(n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) "If these things are not against the law we need amendments to the Equality Act", she said, adding that if they were against the law "we need to sue the backsides off people".
(2) Leaked Home Office documents show bisexual asylum seekers being asked degrading questions during hours of interrogation by Home Office officials – questions that included: "What is it about men's backsides that attracts you?"
(3) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
(4) Why they can't get their head out of their backside?"
(5) "It'll be close, but I've been working my backside off and I'm absolutely determined to deliver change for Bolton ...
(6) Stones was left on his backside by the pirouetting Odion Ighalo as the Nigerian restored Watford’s lead.
(7) No question, Kardashian does dress in a way that shows her backside's shape, but I'm not really sure what else she should do, other than wear a wimple .
(8) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
(9) Since black womanhood is apparently all in the look, our society would rather have white, former Disney pop stars twerk , talentless celebrities with enlarged backsides and their equally talentless siblings with swollen lips than celebrate the black woman’s form with the person who carries it.
(10) While there are ways to kick the ultra-conservative Barratts, Bovises and Taylor Wimpeys up the backside, they are never going to answer simple calls to end the housing shortage.
(11) There, he witnessed a native servant, who had dropped a trunk that was being taken on board the ship, being viciously kicked on the backside by a white police sergeant, to the obvious approval of the onlookers.
(12) There is undeniably a touch of class snobbery in reactions to Cole's tattoo – a sense of disapproval of a certain aesthetic style or her decision to cover her whole backside.
(13) In this paper, experimental results of a pilot's ability to control the STOL aircraft are presented for a multi-variable manual control system using a fixed ground base simulator and the pilot's control ability is discussed for the flight of an STOL aircraft at backside of drag curve at approach and landing.
(14) The binding site for the reaction center is on the frontside of cytochrome c which is the side with the exposed heme edge, as revealed by differential chemical acetylation of lysines of free and reaction-center-bound cytochrome c. In contrast, bacterial cytochrome c2 was found previously to bind to the detergent-solubilized reaction center through its backside, i.e., the side opposite to the heme cleft [Rieder, R., Wiemken, V., Bachofen, R., and Bosshard, H. R. (1985).
(15) For discontented voters, especially those who feel that globalisation has done nothing for them and those unpersuaded that Brexit would inflict a material cost on their families, the referendum could be a stick with which to give a satisfying thwack to the backsides of the “political elite”.
(16) The prime minister had failed to remove Bishop as Speaker because he is “protecting his backside”.
(17) Fifteen minutes later the same English justice system – in the formidable shape of Mrs Justice Gloster – gave Berezovsky an almighty and devastating kick up the backside.
(18) As it was, United were lucky Arnautovic, having scored a beauty, could not make it 3-0 after he ran clear on 36 minutes and a traumatic first half for Van Gaal was summed up by Daley Blind trying a cross from the left, scuffing it out of play and ending up on his backside.
(19) Her protest will continue, she says, until her son Alaa Abdel Fattah, a blogger, revolutionary and "thorn in the backside of the military", is released from prison, where he has been since 30 October.
(20) They whistle up a press conference and go into full-control mode in the interest of saving their own backsides and the credibility of the sport that has made them insanely rich.
(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
(n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
(v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
(v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
(2) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(3) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
(4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(5) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
(6) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(7) produced a strong analgesic effect in the formalin test and in the tail pinch test.
(8) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
(9) Body weight (BW) and nose-tail length were less in the hypoxic exposed (H) rats than in control (C) animals growing in air.
(10) Nitrous oxide produced a dose-related analgesic response in rats (ED50, 67%) as measured by the tail-flick method.
(11) A total of 23 phage specific proteins (including four head and six tail proteins) could be identified after SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of extracts from phage SPP1 infected Bacillus subtilis cells.
(12) g (SD 0.15, N = 21), which was similar to tail skin.
(13) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(14) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
(15) These apparent conflicting results between IK and the tail current could not be explained by extracellular K+ fluctuation, because 20 mM Cs+ alone depressed both factors, but an additional application of Ba2+ caused an increase in both components compared with those in the former condition.
(16) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(17) Deletion of a carboxyl-terminal sequence, comprising the transmembrane domain and short cytoplasmic tail of the alpha chain of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR-alpha), prevented the rapid degradation of this polypeptide.
(18) We have investigated enhancement of pigmentation in inbred C3H- mice using tail skin as a model for testing the effects of phosphorylated DOPA (DP) and ultraviolet radiation.
(19) Diltiazem also produced a slight decrease of both the steady-state current during depolarization and the tail current after repolarization in these concentration ranges, while the hyperpolarization activated current (Ih) was not affected significantly.
(20) A fluorescent fucose-specific lectin-stained bodies and not tails of the organism.