Rail vs Reel - What's the difference?
rail | reel |
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
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, title= A railroad; a railway.
A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
(surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
* Nick Carroll, surfline.com [http://www.surfline.com/community/whoknows/10_21_rails.cfm]:
To travel by railway.
* Rudyard Kipling
To enclose with rails or a railing.
* Ayliffe
To range in a line.
* Francis Bacon
To complain violently ((against), (about)).
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, date=June 4
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* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 27:
(obsolete) An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
(obsolete) Specifically, a woman's headscarf or neckerchief.
(label) To gush, flow (of liquid).
*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
*:his breste and his brayle was bloodé – and hit rayled all over the see.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.2:
*:So furiously each other did assayle, / As if their soules they would attonce haue rent / Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle / Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent.
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
A frame with radial arms, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound
A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
A device consisting of radial arms with horizontal stats, connected with a harvesting machine, for holding the stalks of grain in position to be cut by the knives.
A short compilation of sample film work used as a demonstrative resume in the entertainment industry.
To wind on a reel.
To spin or revolve repeatedly.
To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else.
To walk shakily or unsteadily; to stagger; move as if drunk or not in control of oneself.
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, chapter=30 * Bible, Psalms cvii. 27
* Alexander Pope
* Macaulay
(reel back) To back off or step away unsteadily and quickly.
To make or cause to reel.
To have a whirling sensation; to be giddy.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
To be in shock.
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
(obsolete) To roll.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between rail and reel
is that rail is a horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing or rail can be any of several birds in the family rallidae or rail can be (obsolete) an item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress while reel is real (reality).As a verb rail
is to travel by railway or rail can be to complain violently ((against), (about)) or rail can be (label) to gush, flow (of liquid).As an adjective reel is
real (true, fact, not fictional).rail
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), ; see regular.Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail , close to the stern.}}
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
- Rails alone can only ever have a marginal effect on a board's general turning ability.
Derived terms
* guardrail * handrail * live rail * railcard * railfanning * railhead * railway * ride the rails * split rail * third railVerb
(en verb)- Mottram of the Indian Survey had ridden thirty and railed one hundred miles from his lonely post in the desert
- It ought to be fenced in and railed .
- They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .Usage notes
Not all birds in the family Rallidae are rails by their common name. The family also includes coots]], moorhens, crakes, flufftails, [[waterhen, waterhens and others.Derived terms
* banded railSee also
* corncrakeEtymology 3
From (etyl) railler.Verb
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- Chief Joyi railed against the white man, whom he believed had deliberately sundered the Xhosa tribe, dividing brother from brother.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
*Noun
(en noun)- (Fairholt)
Derived terms
* night-railEtymology 5
Probably from (etyl) raier, (etyl) raier.Verb
(en verb)Anagrams
* * * * * * English terms with multiple etymologies ----reel
English
(wikipedia reel)Noun
(en noun)- a log reel , used by seamen
- an angler's reel
- a garden reel
- (McElrath)
Verb
(en verb)- He reeled off some tape from the roll and sealed the package.
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- They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man.
- He, with heavy fumes oppressed, / Reeled from the palace, and retired to rest.
- the wagons reeling under the yellow sheaves
- He reeled back from the punch.
- In these lengthened vigils his brain often reeled .
- New Jersey was reeling on Wednesday from the impact of Hurricane Sandy, which has caused catastrophic flooding here in Hoboken and in other New York City suburbs, destroyed entire neighborhoods across the state and wiped out iconic boardwalks in shore towns that had enchanted generations of vacationgoers.
- And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel .