TAILOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tailor mean? 

• TAILOR (noun)
  The noun TAILOR has 1 sense:

1. a person whose occupation is making and altering garments

  Familiarity information: TAILOR used as a noun is very rare.

• TAILOR (verb)
  The verb TAILOR has 3 senses:

1. adjust to a specific need or market

2. style and tailor in a certain fashion

3. create (clothes) with cloth

  Familiarity information: TAILOR used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAILOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person whose occupation is making and altering garments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sartor; seamster; tailor

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)

• TAILOR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they tailor    ... he / she / it tailors   
Past simple: tailored   
Past participle: tailored   
-ing form: tailoring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adjust to a specific need or market

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

orient; tailor

Context example:

tailor your needs to your surroundings

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:

Style and tailor in a certain fashion

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

cut; tailor

Context example:

cut a dress

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Create (clothes) with cloth

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

sew; tailor; tailor-make

Context example:

Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?

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)

 Context examples 

A surgeon!’ they cried. ‘A tailor!

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The little tailor was willing, and followed him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I reckon tailors is your trade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The application of genomic and molecular data to tailor medical care to individuals.

(Personalized medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

A combination of modifications was needed to tailor the nanogels for targeted drug delivery.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

I even distinguished that one of them was marked with the name of ‘Hyams,’ who was Oldacres tailor.

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

Uses the results of a chemosensitivity testing assay to tailor the treatment to the individual.

(In Vitro Sensitivity-Directed Chemotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

At last we exposed that monstrous torso (fifty-four inches, by the tailor's tape).

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Co-researcher Associate Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko said the invention could be tailored for other light spectrums including visible light, which opened up a whole array of innovations, including architectural and energy saving applications.

(Protecting Astronauts from Radiation in Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“Since many forms of hearing loss are limited to specific frequencies, this approach could lead to replacement sensory cells that are tailored to individual needs.”

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)