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tailpiece - definition and meaning
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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A piece forming an end; an appendage.
- noun Printing An engraving or design placed as an ornament at the end of a chapter or at the bottom of a page.
- noun Architecture A beam tailed into a wall.
- noun Music A triangular piece of ebony to which the lower ends of the strings of a violin or other related instrument are attached.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece forming a tail; a piece at the end; an appendage.
- noun In zoology, one of the parts or pieces composing the pygidium of an insect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A piece at the end; an appendage.
- noun (Arch.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See
Illust. ofHeader . - noun (Print.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
- noun A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
- noun (Locks) A piece for transmitting motion from the hub of a lock to the latch bolt.
- noun The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
appendage orappendix - noun music A triangular piece of
metal orebony to which thestrings of aviolin ,guitar , etc. are attached at the lower end - noun architecture A short
joist between aheader and awall
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun appendage added to extend the length of something
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
tail + piece
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Examples
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I'm having difficulty getting a 'current' standard Lebeda tailpiece which is a much bigger problem,
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I'm having difficulty getting a 'current' standard Lebeda tailpiece which is a much bigger problem,
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I'm having difficulty getting a 'current' standard Lebeda tailpiece which is a much bigger problem,
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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I'm having difficulty getting a 'current' standard Lebeda tailpiece which is a much bigger problem,
Mandolin Cafe News 2009
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In truth, the Cold War was a tailpiece of World War II in Europe, and thus Eisenhower's labors flowed naturally from Roosevelt's.
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The sticker on the tailpiece of my hardtail clashes with everything.
Hitting the Road: Unhooking the BRA BikeSnobNYC 2010
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I put a snob sticker on my tailpiece but it dissolved in rain.
Putting it Out There: BRAs, Belts, and Cockies BikeSnobNYC 2010
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One of Bewick's specialties was the tailpiece, a small spot illustration filling the empty space at the end of a chapter.
Bewick’s Tailpieces James Gurney 2009
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Cryptic BBC 2 'Newsnight' tailpiece squeeezed in at the end was on the BURQA after long rambling repeat of BBC propaganda about 'climate change again.
NO BAN ON THE BURQA 2009
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I shall add strings so that there are twelve, some attached to the tailpiece and some on the fingerboard, in perfect and consummate harmony.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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synonyms (115)
Words with the same meaning
- accession
- accessory
- accompaniment
- addenda
- addendum
- additament
- addition
- additive
- additory
- additum
- adjunct
- adjuvant
- afterpart
- afterpiece
- anacrusis
- annex
- annexation
- appanage
- appendage
- appendant
- appurtenance
- appurtenant
- attachment
- augment
- augmentation
- back
- back door
- back seat
- back side
- bass passage
- behind
- bourdon
- breech
- bridge
- brush
- burden
- cadence
- cauda
- caudal appendage
- caudation
- chorus
- coda
- complement
- concomitant
- continuation
- corollary
- cue
- development
- division
- dock
- exposition
- extension
- extrapolation
- fantail
- figure
- fixture
- folderol
- harmonic close
- heel
- hind end
- hind part
- hindhead
- increase
- increment
- interlude
- intermezzo
- introductory phrase
- measure
- movement
- musical phrase
- musical sentence
- occiput
- offshoot
- ornament
- part
- passage
- pendant
- period
- phrase
- pigtail
- posterior
- postern
- queue
- rattail
- rear
- rear end
- rearward
- refrain
- reinforcement
- resolution
- response
- reverse
- ritornello
- section
- side effect
- side issue
- stanza
- statement
- stern
- strain
- stub
- supplement
- tab
- tag
- tail
- tail end
- trail
- trailer
- train
- tutti
- tutti passage
- undergirding
- variation
- verse
- wake
hypernyms (1)
Words that are more generic or abstract
same context (31)
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- cicatrice
- cobblestone
- fellon
- gearmotor
- gold-banded
- gun-barrel
- hallooing
- leg-of-mutton
- linchpin
- love-poem
- mill-wheel
- ontheir
- pinned-up
- pricker
- puffed-out
- raglan
- re-read
- rosebush
- schoolbooks
- sentir
- steel-grey
- stiffener
- stopple
- three-quarter-length
- torn-off
- tucked-up
- unplugged
- wine-soaked
skipvia commented on the word tailpiece
On a guitar, the device on the lower bout that anchors the tail end of the strings.
November 15, 2007