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Rail

Definition: Rail

Rail

Noun

1. A barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports.

2. Short for railway; "he traveled by rail";1 "he was concerned with rail safety".

3. A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll.

4. A horizontal bar (usually of wood).

5. Any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud.

Verb

1. Complain bitterly.

2. Enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves".

3. Provide or enclose with rails; "The yard was railed".

4. Separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace".

5. Convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium".

6. Travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg".

7. Lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here".

8. Fish with a hand-line aver the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish".

9. Spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews".

10. : criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "rail" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Rail \Rail\, noun. [Akin to Low German & Swedish regel bar, bolt, German riegel a rail, bar, or bolt, OHG, rigil, rigel, bar, bolt, and possibly to English row a line.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Rail

DomainDefinition

Computing

RAIL Automatix. High-level language for industrial robots. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Metallurgy

Hot-rolled product of the type normally used for railway and tramway track, irrespective of their intended use(over-head transporters, mobile cranes, etc. ). Source: European Union. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Horizontal member in a door in which the muntins are assembled. Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

System for the mechanised conveyance of hoisted carcases. Source: European Union. (references)
 Metal bars or flat pieces of wood fitted at the top of a bulwark or at the top of guard rail stanchions. Also applied to the tier of metal guard rods fitted between the top rail and the deck. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Rail To sit on the rail. To shuffle off a direct answer; to hedge or to fence; to reserve the decision of one's vote. Here rail means the fence, and "to sit on the rail" to sit on one side. A common American phrase.
"If he said `Yes,' there was an end to any church support at once; if `No,' he might as well go home at once. So he tried to sit on the rail again."- T. Terrell: Lady Delmar, chap. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mechanical Engineering

A long piece of wood or other material serving as a structure member or support. . Source: European Union. (references)
 Horizontal links between pallet posts. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

The chain or inner surface of a crawler. (references)

Public Administration

The suspension folder. . . is fitted with attachments which enable it to be suspended from rails along the sides of the filing-cabinet drawer. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang

Noun or verb. Source: Possibly called this (as a noun) because the drug looks like a rail/banister (a straight line). Definition: To snort a line up one's nose; can refer to any powdered drug. Context: Used in a situation where the snorting of powdered drugs is taking place. Social Source: Univ. of Oregon Drug Scene. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
 Noun. Source: Rail slide. Definition: A rail on that is used by snowboarders as a slide. Context: They use the word to exspress what something is. Social Source: Bend Oregon snowboarders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Statistics

All quantities used in rail traffic, including industrial railways. Source: European Union. (references)

Weather

Includes "heavy" and "light" transit rail. Heavy transit rail is characterized by exclusive rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed rapid acceleration, sophisticated signaling, and high platform loading. Also known as subway, elevated railway, or metropolitan railway (metro) . Light transit rail may be on exclusive or shared rights of way, high or low platform, multi-car trains or single cars, automated or manually operated. In generic usage, light rail includes streetcars, trolley cars, and tramways. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: British railway system

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The British railway system is the oldest in the world. It consists of almost 17,000 km of track.

Since 2002, the tracks and other infrastructure are the responsibility of Network Rail, a non-profit organisation.

Train Operating Companies

The trains are operated by 26 companies mainly on a regional franchise basis.

See List of UK Train Operating Companies

National Framework

The Strategic Rail Authority is, within its statutory framework, the strategic planning, and coordinating body for the rail industry and the guardian of passenger and freight interests.

The official regulator is the Office of the Rail Regulator. It has fined a number of operators for failing to provide adequate or accurate ticketing information. The funding and development body is the Strategic Rail Authority, an 'arms-length' governmental organisation operating under Directions and Guidance from the Secretaries of State for Transport.

Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel connects England to France. At the end of September 2003 the first part of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link was completed, avoiding local commuter lines which had caused delays. Trains can now go through parts of Kent at 180mph, cutting the journey time from London to Paris to two hours twenty minutes. The rest of the link, from north Kent to St Pancras railway station in London, is planned to open in 2007.

Underground Railways

A few places also have metro systems:

Heritage and Private Railways

There are also a number of heritage and private railways - see List of British heritage and private railways.

Major stations

Major UK railway stations include:

History In Brief

The British railway network is the oldest locomotive-drawn railway system in the world. Great feats of engineering were performed in its creation. Examples from the Victorian era are the building of the Forth Rail Bridge, or the replacement of 177 miles of broad gauge rail with standard gauge in a single weekend from May 21, 1892. However, mighty engineering feats are not a thing of the past. An example is the building of the Channel tunnel for the link to the Continental railway systems, and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to the tunnel. Track replacements take considerably longer, however.

The system was originally built as a patchwork of local rail links operated by small private railway companies. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries these amalgamated or were bought by competitors until only a handful of larger companies remained (see railway mania).

From January 1 1923 the remaining companies were grouped into the "big four", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies. These were joint stock public companies and they continued to run the railway system until December 31 1947, although nearly bankrupt as a result of the Second World War. From the first moment of the following year, they were nationalised and amalgamated to form British Railways (latterly "British Rail"). During the next fifty years the railways entered a slow decline owing to a lack of investment and changes in transport policy and lifestyles. A major reduction in the network occurred during the mid-1960s after chairman Richard Beeching's review of the railway network (also known as the "Beeching axe"). Many branch lines, particularly rural lines serving communities which relied heavily on their local railways, were closed at that time and this also had the effect of removing a lot of the feeder traffic from the main lines, particularly freight traffic. This move was extremely unpopular at the time, and remains so today.

In the mid 1990s it was decided to privatise British Rail. The track and infrastructure was devolved to a company called Railtrack, whilst ticketing and passenger and freight operations were sold off to individual operators.

The government claimed that privatisation would see an improvement in passenger services: however, the opposite is generally accepted to be true. There were more fatal accidents (particularly the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster and the Hatfield rail crash). Passengers lost confidence in the safety of rail travel.

After the Hatfield crash, speed limits were drastically reduced throughout Britain and train travel was seriously disrupted for months. Railtrack came close to bankruptcy due to the enormous cost of additional safety measures and was effectively re-nationalised, when ownership of the railway system was transferred to non-profit organisation Network Rail on October 3, 2002.

For a more detailed history see History of the British railway system

List of historic British railway companies

Early railway companies (1820s-1840s)

Pre-Grouping (1923)

Grouping (1923 - 1947)

The Big Four

Nationalisation (1947 - 1996)

Privatisation (1996-)

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Rail

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Rail can mean:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rail."

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Rail tracks

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Railroad or railway tracks are used on railways to guide trains. They consist of two parallel steel rails, which are laid and fastened upon sleepers (or cross ties) which are embedded in ballast to form the railroad track. Rail tracks are normally laid on a bed of coarse stone chippings known as ballast, which combines resilience, some amount of flexibility, and good drainage; however, track can also be laid on or into concrete (across bridges, for example).

There are different ways of joining rails together to form tracks. The traditional way of doing this, was to bolt rails together in what is known as jointed track. In this form of track, lengths of rail, usually around 20 metres (60 feet) long are laid and fixed to sleepers (UK) (crossties, or simply ties in US practice), and are joined to other lengths of rail with steel plates known as fishplates (UK) or splices (US).

Fishplates or splices are usually 60 centimetres (2 feet) long, and are bolted through each side of the rail ends with four bolts. Small gaps are deliberately left between the rails, which are known as "expansion joints" to allow for expansion of the rails in hot weather, the holes through which the fishplate bolts pass are oval to allow for expansion.

British practice was always to have the rail joints on both rails at the same place, while American practice is to stagger them.

Because of the small gaps left between the rails, when trains pass over jointed tracks they make a "clickety clack, clickety clack" noise. Unless it is very well maintained, jointed track gives a fairly bumpy and uncomfortable ride, and is unsuitable for high speed trains because it is too weak. However it is still used in many countries on lower speed lines and unimportant lines. Most railroad track in the United States is still of this type, however, and laid on timber ties; the lower speeds of American railroads make the disadvantages less apparent and the much cheaper supply of timber in the US makes its use for railroad ties much cheaper than in Europe.

Jointed track is still extensively used in poor countries, due to the cheaper construction costs and lack of modernisation of their railway systems.

There are several methods used to fasten rail to wooden sleepers / ties. In traditional British practice, cast metal chairs were bolted to the sleepers, which took a style of rail known as bullhead which was somewhat figure-8 in cross-section - wider at top and bottom and smaller in the middle. Wedges of wood or sprung steel were then driven in between chair and rail to hold it in place.

The idea behind bullhead rails, was that because both the top and bottom of the rails were the same shape, when one side of the rail became worn, the rail could be turned over to the unnused side, thus extending the rail's lifespan.

Like most of the world, Britain now uses flat bottomed rail which has become the worldwide standard type of rail, which as the name suggests, has a flat base and can stand upright without support. A flat bottomed rail has a cross-section like that of an upside-down 'T' and is held to the sleeper with a baseplate, a metal plate which is attached to the sleeper.

A variety of different types of heavy-duty clips are used to fasten the rails to the underlying baseplate, one common one being the Pandrol fastener, named after its maker, which is shaped like a sturdy, stubby paperclip.

American practice normally uses spikes, which are fundamentally very large nails with bent-over heads to clasp the flat-bottomed rail. These are cheaper and simpler to install but can loosen if the tie rots - much more easily than the British chair does. This is mitigated by using very large and solid ties and using rot-proofing preservative.

Most modern railways use continuous welded rail (CWR) in this form of track the rails are welded together for several kilometres, to form one long continuous rail. Because there are few joints, this form of track is very strong and gives a smooth ride, and also needs less maintainence.

Because of its strength, trains traveling on welded track can travel at higher speeds and with less friction. Welded rails are more expensive to lay than jointed tracks, but are significantly cheaper to maintain.

As mentioned earlier, rails expand in hot weather and shrink in cold weather. Because welded track has no expansion joints, if special measures are not taken, it could become distorted in hot weather and cause a derailment.

To avoid this happening welded rails are nearly always laid on concrete sleepers, which are so heavy they hold the rails firmly in place. Soon after the segments of rail are laid, the rails are artificially heated to normal summertime temperatures so that they expand, they are then quickly fastened tightly to the sleepers in their expanded form and then welded to the next segment of rail, this ensures that the rail will not expand any further in subsequent hot weather. And because they are firmly fastened to the sleepers, they cannot shrink in cold weather either. However if temperatures reach outside normal ranges (i.e a hotter than usual summer), it can cause problems with welded rails.

Joints are used in continuously welded rail when necessary, though; instead of a joint that passes straight across the rail, producing a loud noise and shock when the wheels pass over it, two sections of rail are cut at a steep angle and put together with a gap between them. This gives a much smoother transition yet still provides some expansion room.

Track needs frequent maintenance to remain in good order, the frequency increasing with higher-speed or heavier trains. This was formerly hard manual labor, but these days is handled by a variety of specialised machines.

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Rail transport

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


Rail tracks

A railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, both passengers and freight are transported on railways. It consists of two parallel rails, usually made of steel, and wooden or concrete sleepers or ties that hold the rails exactly at the proper distance from each other. See Rail tracks

General

Rail transport is one of the most energy efficient means of mechanised land transport known. The rails provide very smooth and hard surfaces on which the wheels of the train may roll with a minimum of friction. This is more comfortable and saves energy. Trains also have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying, which cuts down on air resistance and thus energy usage. In all, under the right circumstances, a train needs 50-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than by road. Furthermore, together with the sleepers the rails distribute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per axle/wheel than in road transport.

Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: a double tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time, than a four-laned road.

Railways can be built with different distances between the two rails, the distance between the two rails is known as the rail gauge.

Railways use signaling (usually colour lights) to prevent trains from colliding.

Railroads may or may not be electrified. If they are not, they can only be used by non-electric trains, mainly diesel trains. In many parts of the world large parts of the railroad network have been electrified. Electric trains do not have to carry their own fuel. They are cleaner and less noisy.

To be electrified, a means of supplying electricity to the train is needed, this may be done by overhead wires, or by a third rail system. The former is the most common method.

High speed rail, with speeds up to 350 kilometers per hour, are achieved by a specially built railroad and special trains.

For short, steep stretches funiculars or cable car railways and cog railways provide railway functionality.

In a broader sense, the term railroad includes monorail, rubber-tired metro and maglev, since the cars also run in a guided path.

Major cities often have metro and/or light rail/tram systems. For a tram on the road the terms streetcar track or tram track are used, rather than railroad or railway. A tram with its own right-of-way it is called a tramway.

Depending on how much traffic they carry, railways can be built with a varying number of tracks. Rail lines that carry little traffic are often built with a single track which is used by trains traveling in both directions; on rail lines like these, "passing loops" or "passing sidings", which consist of short stretches of double track, are provided at certain points along the line to allow trains to pass each other, and travel in different directions. Alternatively, there may be larger sections of the line that are double track - effective timetabling can allow train travel up and down the partially double track line equivalent to travel on fully double tracks. Conversely, double tram track is sometimes intertwined at narrow passages (see Tram). Single-track lines are cheaper to build, but can only handle a limited amount of traffic.

On busier lines, two or more tracks are provided, one or more for each direction of travel. On very busy lines as many as eight tracks (four tracks in each direction) are used to handle large amounts of traffic.

With the advent of containerized freight in the 1960s, rail and ship transportation have become an integrated network that move bulk goods very efficiently with a very low labor cost. An example is that goods from east Asia that are bound for Europe will often be shipped across the Pacific and transferred to trains to cross North America and be transferred back to a ship for the Atlantic crossing.

High altitude railways are in Peru and Tibet (under construction).

History in brief

Early horse drawn wagonways operated in Europe, from around 1550 usually operating with crude wooden tracks.

The first steam locomotive to operate on tracks, built by Richard Trevithick was operated in 1804 In Wales, although it was not fianancially successful.

The first successful steam locomotives were built by George Stephenson, culminating in his famous Rocket locomotive.

The first successful steam operated railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northern England in the 1820s, which was soon followed by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway proved the viabillity of rail transport.

Railways soon spread throughout England and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.

Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam, in many countries, in the decades after World War II.

Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways.

for more detail see History of rail transport.

Terminology

To distinguish two directions on a given line sometimes one is called the up train and the other down train, which may for example mean from and toward the center or the big city.

In Britain and other commonwealth countries the term railway is used in preference to railroad, while in the United States the reverse is true. However, railroad has been used historically in Britain and a number of American companies have railway in their names instead of railroad (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway being the most pre-eminent modern example).

American English - railroad
Commonwealth English - railway
Romanian - ''cale feratã' (iron way)
Danish - jernbane (iron way)
Dutch - spoorweg (track road)
Finnish - rautatie (iron road)
French - chemin de fer (way of iron)
German - die Eisenbahn (iron road)
Greek - Σιδηρόδρομος - Sidirodromos (iron road)
Italian - ferrovia (iron way)
Japanese - tetsudou (iron road)
Korean - cheoldo (iron road)
Portuguese - caminho de ferro (way of iron)
Spanish - ferrocarril (iron road)
Swedish - järnväg (iron way)
Russian - zheleznaya doroga (железная дорога) (iron road)
In Britain the term railway is often used to refer to the complete organisation of tracks, trains, stations, signaling, timetables and the organising companies which collectively make up a coordinated railway system, while permanent way or p/way refers to the tracks alone. See also British railway system.

Statistics

Of the 236 countries and dependencies, 143 have rail transport (including several with very little), of which ca. 90 with passenger services.

see also Rail usage statistics by country.

See also

Underground railway, Rail gauge, History of rail transport, List of railway companies, Locomotive, Public transport, Private transport, Private railroad, Railroad switch, Famous trains, Railway Mail Service, Economy of Earth (Transportation section), Driving, List of countries by rail transport network size, First Transcontinental Railroad (North America).

External links

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rail transport."

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Rallidae

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Rails and Crakes
Purple Swamphen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae

The family Rallidae is a large group of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. Nearly all members are terrestrial and most are associated with wetlands. There are exceptions, however, notably the Corncrake which breeds on farmland.

The most typical family members occupy dense vegetation in damp environments near lakes, swamps, or rivers. Reedbeds are a particularly favoured habitat. They are omnivorous, and those that migrate do so at night: most nest in dense vegetation. In general they are shy and secretive birds, difficult to observe.

Most species walk and run vigourously on strong legs, and have long toes which are well adapted to soft, uneven surfaces. They tend to have short, rounded wings and be weak fliers, although nevertheless capable of covering long distances— the Woodcock, for example, has colonised remote islands in the Pacific. Island species often become flightless, and many of them are now extinct following the introduction of terrestrial predators such as cats, rats and pigs. Particularly when the extinct species are counted,

Many reed bed species are secretive, apart from loud calls, and crepuscular, and have laterally flattened bodies. In the Old World, long billed species tend to be called “rails” and short billed species “crakes”. American species are normally called rails irrespective of bill length.

The larger species are also sometimes given other names. The black coots are more open water than their relatives, and some other large species are called gallinules.

Taxonomy

The family Rallidae has traditionally been grouped with two families of larger birds, the craness and bustards to make up the order Gruiformes. The alternative Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, which has been widely accepted in America, raises the family to ordinal level as the Ralliformes.

The relationships with similar groups are shown below:


Eurasian Coot

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Rail

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
NZ railEnglishNew Zealand RailTransportation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Rail

Synonyms: railing (n), rails (n), track (n), fulminate (v), inveigh (v), rail in (v), rail off (v), revile (v), train (v), vilify (v), vituperate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rail

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Animal

Flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse;flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.

Circumscription

Verb: circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround; compass about; imprison; (restrain); hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.

Disapprobation

Execrate; exprobate, speak daggers, vituperate; abuse, abuse like a pickpocket; scold, rate, objurgate, upbraid, fall foul of; jaw; rail, rail at, rail in good set terms; bark at; anathematize, call names; call by hard names, call by ugly names; avile, revile; vilify, vilipend; bespatter; backbite; clapperclaw; rave against, thunder against, fulminate against; load with reproaches.

Inclosure

Wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence; (defense); pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence.

Power

Pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism, galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power, nuclear power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae, vis mortua, vis viva; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire.

Prison

Bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall; paling, palisade; fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence; barrier, barricade.

Restraint

Confine; shut up, shut in; clap up, lock up, box up, mew up, bottle up, cork up, seal up, button up; hem in, bolt in, wall in, rail in; impound, pen, coop; inclose; (circumscribe); cage; incage, encage; close the door upon, cloister; imprison, immure; incarcerate, entomb; clap under hatches, lay under hatches; put in irons, put in a strait-waistcoat; throw into prison, cast into prison; put into bilboes.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Rail

English words defined with "rail": Bilcock, Blatter, Breastrail, Bridge of a steamer ♦ Callet, Clapper rail, cog railway, Conviciate, corncrake, Crex crex ♦ Daker hen, Delitigate, Double-headed rail, Driftpiece ♦ Edge rail ♦ False rail, fence rail, Fish-bellied, Flange rail, Flat rail, Foot rail ♦ Gauge concussion, Guard rail, Guide rail ♦ Hammock nettings, Hanch, Hand plant, Hanging rail, hitching bar, hitchrack, Hollow newel ♦ Inrail ♦ Jackstay ♦ King rail ♦ Ladder handle, land rail, ledger board, Lock rail ♦ magnetic levitation, maori hen, marsh hen, Monkey rail, moor hen, Mud hen ♦ Native hen ♦ Oar cock ♦ Pectorial rail, picture rail, Pin rail, plate rail, pole horse, Porzana porzana ♦ Rack rail, rack railway, Rail guard, railbird, Railed ♦ Salt-marsh hen, Sedge ken, Sheave hole, Skilty, Skitty, snake fence, snake-rail fence, Sora, split rail, spotted crake, Strap rail, supported, Swamp hen ♦ T rail, third rail, To rattle off, train, Tram plate ♦ Velvet runner, Virginia fence ♦ Water rail, weka, wood hen, worm fence ♦ Yellow rail. (references)
Specialty definitions using "rail": channel slide rail, conductor rail, contact rail ♦ follower rail, fourth rail ♦ goods loaded on a rail vehicle ♦ launching rail, lead rail, live rail ♦ Midwest Regional Rail Initiative ♦ place of loading on a rail vehicle ♦ rail chair, rail spike, rail transit, Rail Waybill ♦ Sit on the Rail. (references)
Etymologies containing "rail": Pedrail. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Rail" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (rail), French (rail, track), Spanish (rail).

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Modern Usage: Rail

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Fact is, mister, you screw up this team, and I'll personally hide-strap you to a pine rail and ship you down the Monon Line (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo)

Movie/TV Titles

La Princesse du rail (1967)

Rail Rodents (1954)

La Bataille du rail (1946)

Ceux du rail (1942)

Les Pirates du rail (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Rail

DomainTitle

References

  • New York Regional Rail Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Prism Rail Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Rail - Sul S/A: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Tranz Rail Holdings Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Ticketing Equipment for Subways and Light Rail in China: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference)

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Books

  • Daytrips London: 50 One Day Adventures by Rail or Car, in and Around London and Southern England (reference)

  • Eight Great American Rail Journeys: A Travel Guide (reference)

  • Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century (reference)

  • Great American Rail Journeys (reference)

  • The Rail Lines of Northern New England : A Handbook of Railroad History (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Rail

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Photo Album: Rail

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Survey crew going to Station Rail Off of WESTDAHL. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Hoisting deepsea current meter assemblage over starboard rail Gulf Stream studies off the EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Current meter buoy being lowered to the rail Off of PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Boston as seen from the southwest near the intersection of the Providence and Worcester rail lines. The State House towering over all and Boston Common are in the center, while the Bunker Hill Monument is seen on the extreme left. In: Historical Collections ... of Every Town in Massachusetts. 1841. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Clapper Rail, or salt-water marsh hen, spends most of its time between mangrove roots feeding on little creatures that live in estuarine waters. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Copra drying sheds. Copra on rail cars would be rolled out when sunny, rolled into sheds when raining. Credit: Small World.

Transfer of HAZMAT to rail car in Maine. Credit: USDA.

Off highway vehicle rail racing in the desert. Credit: Diane Drobka.

June 1999 "before" photo of Yuma Clapper Rail habitat on the Big Sandy River, prior to grazing management change. Compare to "after" photo KFO5. Credit: David R. Smith.

Panorama with the Ob' River; in foreground, main rail line on right (east) bank of the Ob', Novosibirsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Rail
 

"Rail wheel" by Peter Rödström
Commentary: "A wheel on a rail raod carriage, taken in the Port of Göteborg, september 2003. If you use it in print please let me know how and where!!."		"Rail" by Janza@bluewin.ch
Commentary: "Rail."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Rail

AuthorQuotation

Henry Fielding

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

William Congreve

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Rail

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

In case of transport partly by rail and partly by internal navigation, with or without through way-bill, the preceding Articles shall apply to the part of the journey performed by rail. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Rail

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He knelt before the altar with his classmates, holding the altar cloth with them over a living rail of hands

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Two gasoline pumps in front, a screen door, a long bar, stools, and a foot rail.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rail

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Domestic deliveries are normally undertaken by road or rail from Auckland. (references)

Sea transport and transport on roads increased, but freight transport by rail declined. (references)

From Auckland, domestic deliveries are normally undertaken by road or rail from Auckland. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

According to Memorial, by year's end, local authorities in Chechnya and Ingushetiya had found housing for IDP's formerly living in rail wagons. (references)

Economic History

Italy

More than half of the rail system is electrified. (references)

Syria

Recently, Syria and Iraq also resumed rail service. (references)

Political Economy

GREECE

The moderate level of development of Greece's basic infrastructure, such as roads, rail, and telecommunications, reflects its middle-income status. (references)

PORTUGAL

These projects have included new highways, urban renewal for the site of Lisbon-based EXPO 98, rail modernization, subways, dams, and water treatment facilities. (references)

NETHERLANDS

It is noted for stable industrial relations; a large current account surplus from trade and overseas investments; net exports of natural gas; and a unique position as a European transportation hub with excellent ports, and air, road, rail, and inland waterway transport. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

New investments will finance the modernization of Kazakhstan's rail and road systems. (references)

Switzerland

In the case of direct transit by rail, duties and taxes are guaranteed by the railway authorities. (references)

Switzerland

Goods imported into Switzerland must be declared to customs within the following time limits from arrival in the country: by road, 24 hours; river, 48 hours; rail, 7 days; and by air, 7 days. (references)

Travel

Ireland

The balance is carried by rail. (references)

Austria

Rail travel is pleasant and convenient. (references)

Bolivia

Much of the rail system is in disrepair. (references)

Women

Japan

Local governments and private rail operators continued to implement measures designed to address the widespread problem of groping and molestation of female commuters. (references)

Japan

In March Keio Electric Railway Company decided to make a trial women-only rail car program permanent, reserving one car only for women on all express and limited express trains running after 11 p.m. Monday to Friday. (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

The container was loaded in Italy, shipped by rail to Germany, trucked through Belgium, and loaded onto a ferry at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge bound for Waterford, Ireland. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Rail

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969I will ask for funds to study high-speed rail transportation between urban centers.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Rail freight service to many communities has declined as railroads abandon unproductive branch lines.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Rail

"Rail" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.11% of the time. "Rail" is used about 3,830 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.11%3,7962,568
Noun (proper)0.57%2274,468
Lexical Verb (base form)0.16%6143,867
Lexical Verb (infinitive)0.08%3202,518
Unclassified Items0.05%2245,945
Noun (common)0.03%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3,830N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Rail

The following table summarizes the usage of "rail" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
RailLast name20034,929
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Rail

CountryNameCountryName
Brazil

Rail - Sul S/A

Canada

Via Rail Canada Inc.

New Zealand

Tranz Rail Holdings Limited

United Kingdom

Prism Rail Plc

USA

GATX Rail Corp.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Rail

Expressions using "rail": Altar rail ♦ American rail ♦ battery operated rail car ♦ by rail ♦ Carolina rail ♦ Clapper rail ♦ common rail ♦ conductor rail ♦ contact rail ♦ cross rail ♦ Edge rail ♦ False rail ♦ fence rail ♦ fife rail ♦ Flange rail ♦ Flat rail ♦ Fly rail ♦ Foot rail ♦ fourth rail ♦ girth rail ♦ go by rail ♦ goods loaded on a rail vehicle ♦ goods transported by rail ♦ Guard rail ♦ guide rail ♦ Hanging rail ♦ heavy rail ♦ heavy rail transit ♦ King rail ♦ land rail ♦ live rail ♦ Lock rail ♦ Midwest Regional Rail Initiative ♦ monkey rail ♦ night rail ♦ pectoral rail ♦ Pectorial rail ♦ per rail ♦ picture rail ♦ pin rail ♦ place of loading on a rail vehicle ♦ plate rail ♦ rack rail ♦ rail against ♦ rail at ♦ rail bus ♦ rail center ♦ rail chair ♦ rail fence ♦ rail guard ♦ rail in ♦ rail joint ♦ rail line ♦ rail off ♦ rail passenger disembarked ♦ rail passenger embarked ♦ rail rapid transit ♦ rail services ♦ rail spike ♦ rail stanchion ♦ rail strike ♦ rail technology ♦ rail traffic ♦ rail train ♦ rail transit ♦ rail transport ♦ rail workers ♦ robotprogrammeringssprog RAIL ♦ safety rail ♦ slide rail ♦ sliding rail ♦ sora rail ♦ split rail ♦ stock rail ♦ strap rail ♦ T rail ♦ third rail ♦ towel rail ♦ tram rail ♦ transalpine rail transport ♦ Virginia rail fence ♦ water rail ♦ yellow rail. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "rail": rail-and-road, rail-based, rail-borne, rail-bridge, rail-buffs, rail-building, rail-bus-underground, rail-car, rail-car, rail-centres, rail-coach, rail-cycle, rail-eagerly, rail-fall, rail-head, rail-inclusive, rail-joint, rail-lines, rail-link, rail-mobile, rail-mounted, Rail-mx, rail-over, rail-related, rail-roads, rail-rolling-mill, rail-sided, rail-spike, rail-splitter, rail-trucked, rail-users, rail-way.

Ending with "rail": guard-rail, line-of-rail, road-rail, stair-rail.

Containing "rail": snake-rail fence, Third-rail system.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rail

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

via rail

2,868

irish rail

113

british rail

990

british rail timetable

110

rail europe

776

light rail

108

rail

485

rail timetable

107

via rail canada

333

inter rail

106

euro rail

324

rail buggy

97

long island rail road

251

euro rail pass

95

tri rail

225

chair rail

94

split rail fence

223

japan pass rail

93

european rail travel

220

canada rail

92

cp rail

218

queensland rail

88

sand rail

209

rail pass

85

national rail

200

metro north rail

82

rail gun

197

bed rail

75

rail travel

188

bc rail

72

picture rail

178

long island rail road schedule

67

enquiries national rail

178

baltimore light rail

66

cn rail

163

swiss rail

66

metro rail

159

japan rail

66

metra rail

128

german rail

65
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Rail

Language Translations for "rail"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

rrethoj (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, border on, circle, circumscribe, circumvent, close in, close on, compass, embosom, embower, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, entwine, envelop, environ, fence in, flank, fold, gird, girdle, hedge in, hem, inclose, invest, lap, leaguer, pocket, rim, ring, round up, span, surround, wreathe), vendos binarë, vazhdë (furrow, rut, signs, trace, track, trail, trench), transportoj me tren, parmak (balustrade, bar, guardrail, handrail, hurdle, railing), kremastar (rack), hekur (iron, pressing, stile), gardhoj (block, encompass, fence, fence in, hedge, hinder, pale, picket, piquet), gardh (barrier, fence, hedge, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, obstacle, pale, rails, ring fence, stockade), binarë (metals, track, tracking). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rod, shaft, staff, stem, stick, switch, wand), ‏وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, show up, slag, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), ‏حاجز (arresting, bail, bar, barricade, barrier, block, dike, divider, division, dyke, fence, jamming, levee, obstacle, parapet, partition, screen, stem, traverse), ‏سيج (enclose, fence, hedge, inclose), ‏سياج (corral, dike, enclosure, fence, fencing, hedgerow, paling, weir), ‏سكة حديدية (railroad, railway), ‏التفلق طائر, ‏أدان (condemn, convict, damn, debit, doom, find), ‏شجب (condemn, condemnation, decry, denounce, denouncement, denunciation, excoriation, execrate, fulminate, reprehend, stigmatize), ‏درابزين في السفينة, ‏درابزين الدرج. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

заграждам (contain, edge, encircle, enclose, encompass, environ, fence, fence in, flank, inclose, lock in, shut in, stem, stop, throw around, throw round), парапет (guardrail, handrail, parapet, railing), перило (gunwale, handrail), превозвам с влак (railroad), преграждам (bar, beset, fence off, hedge off, intercept, interdict, interrupt, obstruct, occlude, partition off, screen, stem), пътувам с влак, бордова ограда (railing), дърдавец (corncrake), железница (railroad, railway), слагам релси, надсмивам се (fleer, flout, jape, jeer), напречна греда (arm, binder, bolster, crossbar, crossbeam, jig, joist, sill, stretcher, summer-tree, tie beam, transom), ограда (fence, fencing, timber), ограждам (circumscribe, enclose, fence, fence in, fringe, hedge, hem, roll up), релса, ругая (abuse, be down on, call names, curse, cuss, damn, drub, get on to smb., inveigh, keelhaul, land on, rate, revile, row, slang, slate, storm at, swear, swear at, vituperate, walk into, whip), слагам ограда на, жп линия (railway, road). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

路轨 (rails), 軌 (course, inner reins of a 4-horse team, path, track). (various references)

   

Czech

  

závora (bar, barrier, bolt, crossbar, Pike, push-bolt, Toll bar, toll gate), zábradlí (banisters, guard rail, handrail, railing), tyèka (lath, picket, stake), tyè (bar, pole, post, rod, scape, shank, staff, stick, upright), spílat (berate, call names, revile), položit kolejnice, příèel (rung, spoke), ohradit zábradlím, mříž (bar, bars, grate, grating, grid, grille), konzola (bracket, cantilever, console), kolej (college, line, Mark, track), hubovat (berate, natter, rate, upbraid), držák (holder), cestovat dráhou. (various references)

   

Danish

  

rundstyr (shifter rail), robotprogrammeringssprog RAIL, ræling (railing), rækværk (balustrade, bridge-rail, farrowing crate, farrowing pen, farrowing rail, guard rail, maternity pen, pig guard rail, railing), skinne (shine), overkarm (head), jernbaner, horisontal forbindelsesled mellem palletklodserne, gelænder (balustrade, bridge-rail, hand railing, handrail, railing), føring (attitude control, feed, guidance, guide, steering). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spoorstaaf, rail (bus, busbar, conductor, track). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

relo. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

breyt (street). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نرده کشیدن (Fence, Picket), نرده (Balustrade, List, Pale, Parapet), توبیخ کردن (Rebuke, Reprehend, Telloff), توبیخ (Reproach, Snuff, Vituperation), سرکوفت , سرزنش (Blame, Censure, Demerit, Obloquy, Remonstrance, Reproach, Reproof, Sarcasm, Snub, Twit, Vituperation), طعنه (Irony, Jape, Jeer, Jest, Quip, Sarcasm, Satire, Scoff, Sikt, Taunt), خطاهن (Railway, Track), ریل خطاهن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

robotin ohjelmointikieli RAIL, reelinki (railing), rautatieliikenne (railway traffic), rautatiekisko, ratakisko, pylväskaide, poikkipuu (cross-bar, cross-piece), parraskaide (railing), parras (brim, brink, edge, verge), kisko (bar), karmin yläkappale (head, I)door frame head), kaide (balustrade, banisters, parapet, railing, reed), aidake (bar). (various references)

   

French

  

rail (overhead system of rails), rambarde (guard rail). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôffreedzje (fence in, fence off, rail in, rail off). (various references)

   

German

  

Schiene (blade, edge, guide, splint), Geländer (balustrade, balustrades, banister, banisters, handrail, hand-rail, parapet, railing, rails), Reling (railing). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γλώσσα RAIL, οριζόντιο μεσόζευγμα, τραβέρσα πλαισίου πόρτας (head, I)door frame head), τραβέρσα πόρτας (head, I)door frame head), είδοσ αμφιβίου πτηνού, φουρκέτα (bobby pin, hairpin), χλευάζω (deride, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, mock, pish, scoff, sneer, taunt), υβρίζω (abuse, insult, inveigle, revise, taunt, vilify, vituperate), οδηγός (driver, guide, guide book, guidebook, guideline, handbook), βέργα (ferule, pointer, rod, switch, twig, wattle, with), κιγκλιδώ (lattice), σιδεροδρομικός, σιδηροτροχιά, σιδηρά ράβδοσ, ράγα, ράγια (Atlantic prickly skate, blond ray, blue skate, bordered skate, bottlenose skate, brown ray, common European skate, flapper skate, Fuller's ray, homelyn ray, long-nose skate, long-nosed skate, marbled ray, painted ray, roker, rough ray, shagreen ray, skate, small-eyed ray, spotted ray, tarry skate, thornback ray, thorny skate, undulate ray, white skate, white-bellied skate), κάγκελο (baluster, banister, bar), κιγκλίδωμα (balustrade, grate, grating, grid, lattice, lattice work, railing, trelliswork), κιγκλίσ, ξύλινη ράβδοσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעקה (balustrade, banister, guard rail, handrail, ledge, parapet, railing), מסלת ברזל (railroad, railway), לפרוץ בזעם. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sín (guide, rails, splint, track, tracks), korlát (balustrade, banister, banisters, bar, barrier, confine, delimination, fence, handrail, parapet, railing, shackle, stint). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

rimill, teinn, járnbrautarteinn. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

rel (tract). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rotaia (rut, track), traversa (arbor, beam, crossbar, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, side street, traverse), parapetto (balustrade, banisters, bulwark, curb, guard, parapet, railing), binario (binary, line, rails, track), battagliola (railing). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

レーニン主義 (beggar, homeless, label, labor union, lane, layer, layered cut, layered look, layman, layoff, layout, layout-system, lecture, leg guards, leggings, Leghorn, lei, Leninism, leopon, leotard, lexicon, philosophy of life, racialism, racism, rain, rainbow fish, raincoat, rainy, raise, range, ranger, rape, rapier, rare, rare metal, ray, Ray-Ban, rayonne, ray-tracing, record, recorder, recording, recreation, regatta, reggae, regular, regular chain store, regular member, regulation, Regulus, requiem), 横木 (bar, crosspiece). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

レール , よこぎ (bar, crosspiece), よこき (bar, crosspiece). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

가로장 (rails). (various references)

   

Manx

  

skelf, railley (rail track, railway, rave), drean ushtey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

trilho (path, tread), balaustrada (baluster). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

rosti invective împotriva (revile), ramã (case, casement, casing, chase, frame, framework, oar, paddle, rim), ocãrî (abuse, blame, call down, censure, curse, insult, reproach, revile, upbraid, vituperate), şinã (metal, runner, tire, tyre), balustradã (balustrade, handrail, parapet, railing, stave), cale feratã (permanent way, railroad, railway, road, trackway), cristei, cuier (hal peg, hallstand, hanger, hanging, hat stand, peg, rack, stand), drum de fier, înjura (abuse, blaspheme, curse, cuss, damn, revile, swear), grilaj (grate, grid, gridiron, grill, grille, rack, railing), zeflemisi (banter, chaff, deride, ridicule, score, scorn, slight, taunt), transport feroviar, transporta cu trenul (railroad), traversã (beam, cross-beam, crosspiece, cross-tie, girder, sleeper, tie piece, traverse), zãbrea (fence, guard, railing), zãbrele (grate, grating, lattice, trellis-work), gard (fence, fencing, hedge, hurdle, palisade, railing, wall). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ругать (abuse, berate, drub, scold, swear, whip), рельсовый, рельс, вешалка (hanger, hatrack, peg, rack, tab), огораживать (fence, pale), железнодорожный путь (railroad track), бранить шина, прокладывать рельсы, придираться (carp, cavil, find fault, nag, upbraid), перекладина (epistyle, horizontal bar, slat, spar, spoke, stave, traverse), перила (balustrade, banister, banisters, banistor, banistors, bannister, guardrail, guard-rail, handrail, parapet, railing). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

ganail. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

trkavac, spojnica (clip, tie), psovati (darn, revile, swear, swear at), prečaga (midriff, round, rung, stave), grditi (abuse, revile, scold), balustradni, balustrada (balustrade), železnički (railroad, railway), šina (brace, metal, track). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

carril (Lane, rut, track), baranda (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, railing, rand, rim). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skena (bar, bolt, run away, runner, splint), reling (gunnel, gunwale). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ใส่ราว, นกกวัก, รางรถไฟ (railway), ราว, รั้ว (fence), ด่าว่า (rap, tick off). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ray (runner, track), ray döşemek (track), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), demiryolu (railroad, railway, road), dil uzatmak (assail, attack, defame, go for, malign, sail into), küfretmek (abuse, blackguard, blaspheme, blaspheme against, blow, call names, curse, revile, revile against smth., revile at smth., slang, swear, vituperate), korkuluk (balustrade, banister, barrier, guardrail, guy, parapet, railing, scarecrow), ağzına geleni söylemek (call names, give a piece of one's mind, let fly, let fly at smb., swear like a trooper, swear unreservedly, talk without thinking, tell smb. one's mind), parmaklıkla çevirmek (bar, rail in), yakınmak (beef, belly, bemoan, complain, gripe, grizzle, grouch, grumble, kick, repine), sövmek (call names, curse, revile, slam, swear, vituperate), sutavuğu (coot, marsh hen, moorhen, mud hen), tırabzan (banister, handrail, railing), tırabzan koymak (rail in), trabzan (banister, handrail, railing), parmaklık (balustrade, banisters, bar, boarding, fence, fencing, grating, grid, grill, grille, guardrail, hurdle, paling, palisade, rack, railing, trellis). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рейка (batten, cleat, lath, spline), відгороджувати (ward off), огорожа (balconet, barrier, enclosure, fence, fencing, haw, inclosure, pale, railing), залізниця (railroad, railway), прокладати рейки, поруччя (banister, handrail), поперечка (cross-arm, jib, joist, traverse, yoke), перевозити залізницею. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lan can, bao lơn. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cledren (pale, pole), cledr (palm, pole). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Rail

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

regula. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

ragere. (various references)

Old Provenal900-1500

ralher. (various references)

Middle French1400-1600

railler. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Rail

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 13, Verse 4
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEgeiretai ek tou deipnou kai tiqhsin ta imatia kai labwn lention diezwsen eauton
Latin405VulgateSurgit a cena et ponit vestimenta sua et cum accepisset linteum praecinxit se
Old English990West SaxonHe aras fram hys þegnunge. & legdehys reaf. & nam linen rail & be-gerte hine.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd goith to God, he risith fro the souper, and doith of hise clothis; and whanne he hadde takun a lynun cloth, he girde hym.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleHe rose from supper and layde a syde his vpper garmentes and toke a towell and gyrd him selfe.
Jacobean English1611King JamesHe riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
Victorian English1833WebsterHe riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.
Basic English1964OgdenGot up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Rail

LanguageJohn Chapter 13, Verse 4
Cebuanomitindog siya gikan sa kan-anan, mihukas sa iyang mga sapot ug gibaksan niyag tualya ang iyang kaugalingon.
Chinese就 離 席 站 起 來 脫 了 衣 服 、 拿 一 條 手 巾 束 腰 。
Croatianusta od veèere, odloži haljine, uze ubrus i opasa se.
Danishså rejser han sig fra Måltidet og lægger sine Klæder fra sig, og han tog et Linklæde og bandt det om sig.
DutchStond op van het avondmaal, en legde Zijn klederen af, en nemende een linnen doek, omgordde Zichzelven.
Finnishnousi ehtoolliselta ja riisui vaippansa, otti liinavaatteen ja vyötti sillä itsensä.
Frenchse leva de table, ôta ses vêtements, et prit un linge, dont il se ceignit.
Germanstand er von Abendmahl auf, legte seine Kleider ab und nahm einen Schurz und umgürtete sich.
Haitian CreoleLi leve sot devan tab la, li wete gwo rad li a, li pran yon sèvyèt, li mare l' nan ren li.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSebab itu Ia berdiri, membuka jubah-Nya, dan mengikat anduk pada pinggang-Nya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamamaka bangunlah Ia daripada makan, serta menanggalkan jubah-Nya, lalu mengambil sehelai kain, dan mengikat pinggang-Nya.
MaoriKa whakatika ia i te hapa, ka whakarere i ona kakahu; ka mau ki te tauera, ka whitiki i a ia.
Norwegianså står han op fra måltidet og legger sine klær av sig og tar et linklæde og binder om sig.
Portugueselevantou-se da ceia, tirou o manto e, tomando uma toalha, cingiu-se.   
RumanianS -a sculat dela masq, S`a desbrqcat de hainele Lui, a luat un wtergar, wi S`a kncins cu el.
ShuarChíkich yurumuk pujuiniai wajakmiayi. Tura pushirin aimiak awankéman emenmamamiayi.
SwahiliBasi, Yesu aliondoka mezani, akaweka kando vazi lake, akachukua kitambaa na kujifunga kiunoni.
SwedishMen han stod upp från måltiden och lade av sig överklädnaden och tog en linneduk och band den om sig.
UmaToe pai' pokore-nami, naroncu baju-na, pai' na'ala' abe' napehoo' hi hope' -na.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Rail

Derivations

Words beginning with "rail": railbird, railbirds, railbus, railbuses, railbusses, railcar, railcars, railed, railer, railers, railhead, railheads, railing, railings, railleries, raillery, railroad, railroaded, railroader, railroaders, railroading, railroadings, railroads, rails, railway, railways. (additional references)

Words ending with "rail": bedrail, brail, contrail, derail, drail, engrail, frail, grail, guardrail, handrail, monorail, serail, taffrail, trail. (additional references)

Words containing "rail": bedrails, brailed, brailing, braille, brailled, brailles, braillewriter, braillewriters, brailling, braillist, braillists, brails, contrails, derailed, derailing, derailleur, derailleurs, derailment, derailments, derails, drails, engrailed, engrailing, engrails, entrails, frailer, frailest, frailly, frailness, frailnesses, frails, frailties, frailty, grails, guardrails, handrailing, handrailings, handrails, monorails, nonrailroad, semitrailer, semitrailers, serails, taffrails, trailblazer, trailblazers, trailblazing, trailbreaker, trailbreakers, trailed, trailer. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Rail" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arild, crial, Eraill, erial, krail, prail, qrail, raal, rabik, rabile, rael, rafi, Rafik, Rahi, Rahila, rai, raic, raif, raik, Raila, railbuf, raile, raili, raille, railn, railw, raily, raiq, Rair, raiz, Rajim, ral, rali, Ralik, rall, Ramli, raol, raoul, rapilt, rauk, raul, Ravik, Ravil, ravl, Rawl, raxil, Rayle, rdai, Reavill, reil, reiz, reli, relia, reliq, Reuil, reul, rhil, riaf, rialt, rialy, riav, Riehl, ril, Rila, rilb, rilg, ruil, wrail. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Rail"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "rail" (pronounced rā"l)
3r ā" lbraille, Carrell, derail, frail, grail, trail.
2-ā" lail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, curtail, dale, detail, entail, exhale, fail, flail, gale, hail, Hale, impale, stale, surveil, tail, tale, inhale, jail, kail, kale, mail, maile, male, nail, pail, pale, prevail, quail, quale, sail, sale, scale, shale, snail, tramell, travail, unveil, Vail, Vale, veil, wail, Wale, whale.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Rail

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aril, lair, lari, liar, lira, rial.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-r"

-1 letter: ail, air, lar, ria.

-2 letters: ai, al, ar, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-r"
 

+1 letter: argil, ariel, arils, brail, drail, filar, flair, frail, glair, grail, hilar, laari, laird, lairs, laris, liard, liars, libra, lidar, liras, pilar, rails, rials, rival, riyal, trail, trial, urial, viral.

 

+2 letters: aerial, aerily, airily, aldrin, aliner, archil, argali, argils, aridly, ariels, ariled, artily, aswirl, atrial, awhirl, bailer, bailor, brails, brasil, brazil, bridal, burial, carlin, caroli, chiral, citral, curial, derail, dialer, drails, eclair, fairly, ferial, flairs, foliar, frails, frazil, garlic, glaire, glairs, glairy, gloria, grails, hailer, irreal, jailer, jailor, lacier, lairds, laired, lakier, lariat, larine, latria, lazier, liards, librae, libras, lidars, linear, lizard, lorica, mailer, marlin, mitral, nailer, narial, oorali, palier, pillar, primal, racial, racily, radial, railed, railer, ramtil, ratlin, realia, redial, relaid, remail, renail, resail, retail, retial, rhinal, rialto, ribald, rictal, ritual, rivals, riyals, sailer, sailor, serail, serial, spiral, tailer, tailor, trails, trials, tribal, trinal, uracil, urials, urinal, wailer, warily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art 		9. Quotations: Familiar
10. Quotations: Historic
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 		13. Quotations: Speeches
14. Usage Frequency
15. Names: Frequency
16. Names: Company Usage 		17. Expressions
18. Expressions: Internet
19. Translations: Modern
20. Translations: Ancient 		21. Bible Trace
22. Abbreviations
23. Acronyms
24. Derivations 		25. Rhymes
26. Anagrams
27. Bibliography


  

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