Meaning of trailer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.
2. Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
3. An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
4. A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary.
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5. A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
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6. A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
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7. A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
8. The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
9. The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

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Examples

“There were vehicles following me, of course, but was any of them trailing me? […] Without any warning, and without signalling with the trafficator, I took a sudden right turn⟳, hoping to shake⟳ off my trailer.”

“the trailer of a plant⟳”

“At the end⟳ of the day, we put⟳ the snowmobiles back on the trailer.”

“My trailer is a Highlander T-14 8G, one of the smallest trailers. I normally use⟳ it for carrying a pair of Sunfish sailboats that are much lighter than its 800-pound weight limit⟳.”

“Or you can slide⟳ the trailer′s tandem forward⟳ toward the tractor. This changes the kingpin weight because you changed the “A” dimension of the trailer along with its wheel-base.”

“There is also a strong preference to avoid⟳ the cave effect associated with the front of most horse trailers and a strong desire to face⟳ the large opening between the top of the rear doors and the roof of the trailer.”

“We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park⟳.”

“The young couple′s first home was in a trailer.”

“The trailer for that movie makes it seem like⟳ it would be fun.”

“The linked list terminates with a trailer record⟳.”

“The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.”

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