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

Reigns sent The Usos on a quest to keep Fatu in line but with the emergence of the 946 – things have gone completely off the rails. — Ryan Gaydos Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026 Corsair drilled the inner portion of its 200mm fan frames to screw directly onto the rails when they are set at their 140mm position. — Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026 Next came Wild Horse Nine’s John Malkovich, who won the Best Actor prize at Venice for his performance as a CIA assassin going off the rails. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 Wild Land The more complex, multidirectional unfolding action lets the roomy Trunk camper pack small at 25 in (64 cm) tall on top of the bed rails, riding close to cab height without the cabover extension camping toppers usually have. — New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026 In cross-border payments, businesses and consumers moved $135 billion through stablecoin rails in 2025, up 64% year on year. — Pratik Khowala, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026 Walls, backsplash areas and the space beneath upper cabinets rarely get treated as storage, even though rails, pegboards, magnetic strips, floating shelves and hanging baskets can absorb a meaningful share of what currently sits on the counter. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 The process to assemble one of the country’s largest rails-to-trails corridors took about two decades, spanning four mayoral administrations. — Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026 For some cross-border micropayments, stablecoins and other programmable rails may make very small transactions faster and cheaper than traditional methods. — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rails

Noun

The entrance is a quiet and cavernous space with a magnificent spiral staircase made of stone with wrought iron railings.

— Mary Holland, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026
Fix the easy hazards first The NIA recommends going room by room and addressing immediate dangers like poor lighting and loose stair railings before taking on bigger projects.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of railings

Noun

As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
The landscape was inspired by the inland town of Ioulida, a hilltop village with cascading residential dwellings and winding paths (no car-worthy roads), and a church perched at the precipice.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 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

Uganda then had a large population of Indian immigrants, who had been brought over by the British at the end of the nineteenth century to help construct railways, and who eventually established more economic autonomy and power than Black Ugandans.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
These have included arson, high-profile hacks, GPS jamming as well as sabotage actions against key infrastructure, including undersea communication cables, logistics centers and railways.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026