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trail head |
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trail rope |
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trailer
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| trailer park
| trailer truck
| trailhead
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trailer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun trailer has 4 senses
- trailer(n = noun.person) dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind; Array is a kind of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
- trailer(n = noun.communication) preview, prevue - an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future; Array is a kind of ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing
- trailer(n = noun.artifact) Array - a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor; Array has particulars: car carrier, semi, semitrailer
- trailer(n = noun.artifact) house trailer - a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy; Array has particulars: camper trailer, manufactured home, mobile home
has particulars: lingerer, loiterer, plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud, potterer, putterer, straggler, strayer
Derived forms verb trail1, verb trail3
is a kind of conveyance, transport
is a part of articulated lorry, rig, semi, tractor trailer, trailer truck, trucking rig
Derived form verb trail5
is a kind of wheeled vehicle
Derived form verb trail5
CIDE DICTIONARY
trailer, n.
One who, or that which, trails. [1913 Webster]
trailer, n.
- a wheeled vehicle without a motor, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle in front of it; [PJC]
- A short blank segment of movie film attached to the end; -- used for convenient insertion of the film in a projector. [PJC]
- A short film consisting primarily of one or more short portions of a film, used in promotions or advertisements shortly before initial release of a film. [PJC]
- A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
trailer, n.
1 a person or thing that trails.
2 a series of brief extracts from a film etc., used to advertise it in advance.
3 a vehicle towed by another, esp.: a the rear section of an articulated lorry. b an open cart. c a platform for transporting a boat etc. d US a caravan.
4 a trailing plant.
1 a person or thing that trails.
2 a series of brief extracts from a film etc., used to advertise it in advance.
3 a vehicle towed by another, esp.: a the rear section of an articulated lorry. b an open cart. c a platform for transporting a boat etc. d US a caravan.
4 a trailing plant.
THESAURUS
trailer
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, afterpart, afterpiece, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, camp trailer, camper, caravan, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, house trailer, mobile home, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, queue, semitrailer, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, tab, tag, tail, tailpiece, talkie, talking picture, thriller, trail, trail car, trailer camp, trailer court, trailer park, train, truck trailer, underground film, wake
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