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Definition: Tailpiece |
TailpieceNoun1. Appendage added to extend the length of something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | A fitting inserted into a flexible tube and secured. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Engraving | Illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tailpiece |
| English words defined with "tailpiece": Tail beam, Tail joist. (references) |
| "Tailpiece" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Tailpiece" is used about 32 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 (singular) | 93.75% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
tailpiece | 8 |
gibson tailpiece | 4 |
guitar tailpiece | 3 |
jazz tailpiece | 3 |
mandolin tailpiece | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tailpiece"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skicë në mbyllje të kapitulli, poshtëshënim (note, postscript, ps), fund (back, base, bed, bottom, death, decease, decline, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, quietus, rock bottom, skirt, sole, stub, tag, tail, terminal, termination). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشط الكمان, ذيل الخطاب, ذيل (annexation, append, appendage, sequel, tail, trail, underwrite). (various references) | |
Chinese | 半端梁. (various references) | |
Czech | dodatek (addition, appendix, clause, complement, rider, supplement, supply). (various references) | |
Danish | strengeholder, slutvignet, slangeforskruning. (various references) | |
Dutch | staartstuk (backside, rump), snarenhouder, sluitornament, slangpilaar, filet (slice). (various references) | |
Farsi | سیم گیر, زه گیر, ارایش ته فصل کتاب وغیره , بخش اخرهرچیز. (various references) | |
Finnish | letkunippa. (various references) | |
French | cordier. (various references) | |
German | Saitenhalter. (various references) | |
Greek | κάτι προστιθεμένον εισ το τέλοσ, υποστήριγμα χορδών, απόληξη (end effector, ending, rear support, retrieval end, termination), τάπωμα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משחל (stringholder), עטורת. (various references) | |
Italian | fregio di fondo, cordier. (various references) | |
Manx | arbylane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailpiecetay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manguito (mitt), estandarte (banner, ensign, flag, guidon, standard). (various references) | |
Russian | хвостовая часть, концовка (heel-piece), задний конец. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ukras na završetku, repno parče, hordar. (various references) | |
Spanish | florón (big flower), empalme (abutment, combination, connection, connexion, fork, hard on, joint, junction, junction box, merge, road junction, scarf, splice, stand, union), cordal, base de lámpara (lamp base), apéndice (accessory, addendum, addition, adjunct, annex, annexe, appendage, appendix, schedule, side-issue, supplement). (various references) | |
Swedish | slutstycke. (various references) | |
Thai | ปลายสุ" (apex). (various references) | |
Turkish | son kısım (fag end, last part, tag end), kitapta bölüm sonlarına koyulan süslü işaret, keman sapının ucu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tailpiece": tailpieces. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-t" | |
-2 letters: aplitic, calipee, capelet, ciliate, pelitic, pileate, plicate. | |
-3 letters: apiece, aplite, atelic, caplet, elicit, epical, italic, pelite, placet, plaice, plicae. | |
-4 letters: cilia, clapt, cleat, clepe, clept, clipt, eclat, elate, elect, elite, epact, etape, ileac, iliac, leapt, lepta, licit, litai, palet, peace, petal, pical, piece, pieta, pilea, pilei, place, plait, plate, pleat, plica, telae, telia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-l-p-t" | |
+1 letter: tailpieces. | |
+2 letters: epithetical, explicative, penicillate, perithecial, replicative, specialties. | |
+3 letters: encephalitic, encephalitis, palingenetic, precipitable, recapitalize, specialities. | |
+4 letters: antiepileptic, epileptically, epistemically, explicatively, interparticle, peculiarities, precipitately, predicatively, recapitalized, recapitalizes, reduplicative, specularities. | |
+5 letters: antiepileptics, appreciatively, corporealities, depreciatingly, encephalitides, epicontinental, epigenetically, exceptionalism, exceptionality, hyperrealistic, overcapitalize, pinealectomies, pinealectomize, respectability, subspecialties. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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