A bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll.

synonyms: rail, rails, track.

Roget 292: arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur [Fr.].    home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder^†; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage etc. (refuge) 666.    return, remigration^†; meeting; rencounter^†, encounter.    completion etc. 729.    recursion [Comp.].    ... show more

Roget 293: departure, decession^†, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit etc. (egress) 295; exodus, hejira, flight.    leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf wiedersehen [G.], sayonara, dosvidanya [Rus.], ciao, aloha, hasta la vista [Sp.]; stirrup cup; valedictorian.    starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation; airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport.    ... show more

Dutch: rail, spoor, spoorbaan, spoorlijn, spoorweg
Polish: szyna

A chute down which logs can slide.

Polish: ryza

A narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc..

A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land.

Dutch: landingsbaan, landingsstrip, landingsstrook, startbaan
Polish: pas startowy, droga startowa, pas rozbiegowy