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live rails

live rails is the plural of live rail.

Meaning of live rail

Noun

live rail (plural live rails)

  1. A rail which provides current (usually direct current (DC)) for electric trains running on third- and fourth-rail electrified systems.

Questions about live rails

What is live rails the plural of?
Live rails is the plural of live rail.

Words near live rails in the dictionary

  1. live pair
  2. live pairs
  3. live paycheck to paycheck
  4. live paycheque to paycheque
  5. live rail
  6. live rails
  7. live rent free in someone's head
  8. live rent free in someone's mind
  9. live rent-free in someone's head
  10. live rent-free in someone's mind
  11. live rock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: live rails (page history and authors); live rail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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