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tailor

noun
/ˈteɪlɚ/US/ˈteɪlə/UK

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English taillour, from Anglo-Norman taillour, from Old French tailleor, from taillier, from Late Latin tāliō, from Latin tālea (“a cutting”). Doublet of tailleur. Compare typologically German Schneider (akin to English snithe); Macedonian кројач (krojač), Polish krawiec (akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti).

  1. derived from tālea — “a cutting”
  2. derived from tāliō
  3. derived from tailleor
  4. derived from taillour
  5. inherited from taillour

Definitions

  1. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's…

    A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

    • He works as a tailor on Swanston Street.

  2. Bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

    • The tailor — is that a sea fish — a line fish? It is a sea fish, but not a line fish. They will bite at a line, but they are not a fish you can depend on with the line.

  3. To make, repair, or alter clothes.

    • We can tailor that jacket for you if you like.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To make or adapt (something) for a specific need.

      • The website was tailored to the client's needs.
      • [C]aregivers from diverse backgrounds may experience variations in the emergence of depressive symptoms, necessitating distinct strategies for support tailored to their individual needs.

    2. To restrict (something) in order to meet a particular need.

      • a narrowly tailored law

    3. A surname originating as an occupation for a tailor.

The neighborhood

Derived

merchant tailor, tailorage, tailorbird, tailorcraft, tailordom, tailoress, tailor-fashion, tailorhood, tailorism, tailorize, tailorless, tailorlike, tailorly, tailor-made, tailor make, tailor-make, tailorman, tailor's chalk, tailor's dummy, tailor's goose, tailor's ham, tailorship, tailor's muscle, tailor-style, tailorwise, tinker tailor grass, Tooley Street tailor, retailor, tailorability, tailorable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tailor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tailor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at tailor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA