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What (who) is TAILING - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tailing (disambiguation)
tailing
¦ noun
1. (tailings) the residue of something, especially ore.
grain or flour of inferior quality.
2. the part of a beam or projecting brick or stone embedded in a wall.
Tailing
·noun Sexual intercourse.
II. Tailing ·noun ·same·as Tail, ·noun, 8 (a).
III. Tailing ·noun The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
IV. Tailing ·noun The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
V. Tailing ·add. ·noun A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.
VI. Tailing ·noun The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
Tailings
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MINING WASTE
Tailings (mining); Tailing pond; Mine tailings; Culm bank; Mining tailings; Mining waste; Tailing ponds; Culm dump; Slickens; Tailing Pond; Tailings pond; Mine dump; Deep sea tailings disposal; Submarine tailings disposal
(a) In high speed transmission of telegraph signals by the automatic
system, the definiteness of the signal marks is sometimes interfered
with by retardation. Wrong marks are thus produced called tailings.
(b) The prolongation of the current at the distant receiving station of
a telegraph line due to the discharge of the line and to self-induction.
Synonyms--Tailing--Tailing Current.
Wikipedia
Tailing
Tailing may refer to:
- Tailings, the material left over after the extraction of ore from its host material
- Lamb marking, a process applied in sheep husbandry, typically involving removal of a sheep's tail
- Tailgating, driving on a road too closely behind another vehicle
- Surveillance, following someone's movements
- Polyadenylation, adding a poly(-A) tail to a nucleic acid
Examples of use of TAILING
1. Refusing to answer questions, high tailing it back to Britain.
2. They had already put Mr Murat under surveillance and were tailing his two cars.
3. The longest conversation they had was when undercover officers who had been tailing Rutterschmidt watched.
4. They had previously given a car tailing them across Moscow the slip, Richter said.
5. But it warned that the recent improvement was tailing off and fundamental weaknesses remained.