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I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.
Caroline Leavitt

Meaning of "trailing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRAILING

trailing  [ˈtreɪlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAILING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Trailing is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TRAILING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of trailing in the English dictionary

The definition of trailing in the dictionary is having a long stem which spreads over the ground or hangs loosely.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRAILING


ailing
ˈeɪlɪŋ
countervailing
ˈkaʊntəveɪlɪŋ
failing
ˈfeɪlɪŋ
grayling
ˈɡreɪlɪŋ
mailing
ˈmeɪlɪŋ
paling
ˈpeɪlɪŋ
parasailing
ˈpærəˌseɪlɪŋ
prevailing
prɪˈveɪlɪŋ
railing
ˈreɪlɪŋ
rerailing
riːˈreɪlɪŋ
retailing
ˈriːteɪlɪŋ
sailing
ˈseɪlɪŋ
strayling
ˈstreɪlɪŋ
tailing
ˈteɪlɪŋ
unfailing
ʌnˈfeɪlɪŋ
unveiling
ʌnˈveɪlɪŋ
veiling
ˈveɪlɪŋ
wailing
ˈweɪlɪŋ
whaling
ˈweɪlɪŋ
wholesaling
ˈhəʊlseɪlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRAILING

trailbreaker
trailer
trailer camp
trailer court
trailer park
trailer tent
trailer trash
trailer truck
trailerable
trailerist
trailerite
trailhead
trailing arbutus
trailing edge
trailing geranium
trailing myrtle
trailing vortex drag
trailingly
trailless
trailside

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRAILING

beguiling
boiling
broiling
calling
ceiling
criminal profiling
Darjiling
filing
glass ceiling
hypermiling
mass mailing
piling
plain sailing
profiling
racial profiling
roiling
service ceiling
smiling
stockpiling
tiling
unsmiling

Synonyms and antonyms of trailing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TRAILING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «trailing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of trailing
advertise · aftermath · amble · announce · bring up the rear · chain · chase · course · crawl · creep · dangle · dawdle · dog · drag · draw · drift · droop · fall behind · follow · footpath · hang back · haul · hound · hunt · hype · keep tabs on · lag · line · linger · loiter · lose · mark · meander · path · pathway · plod · preview · publicise · pull · pursue · road · route · row · scent · series · shadow · singletrack · slide · slink · slipstream · slither · spoor · stalk · straggle · stream · string · succession · sweep · tail · tow · trace · track · tracks · train · traipse · trudge · wake · wander · way

Translation of «trailing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRAILING

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

Translator English - Chinese

尾随
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

detrás
570 millions of speakers

English

trailing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनुगामी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زائدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

задний
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

à direita
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

trailing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

traînant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketinggalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hinter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

末尾の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

후행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Trailing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trailing
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பின்தங்கி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुसरणीस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sondaki
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trailing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

końcowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

задній
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trailing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πίσω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sleep
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avslutande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

følgende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trailing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAILING»

The term «trailing» is very widely used and occupies the 20.982 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAILING» OVER TIME

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

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9 QUOTES WITH «TRAILING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word trailing.
1
Lloyd Blankfein
The ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all hinges on being able to deal with families of gay people in the same way that you deal with families of straight people. Otherwise, they can't move around.
2
A. S. Byatt
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
3
Drake
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
4
Suzanne Fields
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
5
John Hoeven
Since 2006, we have surpassed Alaska, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and California in oil production to become the second largest oil-producing state in the nation, trailing only Texas. In 2012, North Dakota produced more than 245 million barrels of oil and provided nearly 11 percent of all U.S. output.
6
Caroline Leavitt
I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.
7
John L. Phillips
Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
8
Anthea Turner
Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
9
William Wordsworth
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAILING»

Discover the use of trailing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trailing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Trailing Clouds of Glory: First Person Glimpses Into ...
" In Trailing Clouds of Glory, Widdison intersperses an insightful review of our doctrinal understanding of our premortal existence with first-hand accounts of premortal life.
Harold A Widdison, PH.D., 2004
2
Trailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America
Balancing historical and social context with close readings of selected works, Cowart explores the major themes raised in immigrant writing: the acquisition of language, the dual identity of the immigrant, the place of the homeland, and the ...
David Cowart, 2006
3
Trailing a Bear: Adventures of Fred Bear and Bob Munger
An exciting, humorous & interesting account of hunting with legendary archer Fred Bear, by good friend Bob Munger.
Robert S. Munger, Richard Munger, 1995
4
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor's Mexican War ...
This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or ...
Felice Flanery Lewis, 2010
5
Diplomatic Baggage: The Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
When Sunday Times fashion journalist Brigid Keenan married the love of her life in the late Sixties, little idea did she have of the rollercoaster journey they would make around the world together - with most things going horribly awry ...
Brigid Keenan, 2011
6
Politicians and Apartheid: Trailing in the People's Wake
This publication explores/hypothesises why apartheid was abandoned by South Africa's ruling white National Party.
John Gardner, 1997
7
Farmers' Bulletin
TC-7307 Tractor-mounted dust applicator equipped with a trailing apron to reduce drift of insecticide. Chisel-type applicators for injecting fumigants into the soil for control. nozzles on the spray boom. Adjust nozzles so insecticide will reach and ...
‎1970
8
Effect of trailing edge geometry and thickness on the ...
The experimental and analytical investigation included solid blades with five different trailing-edge thicknesses and four different trailing-edge geometries.
Herman W. Prust, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center, 1972
9
NACA 0015 Wing Pressure and Trailing Vortex Measurements
SUMMARY A NACA 0015 semispan wing was placed in a low-speed wind tunnel , and measurements were made of the pressure on the upper and lower surface of the wing and of the velocity across the vortex trailing downstream from the tip ...
10
Trailing clouds of glory: spiritual values in children's ...
Examines the classics of children's literature to show the spiritual truths they contain, and shows how each one develops its themes
Madeleine L'Engle, Avery Brooke, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAILING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term trailing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Trailing in White House race, Cruz rips McConnell, breaks Reagan's …
What if I told you the U.S. Senate is about to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank? Okay, Rip Van Winkle. Hit the snooze button and roll back over. «Fox News, Jul 15»
2
Poll shows Clinton trailing Republicans in every swing state tested
A stunning new poll shows trouble brewing for Hillary Clinton in key swing states, with the Democratic presidential front-runner trailing potential Republican ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Canada trailing peers in meeting land preservation goals: report
Five years after Canada joined nearly 200 other countries in committing to set aside a significant swath of its landscape for ecological preservation, it lags ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
4
US trade: Trailing behind
The WS Darley company and its fire engines have a history of taking on giants. Founded in 1908, the company began life as a catalogue business catering to ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
5
Idaho Commission on the Arts Awards Funding to the Trailing of the …
HAILEY • The Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded a $4,000 grant to the Trailing of the Sheep Festival to assist ... «Twin Falls Times-News, Jun 15»
6
Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge test last flight
AFRL and FlexSys Inc. developed and wind-tunnel tested several wing leading and trailing edge designs for various aircraft configurations through 2006. «Air Force Link, May 15»
7
Lack of Innovation Leaves EU Trailing Rival Economies in US and …
There are many different explanations for the euro crisis: poor fiscal management, loose banking regulation, a loss of competitiveness as cheap money during ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
8
Giannis ejected for flagrant-2 foul; Bucks trailing big
Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo was ejected for a flagrant-2 foul on Chicago's Mike Dunleavy late in the first half of Game 6 on Thursday as the Bulls ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Apr 15»
9
Trailing Is The DIY Version of Veep You Need To Watch
He also writes, directs, and stars in Trailing, our new favorite web series. "I'm a bit of a Renaissance man," Phillips-Horst deadpans over the phone on a break ... «The FADER, Apr 15»
10
Alberta Health Minister Stephen Mandel, MLA Thomas Lukaszuk …
Mandel is trailing NDP candidate Dr. Bob Turner by 21% (49% to 28%) in the Edmonton-Whitemud riding, according to the Abingdon Research automated ... «Edmonton Sun, Apr 15»

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