Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs.

    Entgleisung

    сход с ре́льсовsxod s rélʹsov, круше́ниеkrušénije

    an accident in which a train runs off its track

  2. (countable, uncountable)An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.

  3. (countable, uncountable)An instance of thwarting or frustrating something.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The suspected cause of the derailment is a landslide.

    Підозрювана причина сходження з рейок - зсув. — Ahha

  2. Derailments are very rare in this country.

  3. What caused the train derailment?

  4. The train was traveling from Aberdeen to Glasgow when the derailment occurred.

  5. Derailments are relatively rare in Algeria.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs:

Origin

Borrowed from French déraillement.

Borrowed from French déraillement.

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Forms

plural: derailments
Singularderailment
Pluralderailments

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
knight's move thinking

Word family

1 related words
Relatedderail

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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