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SHIRTTAIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fabric forming the tail of a shirt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shirttail" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Holonyms ("shirttail" is a part of...):
shirt (a garment worn on the upper half of the body)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shirttail" is a kind of...):
appendix (supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book)
Holonyms ("shirttail" is a part of...):
news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)
