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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. Guy Reffitt:

    I mean, realistically, this doesn't have a matter of political opinion. What my father did is far from politics. This is completely off the rails violence. Whether it had a political motive at this point doesn't matter. It's more about what he does and who he did it for.

  2. Ted Murphy:

    That was my No. 1 lesson in all of this: When I stopped taking care of myself, I felt like I was going off the rails, it’s a lesson I still follow today. Taking care of myself first lets me face anything.

  3. Nancy Pelosi:

    Let me just say how very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails, yesterday and today, he is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.

  4. Nancy Pelosi:

    Let me just say, I'm very, very dismayed and disappointed that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails yesterday and today, he is attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.

  5. 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.

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