jälkiosa — meaning in English

English meaning

• head noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
• tail noun The flexible appendage extending from the rear of an animal's body.

Senses

jälkiosa is used for these senses in English:

• head (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
• headword A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.
• tail The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

head — full definition

1. noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
2. noun A person in charge; a leader.
3. verb To be in charge of, or to move in a particular direction.
4. adj Chief or foremost in rank.

tail — full definition

1. noun The flexible appendage extending from the rear of an animal's body.
2. noun The rear or last part of something, such as an aircraft's tail section or the end of a line or sequence.
3. noun The side of a coin opposite the head, or (informally) someone secretly following another person.
4. verb To follow someone closely and secretly, typically to observe them.

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