rails
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Canada/ɹeɪlz/
rails is the plural of rail.
rails is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rail.
Meaning of rail
Noun
rail (plural rails)
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- A "moving platform" scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly)
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- We travelled to the seaside by rail.
- 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.
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.c. 2000, Nick Carroll, surfline.com http://www.surfline.com/community/whoknows/10_21_rails.cfm
Phrases with rails
- on rails
- bow rails
- fly rails
- hot rails
- rails out
- red rails
- bull rails
- cant rails
- dado rails
- edge rails
- flat rails
- grab rails
74 more phrasesFewer phrases
- king rails
- land rails
- live rails
- sand rails
- seat rails
- side rails
- slip rails
- tilt rails
- tram rails
- wing rails
- wood rails
- Aztec rails
- chair rails
- check rails
- false rails
- frame rails
- guard rails
- guide rails
- light rails
- split rails
- strap rails
- third rails
- towel rails
- water rails
- banded rails
- forest rails
- fourth rails
- hollow rails
- Laysan rails
- monkey rails
- on the rails
- shower rails
- Zapata rails
- Aldabra rails
- Borwick Rails
- Calayan rails
- Chatham rails
- clapper rails
- hanging rails
- Mexican rails
- off the rails
- Okinawa rails
- picture rails
- running rails
- snoring rails
- bullhead rails
- chestnut rails
- hitching rails
- mangrove rails
- Nkulengu rails
- ride the rails
- rode the rails
- Rouget's rails
- Vignoles rails
- Virginia rails
- conductor rails
- flanged T rails
- invisible rails
- Picatinny rails
- rides the rails
- Ridgway's rails
- bar-winged rails
- giant wood rails
- ridden the rails
- riding the rails
- skateboard rails
- Woodford's rails
- Dieffenbach's rails
- grey-throated rails
- white-throated rails
- Madagascar wood rails
- grey-necked wood rails
- Inaccessible Island rails
- New Guinea flightless rails
Words that rhyme with rails
Questions about rails
- What is rails the plural of?
- Rails is the plural of rail.
- How do you pronounce rails?
- Rails is pronounced /ɹeɪlz/ (Canada).
Words near rails in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rails (page history and authors); 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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