The difference between Dog and Tail

When used as nouns, dog means a mammal, canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding, whereas tail means the caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

When used as verbs, dog means to pursue with the intent to catch, whereas tail means to follow and observe surreptitiously.

Tail is also adjective with the meaning: limited.

check bellow for the other definitions of Dog and Tail

  1. Dog as a noun:

    A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding.

    Examples:

    "The dog barked all night long."

  2. Dog as a noun:

    A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).

  3. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A dull, unattractive girl or woman.

    Examples:

    "She’s a real dog."

  4. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A man (derived from definition 2).

    Examples:

    "You lucky dog!"

    "He's a silly dog."

  5. Dog as a noun (slang, derogatory):

    A coward.

    Examples:

    "Come back and fight, you dogs!"

  6. Dog as a noun (derogatory):

    Someone who is morally reprehensible.

    Examples:

    "You dirty dog."

  7. Dog as a noun (slang):

    A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).

  8. Dog as a noun:

    Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like projection.

  9. Dog as a noun:

    A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click or pawl. (See also: ratchet, windlass)

  10. Dog as a noun:

    A metal support for logs in a fireplace.

    Examples:

    "The dogs were too hot to touch."

  11. Dog as a noun (cartomancy):

    The eighteenth Lenormand card.

  12. Dog as a noun:

    A hot dog.

  13. Dog as a noun (poker, _, slang):

    Underdog.

  14. Dog as a noun (slang, almost always, _, in the plural):

    Foot.

    Examples:

    "uxi My dogs are barking! My feet hurt!"

  15. Dog as a noun (Cockney rhyming slang):

    (from "dog and bone") Phone or mobile phone.

    Examples:

    "My dog is dead. My mobile-phone battery has run out of charge and is no longer able to function."

  16. Dog as a noun:

    One of the cones used to divide up a racetrack when training horses.

  1. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To pursue with the intent to catch.

  2. Dog as a verb (transitive):

    To follow in an annoying or harassing way.

    Examples:

    "The woman cursed him so that trouble would dog his every step."

  3. Dog as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To fasten a hatch securely.

    Examples:

    "It is very important to dog down these hatches..."

  4. Dog as a verb (intransitive, emerging usage in, _, British):

    To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.

    Examples:

    "I admit that I like to dog at my local country park."

  5. Dog as a verb (intransitive, transitive):

    To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished.

    Examples:

    "A surprise inspection of the night shift found that some workers were dogging it."

  1. Tail as a noun (anatomy):

    The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

    Examples:

    "Most primates have a tail and fangs."

  2. Tail as a noun:

    The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

  3. Tail as a noun:

    An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

  4. Tail as a noun:

    The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

  5. Tail as a noun:

    Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

  6. Tail as a noun:

    The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

  7. Tail as a noun (statistics):

    The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.

  8. Tail as a noun:

    One who surreptitiously follows another.

  9. Tail as a noun (cricket):

    The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

  10. Tail as a noun (typography):

    The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

  11. Tail as a noun (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. Tail as a noun (mathematics):

    All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

    Examples:

    "A sequence <math>(a_n)</math> is said to be ''frequently <math>0</math>'' if every tail of the sequence contains <math>0</math>."

  13. Tail as a noun (now, _, colloquial, chiefly, _, US):

    The buttocks or backside.

  14. Tail as a noun (slang):

    The penis of a person or animal.

  15. Tail as a noun (slang, uncountable):

    Sexual intercourse.

    Examples:

    "I'm gonna get me some tail tonight."

  16. Tail as a noun (kayaking):

    The stern; the back of the kayak.

  17. Tail as a noun:

    The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

  18. Tail as a noun:

    A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

  19. Tail as a noun (anatomy):

    The distal tendon of a muscle.

  20. Tail as a noun:

    A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

  21. Tail as a noun (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. Tail as a noun:

    One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

  23. Tail as a noun (nautical):

    A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

  24. Tail as a noun (music):

    The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Moore (Encyc. of Music)"

  25. Tail as a noun (mining):

    A tailing.

  26. Tail as a noun (architecture):

    The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

  27. Tail as a noun (colloquial, dated):

    A tailcoat.

  1. Tail as a verb (transitive):

    To follow and observe surreptitiously.

    Examples:

    "Tail that car!"

  2. Tail as a verb (architecture):

    To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

  3. Tail as a verb (nautical):

    To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

    Examples:

    "This vessel tails downstream."

  4. Tail as a verb:

    To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

  5. Tail as a verb:

    To pull or draw by the tail.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Hudibras"

  1. Tail as an adjective (legal):

    Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

    Examples:

    "estate tail"

  1. Tail as a noun (legal):

    Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

    Examples:

    "'tail male — limitation to male heirs"

    "'in tail — subject to such a limitation"

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