3. subst. (UK, US) A valley, often used in place names.
Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?
4. subst. The buttocks or anus.
5. subst. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
6. subst. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
7. subst. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
8. subst. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
9. subst. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
10. subst. (physics) A bottom quark.
11. subst. (often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
12. subst. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
13. subst. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
14. subst. An abyss.
15. subst. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
a horse of a good bottom
16. subst. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
17. subst. (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
18. v. To fall to the lowest point.
19. v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.
20. v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
21. v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
22. v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
23. v. To furnish with a bottom.
to bottom a chair
24. v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
1. prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
The car is behind the wall.
2. prep. To the back of.
3. prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
4. prep. responsible for
Who is behind these terrorist attacks?
5. prep. In support of.
The republicans are fully behind their candidate.
6. prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
I'm ranked sixth in the French class, behind five other pupils.
7. prep. (non-standard, US, slang) As a result or consequence of
8. adv. At the back part; in the rear.
9. adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
to look behind
10. adv. Overdue, in arrears.
My employer is two paychecks behind on paying my salary.
I'm two weeks behind in my schedule.
11. adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
My watch is four minutes behind.
12. adv. existing afterwards
He left behind a legacy of death and sorrow.
He stayed behind after the war.
13. adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
14. adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
15. adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
16. subst. the rear, back-end
17. subst. (informal) butt, the buttocks, bottom
18. subst. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
19. subst. (baseball, slang) The catcher.
20. subst. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
1. subst. (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. subst. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
3. subst. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
4. subst. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
5. subst. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
6. subst. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
7. subst. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
8. subst. One who surreptitiously follows another.
9. subst. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
10. subst. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
11. subst. (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. subst. (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. subst. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
14. subst. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
15. subst. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.
16. subst. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
17. subst. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
18. subst. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
19. subst. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
20. subst. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
21. subst. (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. subst. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
23. subst. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
24. subst. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
25. subst. (mining) A tailing.
26. subst. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
27. subst. (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.
