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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. Lloyd Blankfein:

    ( The) U.S. economy is not going off the rails, i'm generally sanguine. We muddle through. I think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen.

  2. Tony Hawk:

    He taught me how to be a skateboarder in the right way, he knew there was more to life than just skateboarding. He pushed me. It wasn't always easy when I was a kid to skate big-ass rails that scared ... me. He helped make me a strong person. There are no hard feelings there.

  3. Dick Durbin:

    I'm not naming names, i'm just saying a few people have gone off the rails, and I'm disappointed, but we're going to continue to do our work.

  4. Sandy Villere:

    Everything travels on their rails, they literally sit in the middle of the banks, consumers and merchants and that has been a really enviable place to be.

  5. 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, he is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.

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