trailer

See also: tráiler

English[edit]

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Wikipedia

A trailer (unpowered vehicle used to carry equipment)

A trailer (prefabricated home that could be towed but typically is not)

Etymology[edit]

From trail +‎ -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪlə(ɹ)/
- Audio (RP)
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(US) enPR: trāʹlər, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/
Rhymes: -eɪlə(ɹ)

Noun[edit]

trailer (plural trailers)

Someone who or something that trails.
- 2014, Chris Ekpekurede, Laughing Over Serious Matters: Stories to Make You Laugh and Reflect:
  There were vehicles following me, of course, but was any of them trailing me? […] Without any warning, and without signalling with the trafficator, I took a sudden right turn, hoping to shake off my trailer.
Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
Synonyms: appendage, attachment, appendix, extension, extrusion

the trailer of a plant
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.
- 1980 April, Greg Stone, Utility hauling? Do it with your boat trailer, Popular Science, page 104,
  My trailer is a Highlander T-14 8G, one of the smallest trailers. I normally use it for carrying a pair of Sunfish sailboats that are much lighter than its 800-pound weight limit.
- 2004, Mike Byrnes & Associates, Bumper to Bumper: The Complete Guide to Tractor-Trailer Operations, page 310,
  Or you can slide the trailer′s tandem forward toward the tractor. This changes the kingpin weight because you changed the “A” dimension of the trailer along with its wheel-base.
- 2009, Norman Edward Robinson, Kim A. Sprayberry, Current Therapy in Equine Medicine, page 122,
  There is also a strong preference to avoid the cave effect associated with the front of most horse trailers and a strong desire to face the large opening between the top of the rear doors and the roof of the trailer.
(US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.

Synonyms: camper (US), camper van, caravan (UK), mobile home
(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.

Synonym: mobile home
(chiefly US, media) A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.

Synonyms: preview, teaser
A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
(computing) 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.

Synonym: sentinel
(networking) 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.

Antonym: header

Usage notes[edit]

In Australia and the UK, use of trailer in the sense of “preview of a film” is gaining currency over the synonym preview, due to US influence.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Armenian: թրեյլեր (tʿreyler)
Finnish: traileri
Galician: tráiler
Greek: τρέιλερ (tréiler)
Japanese: トレーラー (torērā)
Portuguese: trailer
Russian: тре́йлер (tréjler)
Spanish: tráiler
Swahili: trela

Translations[edit]

part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object

German: Anhängsel (de) n, Anhang (de) m, Ausleger (de) m

unpowered wheeled vehicle that is towed behind another, and used to carry equipment, with the exception of a caravan

Czech: přívěs (cs) m
Finnish: perävaunu (fi)
French: remorque (fr) f
Galician: remolque m
German: Anhänger (de) m
Hebrew: גרור‎ m, נגרר‎ m (nigrár)
Italian: rimorchio (it) m
Kashubian: przëwôrka f
Macedonian: приколка f (prikolka)

Maori: kāta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tilhenger (no) m
Polish: przyczepa (pl) f
Portuguese: reboque (pt) m, trailer (pt) m
Russian: прице́п (ru) m (pricép)
Spanish: remolque (es) m, acoplado (es) m
Swedish: släp (sv) n, släpvagn (sv) c, släpfordon (sv) n, trailer (sv) c

furnished vehicle towed behind another, used as a dwelling when stationary

Czech: karavan (cs) m, přívěs (cs) m
Finnish: asuntovaunu (fi), matkailuvaunu
French: roulotte (fr) f
German: Wohnwagen (de) m
Hebrew: קרוון‎ (he) m (karaván)
Italian: roulotte (it) f, caravan (it) m

Macedonian: приколка f (prikolka)
Polish: przyczepa campingowa (pl) f, przyczepa kempingowa (pl) f
Portuguese: trailer (pt)
Spanish: caravana (es) f, casa rodante (es) f, (Spain) rulota f
Swedish: husvagn (sv) c

prefabricated home that could be towed but typically is not

Finnish: asuntovaunu (fi)
German: Wohncontainer (de) m, Wohnwagen (de) m

Hebrew: קרוון‎ (he) m (karaván)
Italian: casamobile (it) f
Swedish: husvagn (sv) c

vehicle towed behind another, used for carrying equipment

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: مَقْطُورَة‎ (ar) f (maqṭūra)
Armenian: կցորդ (hy) (kcʿord)
Belarusian: прычэ́п m (pryčép)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 拖車 (zh), 拖车 (zh) (tuōchē)
Czech: přívěs (cs) m
Danish: anhænger c
Dutch: aanhangwagen (nl) m, aanhanger (nl) m
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: haagis (et)
Finnish: peräkärry (fi)
French: remorque (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Anhänger (de) m
Greek: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: גרור‎ m (garúr), נגרר‎ m (nigrár)
Hungarian: utánfutó (hu), tréler
Italian: rimorchio (it) m

Japanese: トレーラー (torērā)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 트레일러 (ko) (teureilleo)
Macedonian: приколка f (prikolka)
Maori: kāta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tilhenger (no) m
Polish: przyczepa (pl) f
Portuguese: reboque (pt) m, trailer (pt) m
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: прице́п (ru) m (pricép), тре́йлер (ru) m (trɛ́jler)
Slovak: príves m
Spanish: tráiler (es) m, acoplado (es) m
Swedish: släpvagn (sv) c, släp (sv) n, trailer (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: treyler (tr)
Ukrainian: при́чіп m (prýčip), приче́п m (pryčép), тре́йлер m (tréjler)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

preview of a film

Afrikaans: lokprent
Arabic: تَشْوِيقَة‎ f (tašwīqa)
Armenian: թրեյլեր (tʿreyler)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 預告 (zh), 预告 (zh) (yùgào), 預告片 (zh), 预告片 (zh) (yùgàopiàn)
Finnish: traileri (fi)
French: bande-annonce (fr) f, trailer (fr) m
German: Vorschau (de) f, Trailer (de) m
Greek: τρέιλερ (el) (tréiler)
Hebrew: קדימון‎ (he) m (kdimón)
Hungarian: előzetes (hu)

Icelandic: stikla f
Italian: trailer (it) m, anteprima (it) f, provino (it) m
Japanese: 予告編 (よこくへん, yokokuhen), トレーラー (torērā)
Korean: 예고편 (ko) (yegopyeon), 트레일러 (ko) (teureilleo)
Malay: pratonton, previu, prantonton, treler
Polish: zwiastun (pl) m, trailer (pl) m, zapowiedź (pl) f
Portuguese: trailer (pt) m
Russian: тре́йлер (ru) m (trɛ́jler)
Spanish: avance (es) m, tráiler (es) m
Turkish: fragman (tr)

in computing: value used to signal the end of a list of data

Hebrew: תווית סוף‎ f (tavít sof)

in networking: the last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence

Dutch: aanhangwagen (nl), aanhanger (nl)
Hebrew: תווית סוף‎ f (tavít sof)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Dutch: ^{(please verify)} aanhangwagen (nl) m, ^{(please verify)} aanhanger (nl) m

Irish: ^{(please verify)} foleantóir m

Verb[edit]

trailer (third-person singular simple present trailers, present participle trailering, simple past and past participle trailered)

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.

Anagrams[edit]

retiral, retrial