TRAILER

trailer, house trailer

(noun) a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy

trailer

(noun) a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor

preview, prevue, trailer

(noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future

dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke

(noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

trailer (plural trailers)

Someone who or something that trails.

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

Synonyms: appendage, attachment, appendix, extension, extrusion

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.

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

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.

Synonym: mobile home

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

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.

Synonym: sentinel

(networking) The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

Antonym: header

Usage notes

• 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.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• retiral, retrial

Source: Wiktionary

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Trail"er, n.

Definition: One who, or that which, trails.

Definition: A part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object; as, the trailer of a plant. trailer park. An area equipped to accommodate trailers (2), often with outlets supplying electrical power and water. Called also trailer camp, trailer court.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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