"tailpiece" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tailpieces [plural]
Etymology: tail + piece Etymology templates: {{compound|en|tail|piece}} tail + piece Head templates: {{en-noun}} tailpiece (plural tailpieces)
  1. An appendage or appendix.
    Sense id: en-tailpiece-en-noun-gTVTwL7e
  2. (music, lutherie) An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument. Categories (topical): Lutherie, Music Translations (secures strings on a musical instrument): cordal [masculine] (Catalan), struník [masculine] (Czech), kordotenilo (Esperanto), kieltenpidin (Finnish), cordier [masculine] (French), Saitenhalter [masculine] (German), מִשְׁחָל [masculine] (Hebrew), húrtartó (Hungarian), cordiera [feminine] (Italian), ілгек (ılgek) (Kazakh), سیمگیر (sim-gir) (Persian), strunnik [masculine] (Polish), strunociąg [masculine] (Polish), płużka [feminine] (Polish), струнодержатель (strunoderžatelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), жичњак [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), žičnjak [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), strunník [masculine] (Slovak), cordal [masculine] (Spanish), stränghållare [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-tailpiece-en-noun-jA2Qy93y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 15 11 23 26 Topics: arts, crafts, entertainment, hobbies, lifestyle, lutherie, music Disambiguation of 'secures strings on a musical instrument': 1 49 6 14 14 17
  3. (architecture) A short joist between a header and a wall. Categories (topical): Architecture
    Sense id: en-tailpiece-en-noun-X6ekDIcw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 15 11 23 26 Topics: architecture
  4. The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
    Sense id: en-tailpiece-en-noun-Zq0JtEpo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 15 11 23 26
  5. The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.
    Sense id: en-tailpiece-en-noun-73bWHPYr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 15 11 23 26
  6. (printing) An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page. Categories (topical): Printing Translations ((printing) ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page): кінці́вка (kincívka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-tailpiece-en-noun-G-ORqOBI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 24 15 11 23 26 Topics: media, printing, publishing Disambiguation of '(printing) ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page': 0 17 2 4 5 72

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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "secures strings on a musical instrument",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cordal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "secures strings on a musical instrument",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "stränghållare"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kincívka",
      "sense": "(printing) ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кінці́вка"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "tailpiece"
  ],
  "word": "tailpiece"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.