What part of speech is rails?

Rails can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. rails is a verb, present, 3rd person singular of rail (infinitive).
  • 2. rails is a noun, plural of rail.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does rails mean?

Definitions

Verb

rail - provide with rails; "The yard was railed"
rail - enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
rail - convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
rail - separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
rail - lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
rail - complain bitterly
rail - fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"
rail - spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
rail - travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
rail - criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"

Noun

rails - a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

Examples of rails

#   Sentence  
1. noun Tires were the right price and now the car feels like it is riding on rails around turns.
2. noun The hero of the book rails at the injustices of the world but does nothing about them.
3. noun A rail is a piece of metal or wood which is long and thin. For example, a train runs on rails, which is why we call it a railway train.
4. noun Liisa has gone completely off the rails since she started life on her own.
5. noun Tom went off the rails in his teens, but he's done a bit of growing up since then.
6. noun Sledgehammers are used in construction demolition, in mining, in driving fence posts into the ground and in driving the spikes that secure the rails to the wooden railway ties.
7. noun The train went off the rails.
8. noun Trains run on rails.
9. noun Layla's plan went off the rails.
10. noun Mary sniffed rails of coke to forget that during this time, Tom, her husband, cheated on her.
11. noun He fell asleep on the rails and was run over by a train.
12. noun Coal powered trains plied the rails in the United States for 175 years, starting in the 1830's, and were an integral part of America's westward expansion and industrial revolution.
13. noun Underground and overground trains as well as trams travel on rails.
14. noun The metro, trains and trams travel on rails.
15. noun Yanni went off the rails in his teens. He got a girl pregnant and shot a policeman in the leg.
16. verb Rail in the old graves.
17. verb Rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace.
Sentence  
noun
Tires were the right price and now the car feels like it is riding on rails around turns.
The hero of the book rails at the injustices of the world but does nothing about them.
A rail is a piece of metal or wood which is long and thin. For example, a train runs on rails, which is why we call it a railway train.
Liisa has gone completely off the rails since she started life on her own.
Tom went off the rails in his teens, but he's done a bit of growing up since then.
Sledgehammers are used in construction demolition, in mining, in driving fence posts into the ground and in driving the spikes that secure the rails to the wooden railway ties.
The train went off the rails.
Trains run on rails.
Layla's plan went off the rails.
Mary sniffed rails of coke to forget that during this time, Tom, her husband, cheated on her.
He fell asleep on the rails and was run over by a train.
Coal powered trains plied the rails in the United States for 175 years, starting in the 1830's, and were an integral part of America's westward expansion and industrial revolution.
Underground and overground trains as well as trams travel on rails.
The metro, trains and trams travel on rails.
Yanni went off the rails in his teens. He got a girl pregnant and shot a policeman in the leg.
verb
Rail in the old graves.
Rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace.

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