英语词汇“rail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

rail1

/reɪl

noun

1A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or used to hang things on: a curtain rail...

A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge.
Next weekend if they have set well we'll hire a nailgun and attach the rails, build and hang the gates and staple the sheep netting.
A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view.

1.1 (the rails) The inside boundary fence of a racecourse.Interestingly, he watched the race from just beside that winner's enclosure and only had to hop inside the rails - there's confidence for you....

Dunsdon got his mount back inside the rails and went on to win.
Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place.

2A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railway track: the goods train left the rails...

In recent years, most steel rails from abandoned lines have been sold to China, he said.
He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police.
At St. Croix, we leave the joint line for the rails of Canadian Pacific.

2.1 [mass noun, often as modifier] Railways as a means of transport: rail fares travelling by rail...

The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country.
Most ports are well linked to local and intercity rail transportation.
The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona.

3A horizontal piece in the frame of a panelled door or sash window. Compare with stile².The sash is made up of rails, which are pieces of wood that surround glass panes....

The sashes are built from 4 frame components, the top and bottom pieces are called rails and the sides are called stiles.
Place a combination square or try square over the rail so the blade is in line with the edge of the stile.

4The edge of a surfboard or sailboard.A cutback is a 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard....

Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins.
Mike Hynson came out with his lower rails that had hard edges from nose to tail.

5 Electronics A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected: the anode must be connected to the positive supply rail...

The BASH converter in turn converts this gate pulse into a power signal that feeds the power amplifier's main supply rails.
The beauty of this model is that all we need to do is connect the 3.3V rail to the VDD of one ram slot, which will be shared among all DIMM slots.

verb

1 [with object] Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails: the altar is railed off from the nave...

The front garden is railed and has space for off-street parking.
Lucy stated that probably the toughest trip was the day they trekked to the Cabumi Falls, where they had to climb a stepped and railed path that was pretty testing.
All of the three-storey Georgian-style properties on offer have a rear garden with a lawn, patio and a shed as well as a small planted and railed area to the front of the property.

2 [with object and adverbial of direction] Convey (goods) by rail: perishables were railed into Manhattan...

Now instead of calling at Adelaide, they rail goods across from Melbourne.
They will then move to Te Rapa before they are railed through the Kaimai Ranges to the Port of Tauranga.
During the following five or six weeks hundreds of tons of turf must have been railed out of Bundoran, most days there were three lorries drawing steady.

3 [no object] (In windsurfing) sail the board on its edge: the more you pull down on the boom, the more you rail

Phrases

go off the rails

on the rails

Derivatives

railage

noun ...

Although at the end of the day the customer pays the railage, time saved is often more important than a couple of hundred rand a container.

railless

adjective ...

From 1908, railed electric buses, railless electric buses and power-driven buses appeared successively, ushering in a period of prosperous transportation.
I negotiated the railless stairs and dark corridor without too much injury to my person, and managed to fumble the wooden latch open.
Reluctantly, my left hand on the railless wall on that side, my right hand extended out into the blank abyss in the other direction, I began the descent.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French reille 'iron rod', from Latin regula 'straight stick, rule'.

You might think that trains have no link to the classical world, but the word rail goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, the source also of rule. The first rails that vehicles ran along—pulled then by horses—are described in the account of an English colliery at the end of the 16th century. Before that a rail was a fixed bar forming part of a fence, which in due course gave us both railings (Late Middle English) and the rails of a racecourse. References to railways begin in the late 17th century, followed a little later by railroad, now the American term but at first used in Britain interchangeably with railway. Someone whose behaviour is out of control may be said to have gone off the rails. The phrase is first recorded in 1848, when railways and trains would have been a novelty. Someone who complains bitterly is sometimes said to rail (Late Middle English). This is a completely different word, and goes back ultimately to Latin rugire ‘to roar’ (see also rut).

Rhymes

rail2

/reɪl

verb [no object] (rail against/at/about)

Complain or protest strongly and persistently about: he railed at human fickleness...

Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace.
He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’.
I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature.

Synonyms

protest strongly at, make a protest against, fulminate against, inveigh against, rage against, thunder against, declaim against, remonstrate about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, speak out against, express disapproval of, criticize severely, denounce, censure, condemn;

object to, raise objections to, take issue with, oppose strongly, complain vociferously/bitterly about, disagree violently with, kick against, take great exception to, make/take a stand against, put up a fight against, challenge

informal kick up a fuss/stink about

Derivatives

railer

noun ...

I do think that the Navy is part of the small government that we railers against big government recognize.
He is a major railer against Third World debt and he laudably presented a petition signed by 17 million to the 1999 G8 meeting asking for debt relief.
It tends to reduce him to the status of a scurrilous railer, despite the fact that some of Jonson's most graceful and humane verses are based closely upon that poet's work.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar 'to jest', based on an alteration of Latin rugire 'to bellow'.

rail3

/reɪl

noun

A secretive bird with drab grey and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation.

Family Rallidae (the rail family): several genera, especially Rallus, and numerous species. The rail family also includes the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, and coots.

Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species....

I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking.
And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old Northern French raille, perhaps of imitative origin.

单词	rail
释义	rail1 /reɪl / noun 1A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or used to hang things on: a curtain rail... A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge. Next weekend if they have set well we'll hire a nailgun and attach the rails, build and hang the gates and staple the sheep netting. A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view. 1.1 (the rails) The inside boundary fence of a racecourse.Interestingly, he watched the race from just beside that winner's enclosure and only had to hop inside the rails - there's confidence for you.... Dunsdon got his mount back inside the rails and went on to win. Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place. 2A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railway track: the goods train left the rails... In recent years, most steel rails from abandoned lines have been sold to China, he said. He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police. At St. Croix, we leave the joint line for the rails of Canadian Pacific. 2.1 [mass noun, often as modifier] Railways as a means of transport: rail fares travelling by rail... The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country. Most ports are well linked to local and intercity rail transportation. The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona. 3A horizontal piece in the frame of a panelled door or sash window. Compare with stile².The sash is made up of rails, which are pieces of wood that surround glass panes.... The sashes are built from 4 frame components, the top and bottom pieces are called rails and the sides are called stiles. Place a combination square or try square over the rail so the blade is in line with the edge of the stile. 4The edge of a surfboard or sailboard.A cutback is a 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard.... Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins. Mike Hynson came out with his lower rails that had hard edges from nose to tail. 5 Electronics A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected: the anode must be connected to the positive supply rail... The BASH converter in turn converts this gate pulse into a power signal that feeds the power amplifier's main supply rails. The beauty of this model is that all we need to do is connect the 3.3V rail to the VDD of one ram slot, which will be shared among all DIMM slots. verb 1 [with object] Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails: the altar is railed off from* the nave... The front garden is railed and has space for off-street parking. Lucy stated that probably the toughest trip was the day they trekked to the Cabumi Falls, where they had to climb a stepped and railed path that was pretty testing. All of the three-storey Georgian-style properties on offer have a rear garden with a lawn, patio and a shed as well as a small planted and railed area to the front of the property. 2 [with object and adverbial of direction]* Convey (goods) by rail: perishables were railed into Manhattan... Now instead of calling at Adelaide, they rail goods across from Melbourne. They will then move to Te Rapa before they are railed through the Kaimai Ranges to the Port of Tauranga. During the following five or six weeks hundreds of tons of turf must have been railed out of Bundoran, most days there were three lorries drawing steady. 3 [no object] (In windsurfing) sail the board on its edge: the more you pull down on the boom, the more you rail Phrases go off the rails on the rails Derivatives railage noun ... Although at the end of the day the customer pays the railage, time saved is often more important than a couple of hundred rand a container. railless adjective ... From 1908, railed electric buses, railless electric buses and power-driven buses appeared successively, ushering in a period of prosperous transportation. I negotiated the railless stairs and dark corridor without too much injury to my person, and managed to fumble the wooden latch open. Reluctantly, my left hand on the railless wall on that side, my right hand extended out into the blank abyss in the other direction, I began the descent. Origin Middle English: from Old French reille 'iron rod', from Latin regula 'straight stick, rule'. You might think that trains have no link to the classical world, but the word rail goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, the source also of rule. The first rails that vehicles ran along—pulled then by horses—are described in the account of an English colliery at the end of the 16th century. Before that a rail was a fixed bar forming part of a fence, which in due course gave us both railings (Late Middle English) and the rails of a racecourse. References to railways begin in the late 17th century, followed a little later by railroad, now the American term but at first used in Britain interchangeably with railway. Someone whose behaviour is out of control may be said to have gone off the rails. The phrase is first recorded in 1848, when railways and trains would have been a novelty. Someone who complains bitterly is sometimes said to rail (Late Middle English). This is a completely different word, and goes back ultimately to Latin rugire ‘to roar’ (see also rut). Rhymes ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale rail2 /reɪl / verb [no object] (rail against/at/about) Complain or protest strongly and persistently about: he railed at human fickleness... Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace. He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’. I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature. Synonyms protest strongly at, make a protest against, fulminate against, inveigh against, rage against, thunder against, declaim against, remonstrate about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, speak out against, express disapproval of, criticize severely, denounce, censure, condemn; object to, raise objections to, take issue with, oppose strongly, complain vociferously/bitterly about, disagree violently with, kick against, take great exception to, make/take a stand against, put up a fight against, challenge informal kick up a fuss/stink about Derivatives railer noun ... I do think that the Navy is part of the small government that we railers against big government recognize. He is a major railer against Third World debt and he laudably presented a petition signed by 17 million to the 1999 G8 meeting asking for debt relief. It tends to reduce him to the status of a scurrilous railer, despite the fact that some of Jonson's most graceful and humane verses are based closely upon that poet's work. Origin Late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar 'to jest', based on an alteration of Latin rugire 'to bellow'. rail3 /reɪl / noun A secretive bird with drab grey and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation. Family Rallidae (the rail family): several genera, especially Rallus, and numerous species. The rail family also includes the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, and coots. Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species.... I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking. And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails. Origin Late Middle English: from Old Northern French raille, perhaps of imitative origin.
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