rail

/reɪl/ noun

Translation

FOR HANGING [C] UK › a horizontal bar on the wall that you hang things on

askılık; ...asacağı

a curtain rail764

FOR SUPPORTING [C] › a bar around or along something which you can hold to stop you from falling

trabzan, korkuluk, parmaklık

a hand rail764

TRAIN SYSTEM [U] › trains as a method of transport

demiryolu

rail travel a rail link They sent the shipment by rail.1676

TRAIN [C] › the metal tracks that trains run on

raylar, tren rayları

→ See also towel rail1676

(Definition of rail noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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