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Someone who or something that trails.
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Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
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the trailer of a plant
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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.
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At the end of the day, we put the snowmobiles back on the trailer.
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A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
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We drove our trailer to Yellowstone Park.
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A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
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The young couple′s first home was in a trailer.
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A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
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The trailer for that movie makes it seem like it would be fun.
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A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
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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.
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The linked list terminates with a trailer record.
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The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
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The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.