TAILS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tails mean? 

• TAILS (noun)
  The noun TAILS has 1 sense:

1. formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men

  Familiarity information: TAILS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAILS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dress suit; full dress; tail coat; tailcoat; tails; white tie; white tie and tails

Hypernyms ("tails" is a kind of...):

evening clothes; evening dress; eveningwear; formalwear (attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening)

Meronyms (parts of "tails"):

morning coat; swallow-tailed coat; swallowtail (a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back)

 Context examples 

Blood vessels in the animals’ tails dilated to release heat, and fat-burning heat production decreased.

(Brain cells that cool the body, NIH)

The thieves ran off as if a wolf was at their tails: and the maid, having groped about and found nothing, went away for a light.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The second type of chromatin modifying complexes recruited by transcription factors covalently modify the N-terminal tails of histones by adding or removing phosphate, methyl, or acetyl groups.

(IFN-Beta Enhancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The inner part of the lipid bilayer that is comprised of the hydrophobic tails of the lipid components and the membrane spanning domains of transmembrane proteins.

(Hydrophobic Portion of the Plasma Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

High reeds of a peculiar type grew thickly before us, which were pronounced to be equisetacea, or mare's-tails, with tree-ferns scattered amongst them, all of them swaying in a brisk wind.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He wore a deep brown coat with a collar as high as his ears and tails as low as his knees.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Phosphatidic acids thus have a polar head and apolar tails, and occur in cell membranes throughout nature.

(Phosphatidic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

Based on a fossil unearthed in southern Tanzania, these early relatives were carnivorous animals that measured approximately 7-10 feet long, with long necks and tails.

(Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance, NSF)

Recent studies have revealed that chromatin structure can be altered by covalent modification of nucleosomes, in particular acetylation and methylation of the core histone tails.

(Gene Silencing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The non-polar tails serve as a template for nanoparticle synthesis.

(Micellar Template-Mediated Nanoparticle Synthesis, NCI Thesaurus)