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All 4 letters words made out of rail

rail aril rial iral airl iarl rali arli rlai lrai alri lari rila irla rlia lria ilra lira ailr ialr alir lair ilar liar

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Definitions and meaning of rail

rail

Pronunciation

• enPR: rāl, IPA^(key): /ɹeɪl/, [ɹeɪɫ]
• Rhymes: -eɪl

Etymology 1

From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular.

Noun

rail (plural rails)

1. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
2. The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
3. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.

4. (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
5. A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
6. (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
   • c. 2000, Nick Carroll, surfline.com [2]:

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

7. (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.

8. (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
9. Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.

   Synonyms: stile, stringer

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)

1. (intransitive) To travel by railway.
2. (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
3. (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
4. (transitive) To range in a line.
5. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.

Derived terms

• derail
• rerail
• unrail

Translations

Etymology 2

From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle. Compare Medieval Latin rallus. Named from its harsh cry, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere (“to scrape”).

Noun

rail (plural rails)

Wikispecies

1. Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.

Usage notes

• Not all birds in the family Rallidae are rails by their common name. The family also includes coots, moorhens, crakes, flufftails, waterhens and others.

Derived terms

• Aldabra rail
• Aztec rail (Rallus tenuirostris)
• banded rail
• barred rail (Hypotaenidia okinawae)
• bar-winged rail
• buff-banded rail (Hypotaenidia philippensis)
• Calayan rail (Gallirallus calayanensis)
• Chatham rail
• chestnut rail (Eulabeornis castaneoventris)
• clapper rail (Rallus crepitans)
• Dieffenbach's rail
• forest rail (Rallicula spp.)
• grey-throated rail (Canirallus oculeus)
• Guam rail (Hypotaenidia owstoni)
• Inaccessible Island rail
• invisible rail
• king rail (Rallus elegans)
• Laysan rail
• mangrove rail (Rallus longirostris)
• Mexican rail
• New Guinea flightless rail
• Nkulengu rail
• Okinawa rail (Hypotaenidia okinawae)
• pink-legged rail (Hypotaenidia insignis)
• red rail
• Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus)
• Rouget's rail
• Roviana rail (Hypotaeinidia rovianae)
• snoring rail (Aramidopsis plateri)
• Virginia rail
• water rail (Rallus aquaticus)
• white-throated rail
• Woodford's rail (Hypotaenidia woodfordi)
• wood rail (Aramides spp.)
• Zapata rail

Related terms

• ralline

Translations

See also

• corncrake

Etymology 3

From Middle French railler.

Verb

rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)

2. To complain violently (against, about).

   Synonyms: fulminate, inveigh

   • 1910, "Saki", H. H. Munro, The Bag,[4]

     The Major’s fury clothed and reclothed itself in words as frantically as a woman up in town for one day’s shopping tries on a succession of garments. He reviled and railed at fate and the general scheme of things, he pitied himself with a strong, deep pity too poignant for tears, he condemned every one with whom he had ever come in contact to endless and abnormal punishments.

Derived terms

• raillery

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English rail, reil, from Old English hræġl (“garment, dress, robe”). Cognate with Old Frisian hreil, reil, Old Saxon hregil, Old High German hregil (“clothing, garment, dress”).

Alternative forms

• rayle

Noun

rail (plural rails)

1. (obsolete) An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
2. (obsolete) Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.

Derived terms

• night-rail

Etymology 5

Probably from Anglo-Norman raier, Middle French raier.

Verb

rail (third-person singular simple present rails, present participle railing, simple past and past participle railed)

1. (obsolete, of a liquid) To gush; to flow.

See also

• ride the rail

Anagrams

• Lair, aril, lair, lari, liar, lira, rial

Catalan

Alternative forms

• raïl (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from English rail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈrajl]

Noun

rail m (plural rails)

1. rail

   Synonym: carril

Further reading

• “rail” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English rail.

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /rel/
• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /reːl/

Noun

rail f (plural rails, diminutive railsje n or railtje n)

1. rail

Usage notes

The diminutive railsjes is only used if used for railway tracks.

Descendants

• → Caribbean Javanese: ril
• → Indonesian: rel

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English rail.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁaj/
• Homophone: raï

Noun

rail m (plural rails)

1. rail

Further reading

• “rail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lira

Spanish

Noun

rail m (plural railes)

1. (rare) Alternative form of raíl

Further reading

• “rail”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org