Tailing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Refuse or dross remaining after ore has been processed.
  • n. Architecture The portion of a tailed beam, brick, or board inside a wall.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of tail.
  • n. The act of following someone.
  • n. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
  • n. sexual intercourse
  • n. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
  • n. Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
  • n. Sexual intercourse.
  • n. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
  • n. The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
  • n. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In elect.: In telegraphy, especially through cables, the discharge current due to the capacity of the line which continues to flow for an appreciable time after the signaling impulse has been received and modifies the character of the latter.
  • n. In automatic teleg., a mark, on the recording-tape of a receiving instrument, which is not caused by the signaling impulse proper but by the discharge current from the line.
  • n. In prospecting for coal, the outcrop of a carbon-carrying stratum at the surface of the ground. Called also smut and blossom. The vein peters out at the surface, or tails away to nothing, but leaves a stain under weathering.
  • n. In building, same as tail, 5 .
  • n. In surgery, same as tail, 5 .
  • n. plural The parts or a part of any incoherent or fluid material separated as refuse, or separately treated as inferior in quality or value; leavings; remainders; dregs.
  • n. In calico-printing, a fault of impression on some part of the fabric, when the colors are blurred or altogether absent, through some defect in operation or treatment.
  • n. A reckoning; tally; account.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of following someone secretly
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    following    chase    pursuit    pursual   
    Cross Reference
    tailings   
    Variant
    tail    tails   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    chaff   
    Verb Stem
    tail   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ailing    assailing    bailing    baling    curtailing    derailing    detailing    emailing    entailing    failing