trailer

Meanings

Plural: trailers

Noun

• someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
• an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future
• a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor
• a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy
• Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.
• Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
• 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.
• A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary.
• A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
• A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
• A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
• 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 last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

Verb

• To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

Synonyms

appendage, appendix, attachment, camper, caravan, dawdler, drone, extension, extrusion, house trailer, laggard, lagger, mobile home, poke, preview, prevue, sentinel, teaser, travel trailer

Antonyms

header