequila, Texas, Texas hit, Texas leaguer, text, text book, text file, textbook, textile, texture, Thebais, theme, Theme campaign, Theme music, theme park, Theme promotion, Theme song, tilapia, timpani, tissue, tissue paper, tissues, topic, TROFF, tympany, typical, tyranny). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

テールフィン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailtay infay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuyruk yüzgeci, kuyruk (breech, brush, caudal, cue, line, queue, scut, tail, together, trail, train). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Tail Fin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-l-n-t"

-1 letter: finial.

-2 letters: faint, final, flint, litai.

-3 letters: alif, alit, anil, anti, fail, fain, fiat, fila, flan, flat, flit, ilia, inia, inti, lain, lati, lift, lint, naif, nail, tail, tain, tali.

-4 letters: aft, ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, fan, fat, fil, fin, fit, lat, lin, lit, nil, nit, tan, til, tin.

-5 letters: ai, al, an, at, fa, if, in, it, la, li, na, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-l-n-t"
 

+1 letter: antilife, finalist, finality.

 

+2 letters: fictional, filiating, filiation, finalists, foliating, foliation, hifalutin, infantile, inflating, inflation, plaintiff.

 

+3 letters: afflicting, affliction, airlifting, antifamily, filiations, filtrating, filtration, finalities, flatlining, flirtation, floriation, foliations, frictional, infibulate, infiltrate, inflations, latifundia, latifundio, notifiable, plaintiffs, pontifical, unifoliate.

 

+4 letters: affiliating, affiliation, afflictions, antifouling, deadlifting, defoliating, defoliation, exfoliating, exfoliation, facelifting, fatiguingly, fictionally, filtrations, fishtailing, flirtations, floriations, franklinite, fulminating, fulmination, highfalutin, infantilism, infantility, infantilize, inferential, infibulated, infibulates, infiltrated, infiltrates, infiltrator, infinitival, influential, informality, interfacial, interfamily, latifundios, latifundium, pontificals, reinflating, reinflation, trifluralin.

 

+5 letters: affiliations, bifunctional, confidential, definitional, defoliations, differential, difunctional, disinflation, exfoliations, facilitating, facilitation, factionalism, faultfinding, felicitating, felicitation, fibrillating, fibrillation, fictionalise, fictionality, fictionalize, finalization, fluidization, fluoridating, fluoridation, fluorinating, fluorination, focalization, frangibility, franklinites, frictionally, frontalities, fulminations, futilitarian, gratifyingly, identifiable, identifiably, ineffability, infanticidal, infantilisms, infantilized, infantilizes, infibulating, infibulation, infiltrating, infiltration, infiltrative, infiltrators, inflammation, inflationary, inflationism, inflationist, inflectional, influentials, insufflating, insufflation, interfluvial, liquefaction, nonfictional, pontifically, quantifiable, reinflations, satisfyingly, semifinalist, trifluralins, uglification, unaffiliated, unifoliolate, vilification.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tail Fin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 69 6C      46 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000110 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#32 &#70 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 0069 006C      0046 0069 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

546775782407580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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