tailing

Meaning of tailing

verb
  1. To follow and observe surreptitiously.
    Tail that car!
  2. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
  3. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
    This vessel tails downstream.
  4. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
  5. To pull or draw by the tail.
noun
  1. The act of following someone.
  2. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
  3. Sexual intercourse
  4. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
  5. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

Information about tailing

  • The plural form of tailing is: tailings.
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Hyphenation of tailing

tail-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • tailing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

tailing synonyms

Meaning shadowing:

shadowing

Anagrams of tailing

gitalin, intagli

Words that rhyme with tailing

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