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trailers Synonyms & Antonyms

What Is Another Word for Trailers?

Instead of trailers you can say appendage, appendix or attachment depending on the context. A word with the opposite meaning is header.

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Trailers as a Noun

1

plural of trailer

2

Someone who or something that trails.

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3

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

the trailer of a plant

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4

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.

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5

A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.

We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.

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6

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.

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7

A preview of a film, video game or TV show.

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

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8

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

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9

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.

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10

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.

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Trailers as a Verb

1

third-person singular simple present indicative of trailer

2

To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.

Trailers in a Sentence

the trailer of a plant

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

We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.

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

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

The linked list terminates with a trailer record.

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

The engine wouldn't run any more so we had to trailer my old car to the wrecking yard.

Word Forms & Grammar

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Quick Facts About Trailers

Part of speechnoun, verb
Meaningplural of trailer
Synonymsappendage, appendix and attachment
Antonymsheader

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