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- noun Plural form of
rail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
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Examples
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How about this, did you know more moose are killed on the train rails in winter than anyplace else in Alaska!
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How about this, did you know more moose are killed on the train rails in winter than anyplace else in Alaska!
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Yet, Palin rails against socialism with a vengeance all the while covering up her role in perpetuating it in AK.
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The fact that the crazies keep wanting to build yet another floating bridge with 26 lanes of traffic and 10 light rails is a sign that the jobs aren't in these places!
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Using approximately 50 meters of recycled highway guard rails from the General Paz (a highway surrounding Buenos Aires) and 300 meters of discarded metal profiles, wood, iron doors and windows found in scrap yards, Dieguez and Gilardi rework demolition materials into fully functioning structural elements.
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Now they are stealing the rails from the trains that once ran in the country and in the sugar plantations.
Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Theft of Cables and Scrap Metal 2009
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Using approximately 50 meters of recycled highway guard rails from the General Paz (a highway surrounding Buenos Aires) and 300 meters of discarded metal profiles, wood, iron doors and windows found in scrap yards, Dieguez and Gilardi rework demolition materials into fully functioning structural elements.
A77 Architects Fashion Home From Demolition Materials | Inhabitat 2009
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Using approximately 50 meters of recycled highway guard rails from the General Paz (a highway surrounding Buenos Aires) and 300 meters of discarded metal profiles, wood, iron doors and windows found in scrap yards, Dieguez and Gilardi rework demolition materials into fully functioning structural elements.
2009 June | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World 2009
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Part of the reason his campaign has gone off the rails is because he feels comfortable with a bunch of people who are really leading him astray.
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One day, McCain rails against earmarks and big-government spending; then he embraced the $700 billion bailout bill; now he is proposing a last-minute basket of middle-class sweeteners.
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