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Definition of tailpiece in English: tailpiecenounˈteɪlpiːsˈteɪlˌpis 1A part added to the end of a story or piece of writing. there was a tailpiece to the article Example sentencesExamples - And what is entailed by that tailpiece other than a touch of question begging?
- Mind you… this to all Chiel correspondents… don't stop the jokes coming; a lot are very useful in this column as tailpieces and filler stories.
- Then comes the tailpiece, ‘If you must drink, do not drive afterwards’.
- Once he had decided not to publish his physics, the Treatise on Man, which Descartes had intended as a kind of tailpiece to The World, had also to be put on one side.
- The positioning of A Lover's Complaint as the tailpiece to the sequence - itself convincingly dated to around 1603-4 - suggests that Shakespeare finished assembling the collection at around that time.
- I enjoyed your tailpiece about the child born without ears.
- Wednesday's tailpiece about the motor mower that had been out of action for awhile and the exasperated wife trying to shame her husband by cutting the lawn with nail scissors, struck a chord.
- The tailpiece declared what should be the objective of the court when exercising the statutory powers to make financial provision orders and property adjustment orders.
- Bessie Howard is now in a retirement home in Johannesburg and the tailpiece, together with this story, will be going to her.
- Note from ‘King’ Charles yesterday (he's one of my readers, and he's from King William's Town, hence the royal title, who supplies the odd tailpiece or three - odd as in once in a while, not strange).
- And as a tailpiece, Padma Lakshmi, Rushdie's muse of many years now, has revealed that she often has disagreements with her husband about her numerous pairs of shoes.
- I am surprised that you have not included something in your Chiel tailpiece about the humorous story that the public were satisfied with municipal services.
- The tailpiece makes a limited exception to that principle in the cases in which it applies.
- This tailpiece was later deleted from the legislation, and nothing inserted in its place.
- A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
- He often used to tell people that readers were more likely to remember the tailpiece than the front page headlines, and they would agree.
- As Nitin points out, his tailpiece was really nice.
Synonyms afterword, postscript, ps, coda, codicil, appendix, supplement, addendum, postlude, rider, back matter - 1.1 A small decorative design at the foot of a page or the end of a chapter or book.
Example sentencesExamples - Bewick's small drawings, called ‘tailpieces ' were referred to humorously by him as ‘talepieces', as he said they were ‘seldom without an endeavour to illustrate some truth or point moral’.
Synonyms protuberance, projection, extremity, limb, organ
2The piece at the base of a violin or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached. Example sentencesExamples - The internal block at the bottom holds the tail button to which the tailpiece (which holds the strings) is hitched.
- The fingerboard and tailpiece are now usually of ebony (boxwood was formerly used) Just within the margins of belly and back, a groove in the wood is filled with ‘purfling’: thin strips of some other wood, contrasting in colour and pattern.
- The strings had snapped, the fingerboard was half off, the ornate bridge had shattered and the tailpiece had fallen off.
Synonyms hindmost part, back end, appendage
Definition of tailpiece in US English: tailpiecenounˈteɪlˌpisˈtālˌpēs 1A part added to the end of a story or piece of writing. there was a tailpiece to the article Example sentencesExamples - As Nitin points out, his tailpiece was really nice.
- This tailpiece was later deleted from the legislation, and nothing inserted in its place.
- Mind you… this to all Chiel correspondents… don't stop the jokes coming; a lot are very useful in this column as tailpieces and filler stories.
- Wednesday's tailpiece about the motor mower that had been out of action for awhile and the exasperated wife trying to shame her husband by cutting the lawn with nail scissors, struck a chord.
- I am surprised that you have not included something in your Chiel tailpiece about the humorous story that the public were satisfied with municipal services.
- And as a tailpiece, Padma Lakshmi, Rushdie's muse of many years now, has revealed that she often has disagreements with her husband about her numerous pairs of shoes.
- I enjoyed your tailpiece about the child born without ears.
- Then comes the tailpiece, ‘If you must drink, do not drive afterwards’.
- Bessie Howard is now in a retirement home in Johannesburg and the tailpiece, together with this story, will be going to her.
- A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
- Once he had decided not to publish his physics, the Treatise on Man, which Descartes had intended as a kind of tailpiece to The World, had also to be put on one side.
- The tailpiece makes a limited exception to that principle in the cases in which it applies.
- The positioning of A Lover's Complaint as the tailpiece to the sequence - itself convincingly dated to around 1603-4 - suggests that Shakespeare finished assembling the collection at around that time.
- The tailpiece declared what should be the objective of the court when exercising the statutory powers to make financial provision orders and property adjustment orders.
- And what is entailed by that tailpiece other than a touch of question begging?
- He often used to tell people that readers were more likely to remember the tailpiece than the front page headlines, and they would agree.
- Note from ‘King’ Charles yesterday (he's one of my readers, and he's from King William's Town, hence the royal title, who supplies the odd tailpiece or three - odd as in once in a while, not strange).
Synonyms afterword, postscript, ps, coda, codicil, appendix, supplement, addendum, postlude, rider, back matter - 1.1 A small decorative design at the foot of a page or the end of a chapter or book.
Example sentencesExamples - Bewick's small drawings, called ‘tailpieces ' were referred to humorously by him as ‘talepieces', as he said they were ‘seldom without an endeavour to illustrate some truth or point moral’.
Synonyms protuberance, projection, extremity, limb, organ
2The piece at the base of a violin or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached. Example sentencesExamples - The fingerboard and tailpiece are now usually of ebony (boxwood was formerly used) Just within the margins of belly and back, a groove in the wood is filled with ‘purfling’: thin strips of some other wood, contrasting in colour and pattern.
- The internal block at the bottom holds the tail button to which the tailpiece (which holds the strings) is hitched.
- The strings had snapped, the fingerboard was half off, the ornate bridge had shattered and the tailpiece had fallen off.
Synonyms hindmost part, back end, appendage
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