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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Meaning of "tail off" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TAIL OFF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TAIL OFF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tail off is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES TAIL OFF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tail off in the English dictionary

The definition of tail off in the dictionary is to decrease or cause to decrease in quantity, degree, etc, esp gradually.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TAIL OFF

tail
tail assembly
tail beam
tail coat
tail covert
tail end
tail fan
tail feather
tail gate
tail lamp
tail out
tail rotor
tail section
tail unit
tail wheel
tail-heavy
tail-light
tail-like
tail-off
tailard

WORDS THAT END LIKE TAIL OFF

better off
boil off
call off
cut off
day off
fall off
get off
haul off
hold off
kick off
on and off
peel off
pull off
reel off
roll off
sell off
show off
take off
tell off
turn off

Synonyms and antonyms of tail off in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tail off» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TAIL OFF

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

Translator English - Chinese

尾关
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cola fuera
570 millions of speakers

English

tail off
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूंछ बंद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الذيل قبالة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

затихать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cauda off
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

লেঙ্গুড় বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´éteindre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ekor
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abflauen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

尾オフ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

꼬리 떨어져
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Buntut mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đuôi ra
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வால் ஆஃப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेपूट बंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kuyruk kapalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

coda fuori
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tail off
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

затихати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coada off
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ουρά off
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stert af
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

halen av
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tail off

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TAIL OFF»

The term «tail off» is regularly used and occupies the 61.239 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TAIL OFF» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tail off

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3 QUOTES WITH «TAIL OFF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tail off.
1
Larry Bird
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
2
Bob Edwards
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
3
Kevin Plank
Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TAIL OFF»

Discover the use of tail off in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tail off and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How Rabbit Lost His Tail: A Traditional Cherokee Legend
In this, the third volume of the Grandmother Stories, Rabbit, whose Cherokee name is Ji-Stu, loses his long tail which is covered with thick, silky fur.
Deborah L. Duvall, 2003
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Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity
The gecko Coleonyx variegatus, for example, raises its tail off the ground when first approached by a predatory snake. As the tail waves back and forth, the snake changes its orientation from the relatively large body of the lizard to its moving ...
Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, 2006
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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee ...
You just hope the bastard behind you doesn't let up on his brakes and chew your tail off, or that the so-and-so on your left has his gun switch off or his finger off the trigger so he doesn't blow you to smithereens. You sit at the end of the runway ...
Alexander Jefferson, 2005
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Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary
... S/he cuts the tail off. kiskayowesam (VTI) S/he cuts the tail off it. kiskayowesowew (VTA) S/he cuts the tail off someone. kiskayowesikew (VTI) S/ he cuts the tail off things. kIskayowetahwew (VTA) S/he chops the tail off. kiskayowetaham (VTI) ...
Nancy LeClaire, George Cardinal, Harold Cardinal, 1998
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
The rear or hindmost part, as in Douglas was at the tail end of the academic procession. [Mid-17005] Z. The very end, the conclusion, as in Only at the tail end ofhis speech did he thank his sponsors. [Mid-18005] tail off Also, tail away, trail off .
Christine Ammer, 2013
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Idioms in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
Buzz is often synonymous with word-of-mouth. Word of mouth and buzz are important to viral marketing. "Bethani had to work her tail off just to get a ‘B' and she did." —Chicago (DuPage) Daily Herald (10/13/2011) "I'm damn proud of  ...
Peter Bengelsdorf
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Recent Trends In Applied Systems Research 1995
Onboard RTD, based on prefixed threshold detection of vehicle acceleration as an indicator of thrust tail off. The pre-programmed approach lacks robustness as it can either lead to premature separation or delayed separation with attendant ...
P. Radhakrishnan
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Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
tail tail off to gradually lessen; = taper off ♢ Sales of new cars always tail off when people are worried about losing their jobs. turn tail 1 to suddenly leave ♢ The only thing 1 could do was to turn tail and run from my attacker. 2 to suddenly change ...
Paul Heacock, 2003
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Fullerenes for the New Millennium: Proceedings of the ...
Interestingly, the calculated lifetimes of the dyads, both in the 'tail-on' and 'tail- off forms, are found to be much smaller than that of the pristine ZnTPP and the ZnTPP- picoline complex, indicating the occurrence of efficient charge separation  ...
Prashant V. Kamat, Dirk M. Guldi, Karl M. Kadish, 2001
10
Neural Network Modeling Using Sas Enterprise Miner
And in a mixed ARMA process, the ACF plot tails off exponentially after lag q and the PACF and IACF plots tail off exponentially after the lag p under the assumption that the time series data is stationary. The characteristic pattern in identifying a ...
Randall Matignon, 2005

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TAIL OFF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tail off is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rock Your Tail Off Adopt-AThon
CORPUS CHRISTI -. Be prepared to Rock Your Tail Off, and possibly, gain a new member of your family! The Gulf Coast Humane Society is opening it's doors ... «KRIS Corpus Christi News, Jun 15»
2
Twisted cat killer strikes again as beloved tabby is found decapitated …
A pet owner has been left 'devastated' after a twisted thug cut his beloved cat's head AND tail off. Heartbroken Michael Gibson said the horrific death of loveable ... «Mirror.co.uk, Oct 14»
3
Vandals take tail from Builth Wells bronze bull statue
Vandals have ripped the tail off a life-sized bronze statue of a bull in Builth Wells. ... The tail has since been recovered but police are appealing for help about ... «BBC News, Jul 14»
4
Walter Doe jailed for cutting puppy's tail off, leaving animal in …
The puppy was taken to a vet who removed the bandage and found a very raw wound, about two inches from the tail base, with the rest of the tail removed, ... «The Independent, Apr 14»
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WATCH: Canadian woman gets slapped in face by whale's tail off
Chelsea Crawford was whale-watching with pals off the coast of Baja ... video shows the gigantic beast swimming close to the boat, before it flips its tail out of the ... «New York Daily News, Feb 14»
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Whale sends surfer flying through the air with a flick of its tail off
Whale sends surfer flying through the air with a flick of its tail off bondi Beach ... knocked unconscious by a giant whale while surfing off Bondi Beach in Australia. «Evening Standard, Jul 13»
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Man Caught Cutting Beached Whale's Tail Off
ILIMANAQ, GREENLAND AUGUST 27, 2007: (ISRAEL OUT) A whale's tail rises from the sea as it swims, near the village of Ilimanaq, August 27, 2007 ... «NBC Miami, Sep 10»

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