Thesaurus results for RAILS

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noun

plural of rail

as in railings

a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports the stairs are icy, so hold onto the rail

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as in roads

a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel an abandoned stretch of rail that was overgrown with brush

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rails

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rail

as in rants

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Recent Examples of rails

Noun

Grab bars — rails attached to walls, particularly in bathrooms — help provide balance and prevent falls, preventing serious injuries, said Jim Christian, founder of the effort to push Medicare to cover the devices, Safety Bars for America. — Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 13 July 2026 That has left developers with no option other than to construct elaborate guardrails that prevent injected prompts from forcing LLMs to go off the rails. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026 Mediators of the deal, led by Pakistan and Qatar, will almost certainly now be hurriedly trying to get the agreement back on the rails. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 8 July 2026 What ensues is, of course, chaos off the rails, and in a film shot on location in Alaska and in glorious, gritty 35mm. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 July 2026 Florida East Coast Railway, which owned the corridor and ran freight trains on the line, closed it in sections and finally removed the rails around 2005. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 The customers lined the rails, shoulder to shoulder, all jigging in unison to the classic rock that was blasting from the radio. — Matthew Every, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026 This time, things are already going off the rails before a book comes into play. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 7 July 2026 Tokenisation is pulling government bonds, money market funds, equities, real estate, and, increasingly, private credit onto programmable rails. — Matthew White, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rails

Noun

Coffee on the porch, boats pulled from shore, wet towels over railings, late light moving through the trees.

— Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Reviewers have added them to fishing docks, pool fences, stair railings, and more.

— Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2026

Definition of railings

Noun

Hydroplaning occurs when a vehicle begins to slide uncontrollably on wet roads.

— NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2026
Since the incident began, the size of the frozen zone in which crews work to stabilize the building has gradually been reduced, roads have reopened and many of the vacate orders have been lifted.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 9 July 2026

Definition of roads

Verb

And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.

— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025

Definition of rants

Noun

In the 1880s, quarterly reporting by railroads and other transportation companies were common.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
From the railroads of the 1800s to power grids, aviation, the telephone, the integrated circuit, the internet and now artificial intelligence (AI), private capital has financed wave after wave of progress.

— Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026