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Look up: tail

  1. Tail
    Tail is slang for a woman.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  2. Tail
    Tail is slang for a woman.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  3. Tail
    [Chinese constellation] The Tail mansion (尾宿, pinyin: Wěi Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon. == Asterisms == ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_(Chine

  4. Tail
    (1) The difference between the average price in Treasury auctions and the stopout price. (2) A future money market instrument (one available some period hence) created by buying an existing instrument and financing the initial portion of its life with a term repo. (3) The extreme end under a probability curve. (4) The odd amount in a MBS pool.
    Found on http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial

  5. tail
    In nematodes: The portion of the body between the anus and the posterior terminus.
    Found on http://ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary

  6. tail
    img src='http://www.jgoffin.freeserve.co.uk/abf/glossary/tail.gif'>
    Found on http://www.jgoffin.freeserve.co.uk/abf/g

  7. tail
    Indicates how much time elapses between the moment a loss is incurred (say, an accident), and the settlement of losses by the insurer. See short-tail and long-tail business.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20197

  8. tail
    [n] - any projection that resembles the tail of an animal 2. [n] - a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements 3. [n] - (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person`s head 4. [n] - the rear part of an aircraft 5. [n]...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  9. Tail
    The slow decay of a bell's partials, often over tens of seconds. See splash.
    Found on http://www.hibberts.co.uk/glossary.htm

  10. Tail
    Tail: 1. A slender appendage, such as the tail of the pancreas. 2. The appendage that protrudes from the buttocks of animals. People can appear to have a tail due to the presence of supernumerary segments of the coccyx.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  11. tail
    an area at the extreme of a randomisation distribution,where the degree of extremity is sufficient to be notable judged against some nominal alpha criterion value Category: Statistics • a single component at the end of a circuit Category: Electrical engineering and energy • j...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  12. Tail
    the end of a stone built into a wall. The tail-weight is the weight pressing down on the tail, keeping it in place. - the leading edge of a slate. Slate Terminology Diagam
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20935

  13. Tail
    Tail noun [ French taille a cutting. See Entail , Tally .] (Law) Limitation; abridgment. Burrill. Estate in tail , a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which t...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  14. Tail
    Tail adjective (Law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  15. Tail
    Tail noun [ Anglo-Saxon tægel , tægl ; akin to German zagel , Icelandic tagl , Swedish tagel , Goth. tagl hair. √59.] 1. (Zoology) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  16. Tail
    Tail transitive verb 1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. [ Obsolete] « Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed , continued uncanceled, and wa...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  17. Tail
    Tail intransitive verb 1. (Architecture) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into . 2. (Nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  18. Tail
    Tail noun 1. plural (Rope Making) 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. 2. p...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  19. Tail
    Tail noun (Aëronautics) In flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/4

  20. tail
    1. <zoology> The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. ... The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebrae, and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several mo...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  21. tail
    noun the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  22. tail
    tail end noun any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  23. tail
    shadow noun a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  24. tail
    empennage noun the rear part of an aircraft
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  25. tail
    bob verb remove or shorten the tail of an animal
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web



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27 May 2012

This day in history: The Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, on the Southampton-Cherbourg-New York route, on 27 May 1936. The passenger accommodation emphasised the first two classes, cabin and tourist. The propulsion machinery of the ship produced a massive 160,000 SHP and gave it a speed of over 30 knots. Despite expectations that the ship would try to break speed records on its first voyage a thick fog destroyed any hope of this. The Queen Mary spent a short time in drydock during July whilst adjustments were made to the propellers and turbines. When the ship returned to service, in August, it made a record voyage from Bishop's Rock to Ambrose light and took the Blue Riband from the Normandie. read more

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