Sentence examples for tailfin from inspiring English sources
noun
A fin at the tail of a fish, caudal fin
But it also has wings and a tailfin.
Coring devices typically have three principal components: interchangeable core tubes, a main body of streamlined lead weights, and a tailfin assembly that directs the corer in a vertical line to the ocean bottom.
The salamander larvae are smaller versions of adults, although they differ from their adult counterparts by the presence of external gills, a tailfin, distinctive larval dentition, a rudimentary tongue, and the absence of eyelids.
A vertical tailfin was added for stability and a long carbon-fiber rudder extends from the lower portion of the car's stern to help direct airflow away from the car, reducing drag and turbulence.
Perhaps it's no coincidence that G.M.'s golden age of design and dominance came when other larger-than-life characters imposed their will on the company: Harley Earl, the flamboyant chief stylist and pioneer of the tailfin, and Earl's successor, Bill Mitchell, a profane but inspired designer who during his tenure of 1958-77 helped to create the Corvette Sting Ray and other revered cars.
The males of certain species of fish have a yellow band on the tailfin.
The other was a tailfin-tacky celebration of jet-age technological hubris that proved to be the unhappy final chapter to the city-building career of Robert Moses.
THE magic of the Cadillac of the 1950s, with its outrageous tailfins, gleaming chrome and candy-coloured bodywork, could be coming back to rescue General Motors.
British Airways, having already stripped the union flag off its tailfins, is losing business-class passengers: next week's full-year financial results are likely to show a halving of profits.Most unBritish of all has been the fate of Marks and Spencer, purveyors of knickers to the nation, whose profits fell around its ankles on May 18th.
Boeing sources not only doors and tailfins for the 737 from China, but also the rudder of its new 787 Dreamliner.Within a few months AVIC I and its smaller state-owned rival AVIC II will take an important next step.
Prasad Boradkar, an associate professor of industrial design at Arizona State University who borrowed some of Mr. Owerko's stereos for a recent exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, likened the development of bigger and bigger boxes to the growth of tailfins on cars in the late 1950s and early '60s.
