Meaning

9 senses
  1. Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.

    someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

  2. Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.

    the trailer of a plant

    Anhängsel, Anhang, Ausleger

  3. 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.

    At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer.

    Anhänger

    прице́пpricép, тре́йлерtrɛ́jler

    при́чіпprýčip, приче́пpryčép, тре́йлерtréjler

  4. (US)A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary.

    We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.

    Wohnwagen

  5. (US)A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.

    The young couple′s first home was in a trailer.

    Mobilheim, Wohncontainer

  6. (US)A preview of a film, video game or TV show.

    The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.

    Vorschau, Trailer

    тре́йлерtrɛ́jler

  7. A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.

  8. 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.

    The linked list terminates with a trailer record.

  9. The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

    The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

Examples

93 sentences
  1. Tom's parents live in an old trailer.

    Батьки Тома живуть у старомі трейлері.

    ruРодители Тома живут в старом трейлере.

    deToms Eltern leben in einem alten Wohnwagen.

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  2. Tom lives in a trailer park.

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  3. He attached the trailer to his car.

    deEr hängte den Anhänger an sein Auto.

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  4. I used to live in a trailer.

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  5. I thought you used to live in a trailer.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
unpowered wheeled vehicle that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, with the exception of a caravan:
Русский
By meaning 1
unpowered wheeled vehicle that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, with the exception of a caravan:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object:
unpowered wheeled vehicle that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, with the exception of a caravan:
furnished vehicle towed behind another, used as a dwelling when stationary:
prefabricated home that could be towed but typically is not:
preview of a film:

Origin

From trail + -er. The film sense derives from the fact that previews were formerly shown a

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.

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