The difference between Tail and Tang
When used as nouns, tail means the caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus, whereas tang means tongue.
When used as verbs, tail means to follow and observe surreptitiously, whereas tang means to strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
Tail is also adjective with the meaning: limited.
check bellow for the other definitions of Tail and Tang
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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."
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Tail as a noun:
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
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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.
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Tail as a noun:
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
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Tail as a noun:
Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
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Tail as a noun:
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
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Tail as a noun (statistics):
The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
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Tail as a noun:
One who surreptitiously follows another.
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Tail as a noun (cricket):
The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
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Tail as a noun (typography):
The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
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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.
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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>."
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Tail as a noun (now, _, colloquial, chiefly, _, US):
The buttocks or backside.
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Tail as a noun (slang):
The penis of a person or animal.
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Tail as a noun (slang, uncountable):
Sexual intercourse.
Examples:
"I'm gonna get me some tail tonight."
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Tail as a noun (kayaking):
The stern; the back of the kayak.
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Tail as a noun:
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
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Tail as a noun:
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
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Tail as a noun (anatomy):
The distal tendon of a muscle.
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Tail as a noun:
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
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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.
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Tail as a noun:
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
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Tail as a noun (nautical):
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
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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)"
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Tail as a noun (mining):
A tailing.
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Tail as a noun (architecture):
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
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Tail as a noun (colloquial, dated):
A tailcoat.
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Tail as a verb (transitive):
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
Examples:
"Tail that car!"
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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
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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."
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Tail as a verb:
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
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Tail as a verb:
To pull or draw by the tail.
Examples:
"rfquotek Hudibras"
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Tail as an adjective (legal):
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
Examples:
"estate tail"
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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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Tang as a noun (obsolete):
tongue
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Tang as a noun:
A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor
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Tang as a noun:
A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
Examples:
"Wine or cider has a tang of the cask."
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Tang as a noun (figuratively):
A sharp, specific flavor or tinge
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Tang as a noun:
A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
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Tang as a noun:
The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle
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Tang as a noun:
The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock
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Tang as a noun:
The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened
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Tang as a noun:
Anything resembling a tongue in form or position such as the tongue of a buckle.
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Tang as a noun:
A group of saltwater fish from the Acanthuridae family, especially the genus, also known as the surgeonfish.
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Tang as a noun:
A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang
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Tang as a verb (dated, beekeeping):
To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
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Tang as a verb:
To make a ringing sound; to ring.
Examples:
"Let thy tongue tang arguments of state.'' — Shakespeare."
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Tang as a noun (rare):
knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum
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Tang as a noun (vulgar, _, slang):
The vagina
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Tang as a noun (vulgar, _, slang):
intercourse with a woman