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Meanings of rails in English

Portuguese
trilho
Catalan
carril

A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.

        trilho
        Usage of rails in English
        1
        With regularity, serious people ask: Has visual art gone off the rails?
        The Irish Times
        2
        Ed Miliband rails against energy companies and says the market isn't working.
        The Guardian
        3
        Work the grooves in the legs and the mortises for the rails.
        Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 3
        4
        Unfortunately, with the removal of altar rails, this is often made difficult.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Brodkey rails at the New York literary community for publishing bad work.
        The new yorker
        6
        I don't need wall rails or anything like that', the 35-year-old said.
        The Guardian
        7
        How long have we been saying that we need guard rails here?
        The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
        8
        Begin the work on the rails for the sides of the stand.
        Mission Furniture: How to Make It, Part 3
        9
        Then the regular pounding of the wheels on the rails recalled him.
        Quin
        10
        If they continue to go off the rails, chat restrictions are imposed.
        Wired
        11
        People said he sank into self-pity and went off the rails afterwards.'
        The draining lake
        12
        Photograph: Handout Now he's riding the rails, speaking from town to town.
        The Guardian
        13
        Some locusts make their holes in fence rails or in old stumps.
        The Insect Folk
        14
        One who carried no swag halted at the rails and came in.
        On Our Selection
        15
        We tore up some rails and with them smashed in the door.
        The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
        16
        Typically the rails would be ten feet long and four inches wide.
        A. lincoln: a biography
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        Translations for rails
        Portuguese
        trilho
        Catalan
        carril
        Rails through the time
        Rails across language varieties
        Australia
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Common
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