📖 Определения и значения для слова rail
📒 a wooden or metal bar placed around something as a barrier or to provide support
- She leaned on the ship's rail and gazed out to sea.
- She climbed onto the top fence rail.
- She held tightly on to the rail.
📒 a bar fixed to the wall for hanging things on
- a picture/curtain/towel rail
- There was thick dust on the picture rail.
- Lace curtains hung from the brass rails over the bed.
📒 each of the two metal bars that form the track that trains run on
- The train thundered along the rails.
- The train came off the rails.
- Trams run along rails.
📒 railways as a means of transport
- by rail to travel by rail
- rail travel/services/fares
- a rail link/network
📒 to become successful again after a period of failure, or to begin functioning normally again
- He has helped get the company back on the rails again.
📒 to start behaving in a way that is strange or unacceptable, for example drinking a lot or taking drugs
- She went completely off the rails after her sister died.
- She was worried her son was going to go completely off the rails.
📒 to lose control and stop functioning correctly
- The company has gone badly off the rails in recent years.
📒 to leave the track suddenly