Noun | 1. | ![]() Synonyms: railing |
2. | rail - short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety" | |
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4. | rail - a horizontal bar (usually of wood) | |
5. | rail - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud | |
Verb | 1. | rail - complain bitterly Synonyms: inveigh |
2. | rail - enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves" Synonyms: rail in | |
3. | rail - provide with rails; "The yard was railed" | |
4. | rail - separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace" Synonyms: rail off | |
5. | rail - convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium" | |
6. | rail - travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg" Synonyms: train | |
7. | rail - lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here" | |
8. | rail - fish with a hand-line over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish" | |
9. | rail - spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" | |
10. | rail - criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies" Synonyms: fulminate |
(robotics) | RAIL - Automatix. High-level language for industrial robots. |