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trail
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[ verb ] to lag or linger behind
Synonyms Examples : "But in so many other areas we still are dragging." Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Momentarily the Reds were back in the ball_game , trailing only 6 - 3 , but the drive fizzled when John_Edwards fouled_out with men on second and third and two out . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)He trailed Ludie to the baseball_game in the lot on Kingston_Street near the Dutch_Reformed . (Howard Fast, April Morning....)In the very front rank , two men were wounded and staggered along , trailing blood behind them . |
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[ noun ] a track or mark left by something that has passed
Examples "there as a trail of blood" "a tear left its trail on her cheek" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)It grows terribly and unavoidably in power and leaves in its wake a trail of misery , moral disintegration , and destruction . (J. F. Vedder, "Micrometeorites", in Francis S. J...)The mass scale used in Table 5 - 1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related_to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite , permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple , 1958 ) . The mass scale used in Table 5 - 1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related_to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite , permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple , 1958 ) . |
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[ noun ] (transportation) a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)Somewhere , we 'll hit a trail '' . He had picked_out this pathless trail , instead of the common one , in a moment of romantic fancy , to give them privacy on their honeymoon . |
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[ verb ] go after with the intent to catch
Synonyms Examples "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley" "the dog chased the rabbit" Used in print (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor , four roughly garbed and tough looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house . |
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[ noun ] evidence pointing to a possible solution
Examples "the police are following a promising lead" "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" Used in print (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Before daylight Sunday morning , a posse of twenty-three men under the leadership of Deputy_Sheriff_Frank_MacPherson of Catskill followed the trail to the house of Francisco_Chaves , where 100 to 150 Mexicans had gathered . |
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[ verb ] (transportation) drag along, either literally or metaphorically, as in one's wake
Synonyms Used in print (James Blish, The Star Dwellers....)It was a startling , almost numenous sight ; but even more awesome was the fact that it was trailing an enormous comet 's - tail of Angels . |
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[ verb ] hang down so as to drag along the ground
Examples "The bride's veiled trailed along the ground" |
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[ verb ] drag heavily or wearily, as of the body
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8609
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