How to use "rail" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "rail" in popular movie and book plots

Each of the monologues deals with a topic related to climate change, such as health and mountaintop removal mining, alternative energy, rail freight transport of coal and oil, and citizen activism. - The Climate Monologues
He then breaks the Fourth wall and tells the audience that on their screen is an actual list of rail disasters. - The New Adventures of Old Tom
The Capital murders were temporally separated, the first in April and the last two around Thanksgiving, each body clad only in panties belonging to the prior victim and posed in an open field stone’s throw away from a rail track. - Dust (novel)
Nandhakumar tries to kill Poochi but is himself killed by the edge of an oncoming rail tunnel. - Thodari
Batman heads over to investigate Vicki's lead and discovers that the Children of Arkham are planning to use the trains as a delivery system to spray the chemical at another rail station, potentially exposing thousands of people to it. - Batman: The Telltale Series
However, on a rail journey to his hometown, he meets elderly man Dharmalingam(Chittor Nagaiah) with an attractive daughter Suguna(B. - Manapanthal
Constance befriends Reed Loomis (Forrest Tucker), the head of the rail line, but is engaged to Kirby Morrow (Bruce Cabot), the owner of the steamboat. - Rock Island Trail (film)
When Max learns that his rail launching is the next target, he refuses the DEO's help because his parents, who were scientists, were killed due to poor safety conditions. - How Does She Do It?
At Brendam Docks, Thomas has a run-in with several of the competitors for The Great Railway Show (Teresa Gallagher, David Bedella & Rob Rackstraw) when their rail ferry docks there by mistake, and as a result, one of them is left behind. - Thomas & Friends: The Great Race
The next day, the pair mount the camel and head towards an Ottoman rail station. - Theeb
Donald Kilgore is determined to take a shipment of silk from Seattle to New York City by rail to break a monopoly set up by gangster Wallace Myton. - The Silk Express
The uncle demands her appearance, alone, at a rail station in a countryside town. - His at Night
Meredith says Cristina was the third rail in her marriage. - Bend & Break
He meets her at the rail station and tells he that he is mr Andy and that Nick sent him. - Rustling a Bride
The series is set inside the offices of the fictional Nation Building Authority, a newly created government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects ranging from new roads and rail lines to airports and high rise urban developments. - Utopia (Australian TV series)
Desperate, Jay goes to the train station and lies down on the rail to get people to think that he's crazy. - Barefoot (film)
Garin is going to follow the others but Konstantinov stops him, pointing out that the contact rail is still electrified. - Metro (2013 film)
Sometime later, they arrive at a small rail town, but no sign of Maggie. - Alone (The Walking Dead)
On the journey at a rail crossing, Ferdie tells Savio that Rosie's husband isn't dead and instead had run away to Madagascar with a girl; Rosie had simply lied to the village for the sake of her pride. - Finding Fanny
Zhong gives chase and the trio end up in a rail tunnel. - Police Story 2013
Retreating to an abandoned factory, the girl ties Adam to a rail upstairs. - The Liability
They hitch a lift to Rostov, where the highest concentration of the serial killer's victims has been found; they correctly reason that the killer must work close to the rail yards there and travel the railway lines to Moscow in the course of his work. - Child 44 (film)
His friends then make several claims, such as the third rail isn't live unless a train is coming or that trains can quickly brake; all of which are rebutted by the narrator who explains that the third rail is always live, and that a train can neither brake quickly nor swerve. - Killing Time (public information film)
After meeting with a tradesman, mr Joe Kennedy, and his guest Sir John Sinclair, they travel by rail to Edinburgh. - Backwards to Britain
Kyung-joon gets into a fateful car accident with Yoon-jae and the two of them drive over the guard rail and into the deep waters. - Big (TV series)
Sham and Naphi view the images and are shocked to see an image of a single rail leading off into the distance, an apparent impossibility as it is believed that the railsea is endless. - Railsea
While crossing the city with Bronn, Tyrion is unsurprised at hearing an agitator rail against the incest-born king, but surprised and hurt to hear himself blamed for Joffrey's misdeeds. - The Ghost of Harrenhal
Back at the study room with Shirley absent, Jeff (Joel McHale) and Britta rail against the institution of marriage. - Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts
Danny fights Tommy, and stabs him in the head with a rail spike, though Tommy recovers from this, blasts Danny with a shotgun, and takes one of his shoes. - The Christmas Season Massacre
The next morning, a shipment of gunpowder, which is used to loosen rocky ground, explodes on a rail car. - Jamais Je Ne T'oublierai
Recognizing that several of the victims use commuter rail, Olivia initiates a manhunt at a nearby rail station. - Neither Here nor There (Fringe)
He is at loggerheads with dr Klotz, the female doctor, and Lorchen, the room maid, who rail against his constant escapades and especially his heavy smoking. - Ravioli (TV series)
Harold Bledsoe, a botany enthusiast, is traveling by rail to San Francisco. - Welcome Danger
The two fought right over a live rail and took advantage of the electricity to shock each other while fighting in light-saber effect mortal combat; Kham knocked out No. - Tom Yum Goong 2
Gargamel then installs a detour rail so, when the Smurfs return, the detour sends them to Gargamel's house. - The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf
The plot unfolds mostly on board of the prisoner transport rail car guarded by a unit of paramilitary conscripts. - The Guard (1990 film)
The kids corner her so she climbs over the rail and jumps into the water. - Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien
Nurbanu is hesitant, but she succeeds by making it seem like she fell from the balcony, even though the rail was rigged and she was pushed. - Muhteşem Yüzyıl
Finally, he saves many people on a train from a group of thugs intent on murdering Cassius by preventing a collision with another rail car. - His Picture in the Papers
While spending time at a local zoo, Jules manages to steal a bat and sneak it away to an old shack by the rail yards. - My Ambition
She runs for her life into a subway, and when Hoplin pursues her, he steps on a third rail and is electrocuted. - Cry Terror!
Don and Nikki question several other people, including a former member of the mob who is now a legitimate businessman, the freighter train's owner, and a rail master. - Thirty-Six Hours
Joel's dog, Curley, helps by barking at Red and forcing the horse against the rail whenever Red tries to stray. - The Red Stallion
Realizing her love for him, Dot eventually finds Dick at the rail station, about to leave for st Louis. - Kept Husbands
Jack initially thinks Lily and his friend have had a quarrel, but he later confronts Bill inside the cab of the coal-fired steam locomotive that the two men operate together at the nearby rail yard. - Other Men's Women
Having a special interest for trains, she is enthusiastic to do an article on rail transport. - I Was a Mail Order Bride
Qinawi chases her through the rail yard and catches her, holding a knife to her head to keep the crowd at bay. - Cairo Station
Click Clack Jack is a family film about an 1870s rail engineer, "Click Clack" Jack, who uses principles from the Bible to try and save Potters Gap from the evil Baron Snodgrass. - Click Clack Jack: A Rail Legend
The old man identifies Victor Masters as Victor Hinks, who was sacked from the railway and denied membership to the retired rail workers club. - Breaking and Entering (novel)
The lumber cars manage to pass before the dynamite disintegrates the rail and the rest of the train. - Law of the Timber
Nesbit was a model and actress who became embroiled in the scandal surrounding the June 1906 murder of her former lover, architect Stanford White (Ray Milland), by her husband, rail and coal tycoon Harry Kendall Thaw (Farley Granger). - The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
The assets aren't worth more than $200, and the rail and cars are hopelessly worn down. - Two Weeks to Live
Kapitan Sino then start his adventures as he goes one on one with a giant gorilla, saves people trapped inside a burning building, prevents structures from collapsing during an earthquake, stops a Train from going off rail and caught small fry criminals faster than the local authorities. - Kapitan Sino
Then Duanmu accidentally knocks Yunhai's head on the staircase rail that causes Yunhai to remember everything about Yuxun: his promises with her, their fight, their bickering, their sacrifices for one another, and, most importantly, their extreme love for each other. - Meteor Shower (TV series)
Trexx, the company that runs the mammoth European rail network, has found a way to read and control minds using the dandruff shampoo "Dangst", with the goal of creating a highly efficient advertising system. - Metropia (film)
After the stress between Derrick and Samantha comes to a boil and they break up, he joins his friends on a trip to Ohio to visit a skate park with the perfect rail to practice theAC, and so they all can practice for the coming Tampa AM amateur skateboarding contest in Florida. - Street Dreams (film)
Still others, like Ron, rail against the futility of the city's efforts to stop New Yorkers from reading, because of their virtual addiction to books. - Bookwars
Where there is only one rail instead of two, the trains zip along and allow the first class passengers the side of the train riding on the rail. - The Switchman
Horrified and panicking, Zelda then demands to know how to prevent the Demon King's return, to which Anjean replies that the Spirit Tracks have to be restored by retrieving and completing several ancient rail maps (one for each of the four realms of Hyrule) from the above floors of the Tower to restore the Spirit Tracks. - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Doggett uses Bianco’s gun to connect the third rail with the water and kill the medusas, preventing further exposure. - Medusa (The X-Files)
He rushes to the station to get her rail ticket where he encounters the stone-man. - The Stoneman Murders
Arturo feels let down when Sonny decides that he wants to work with another manager, while his other two sons rail against Sonny for turning his back on his father and hope Arturo has the same conviction in their talents in the ring. - Price of Glory
He drops Carlos off at a safehouse before going to the abandoned rail yard described in the demand, but Carlos secretly follows. - Street Knight
Lumen, who was eager to pee, went into the bathroom where she died as a rail spike pins her head. - Sundo
Hachi waits every day at the train station, while sleeping in the rail yard at night. - Hachi: A Dog's Tale
They are taken to the Chinese base on the site of old Moscow, and eventually by rail to Peking, where the two wed. - Beyond Thirty
When the stagecoach does arrive, Sam puts Sarah and her son on it and follows them to a rail station called Silverton. - The Stalking Moon
Eventually Franz decides to travel on one of the high-speed rail coaches for as long as possible in one direction in order to discover what lies beyond the urban zoning and trying to find free space. - The Concentration City
Halfway along their journey, they miss their rail connection and spend a romantic holiday in the countryside of southern England. - Sailor of the King
He evades one by pushing him onto the live rail in the London Underground, after which the police launch a nationwide manhunt for the murderer. - Rogue Male (novel)
The statue was carved in Vermont and shipped by rail to Eugene. - Eugene Pioneer Cemetery
The third part, "Rails" narrows its focus to a single father and son who scavenge the rail yards in order to sell raw parts to the factories. - Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
Due to the configuration of the rail system, all southbound trains required a transfer to be made in Baltimore, Maryland. - Kate Warne
Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. - Castle of Sand
He has the look but lacks the self-assurance of the playboy he fancies himself to be, and he is mesmerized the first time he sees her standing by the rail on a crowded ferry crossing the Mekong River. - The Lover (film)
Traveling on a rail through large glass tunnels, the train is capable of taking passengers from Los Angeles, California to Japan. - Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
The seemingly eccentric visitor has been travelling by rail to Dover to take ship for France. - The Last Encounter
For trying to help Josie, Caroline petrifies Ray into falling down the building’s staircase and sends his girlfriend, Petra (Katie Sciuto), over the staircase rail to hang. - Evil Angel (film)
They blow up a rail tunnel under the English Channel. - High Treason (1929 film)
In a last-ditch effort, Tom detaches balloons tied to a rail and stuffs them into his bathing suit to look heavily muscled. - Muscle Beach Tom
Invariably, George the Fox tells Willoughby that the fox is on the other side of a rail fence, which is actually at the edge of a steep cliff. - Of Fox and Hounds
Grant recovers in hospital from his suicide attempt and Doc sees him off at the Yabba's rail station. - Wake in Fright
He immediately orders Stuart's three brigades of cavalry to Frederick to support the slim Confederate forces already holding the town, while his infantry follows close behind by rail and on foot (except for Pickett's division, which was decimated in the fight at the Gunpowder River, and is left behind as a rear guard in Baltimore). - Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant: The Final Victory
Blaine is aided by a group of men also working on the railroad: surveyor Tom Crosby, scout Noah Blaine, and rail crew leader Bart Eaton. - Heroes of the West (1932 film)
The arrow hits a rail and swings. - Two Little Indians
On the subway platform, Charlie sees Jordan drunkenly leaning over the guard rail and saves her from being hit by an oncoming train. - My Sassy Girl (2008 film)
His rant escalates until he spontaneously begins to strangle Gloria, threatening to throw her over the rail to the sidewalk below to punish her in jealous rage. - Él (film)
On another occasion, he sees a newspaper which says that Sandhya died in a rail accident. - Woh Kaun Thi?
Jacob asks Pramod if he would like to come to Denmark to live with him, but partly because Jacob used to rail against the rich, Pramod decides to stay in his home country. - After the Wedding
Another new law limits rail freight and levies a special tax on Colorado. - Atlas Shrugged: Part I
The Railrodder starts his long hike, but soon finds a one-man, open-top rail maintenance vehicle, commonly known as a "speeder", parked on a rail track. - The Railrodder
After the car is disconnected from the rest of the train on a remote rail siding, Mulder questions the Red-Haired Man, who says that the patient is immune to biological warfare. - 731 (The X-Files)
In Knoxville, Tennessee, a mysterious train car is left in a rail yard. - Nisei (The X-Files)
She becomes reacquainted with a childhood sweetheart also of Anglo-Indian heritage, rail traffic superintendent Patrick Taylor, and with Colonel Rodney Savage, whose Indian battalion has been sent to Bhowani to maintain law and order as British rule ends. - Bhowani Junction (film)
At the end, it is revealed that if you trip over the rail in the Time Hole attraction, you will fall into the Time Hole and never escape from the prehistoric land three million years ago. - Quasi at the Quackadero
In the struggle, Catlett is pushed over a balcony rail that was previously loosened, falling to his death. - Get Shorty (film)
Forced to halt by a blocked rail line, the train is attacked by counter-revolutionary forces with the soldiers on board surrendering, but summarily shot. - Peking Express (film)
Finch came to Silver City to investigate a murder committed in a private railway car at the Silver City rail depot. - Peacemakers (TV series)
Sailing back to New York City, Prudence sees her parents from the ship's rail and begins to disembark. - Rome Adventure
The latest victim of lions havoc is the death of the chief engineer who is constructing the rail bridge. - Mrugaraju
They outline the PMs aspirations for rationalisation of the road and railway networks to avoid duplication, for a new link should be created between Heathrow airport and the West Coast Main Line, better coordination between the railways and bus services with a single ticket that can be used on both mainline rail and the London Underground and also for combined bus and railway timetables to be published with bus time available within railway stations. - The Bed of Nails (Yes Minister)
The camera moves to Pierre Narval (Kirk Douglas), leaning over the rail and gazing at the ocean. - The Story of Three Loves
Simon ("Widgie") and Jen Widgeon are innocently exploring the abandoned Highgate rail tunnel near their home when they discover a hidden gateway halfway along it. - The Horn of Mortal Danger
She spends most of her time looking out the window and watching the nearby elevated rail line. - The Man with the Golden Arm (novel)
From this point on all the events of the story take place on trains or at the various stations (which include the national science institute) along the nation's main rail line. - Gadget Invention, Travel, & Adventure
This railway hub was built in 1939 and is considered to be "The last of America's great rail stations. - 9mm Sunrise
Archangel is set in 1919 in the northern Russian area of Archangel, during a brief historical moment of Canadian intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution following the end of World War One-legged Canadian soldier lt John Boles sighs on the rail of a steamship over the ashes of his dead lover Iris. - Archangel (film)
Across the rail lines lies the “black town,” where the native population resides. - The Jewel in the Crown (novel)
She stops for help at the rail station, where she persuades mr Prades, the rail master, of the danger by revealing her zombie horse. - Return of the Blind Dead
The brakeman explains that he is just catching a ride home, and he shows LaCrosse a map with a rail marker named "Believe". - Switchback (film)
One night while in his viewing tower at the port's rail terminus, Maloin witnesses a fight on the dockside. - The Man from London
Noi has a baby named Nid, whom Kyoji finds hanging on the deck rail in a harness, where Noi left the child while she was swimming. - Invisible Waves
A long climactic chase begins as Dawn gives the Major the slip at the train station while the Candy Man and the Sarge chase Joe across a rail yard and through the Elbe Tunnel. - $ (film)
As she climbs over the rail in an attempt to retrieve the money, Jack (James Woods), an investigative journalist, sees her from the office window of the newspaper for which he works, and assumes that she is trying to commit suicide. - Straight Talk
After a few months laying rail tracks, he encounters the first of many dangers in pre-World War I Africa: a man-eating lion. - Chander Pahar
Between 4 and 5 December, a train accident near Waverley Station in Edinburgh leads to the ASLEF and RMT trade unions to declare a strike due to safety concerns, forcing the heavy Christmas rail passenger traffic to use the roads instead. - The Day Britain Stopped
He chases Rolfe through a cemetery and into a rail yard. - Tightrope (film)
This time, he touches the third rail with a long milk dipper in an attempt to create light and receives an enormous electric shock. - Call It Sleep
He then steals a woman's purse and buys a rail ticket to Paris. - In This World
Left Ear detonates part of the street, sending the van into the Metro rail tunnel where the others are waiting. - The Italian Job (2003 film)
Five months later the coroner, Tom Weir, brings in Boris Osman, an engineer to help him investigate the crash and immediately runs into stonewalling by the state-owned rail company, who don’t want him to examine the train. - The Day of the Roses
They capture one of the SS rail cannons and take down the tower with Morder inside. - The Outfit (video game)
She hatches a plot to remove a rail from the line in order to cause a derailment of his train. - La Bête humaine
During an underground costume party, Bulcsú spots and follows the hooded figure and they get into an altercation, after which they start rail running similarly to the contest with Gonzó earlier. - Kontroll
Vaughan reaches the conversion facilities through an old rail system, he sneaks and fights his way to the dr Carter and frees her but is trapped in a room with a not fully constructed alien war droid, Riley destroys it and escapes the facilities. - C-12: Final Resistance
The Subshuttles utilized a magnetic levitation rail system. - Genesis II (film)
Mackenzie, however, informs passengers that police have received reports of anarchist bombs placed along the rail line, and that the train will be rerouted to Nuremberg. - The Cassandra Crossing
He is able to confirm that Winnie's shoes were found by the rail line which confirms Poirot's theory. - The Labours of Hercules
She suggests the only way they'll ever be free is if Jeff kills Carl, making it look like a drunken accident at the rail yard. - Human Desire
After he gets in the car, Catherine puts the car in drive, but instead of moving forward as expected, the vehicle speeds in reverse, crashing through a guard rail and careens down a steep cliff, killing them both As Diane is the sole heir, she comes under suspicion for their murder; police arrest both her and Frank. - Angel Face (1953 film)
As Rubí follows him, running down the staircase while holding onto the rail and screaming that she will never let him go, she loses her grip on the rail, falls several stories down, and crashes into a glass table below. - Rubí
When he makes contact with an attractive Polish resistance agent (Maria Perschy), he attempts to leave Germany by rail with his new friend providing assistance, but the pair are captured at a railway station. - The Password Is Courage
While waiting at the rail station, she notices a large crate, marked as containing radioactive cobalt, and meets Manon (Lon Chaney Jr), a hermit handyman at the Cypresses, when he comes to pick up the crate. - The Alligator People
One day when Shahid is out on a stroll he sees Najma on crutches, it turns out that the fall from the rail track didn't kill her, but broke her legs. - Armaan (1966 film)
The family members flee from the sheriff and during a car chase they are hit by a train that pushes their car on the rail for several miles. - Kill the Alligator and Run
Liam's father joins a group of fascists, who rail against rich Jews and cheap Irish labour. - Liam (film)
However, severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by sea or air, and the closest rail line from Juneau ends at Nenana, 600 miles east of Nome. - Balto (film)
That night, he and his associates destroy a rail station, but only Guy manages to elude the German soldiers. - Head in the Clouds
Whilst securing the area and searching a series of abandoned rail tunnels, Vattic encountered a psychic projection of one of Grienko's child test subjects, who helps to awaken Vattic's psychic powers within him. - Second Sight (video game)
The POWs replace the damaged rail as the SS race up from behind. - Von Ryan's Express
The train makes a quick stop at a carnival along the rail where The Whammer challenges Hobbs to strike him out. - The Natural
In the second part, "The Airborne Toxic Event," a chemical spill from a rail car releases a black noxious cloud over Jack's home region, prompting an evacuation. - White Noise (novel)
resistance, the country is cut in half, though both sides remain linked by (risky) shipping and the rail network in occupied Canada, though it is occasionally subject to sabotage by the Canadian resistance. - Settling Accounts
GoldenEye also tosses Oddjob over a rail into a pit inside the Hoover Dam after he betrays and attacks GoldenEye for unknown reasons. - GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
Still pursued by Vincent, Max and Annie board a metro rail train, but Vincent boards the train as well. - Collateral (film)
The railwaymen are introduced to their new managing director, Mr Hemmings, by watching a video about the "age of change" in Britain's rail industry. - The Navigators (film)
Shortly afterward, Judah, a prostitute named Ann-Hari, and a Remade named Uzman lead a revolution in which the rail workers drive the overseers away, free the Remade, and hijack the train, transforming it into a moving socialist dwelling. - Iron Council
While Whitney returns to his quarters Rainsford hears gunshots, he climbs onto the yacht's rail to get a better view of the nearby Ship - Trap Island, and falls overboard. - The Most Dangerous Game
A third report leads Peterson, Graham, and Major Kibby to large sugar theft at a rail yard in Los Angeles. - Them!
One night, Willie takes Leo to a rail yard, where he and a gang sabotage the work of Gallardo's firm in order to lower their quality rating and lessen their ability to get contracts. - The Yards
Instead of enjoying his success, he retreats into a quiet indifference, interrupted only to rail mentally against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working-class friends and family. - Martin Eden
Labor in essential industries like steel and rail are elevated and given decent wages, housing, and education. - The Iron Heel
The narrator drives him to a bar filled with patients from a nearby mental hospital, who rail against both of them and eventually overwhelm the orderly stationed there to keep the patients under control. - Invisible Man
As Sam (Burl Ives), the sheriff, brings the news, Adam rushes to the train station in an attempt to dissuade him, but can only watch helplessly as his son steams away from him, smashing the rail car window with his head and maniacally laughing at him. - East of Eden (film)
As the work train arrives, Jill carries water to the rail workers, while Harmonica rides away with Cheyenne's body. - Once Upon a Time in the West
He could see South Queensferry, the marina at Port Edgar, the VAT 69 sign of the distillery there, the lights of Hewlett-Packard’s factory; and the rail bridge, dark in the evening’s last sky-reflected light. - The Bridge (novel)
Escaping the trap, the two stumble across Loveless' private rail line, which leads them to his industrial complex, hidden in Spider Canyon. - Wild Wild West
Set in the far future, a huge rail network connects the planet. - 2046 (film)
While he and Marty explore a rail spur they intend to use, they spot an out-of-control horse-drawn wagon. - Back to the Future Part III
After a freezing cross-country hike (involving a 300 ft (100 m) drop into a river and subsequent swim) the two hop on board a train consisting of four locomotives at a remote Alaskan rail yard. - Runaway Train (film)
Searching for a way to reestablish himself, Saccard is struck by plans developed by his upstairs neighbor, the engineer Georges Hamelin, who dreams of restoring Christianity to the Middle East through great public works: rail lines linking important cities, improved roads and transportation, renovated eastern Mediterranean ports, and fleets of modern ships to move goods around the world. - L'Argent
One evening the local sheriff, Royce Spalding, leaves the family dinner table to investigate trouble at the rail yards. - Places in the Heart
He also remembers a traumatic event from his childhood – he slid down a hand rail with his brother at the bottom, accidentally knocking him onto sharp-pointed railings, killing him. - Spellbound (1945 film)
Meanwhile, Sullivan wakes up in the rail yard of another city, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. - Sullivan's Travels
The town gates are shut, rail travel is prohibited, and all mail service is suspended. - The Plague

Example sentences for "rail" in interesting articles

Lekha was tall and rail thin, with big doll eyes. - My Summer at an Indian Call Center
And so, carrying your own food was the norm for most passengers traveling on India's vast rail network (the world's largest), which transports millions of people each day between more than 70,000 stations across the country. - In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train Tracks
It often happens that the best mathematics, once seen, is seen to be obvious. I'm going to cover a very small part of the story. Mathematical tourism The city of Gwalior in India is located on the main rail line south from Delhi, just a bit below Agra, the site of the Taj Mahal. - The oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a definite date
And a plan to bring Wi-Fi to its 10 million rail passengers a day. - Google Announces Plan to Put Wi-Fi in 400 Train Stations Across India
Lekha was tall and rail thin, with big doll eyes. - My summer at an Indian call center
The road and rail system that the British put in over a century ago is falling apart. - India (2002)
On the evening of June 24, the 40-year-old fruit and vegetable vendor went to relieve himself in a public toilet in Shakarpur, a district of east Delhi, and made the mistake of touching a metal rail inside the loo. - Can India modernize without relying heavily on coal?
There's a lot of rail out here. - I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave: Inside the online-shopping shipping machine
But if those records were retailing for $15, TMJ would have only paid back $67,500, and our statement would show an unrecouped balance of $382,500. I do not share this information out of a Steve Albini-esque desire to rail against the major label system (he already wrote the definitive rant, which you can find here if you want even more figures, and enjoy having those figures bracketed with cursing and insults). - My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
An offer was made, a deal was struck, and Beldavs estimates the shop acquired enough maps to fill 13 rail cars. - Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers
Now, with consumers learning more about encryption and foreign companies posing more serious competition, the tech giants of Silicon Valley are done staying on the sidelines. Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, and other leading tech companies have repeatedly released statements supporting strong encryption standards and dispatched top executives to security conferences to rail against backdoors. - The rise of the new Crypto War
On a typical weekend, officers in units stationed outside Cairo will get in their cars and drive off to their homes, leaving the enlisted men to fend for themselves by trekking across the desert to a highway and flagging down busses or trucks to get to the Cairo rail system. - Why Arabs Lose Wars (1999)
Though they had been replaced by rail for long-distance haulage and by steam engines for driving machinery, they still plowed fields, hauled wagons and carriages short distances, pulled boats on the canals, toiled in the pits, and carried armies into battle. - Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines
There's a lot of rail out here. - I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
Last year, when he and a group of friends were short of cash for a camping trip to Cornwall, he managed to talk Germany’s national rail operator into handing them some free tickets. - No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down
In Japanese cities, people are accustomed to walking everywhere, and public transportation trumps car culture; in Tokyo, half of all trips are made on rail or bus, and a quarter on foot. - Why Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone
Did I scare off the casual passers-by yet? Because this isn't a crusade to rail against the evils of modern copy-protection. - Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006)
Did I scare off the casual passers-by yet? Because this isn't a crusade to rail against the evils of modern copy-protection. - Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006)
Section 30 refers to the portion of the 1998 Scotland Act, the Holyrood founding statute, which permits the transfer of other powers from the reserved section to the devolved criterion.It has been used, for example, to transfer control over issues like rail transport to Holyrood. - Scotland to seek second independence referendum
It is part of Addis Ababa's newly opened light rail (or tram) system, the first in sub-Saharan Africa.Mr Getachew shows me diagrams of a vast planned railway network, snaking its way across landlocked Ethiopia, linking Africa's second most populous country to Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan and Kenya. - Ethiopia's planned railway network
It would be great to build a high speed rail [into New York] but it's prohibitively expensive. - Why do so many people hate US airports? (2015)

Meaning of "rail" in English

any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
short for railway
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- he was concerned with rail safety
a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
criticize severely
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- She railed against the bad social policies
spread negative information about
complain bitterly
fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
lay with rails
travel by rail or train
Example
- She trained to Hamburg
convey (goods etc.) by rails
separate with a railing
provide with rails
enclose with rails

Meaning of "rail" in Hindi

लकडी या लोहे की छड ( Lakadi ya lohe ki chhad, lakadee yaa lohe kee chhad)
रोक कटहरा ( Rok katahara, rok kataharaa)
रेल की सडक ( Rel ki sadak, rel kee sadak)
एक चिडिया ( Ek chidiya, ek chidiyaa)
रेल ( Rel)
रेलवे ( Relave, relawe)
पटरी ( Patari, pataree)
रेल पटरी ( Rel patari, rel pataree)
छड़ ( Chhad)
एक चिड़िया ( Ek chidiya, ek chidiyaa)
रेल की सड़क ( Rel ki sadak, rel kee sadak)
लकड़ी या लोहे की छड़ ( Lakadi ya lohe ki chhad, lakadee yaa lohe kee chhad)
लोहे की सडक या रेल पर सफर करना ( Lohe ki sadak ya rel par saphar karana, lohe kee sadak yaa rel par saphar karanaa, lohe ki sadak ya rel par safar karana)
गाली देना ( Gali dena, gaalee denaa)
बुरा कहना ( Bura kahana, buraa kahanaa)
झिडकना ( Jhidakana, jhidakanaa, zhidakana)
निंदा करना ( Ninda karana, nindaa karanaa)
झिड़कना ( Jhidakana, jhidakanaa, zhidakana)

Synonyms of "rail"

fulminate
railing
rail off
vituperate
vilify
revile
rail in
inveigh
rails
track
train

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