rail

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rāl

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
  2. An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress. obsolete
  3. A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
    — Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
  4. The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
    — A "moving platform" scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
  5. Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief. obsolete
    — A course hempen raile about her shoulders.
  6. A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
    — We travelled to the seaside by rail.
  7. A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
    — ISA devices draw power from the +5 V, −5 V, +12 V, and −12 V rails of the power supply unit.
  8. A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
  9. One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
    — Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.
  10. A vertical section on one side of a web page. Internet
    — We're experimenting with ads in the right-hand rail.
  11. A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
    — Do a couple rails and chase your own tail
  12. Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
  13. The raised edge of the game board.
动词 v.
  1. To travel by railway. intransitive
    — Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert […]
  2. To gush; to flow. obsolete
    — his breste and his brayle was bloodé – and hit rayled all over the see.
  3. To complain violently (against, about).
    — Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond Thou but offend'st thy Lungs to speake so loud: Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fall To endlesse ruine. I stand heere for Law.
  4. To blow. obsolete
  5. To place on a track. transitive
  6. To enclose with rails or a railing. transitive
    — They ought to rail off the playground.
  7. To range in a line. transitive
    — They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.
  8. To sexually penetrate in a rough manner. slang,transitive,vulgar
  9. To snort a line of powdered drugs. slang,transitive
    — All I can think about is being seventeen days sober and desperate to rail a line of blow after last night's group outing to see Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (at my request), which, in hindsight, was a fucking dumb thing for a rehab to approve of.

词形变化

rails plural rails present,singular,third-person railing participle,present railed participle,past railed past rails plural rails present,singular,third-person railing participle,present railed participle,past railed past rails plural rayle alternative rails present,singular,third-person railing participle,present railed participle,past railed past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English rail, rayl, *reȝel, *reȝol (found in reȝolsticke (“a ruler”)), partly from Old English regol (“a ruler, straight bar”) and partly from Old French reille; both from Latin regula (“rule, bar”), from regō (“to rule, to guide, to govern”); see regular. Doublet of regal, regula, rigol, and rule.
词源 2
From French râle, rale, from Middle French raalle, from Old French rasle. Compare Medieval Latin rallus. Named from its harsh cry, Vulgar Latin *rasculum, from Latin rādere (“to scrape”).
词源 3
From Middle French railler.
词源 4
From Middle English rail, reil, from Old English hræġl (“garment, dress, robe”). Cognate with Old Frisian hreil, reil, Old Saxon hregil, Old High German hregil (“clothing, garment, dress”).
词源 5
Probably from Anglo-Norman raier, Middle French raier.
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