rail
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- 2.
The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- 3.
A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
We travelled to the seaside by rail.
a small Scottish village not accessible by rail
rail transport
- 4.
(electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.
- 5.
A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- 6.
(surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.
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(Internet)A vertical section on one side of a web page.
We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.
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(drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- 9.
Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
Đồng nghĩa: stile, stringer
- 10.
(backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- 11.
Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- 12.
(obsolete)An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To travel by railway.
- 2.
(transitive)(transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- 3.
(transitive)To enclose with rails or a railing.
- 4.
(transitive)To range in a line.
- 5.
(slang, transitive, vulgar)To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
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(slang, transitive)(transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- 7.
To complain violently (against, about).
The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.
Đồng nghĩa: fulminate, inveigh, rail out
- 8.
(obsolete)(obsolete, of a liquid) To gush; to flow.
- 9.
(obsolete)(obsolete, of wind) To blow.
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ine-pro From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (a ruler)), partly from Old English regol (a ruler, straight bar) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (rule, bar), from regō (to rule, to guide, to govern); see regular. regula rigol rule.