Thesaurus results for RAILS

rails 1 of 2

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

But what happens to these companies as blockchain rails push the cost of moving money across currencies toward zero? — Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Meanwhile, crypto has finally moved beyond its speculative era as new players like Hyperliquid adapt blockchain rails for trading conventional commodities like oil, and as big Wall Street firms embrace tokenized assets. — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 July 2026 Wake up from your woke world and read the Daily News once in a while so you can be informed of that 3-year-old on the playground who had their brains blown out, or that subway rider who was pushed onto the rails. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 July 2026 Their ability to absorb the energy of colliding cars—forcing rails to curl up, rather than spear—is the result of decades of clever engineering. — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 July 2026 As Flex Global expands, users can take advantage of stablecoin payment rails and wallets in more than countries while settling cross-border payments in minutes, the company said. — Arthur Zackiewicz, Footwear News, 14 July 2026 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rails

Noun

The combination of dust, dirt, pollen, and high humidity can leave a sticky, dingy coating on the floors, railings, and furniture.

— Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 July 2026
Visitors reported visible signs of unfinished construction, including packing tape on stair railings and paint splatters beneath glass panels.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 18 July 2026

Definition of railings

Noun

In parts of Uvalde County, muddy floodwaters covered roads and fields and rose nearly as high as houses' rooftops, according to a video posted by Texas Department of Public Safety.

— Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 July 2026
Bulldozers shuffled right through the rubble to make roads that cut Gaza into separate sections.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 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

For Raymond James, its achievement will rival such breakthroughs as the dawn of electrification, railroads and the internet.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 July 2026
In his view, other important institutions like railroads, factories, and banks should be run in the same fashion.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 July 2026

Definition of railroads

Noun

In Southern California, cliffs could erode more than 130 feet by the end of the century, and the consequences of erosion have already proved to be severe on major roads, railways and other critical infrastructure.

— Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Across Africa, governments have spent decades announcing ports without thinking about connecting railways, highways without paved feeder roads, and pipelines without ancillary terminals.

— Bright Simons, semafor.com, 13 July 2026