RAILS
Dictionary entry overview: What does rails mean? • RAILS (noun)
The noun RAILS has 1 sense:
1. a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
Familiarity information: RAILS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RAILS (noun)
Meaning:
A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
rails; rail; track
Hypernyms ("rails" is a kind of...):
bar (a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rails"):
third rail (a rail through which electric current is supplied to an electric locomotive)
Holonyms ("rails" is a part of...):
railroad; railroad track; railway (a line of track providing a runway for wheels)
streetcar track; tramline; tramway (the track on which trams or streetcars run)
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