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TAILOR

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Synonyms:

sartor; seamster; tailor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tailor" is a kind of...):

garment-worker; garment worker; garmentmaker (a person who makes garments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tailor"):

fitter (someone who fits a garment to a particular person)

Derivation:

tailor (create (clothes) with cloth)

tailor (style and tailor in a certain fashion)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adjust to a specific need or market

Example:

tailor your needs to your surroundings

Synonyms:

orient; tailor

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "tailor" is one way to...):

accommodate; adapt (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Create (clothes) with cloth

Example:

Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?

Synonyms:

sew; tailor; tailor-make

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "tailor" is one way to...):

fashion; forge (make out of components (often in an improvising manner))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tailor"):

run up (make by sewing together quickly)

quilt (create by stitching together)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They tailor the cape

Derivation:

tailor (a person whose occupation is making and altering garments)

tailoring (the occupation of a tailor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Style and tailor in a certain fashion

Example:

cut a dress

Synonyms:

cut; tailor

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "tailor" is one way to...):

design (create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner)

Domain category:

fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tailor"):

gore (cut into gores)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

tailor (a person whose occupation is making and altering garments)

Credits

 Context examples: 

MistNet is based on neural networks for images and includes several architecture components tailored to the unique characteristics of radar data.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Bacteria in certain communities have genes tailored by evolution for cycling the nutrients that are naturally available in their ecosystems.

(From tropical to boreal ecosystems, temperature drives functioning, National Science Foundation)

This month’s full moon in Taurus 20 degrees (operative plus or minus four days) will be tailor made for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Three hundred tailors were employed in the same manner to make me clothes; but they had another contrivance for taking my measure.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He caught the tailor by telephone that night from Mr. Higginbotham's store and ordered another suit.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We’ll make the coats of some of these soldiers redder than ever the tailor did.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scientists have developed spray gun that uses a process called electrospinning to 'paint' on bandages with drug cocktails tailored to treat patients' wounds.

(Scientists Develop Spray Gun to Paint Bandages onto Wounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I found as prevalent a fashion in the form of the penitence, as I had left outside in the forms of the coats and waistcoats in the windows of the tailors' shops.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To make according to individual requirements or specifications; to make more personalized or tailored for a specific need.

(Customize, NCI Thesaurus)

As we learn more about the biology, weʼre able to tailor treatments to the specific type of tumor that a patient has, so there are some small tumors that may be more aggressive and there may be some larger tumors that are less aggressive, she said.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)