1. n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
Most primates have a tail and fangs.
2. n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
3. n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
4. n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
5. n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
6. n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
7. n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
8. n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
9. n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
10. n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
11. n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
12. n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
A sequence(a_n) is said to be frequently0 if every tail of the sequence contains0.
13. n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
14. n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
15. n. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
16. n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
17. n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
18. n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
19. n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
20. n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
21. n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
22. n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
23. n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
24. n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
25. n. (mining) A tailing.
26. n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
27. n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
28. v. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
Tail that car!
29. v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
30. v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
This vessel tails downstream.
31. v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
2. n. (now historical) A men's hairstyle whose primary attribute is a braid or ponytail at the back of the head, such as that worn by men in Imperial China.
3. n. A line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
4. n. A waiting list or other means of organizing people or objects into a first-come-first-served order.
5. n. (computing) A data structure in which objects are added to one end, called the tail, and removed from the other, called the head (- a FIFO queue). The term can also refer to a LIFO queue or stack wher
6. v. To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
7. v. To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
8. v. (computing) To add to a queue data structure.
1. n. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
2. n. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
3. n. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
4. n. (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
5. n. A small pointed object.
6. n. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
7. n. (slang) The penis.
8. n. (Australia) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
9. n. (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
10. n. The footprint of a hare.
11. n. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
12. n. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
13. v. To pierce or puncture slightly.
John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
14. v. (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
15. v. To form by piercing or puncturing.
to prick holes in paper
to prick a pattern for embroidery
to prick the notes of a musical composition
16. v. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
17. v. (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
18. v. (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
19. v. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
to prick a knife into a board
20. v. (intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
A sore finger pricks.
21. v. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
22. v. (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
23. v. To incite, stimulate, goad.
24. v. (intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
25. v. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
26. v. To make acidic or pungent.
27. v. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
28. v. To aim at a point or mark.
29. v. (obsolete) Usually as prick up: to dress; to prink.
rod
1. n. (Botanique) Tige.
2. n. Baguette, badine, canne, verge, barre.
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3. n. Ancienne mesure agraire valant 23m².
rod
1. n. A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
The circus strong man proved his strength by bending an iron rod, and then straightening it.
2. n. A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
3. n. (fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
When I hooked a snake and not a fish, I got so scared I dropped my rod in the water.
4. n. A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
5. n. An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
The judge imposed on the thief a sentence of fifteen strokes with the rod.
6. n. A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
I notched a rod and used it to measure the length of rope to cut.
7. n. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
8. n. An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod
9. n. (archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
The house had a small yard of about six rods in size.
10. n. A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
The engine threw a rod, and then went to pieces before our eyes, springs and coils shooting in all directions.
11. n. (anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
The rods are more sensitive than the cones, but do not discern color.
12. n. (biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
He applied a gram positive stain, looking for rods indicative of Listeria.
13. n. (chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
14. n. (slang) A pistol; a gun.
15. n. (slang) A penis.
16. n. (slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currentl
17. n. (ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
18. n. (mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
19. n. (rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
20. v. (construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
21. v. (slang) To penetrate sexually.
22. v. (slang) To hot rod.
dick
1. n. (USA) Détective, flic.
2. n. (Vulgaire) Bite, queue, verge, zizi.
3. n. Personne méprisable.
Don't be a dick. (Intitulé des règles de savoir-vivre sur Meta-Wiki)
dick
1. n. (obsolete) A male person.
2. n. (and un, vulgar, slang) The penis.
3. n. (UK, US, vulgar, slang) A highly contemptible person; a jerk.
That person is such a dick.
4. n. (US, Canada vulgar slang) Absolutely nothing.
Last weekend I did dick.
5. v. (transitive, slang) To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (with around).
Dude, don't let them dick you around like that!
6. v. (intransitive, slang) To waste time, to goof off (with around).
Quit dicking around and get to work!
7. v. (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.