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Trailer vs Frailer - What's the difference?

trailer | frailer |

As a noun trailer

is someone who or something that trails.

As a verb trailer

is to load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

As an adjective frailer is

comparative of frail.

trailer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who or something that trails.
  • Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
    • the trailer of a plant
  • An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
    • At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer .
  • * 1980' April, Greg Stone, ''Utility hauling? Do it with your boat '''trailer'' , '' , page 104,
    • My trailer' is a Highlander T-14 8G, one of the smallest ' trailers . I normally use it for carrying a pair of Sunfish sailboats that are much lighter than its 800-pound weight limit.
  • * 2004', Mike Byrnes & Associates, ''Bumper to Bumper: The Complete Guide to Tractor-'''Trailer Operations , page 310,
    • Or you can slide the trailer'?s tandem forward toward the tractor. This changes the kingpin weight because you changed the “A” dimension of the ' trailer along with its wheel-base.
  • * 2009 , Norman Edward Robinson, Kim A. Sprayberry, Current Therapy in Equine Medicine , page 122,
    • There is also a strong preference to avoid the cave effect associated with the front of most horse trailers' and a strong desire to face the large opening between the top of the rear doors and the roof of the ' trailer .
  • (US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
    • We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.
  • (US) A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination, but typically is permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
    • The young couple?s first home was in a trailer.
  • (chiefly, US, media) A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
    • The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.
  • A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
  • (computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card .
    • ''The linked list terminates with a trailer record.
  • (networking) The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
    • The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

    Usage notes

    * In Australia and the UK, use of trailer in the sense of “preview of a film” is gaining currency over the synonym preview, due to US influence.

    Synonyms

    * * camper (US), camper van, caravan (UK), mobile home * (prefabricated home that could be towed but typically is not) mobile home * (preview of a film) preview, teaser * sentinel

    Antonyms

    * header

    Derived terms

    * horse trailer * tractor-trailer * trailer card (computing) * trailer park * trailer sailer * trailer tent * trailer trash

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.
    • The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    frailer

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (frail)

    • frail

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
  • Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.

    • Related terms

    * fractal * fraction * fractional * fracture * fragile * fragility * frailly * frailness * frailty

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
  • The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
  • A rush for weaving baskets.
  • (dated, slang) A girl.
  • * 1931 , (Cab Calloway) / (Irving Mills), ‘Minnie the Moocher’:
    • She was the roughest, toughest frail , but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
  • * 1933 , , , edition 1, Book 2, Chapter XXII:
    • There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: “Si ... Si ... Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 148:
    • ‘She's pickin' 'em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail .’
  • * 1941 , Preston Sturges, '', published in ''Five Screenplays , ISBN 0-520-05442-4, page 77:
    • Sullivan, the girl and the butler get to the ground. The girl wears a turtle-neck sweater, a cap slightly sideways, a torn coat, turned-up pants and sneakers.
    SULLIVAN Why don't you go back with the car... You look about as much like a boy as .
    THE GIRL All right, they'll think I'm your frail .

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

    • Anagrams

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