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Meanings of rails in inglês

português
trilho
catalão
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 inglês
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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
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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
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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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português
trilho
catalão
carril
Rails through the time
Rails across language varieties
Australia
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
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