Derail vs Derain - What's the difference?
derail | derain |
A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.
To cause to come off the tracks.
To come off the tracks.
To deviate from the previous course or direction.
To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
As verbs the difference between derail and derain
is that derail is to cause to come off the tracks while derain is (legal|transitive).As a noun derail
is a device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.derail
English
(wikipedia derail)Noun
(en noun)- The derail was placed deliberately so that the train would fall into the river.
Verb
(en verb)- The train was destroyed when it was derailed by the penny.
- The conversation derailed once James brought up politics.
- The protesting students derailed the professor's lecture.