Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To run or cause to run off the rails.
- intransitive & transitive verb To come or bring to a sudden halt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In railroading, a switch which is designed to divert or throw a train or car from the track or to stop its further progress.
- To cause to leave the rails or run off the track, as a railroad-train: as, the engine was derailed at the crossing.
- To run off the track or rails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A device placed on railway tracks causing a train to derail.
- verb transitive To cause to come off the
tracks . - verb intransitive To come off the
tracks . - verb intransitive To
deviate from the previous course or direction. - verb transitive To cause to deviate from a set course or direction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to run off the tracks
- verb run off or leave the rails
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But if it gets too heavy, it could To use your term derail the fun train.
LEVERAGE: "The Snow Job" Open thread Rogers 2009
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But if it gets too heavy, it could To use your term derail the fun train.
LEVERAGE: The 13th Step is "Shut Up About It Already." Rogers 2009
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I didn’t have – still don’t have – the emotional energy to even so much as lob a link to How to Suppress Discussions of Racism into the mix, much less actually engage the woman with why that kind of derail is completely inappropriate to the conversation and why doesn’t she try shutting up and listening for a change, etc.
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I guess I would have preferred a little more social commentary, especially given the story, but I don’t know where they would have put it that didn’t derail from the movie.
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The designation could derail the city's plans to recycle its own wastewater and to reduce its reliance on imported water, she said.
Fish Swims Into Water Fight Tamara Audi 2011
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Do not let that word derail us from a far larger conversation we as a country should be having.
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Why can't you guys get rid of the word "derail" and give a positive spin to it? mike
Top Dem aide: 'Significant policy issues' could still derail deal 2009
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Free State ANC working committee member Thabo Manyoni said the outcome of the court proceedings was an indication that people who wanted to "derail" the ANC would not succeed.
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Delphi has accused the investors of fraud and of conspiring to avoid closing on the agreement and "derail" Delphi's bankruptcy plan.
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There's no attempt or intention by anyone to "derail" the topic.
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