Lexic.us

Definition of Tailing

1. Noun. The act of following someone secretly.

Definition of Tailing

1. n. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

2. n. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

Definition of Tailing

1. Verb. (present participle of tail) ¹

2. Noun. the act of following someone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tailing

1. the part of a projecting stone or brick that is inserted into a wall [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tailing

1. 1. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. 2. Same as Tail, 8 . 3. Sexual intercourse. 4. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff. 5. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tailing

Literary usage of Tailing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Re-treatment of General tailing The question of re-treatment of the mill tailing has ... These conditions are now changed and the re-treatment of tailing is ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"should result in a tailing assaying not over 0.10 per cent. ... Treatment of Mixture of Round-Table Feed and Mill tailing after Grinding through 60 Mesh ..."

3. Cyaniding Gold and Silver Ores: A Practical Treatise; Embracing Technical by Henry Forbes Julian, Edgar Smart, A. W. Allen (1921)
"Construction of tailing Wheels.—A few years ago, N. Wilson, consulting mechanical ... The following particulars of the 60-ft. tailing wheel at the Henry ..."

4. Mining in the Pacific States of North America by John Shertzer Hittell (1862)
"Every miner owns the tailings which run from his mill or sluice, and he has a right to hold, as a tailing claim, as much land as may be necessary to contain ..."

5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1877)
"tailing-off of the red corpuscle under a high power. „ 2.—tailing-off of the red corpuscle under a lower power. In the young newt I could also plainly see ..."

6. Cyanide Practice, 1910 to 1913 by Max Wilhelm Von Bernewitz (1913)
"Much of the tailing has been carried upon the land by irrigation. CYANIDATION OF ANTIMONIAL tailing By W. ARCHER LONGBOTTOM (June 29, 1912) *The treatment ..."

7. Cyanide Practice in Mexico by Ferdinand McCann (1912)
"This plant was constructed for treating the tailing resulting from the Patio ... The tailing deposited on the plain below Pachuca amounts to about two ..."

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