Trailer

A trailer may be:

Construction trailer, temporary accommodation for offices and building materials storage on construction sites. Construction trailers are mobile structures used to accommodate temporary offices dining facilities and storage of Building materials during construction projects An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an Organization with specific duties attached For other kinds of building materials see Hardware, Biology, Star formation. In the fields of Architecture and Civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the Building or assembling of Infrastructure
Trailer (vehicle), an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle
Mobile home, a housing unit built in factories, rather than on site
Portable classroom, a temporary classroom for schools with insufficient building capacity
Trailer (film), an advertisement, usually in the form of a brief excerpt or string of excerpts, for a new film
Teaser trailer, a truncated version of a theatrical or film trailer
Trailer (book), a short video for marketing a book
Trailer (information technology), data appended to a main block of data to facilitate its processing
Trailer (album), the 1994 album from the Northern Irish musical group Ash

A Trailer is generally an unpowered vehicle pulled by a powered vehicle Mobile homes or static caravans are prefabricated homes built in factories rather than on site and then taken to the place where they will be occupied A portable classroom (in Australian English a demountable and often referred to as a Terrapin or a "Portakabin" in the UK and Ireland A teaser trailer, or teaser is a short trailer used to advertise an upcoming movie game or television series A book trailer is a Video advertisement for a Book which employs techniques similar to those of movie trailers They are circulated on television and online In Information technology, trailer refers to supplemental Data placed at the end of a block of data being stored or transmitted which may contain information Trailer is a punk influenced mini-album by the band Ash featuring their first three singles

Dictionary

-noun

(Australia, New Zealand, US) A small vehicle, usually open-topped, towed behind another, and used for carrying equipment, etc, that cannot be carried in the leading vehicle.
(UK) Any vehicle designed to be towed, with the exception of a caravan.
(US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary.
(US) A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination, but typically is permanently left in an area designated for such homes.
(mainly US, media) A preview of a film or TV show.
(computing) A usually invalid value used to signal the end of a list of data, often sorting last alphabetically ("ZZZZZ") or numerically ("99999") among all possible valid values; especially common in punched cards, where the final card is called a trailer card.
(networking) the last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence

-verb

To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

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