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Look up: Rail

  1. RAIL
    abbreviation: Runway Alignment Indicator Lights
    Found on http://www.apscharts.com/abbrev.html

  2. Rail
    A rail is any wading bird of the family Rallidae, including the rails proper (genus Rallus), coots, moorhens, and gallinules. Rails have dark plumage, a short neck and wings, and long legs. They are 10-45cm long.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  3. Rail
    Bottom or top batten in a flat.
    Found on http://www.dramatic.com.au/glossary/glos

  4. rail
    [n] - short for railway 2. [n] - a horizontal bar (usually of wood) 3. [n] - any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud 4. [v] - enclose with rails 5. [v] - provide or enclose with rails 6. [v] - separate with a railing 7. [v] - convey (goods etc.) by rails 8. [v] - lay with rails 9. [v] - fish with a hand-line aver the rails of a boat 10. [v] - complain bitterly
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Rail
    Horizontal member of the frame of a flat. See also fly rail and toggle rail.
    Found on http://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/technica

  6. Rail
    Horizontal member in door or fence
    Found on http://www.findabuilder.co.uk/working/gl

  7. Rail
    Horizontal member in a fence or door.
    Found on http://www.interbuilders.co.uk/glossary/

  8. Rail
    Cladding rail is a secondary member forming part of the side wall framing supporting the vertical cladding.
    Found on http://www.corusconstruction.com/en/desi

  9. RAIL
    (robotics) Automatix. High-level language for industrial robots. (2006-11-10)
    Found on

  10. rail
    hot-rolled product of the type normally used for railway and tramway track,irrespective of their intended use(over-head transporters,mobile cranes,etc.) Category: Iron and steel industries • horizontal links between pallet posts Category: Technical and industry in general • all quantities used in rail traffic,including industrial railways Category: Statistics • ...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  11. Rail
    Cross members of panel doors or of a sash. Also the upper and lower members of a balustrade or staircase extending from one vertical support, such as a post, to another.
    Found on http://www.rookinspections.com/glossary/

  12. Rail
    Rail (rāl) noun [ Middle English reil , reʒel , Anglo-Saxon hrægel , hrægl , a garment; akin to Old High German hregil , OFries. hreil .] An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  13. Rail
    Rail intransitive verb [ Etymol. uncertain.] To flow forth; to roll out; to course. [ Obsolete] « Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing Spenser.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  14. Rail
    Rail noun [ Akin to LG. & Swedish regel bar, bolt, German riegel a rail, bar, or bolt, Old High German rigil , rigel , bar, bolt, and possibly to English row a line.] 1. A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc. 2. (Architecture) A ho ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  15. Rail
    Rail transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Railed (rāld); present participle & verbal noun Railing .] 1. To inclose with rails or a railing. « It ought to be fenced in and railed Ayliffe. 2. To range in a line. [ Obsolete] « They were brought to London all raile ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  16. Rail
    Rail noun [ French râle , from râler to have a rattling in the throat; of German origin, and akin to English rattle . See Rattle , v. ] (Zoology) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidæ , especially those of the genus Rallus , and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds. » ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  17. Rail
    Rail intransitive verb [ French railler ; confer Spanish rallar to grate, scrape, molest; perhaps from (assumed) Late Latin radiculare , from Latin radere to scrape, grate. Confer Rally to banter, Rase .] To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against , formerly by on . Shak.< ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  18. Rail
    Rail (rāl) transitive verb 1. To rail at. [ Obsolete] Feltham. 2. To move or influence by railing. [ R.] « Rail the seal from off my bond.» Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  19. Rail
    Rail noun A railroad as a means of transportation; as, to go by rail ; a place not accesible by rail .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/6

  20. rail
    1. A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc. ... 2. A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. ... 3. A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is h ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  21. rail
    noun any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  22. rail
    noun a horizontal bar (usually of wood)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  23. rail
    verb separate with a railing; `rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  24. rail
    noun a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  25. Rail
    • (n.) A railroad as a means of transportation; as, to go by rail; a place not accesible by rail. • (v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds. • (v. t.) To range in a line. • (v. t.) To inclose wit...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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