The word ‘Rail’ is a noun and has more than one meaning in mainstream use today. It can be a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track, or tracks, along which vehicles; such as, trains, can roll or travel on. It is also used for a barrier consisting of a horizontal wooden or metal bar and supports, which people can use to hold on to in order to keep from falling.
Pronunciation: reyl
Meanings of Rail
1. A bar extending horizontally between supports, as in a fence.
2. A steel bar used, usually in pairs, as a track for railroad cars or other wheeled vehicles.
3. The railroad as a means of transportation
Master’s Tip to Learn Rail
The best way to remember the meaning is to think of ‘Railways’ as most of the uses of a rail can be related to it.
Sentence examples for Rail:
1. Our products were transported by rail to the various stores.
2. The workers found a cracked rail on the intercity train track today.
3. They have to travel back and forth from their town to the city by rail every working day.
Easy way to remember rail-which also means to complain violently
Imagine that you are struck in between the rail(two horizontal bars) which is burning and you are unable to come out,so what you will do???
Obviously you will shout,complain and cry for help.