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Princeton's WordNet

  1. track, rail, rails, runwaynoun

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

ChatGPT

  1. rails

    Rails refers to a framework that is used to build web applications. It is a software library that extends the Ruby programming language, streamlining web application development with default structures for databases, webpages, and web services. "Rails" also commonly refers to tracks for trains, with steel bars providing a surface for wheels to move on. Therefore, the general definition could vary based on context.

Wikidata

  1. rails

    filler description

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. rails

    Narrow pieces of wood, with mouldings as ornaments, mortised into the heads of stanchions, or nailed for ornament on several parts of a ship's upper works.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. rails

    See Ordnance, Carriages for, Sea-coast Carriages.

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Anagrams for Rails »

  1. rials

  2. lairs

  3. liars

  4. arils

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rails in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Rails in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Rails in a Sentence

  1. Bret Baier:

    We will let the contrasts and the conversations between candidates go, but there will be some balance. That's what it's always about, not letting it get off the rails.

  2. John Meyer:

    We all used to carry this stuff. I called it skunk oil, we poured it in a 2-gallon can, poured it out, and threw a match in it, and it'd start a fire along all the rails. We're talking in the mid -'70s. Nowadays you'd get in big trouble doing that.

  3. Francis M. Faber Jr.:

    A steam locomotive engineer is referred as a 'hogger'; Does this reference have to do with his 'lapping-up' many miles over the silver rails?

  4. Donald Trump:

    You need a scorecard to keep up, i share Senator Brown concern that we not go off the rails trying to please progressives. Senator Brown concern's important to keep progressives enthused, but we need to have a big tent too.

  5. Steven Ditmeyer:

    The routine accidents have been taken care of. The rails, the wheels are safer than ever before and the people have been trained. Yet there are still mistakes that occur.

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