rail

🇺🇸 /reɪl/ 🇬🇧 /reɪl/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP3000Oxford5000CEFR-B1
noun
B2

a bar used as a fence or for holding on to

Hold the rail when walking down the stairs.

B2

a bar on a wall for hanging things

Hang your coat on the rail by the door.

B2

the metal bars that trains run on

The train moves along the rail tracks.

B2

train travel

We took the rail to the city.

verb
R

to complain angrily

He began to rail about the unfair rules.

translation

n. a bar used as a fence or for holding on to; a bar on a wall for hanging things; the metal bars that trains run on; train travel
v. to complain angrily

Word Forms

Plural rails
Progressive railing
Past railed
Perfect railed
3rd Present rails