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PRONUNCIATION OF RATS' TAILS

rats' tails  [ræts teɪlz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RATS' TAILS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rats' tails is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RATS' TAILS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rats' tails in the English dictionary

The definition of rats' tails in the dictionary is long greasy strands of hair hanging down.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RATS' TAILS


after-sales
ˈɑːftəˌseɪlz
baby-scales
ˈbeɪbɪˌskeɪlz
Dales
deɪlz
entrails
ˈɛntreɪlz
Giles
dʒaɪlz
hills
hɪlz
ills
ɪlz
marseilles
mɑːˈseɪlz
Mills
mɪlz
piles
paɪlz
pills
pɪlz
sales
seɪlz
Scales
skeɪlz
Smiles
smaɪlz
spoils
spɔɪlz
tails
teɪlz
telesales
ˈtɛlɪˌseɪlz
textiles
ˈtɛkstaɪlz
Wales
weɪlz
Wills
wɪlz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RATS' TAILS

ratlike
ratlin
ratline
ratling
RATO
ratoon
ratooner
ratpack
ratproof
rats
ratsbane
Ratskeller
rattailed
rattan
ratted
ratteen
ratten
rattener
ratter
rattery

WORDS THAT END LIKE RATS' TAILS

bed of nails
bite one´s nails
cat-o´-nine-tails
contact details
hard as nails
lamb´s tails
off the rails
on someone´s coat-tails
personal details
take the wind out of someone´s sails
trim one´s sails

Synonyms and antonyms of rats' tails in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rats' tails» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RATS' TAILS

Find out the translation of rats' tails to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rats' tails from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rats' tails» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

老鼠的尾巴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

colas de ratas
570 millions of speakers

English

rats´ tails
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

´चूहों की पूंछ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ذيول الفئران /
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

хвосты крысиные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caudas dos ratos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উঁচু পাখি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Les queues de rats
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ekor tikus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rattenschwänzen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ラットの尾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쥐 ´ 꼬리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ekor tikus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đuôi chuột ´
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எலிகள் ´வால்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उंदीर ´पूगे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sıçanların kuyrukları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

code di topo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ogony szczurów
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

хвости щурячі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cozi de șobolani /
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ουρές αρουραίων »
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rotte se sterte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

råttornas svansar
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rottenes haler
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rats' tails

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RATS' TAILS»

The term «rats' tails» is used very little and occupies the 186.117 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RATS' TAILS» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATS' TAILS»

Discover the use of rats' tails in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rats' tails and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Broadway Tails: Heartfelt Stories of Rescued Dogs Who Became ...
Fortunately, nature gave rats tails that break off easily if a predator gets them. She had lost the very tip of her tail, and needed only a few stitches. Charlotte took over in true “the rat must go on” tradition, and did great the next day. It took a week ...
Jim Hanrahan, Bernadette (FRW) Peters, Bill Berloni, William Berloni
2
The Preview and Other Stories
He said there was a campaign to catch rats, and added that they would give notebooks as rewards to children who brought a large number of rats' tails. However, I was not concerned about such things as rat-catching campaigns. If they had ...
Sŏn-jak Cho, 2003
3
Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries
Next morning the bladder had again been eaten through at one edge, and upon the mould there were numerous and distinct tracings of the rats' tails, resembling marks made with the top of a pen-holder. These tracings were evidently caused ...
Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer, Animal Behavior Society, 1996
4
Popular Science
Next morning the bladder had again been eaten through at one edge, and upon the mould were numerous and distinct tracings of the rats' tails, evidently caused by the animals sweeping their tails about in the endeavor to find a hole in the ...
5
Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China
One day in Langxiang I saw a man standing behind a square of cloth which held six frozen rats and a stack of rats' tails. Were things so bad in Langxiang that they ate rats and rats' tails? "Do you eat these?" I asked. "No, no," came the muffled ...
Paul Theroux, 2006
6
The Mysteries of New Orleans
“Do you still have a couple of rats-tails, Merlina?” Rats-tails was the malicious name the Hungarian had given to the cigars from the Italian Lombardi's fruit store. “You don't need to smoke now, my Lajos—your panther has something better for  ...
Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein, 2003
7
Fluency, Grades 1 - 3: Activities That Support ...
Next add rats' tails. Make a smiley face out of the rats' tails. Enjoy! Ask students if they think that would be a good snack. What do they think went wrong? (Students will probably shout that you read the recipe incorrectly!) Reveal to students that ...
Starin W. Lewis, 2005
8
An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner
His long, straight hair hung down "like rats' tails" around a homely and massive face. His preaching was not erudite or finished. "Abruptly and brokenly. . . his sentences would fall from him about divine things." God, so Penn believed, had ...
James Thomas Flexner, 1993
9
Nocturnal Animals
Many people the world over do not have the westerners' distate for rodents, even those with rats' tails, and rodents of all kinds are eagerly sought for food, not just by primitive hunter-gatherers in the rain forest, but by people in towns and ...
Clive Roots, 2006
10
Oliver Optic's Magazine: Our Boys and Girls ...
Rats' tails! " And, despite the efforts and persuasions of his companions, he retired to his room, where his .bed was heard to creak alarmingly, from the force of the bound with which he entered it. The other three, shaking with laughter, followed ...
‎1873

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