Trailed vs Railed - What's the difference?
trailed | railed |
(trail)
(label) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
(label) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(label) To leave (a trail of).
(label) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 29, author=Keith Jackson, work=Daily Record
, title= (label) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
(label) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
* (1816-1855)
The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
(rail)
A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
* , chapter=7
, title= The metal bar that makes the track for a railroad.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist)
, 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)).
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 4
, author=Lewis Smith
, title=Queen's English Society says enuf is enough, innit?
, work=the Guardian
* 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.
As verbs the difference between trailed and railed
is that trailed is (trail) while railed is (rail).trailed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*trail
English
Verb
(en verb)- "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.
SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0, passage=Neil Lennon and his players have, in almost no time at all, roared back from trailing Rangers by 15 points in November to ending the year two points clear.}}
- (Longfellow)
- I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.
Derived terms
* trailer * trail offNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (track of an animal) spoor, sign * (route for travel over land) dirt track, footpath, path, trackDerived terms
* condensation trail, contrail * paper trail * sawdust trail * star trail * trail bike * trailblazer (see blazer) * trailblazing * trail mix * vapo(u)r trailSee also
* path * trackAnagrams
* * ----railed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * * *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
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=The Queen may be celebrating her jubilee but the Queen's English Society, which has railed against the misuse and deterioration of the English language, is to fold.}}
- 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)
