Rail

Definition

rail /rel/ n ၁။ [C] (က) လက္ရန္း။ hold onto the rail at the edge of the ice-rink ❍ a wooden rail in front of an altar. See also GUARD-RAIL, HANDRAIL, RAILING (ခ) (ပန္းခ်ီကား၊ ကန္႔လန္႔ကာ စသည္ခ်ိတ္ရန္) နံရံအထက္ ကပ္႐ိုက္ ထားေသာတန္း။ a picture rail ❍ a curtain rail. (ဂ) (esp pl ) ရထားသံလမ္း။ ❍ flange ၂။ မီးရထား။ travel/ send sth by rail ❍ the country's rail network ❍ What's the rail fare to Glasgow? ❍ the cost of rail travel. ❏ go off the rails [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ၁။ ကေပါက္ခ်ိ ကေပါက္ခ်ာ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ When his wife died he went completely off the rails. ၂။ ထိန္းမႏိုင္သိမ္းမရ ျဖစ္သြားသည္။ The company has gone badly off the rails. ❏ rail at/ against sb/sth [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ႀကိမ္းေမာင္းသည္။ ၿခိမ္းမဲသည္။ He railed against fate. ❍ She railed at him and accused him of being lazy. ❏ rail sth in/ off [ PHRV ] လက္ရန္းကာသည္။ ၿခံခတ္သည္။ The statues were railed off to prevent people touching them.

Examples

1. A clothes/towel/heated rail
2. A safety rail
3. We ought to transport more heavy goods by rail.
4. An increase in rail fares