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say it: rayl
rail is a verb and noun meaning "complain bitterly". It is pronounced /ˈɹeɪl/ — rayl. It carries 15 recorded senses.
architecture
spread negative information about
“The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews”
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
a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rail come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.