Significat

• Noun

  1. Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing.
  2. Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
  3. 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.
  4. A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
  5. A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination but is typically permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
  6. A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
  7. A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
  8. 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.
  9. The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.

• Verb