(v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him.
(v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.
(n.) Indisposition or morbid affection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Describing the Standard as a "good paper", he said his "social mission" was to help the ailing title survive.
(2) According to articles presented by Breitbart, Clinton is tired and ailing.
(3) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
(4) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
(5) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
(6) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
(7) Almost all of the 20-plus women claim they experienced Ailes’s harassment firsthand.
(8) In addition, these studies reveal that functional homology exists between Ail and the structurally related protein Rck, which promotes resistance to complement killing in Salmonella typhimurium.
(9) Seven of these changes are predicted to be in cell surface domains of the protein (a model for the proposed folding of Ail within the outer membrane is presented).
(10) Hague has contacted Shaker Aamer to reassure him that attempts to reunite him with his family in London are continuing, a process made increasingly urgent by fresh evidence of the 44-year-old's ailing health.
(11) A chance to revive the fortunes of an ailing giant might just appeal to a man of his talents and ego.
(12) This week his criticism of Kelly – and thus a reported “feud” with the influential Fox News chief Roger Ailes – flared up again when Trump retweeted a message that called Kelly a “bimbo”.
(13) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(14) Roginsky said in the suit that she was punished for not disparaging the former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson after she filed a sexual harassment suit against Ailes.
(15) Joe Muto, Slate The Newsroom can be read as Sorkin's attempt to cure what's ailing the news industry, but he's misdiagnosing the patient.
(16) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
(17) I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you’d be good and better and I’d be good and better,” Ailes said, according to the lawsuit.
(18) However, the ailing Greek economy, which is suffering from an unemployment level twice as high as it was in May 2010 and industrial production 30% below to its pre-crisis level, has few ways to generate income without the EU’s support.
(19) Polymerase chain reaction was performed by using a mixture of primers against the inv gene from Y. pseudotuberculosis and the ail gene from pathogenic Y. enterocolitica.
(20) Lost time rate of long ailing persons was three times higher than that in the whole group, while lost time rate among frequently ailing persons was 2.5 times higher that than for the whole group.
Rail
Definition:
(n.) An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
(v. i.) To flow forth; to roll out; to course.
(n.) A bar of timber or metal, usually horizontal or nearly so, extending from one post or support to another, as in fences, balustrades, staircases, etc.
(n.) A horizontal piece in a frame or paneling. See Illust. of Style.
(n.) A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.
(n.) The stout, narrow plank that forms the top of the bulwarks.
(n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed.
(v. t.) To inclose with rails or a railing.
(v. t.) To range in a line.
(v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.
(v. i.) To use insolent and reproachful language; to utter reproaches; to scoff; -- followed by at or against, formerly by on.
(v. t.) To rail at.
(v. t.) To move or influence by railing.
Example Sentences:
(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(3) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(4) Publishing the government's low-carbon transport strategy, transport secretary Lord Adonis said the measures would save an additional 85m tonnes of CO2 over the period 2018-22, adding that the government would shortly announce plans for further electrification of the rail network.
(5) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(6) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(8) He railed against the left’s lack of interest in tackling entrenched poverty.
(9) Maintaining air links between cities as far apart as Inverness and London makes sense, but at the same time we must invest in improvements to our rail network and make it easy to use technology to do business from anywhere in Scotland.
(10) Patronage at the airport in the early years would not justify a dedicated rail link.
(11) Refusing either to acquiesce in, or to rail at, Eliot's contempt for Jews, one strives to do justice to the many injustices Eliot does to Jews.
(12) It is true that rail travel has seen a boom over the past 10 years.
(13) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
(14) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
(15) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
(16) Concluding an inquiry into the experience of rail passengers that became dominated by the events at Southern , the transport select committee said commuters had been badly let down.
(17) Rail travel cost the BBC £29,847 in the three months to the end of June 2010, rising to £47,358 in the same period the following year, during which corporation departments began moving from London to Salford, according to the corporation's latest quarterly travel and expenses figures released this week .
(18) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
(19) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.