Meaning of rail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
   obsolete
2. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
3. Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
4. Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
   obsolete
5. The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
6. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
7. A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
8. A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
9. One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
10. A vertical section on one side of a web page.
    Internet
11. A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
12. Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
13. The raised edge of the game board.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“We travelled to the seaside by rail.”

“a small Scottish village not accessible by rail”

“rail transport”

“ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.”

“There has been another, fairly gradual change in the ATX specification: Initially a lot of power was supplied on the 5V and 3.3V rails, but over time more and more power shifted to 12V because it's more efficient. Modern (ATX12V 2.x) PSUs supply most of their power on the 12V rail and not a lot on the 5V rail, which means a modern PSU may not be able to supply an old board, unless it's a really beefy PSU—because providing 500W on the 12V rail is of very little use to an AT or early ATX system.”

“Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.”

“We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.”

“Do a couple rails and chase your own tail”

“A course hempen raile about her shoulders.”

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