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Definition: Tails |
TailsNoun1. Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tails" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | The last runnings of a distillation containing most of the amyl alcohol and other substances of high boiling point. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Can. Portion of tailings containing some mineral that cannot be economically removed. This is constantly assayed as it leaves the treatment plant so that recovery can be known and controlled at all times.CF:heads. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Miles Prower, better known as Tails, is a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games released by Sega. He is a fox with two tails, which enable him to fly.Yasushi Yamaguchi designed Tails for an internal competition for the sidekick. His entry won, but his character's name was changed from "Miles" to "Tails". Yasushi then sneaked the name "Miles" into the character's name as his legal name; "Tails" would be his nickname. Yasushi ended up with a compromise.
Miles was first seen on Sonic 2 for the Master System but made his first hit in Sonic 2 for the Megadrive where he played the part of Sonic's sidekick and also as a playable charecter. Unfortunately, he could not be made to fly at this point- but this changed first in Sonic and Tails, and then in Sonic 3 when he made his second major appearance. This was a big step forward for Miles and he got much more well known and respected at this point.
Tails has appeared in several cartoon shows, such as SATAM, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic Anime. (He is absent from Sonic Underground, however)
He also appears in Sonic the Comic and the Archie Sonic Comics.
In Sonic Adventure 2 Tails has prefered to use a mechanic device, known as the Tornado II, to attack rather then his own strength, an arguably much more effective method. The fact that he made these mecha's (and the way that he speaks) proves that he has dramatically improved in intelligence, surpassing all of his friends. Boy genious Tails can now been seen in action in Sonic X, a TV series in Japan- in all his brainy glory.
Recently (or not so recently, just more popular now) allegations of a Tails-Amy relationship have appeared. This may be touched upon by the TV series, or it may simply never be expanded upon.
The Tails character is perhaps based on the legendary kitsune.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tails."
Synonyms: TailsSynonyms: dress suit (n), full dress (n), tail coat (n), tailcoat (n), white tie (n), white tie and tails (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Chance 2 | Noun: chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate; (necessity); equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae. |
Improbity | Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery). |
Intention | Drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo, craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf. |
Scourge | Whip, bullwhip, lash, strap, thong, cowhide, knout; cat, cat o'nine tails; rope's end. |
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Screenplays | Tiggers can't climb down, uhBecauseBecause their tails get in the way. (Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; writing credit: A.A. Milne; Ralph Wright) I see. Heads you win, tails I lose (A Study in Scarlet; writing credit: Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Florey) Note to self: Tails grow back (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) Head's up, tails up, run your scallwags (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) Heads, morning room; tails, music room Morning room (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Biró; George Grossmith) | |
Lyrics | WE LOST OUR TAILS (Jocko Homo; performing artist: Devo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heads or Tails (1973) Witchdoctor In Tails (1966) Cat o'Nine Tails (1948) White Tie and Tails (1946) Sandman Tails (1933) | |
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 | A 400 kilogram (880 pounds) tuna is landed by eight fishermen. This is a difficult and dangerous time when synchronized effort is required to land the tuna. Poor timing can cause the poles to break and a fisherman to land in the water. Some fishermen have died in this manner after falling overboard and being struck by the tuna tails. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, adults (more than 5 years old) are unmistakable with dark brown plumage except for white head, neck and tails. The beak, eyes, legs, and feet are yellow. Wing span up to 2.5 meters, with females considerably larger than males. Immature eagles lack white plumage and yellow accents. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Children at sardine cannery cutting off the heads and tails of herring Cleaning herring for canning From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Humpback whales often flap their tails or fins on the water surface. Megaptera novaeangliae. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | AML. Kaaba-Texas Mine, middle of tails output. Credit: Jake Jakaboski. |  | Heads you live. Tails you get AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Shadrach he riz wid he own coat tails. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man in top hat and tails with woman by vanity and letter T. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Randall holding coat tails of Morrison who is trying to cut "tariff" tree from route of "Democracy" wagon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Proud as a peacock with two tails. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cat tails" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "Cat tails in Central Texas creek bed." | "Donkey Tails" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Donkey Tail plant." |
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Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | So they got their tails fast in their mouths |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The malice of evil glittered in their hard eyes, as they moved hither and thither, trailing their long tails behind them |
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Health | Mexican free-tailed bats are easily recognized by their tails, which extend well beyond the tail membrane. (references) | |
Economic History | Korea | Note: Koreans like to eat beef and pork by-products such as ox tails, head, feet, tongues, stomachs, livers, etc. (references) |
Nicaragua | Law 303, published on June 11, 1999, sets a rebate on the luxury tax (IEC) for every pound of exported seafood: 37 cents on exports of captured shrimp tails, 7 cents on farmed shrimp, 10 cents on lobster tails, 5 cents on fish, and 5 cents on other seafood products, if all the fuel used by the exporter's fleet has been bought in Nicaragua. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tails" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Tails" is used about 512 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 96.3% | 493 | 12,167 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.92% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.78% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 512 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tails": cat o nine tails ♦ Cat o' nine tails ♦ cat o'nine tails ♦ go tails ♦ heads I win tails you lose ♦ heads or tails ♦ in tails ♦ lamb's tails ♦ rat's tails ♦ tails up ♦ toss heads or tails ♦ white tie and tails. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "tails": coat-tails, pig-tails, pony-tails. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
charming tails | 172 | tender tails | 26 |
tails | 111 | chao tails | 25 |
lobster tails | 88 | mermaid tails | 24 |
hot tails | 73 | grilled lobster tails | 22 |
dragon tails | 70 | human tails | 22 |
happy tails | 61 | lobster recipe tails | 21 |
cooking lobster tails | 54 | beaver tails | 18 |
mile prower tails | 52 | pig tails | 18 |
pony tails | 40 | prower tails | 17 |
fairy tails | 38 | head or tails | 16 |
cook lobster tails | 37 | cat of nine tails | 15 |
black tails | 37 | wagging tails | 14 |
cat tails | 37 | spring tails | 14 |
sonic and tails | 36 | mouse tails | 14 |
euro tails | 35 | grilling lobster tails | 13 |
waggin tails | 33 | shirt tails | 12 |
cursor tails | 28 | dog tails | 12 |
hot manga tails | 27 | swags tails | 12 |
cat o nine tails | 27 | hentai hot tails | 11 |
veggie tails | 26 | comic hot tails | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tails"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pilë (cell, pile), llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scum, scut, sludge, vermin, wash), frak (dress coat, swallowtail, tailcoat), anë e përparme e monedhës. (various references) | |
Arabic | ذيل السترة (skirt, tail). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фрак (cutaway, dress coat, swallow tail, swallow-tailed coat, tailcoat), тура, обратната страна на монета. (various references) | |
Chinese | 尾巴 (tail). (various references) | |
Czech | rub (back, reverse, reverse side, verso), frak (dress coat, tail coat, tailcoat). (various references) | |
Danish | haler, hale (tail), efterløb (caster, feints, tailings, wheel caster). (various references) | |
Dutch | rok (dress-coat, evening dress, skirt). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frako (dress-coat, evening dress). (various references) | |
Faeroese | velajakki (dress-coat, evening dress). (various references) | |
Finnish | jälkitisle (feints), jälkijuoksu (feints), hännystakki (swallowtail coat), hännät (feints). (various references) | |
French | rejet, queues de distillation, queue (tail), habits (tail coat), habit (tail coat), déchet, basque (tail). (various references) | |
German | Schwänze, Frack (dress coat, dress-coat, evening dress, monkey suit, penguin suit). (various references) | |
Greek | ουρά της απόσταξης (feints). (various references) | |
Hungarian | frakk (dress coat, dress suit, swallow-tail, tail coat, tail-coat, white tie). (various references) | |
Italian | marsina (tail coat), code di distillazione (feints). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 裏面 (back, background, inside, other side, reverse). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りめん (back, background, inside, other side, reverse). (various references) | |
Korean | 꼬리 (tail). (various references) | |
Manx | oaieyn as cooylyn (heads and tails). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rabos, produtos de cauda da destilação (feints), fraque (coat tail, cutaway, swallowtail), caudas, cauda da destilação (feints), casaca (dress coat, tail-coat). (various references) | |
Romanian | frac (dress coat, evening dress, tail). (various references) | |
Russian | хвосты при обогащении (tailings), фрак (clawhammer coat, claw-hammer coat, dress coat, evening dress, swallowtail, swallow-tailed coat, tail coat, tailcoat, tail-coat), отходы (refuse, tailings, waste, waste products). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pismo (epistle, epistyle, letter, missive, writing). (various references) | |
Spanish | productos de cola (feints), frac (dress coat), cruz (carfax, criss cross, cross, dagger, Mark, rood), colas de destilación (feints), colas (tailings, waste). (various references) | |
Swedish | svansar, svans (scut, tail, trail, train), eftersprit (feints). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องแต่งตัวเต็มยศ. (various references) | |
Turkish | frak (clawhammer coat, dress coat, dress suit, evening dress, frock, frock coat, full dress, penguin suit, swallow, swallow coat, swallows, tail coat, white tie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Revelation Chapter 9, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ai gar exousiai autwn en tw stomati autwn eisin ai gar ourai autwn omoiai ofesin ecousai kefalaV kai en autaiV adikousin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Potestas enim equorum in ore eorum est et in caudis eorum nam caudae illorum similes serpentibus habentes capita et in his nocent |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For the power of the horsis is in the mouth of hem, and in the tailis of hem; for the tailis of hem ben lyk to serpentis, hauynge heedis, and in hem thei noyen. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For their power was in their mouthes and in their tayles: for their tayles were lyke vnto serpetes and had heedes and with them they dyd hurt: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like to serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds. |
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| Language | Revelation Chapter 9, Verse 19 |
| Cebuano | Kay ang gahum sa mga kabayo anaa diha sa ilang mga baba ug sa ilang mga ikog; kay ang ilang mga ikog morag mga bitin, may mga ulo, ug pinaagi niining ilang mga ikog sila nagapangdagmal. |
| Croatian | Doista, snaga je ovim konjima u ustima i repovima: repovi im kao u zmija, s glavama kojima ude. |
| Danish | Thi Hestenes Magt er i deres Mund og i deres Haler; thi deres Haler ligne Slanger, have Hoveder, og med dem gøre de Skade. |
| Dutch | Want hun macht is in hun mond, en in hun staarten; want hun staarten zijn aan de slangen gelijk, en hebben hoofden, en beschadigen met dezelve. |
| Finnish | Sillä hevosten voima oli niiden suussa ja niiden hännässä; niiden hännät näet olivat käärmeitten kaltaiset, ja niissä oli päät, joilla ne vahingoittivat. |
| French | Car le pouvoir des chevaux était dans leurs bouches et dans leurs queues; leurs queues étaient semblables à des serpents ayant des têtes, et c`est avec elles qu`ils faisaient du mal. |
| German | Denn ihre Macht war in ihrem Munde; und ihre Schwänze waren den Schlangen gleich und hatten Häupter, und mit denselben taten sie Schaden. |
| Haitian Creole | Paske se nan bouch yo chwal yo te gen tout pouvwa sa a ansanm ak nan ke yo. Baton ke yo menm te sanble ak sèpan: yo te gen yon tèt pou yo te fè moun mechanste. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kekuatan kuda-kuda itu terdapat pada mulutnya dan juga pada ekornya. Ekor-ekornya seperti ular berkepala. Dengan ekornya itu, kuda-kuda itu menyiksa manusia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena kuasa segala kuda itu ada di dalam mulutnya dan di dalam ekornya: Karena ekornya itu serupa ular, yaitu berkepala, dan dengan itu ia menyakiti. |
| Italian | La potenza dei cavalli infatti sta nella loro bocca e nelle loro code; le loro code sono simili a serpenti, hanno teste e con esse nuociono. |
| Latvian | Jo zirgu spçks ir to mutçs un to astçs, un to astçm, lîdzîgi èûskâm, ir galvas, ar kurâm tie nes postu. |
| Maori | Ko te kaha hoki o nga hoiho kei o ratou mangai, kei o ratou waero: ko o ratou waero koia ano kei te nakahi, he upoko o ratou; ko a ratou mea tukino enei. |
| Norwegian | For hestenes makt ligger i deres munn og i deres hale; for deres haler er som slanger og har hoder, og med dem gjør de skade. |
| Portuguese | Porque o poder dos cavalos estava nas suas bocas e nas suas caudas. Porquanto as suas caudas eram semelhantes a serpentes, e tinham cabeças, e com elas causavam dano. |
| Rumanian | Cqci puterea cailor stqtea kn gurile wi kn cozile lor. Cozile lor erau ca niwte werpi cu capete, wi cu ele vqtqmau. |
| Russian | ЙВП УЙМБ ЛПОЕК ЪБЛМАЮБМБУШ ЧП ТФХ ЙИ Й Ч ИЧПУФБИ ЙИ; Б ИЧПУФЩ ЙИ ВЩМЙ РПДПВОЩ ЪНЕСН, Й ЙНЕМЙ ЗПМПЧЩ, Й ЙНЙ ПОЙ ЧТЕДЙМЙ. |
| Shuar | Nujai nu kaway ni wenejai Shuáran Wáitkiasarmai. Tura ni ujuké Napí Múukeya ainin ármai. Nújaisha shuaran Wáitkiasarmai. |
| Spanish | Pues el poder de los caballos está en sus bocas y en sus colas. Porque sus colas son semejantes a serpientes, y tienen cabezas con las cuales hieren. |
| Swahili | maana nguvu ya farasi hao ilikuwa vinywani mwao na katika mikia yao. Mikia yao ilikuwa na vichwa kama nyoka, na waliitumia hiyo kuwadhuru watu. |
| Swedish | Ty hästarnas makt låg i deras gap och i deras svansar. Deras svansar liknade nämligen ormar, och hade huvuden, och med dem var det, som de gjorde skada. |
| Uma | Hi iku jara' toera, ria to hewa woo' ule to metilo'. Hante iku-ra toe, mposesa' -ra manusia'. Jadi', jara' toera mposesa' pai' mpopatehi manusia' hante nganga-ra pai' hante iku-ra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tails": tailskid, tailskids, tailslide, tailslides, tailspin, tailspins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tails": aventails, bangtails, blacktails, bobtails, brantails, bristletails, broadtails, bucktails, cattails, coattails, cocktails, cottontails, curtails, details, disentails, dovetails, ducktails, entails, fantails, fishtails, foxtails, hightails, horntails, horsetails, oxtails, pigtails, pintails, ponytails, rattails, redtails, retails, ringtails, scissortails, shavetails, shirttails, springtails, swallowtails, swordtails, tripletails, ventails, wagtails, whiptails, whitetails, yellowtails. (additional references) | |
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"Tails" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atails, atila, etails, otails, tabil, taels, tahil, taids, taigs, taile, tailess, tailo, taily, tains, tairs, tais, taits, talia, talic, talins, talio, talir, talis, talls, talqs, talz, tamils, tapil, tavis, Tawil, taxil, Taxila, tehls, teild, teils, Telios, thail, tial, tilis, tils, Tisl, twail, txil. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tails" (pronounced tā"lz) |
| 4 | t ā" l z | curtails, details, entails, tales. |
| 3 | -ā" l z | ails, ales, assails, bails, bales, Brailles, dales, derails, fails, gales, hails, Hales, jails, mails, males, nails, pails, pales, prevails, quails, rails, rales, sails, sales, scales, shales, snails, swails, Swales, trails, travails, unveils, vales, veils, wails, Wales, whales. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alist, litas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ails, aits, alit, alts, last, lati, lats, list, lits, sail, salt, sati, sial, silt, slat, slit, tail, tali, tils. | |
-2 letters: ail, ais, ait, als, alt, its, las, lat, lis, lit, sal, sat, sit, tas, til, tis. | |
-3 letters: ai, al, as, at, is, it, la, li, si, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: distal, gaslit, instal, lathis, latish, pastil, plaits, saltie, smalti, spital, stelai, tahsil, tallis, ticals, tilaks, trails, trials, vitals. | |
+2 letters: aiglets, albites, alights, altoist, aplites, apostil, astilbe, bastile, bestial, blastie, catlins, chitals, citolas, citrals, cladist, clastic, details, dialist, dilates, dualist, elastic, elastin, entails, estival, falsity, fetials, fistula, galiots, halites, halitus, hastily, heliast, install, instals, isolate, italics, laciest, laities, lakiest, lariats, lasting, latices, latigos, latinos, latrias, lattins, lawsuit, laziest, ligates, lithias, mistral, nailset, nastily, oblasti, oralist, outsail, oxtails, paliest, palmist, pastils, plaints, plastic, plastid, platies, ramtils, ratlins, realist, retails, rialtos, rituals, saintly, salient, saltier, salties, saltily, saltine, salting, saltire, saltish, slainte, slatier, slating, solatia, somital, spatial, spitals, stabile, stagily, staidly, staling, starlit, stibial, stigmal, stoical, tabulis, tahsils, tailers, tailles, tailors, talions, talipes, talkies, tallies, tallish, tastily, tenails, thulias, timbals, tincals, tissual, topsail, trysail, tuladis, ultimas. | |
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