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noun
- A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, etc.
- (context, informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
- (context, British Army, slang) A fast march or run with full kit.
- (slang) A student of Cambridge University, derived from the Latin Cantabrigia (often shortened to Cantab.).
- Short for tablature (a way of writing guitar music).
verb (tabs, tabbing, tabbed)
- Mark with a tab.
- (computer) To use the tab key on a computer or typewriter to navigate the screen or page.
- Short for tabulate.
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noun
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- The tail-end of a creature (buttocks, even if tailless) or object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- When a grumpy client of the frat's annual carwash complained the of his menure-soiled tractor wasn't completely cleaned, the poor pledges had to drop trou and bend over to get their own tails paddled in public
- An object or part thereof resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails or other multi-tail whip.
- Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (Cricket) The last four or five batsman, batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- (Typography) The lower loop of the letters g, q, and y in the roman alphabet.
- (especially, in plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; the reverse.
- (slang) male member of a person animal.
- ''After the burly macho nudists' polar bear dip, their tails were spectacularly shrunk, so they looked like an immature kid's innocent
- (slang) sexual intercourse, Sexual intercourse.
verb
- (transitive) To surreptitiously follow and observe.
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noun
- The rising or ascent aircraft or rocket into flight.
- The flight was smooth, but the was a little rough.
- A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
- w:Weird Al Yankovic, Weird Al's song "Lasagna" is a takeoff on the popular song "La Bamba".
- A quantification, esp. of building materials.
- I'll give you an estimate after I do the quantity takeoffs for the trusses and structural steel.
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noun
- A vehicle that may be hired for single journeys by members of the public and driven by a taxi driver.
verb (taxis, taxiing or taxying, taxied)
- To move an aircraft around an airport under its own power.
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noun
- (aeronautical) a control surface set within or attached to a larger control surface that provides trim to obtain a desired attitude without constant inputs to the primary control surfaces (e.g., ailerons and rudders)
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noun
- An airplane that has three pairs of wings, one above the others
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noun
- The act of turning to face in the other direction.
- A reversal of policy.
- The time required to carry out a task.
- They tried to reduce their turnaround on incoming paperwork.
- (music) A cadence linking the end of a verse to the beginning of the next.
- (music) The notation for the addition of a grace note above then below a given note.
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adjective
- (context, of an aircraft) powered by two engines, one in each wing
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