head to tail
End to end
Head to tail describes an arrangement where items are positioned so that the front of one meets the back of the next, forming a continuous line or sequence.
The phrase appears in descriptions of animals sleeping or traveling in close formation, vehicles parked bumper-to-bumper, or technical contexts like vector addition in physics.
The puppies curled up head to tail in their basket.
We arranged the arrows head to tail to find the resultant vector.
- top to bottomCovering the whole extent
- front to backSpanning the full length
- stem to sternNautical term for completely
- anteriorSituated toward the front
- extremityOutermost part or limit
endpoint · whole · entirety · antipode · daisy chain · sequence · end-to-end · conga line · follow the leader · integration · contiguous · chain · unity · series · linkage · domino · succession · continuity
head to tailpartial
Favoring one side
incomplete · fragmentary · piecemeal · in part · sectional
head to tailhead to head
Directly opposing each other
back to front · side by side · face to face · back to back · in reverse
head to tailback to front
In reverse orientation
reversed · backwards · inverted · scrambled · random order
head, tail, heads, tails, headed, heading, header, headless, headway