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rail   (TTS Sound)

The noun rail has 5 senses

• railing, rail -- (a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports)


• rail -- (short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety")


• track, rail, rails, runway -- (a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll)


• rail -- (a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal))


• rail -- (any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud)

The verb rail has 10 senses

• rail, inveigh -- (complain bitterly)


• rail, rail in -- (enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves")


• rail -- (provide with rails; "The yard was railed")


• rail, rail off -- (separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace")


• rail -- (convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium")


• train, rail -- (travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg")


• rail -- (lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here")


• rail -- (fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish")


• vilify, revile, vituperate, rail -- (spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews")


• fulminate, rail -- (criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies")