Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An animal, particularly a dog, having an uncut tail.
- noun The long-tailed duck.
- noun An old nickname for a native of Kent.
- Having the tail uncut, as a dog.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf.
curtail .dog . - noun all, gentlefolks and others, as they might come.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A common designation for an animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
- noun In
Bermuda , an alternative name for the White-tailed Tropicbird. - noun A
longtail boat . - noun colloquial In the
Isle of Man , arat .
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Examples
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Even if enabling the longtail is good trojan horse marketing .. as long as it doesn't become another all in one Web 2.0 featureset focused on a vertical, which leads consumer-creators to wonder whether their first click should be to blog about their AFL footy team, or their kids basketball club. posted by redbarren at 10: 41 PM
The Consumer Generated AFL Website Opportunity Ben Barren 2007
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A longtail is a basic wooden boat with a very loud motor on the back, and the propeller is at the end of a long shaft.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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A longtail is a basic wooden boat with a very loud motor on the back, and the propeller is at the end of a long shaft.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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A longtail is a basic wooden boat with a very loud motor on the back, and the propeller is at the end of a long shaft.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Selling enough copies of one's work (whether physical or digital, whether books, songs, movies, software or games) to make this the sole pillar of one's livelihood has in reality always been reserved to those very few creators that are at the top of the heap (i.e. not in the so-called longtail or even the body).
MediaFuturist 2008
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Selling enough copies of one's work (whether physical or digital, whether books, songs, movies, software or games) to make this the sole pillar of one's livelihood has in reality always been reserved to those very few creators that are at the top of the heap (i.e. not in the so-called longtail or even the body).
doggdot.us 2008
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Some examples, Hughes said, are Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and an an assortment of "longtail" sites catering to individual interests.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new email, messaging system Washington Post Staff 2010
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Some examples, Hughes said, are Facebook, Twitter, e-mail and an an assortment of "longtail" sites catering to individual interests.
Week ahead: Facebook mail? TV retransmisssion fees Cecilia Kang 2010
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This community shares some species with both the Laurentian Mixed Forest and boreal forest, but some species are unique to its alpine tundra, such as longtail shrew, boreal (southern) redback vole, gray-cheeked thrush, spruce grouse, and gray jay.
Adirondack-New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey) 2009
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| A "khlong" river cruise Patrick Barta/The Wall Street Journal Thai 'longtail' boat on the Chao Phraya river Hire a longtail boat to explore the atmospheric "khlong" river canals west of the Chao Phraya.
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