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tailing

/tey-ling/US // ˈteɪ lɪŋ //UK // (ˈteɪlɪŋ) //

尾货,尾矿,尾巴,尾随

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
    • : tailings, Building Trades.gravel, aggregate, etc., failing to pass through a given screen.the residue of any product, as in mining; leavings.

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Examples

  • The trail climbs over reclaimed mine tailings, now grass-covered hills, and past an old mine building.

  • Starting in the late ’80s, the company used soil to place a temporary cover over the tailings.

  • There, trucks take tailings from the train to the disposal cell, an excavated area that, once finished, will be a mile long and nearly half a mile wide.

  • In addition to being powered by renewable energy, CTR says the project uses a closed-loop direct extraction process that returns spent brine to its underground source and leaves no production tailings, a kind of waste reside from mining.

  • Ultimately, mine tailings on their own won’t get us very far.

  • Katy Perry was admonished for dressing up as an angel while tailing her grandmother to an event.

  • The great irony is when we start to discuss the tailing ponds.

  • The result, as George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr puts it, is “the digital equivalent of tailing a suspect.”

  • Each day she drove out on deals with one of the Mexicans tailing her in the black Buick and collecting all the money she made.

  • In the 1920s, that might have involved tailing suspects to their home.

  • Tall trees on the lee side of it called for plenty of energetic side-slipping and fish-tailing.

  • Jimmy knew he was overshooting too much to dare attempt to kill his surplus speed by fish-tailing.

  • But the mysterious stranger was too quick for him, and when Tailing leapt to his feet he was alone.

  • A grassy glade slopes down to the bank, tailing away inland into a path something like a “ride” in an English game covert.

  • I had done a fine job of tailing and I wanted someone to pin a leather medal on me.