trailer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From trail + -er. The film sense derives from the fact that previews were formerly shown after the main feature, rather than before as is usual today, that is trailing after the main feature.
Base: trail
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: trailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trailers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trailering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trailered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trailered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.
pos: noun
examples: There were vehicles following me, of course, but was any of them trailing me? […] Without any warning, and without signalling with the trafficator, I took a sudden right turn, hoping to shake off my trailer.
gloss: Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
pos: noun
examples: the trailer of a plant
gloss: An unpowered wheeled vehicle (not a caravan or camper) that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, etc., that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer.
My trailer is a Highlander T-14 8G, one of the smallest trailers. I normally use it for carrying a pair of Sunfish sailboats that are much lighter than its 800-pound weight limit.
Or you can slide the trailer′s tandem forward toward the tractor. This changes the kingpin weight because you changed the “A” dimension of the trailer along with its wheel-base.
There is also a strong preference to avoid the cave effect associated with the front of most horse trailers and a strong desire to face the large opening between the top of the rear doors and the roof of the trailer.
gloss: A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.
gloss: A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The young couple′s first home was in a trailer.
gloss: A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.
gloss: A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
pos: noun
gloss: The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically (e.g., “ZZZZZ”) or numerically (“99999”); especially common in the context of punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
pos: noun
examples: The linked list terminates with a trailer record.
gloss: The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
pos: noun
examples: The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.
gloss: To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.
pos: verb
examples: The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.
Derived words: antitrailer
cantina trailer
centre-axle trailer
driving trailer
driving van trailer
horse trailer
house trailer
lunch trailer
semi-trailer truck
teardrop trailer
tractor trailer
tractor-trailer
trailerable
trailer car
trailer card
trailercore
trailer court
trailerful
trailer hitch
trailerist
trailerite
trailerization
trailerize
trailerless
trailerlike
trailerload
trailer park
trailer park trash
trailer sailer
trailer sailor
trailership
trailer tent
trailer trash
trailer truck
travel trailer
truck and trailer
utility trailer
Translations:
lang: Hebrew
word: תווית סוף
roman: tavít sof
lang: Irish
word: eireaball