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rail [n]
 
1)a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
    Synonyms :railing 
    See Also: barrier  balusters  bar  fife_rail  ledger_board  guardrail  taffrail 
 
2)short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: railroad 
 
3)a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll
    Synonyms :rails track 
    See Also: bar  railroad  streetcar_track  third_rail 
 
4)a horizontal bar (usually of wood)
    Synonyms :
    See Also: bar  hitching_bar  ledger_board  picture_rail  plate_rail  fence_rail 
 
5)any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
    Synonyms :
    See Also: wader  family_rallidae  maori_hen  crake  notornis  coot 
 
rail [v]
 
1)complain bitterly
    Synonyms :inveigh 
    See Also: complain 
 
2)enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
    Synonyms :rail_in 
    See Also: confine 
 
3)provide with rails; "The yard was railed"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: furnish  architecture 
 
4)separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
    Synonyms :rail_off 
    See Also: divide 
 
5)convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: transport 
 
6)travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
    Synonyms :train 
    See Also: ride  railroad_train 
 
7)lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: lay 
 
8)fish with a hand-line over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: fish 
 
9)spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
    Synonyms :revile vilify vituperate 
    See Also: abuse  invective  abuse  malignment  backbiter 
 
10)criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
    Synonyms :fulminate 
    See Also: denounce  diatribe 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

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