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# trailer

«trailer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wheeled box or platform pulled behind a car, truck or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a trailer, trailers); verb (trailer, trailers, trailered, trailering — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A trailer is a wheeled box or platform pulled behind a car, truck or tractor to carry things or animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#m1)

2) A trailer is a short video showing bits of a film, show or game to make people want to watch it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#m2)

3) (US, Canada) A trailer is a caravan or a mobile home that people live or holiday in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#m3)

4) (verb, rare) To trailer something is to carry it on a trailer or to advertise it with a short clip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: towing a boat or horses, and watching film trailers before a cinema film. In maths problems a truck and trailer may carry loads, so its weight is added to the truck's. In stories about the USA, a «trailer park» is a place where people live in mobile homes. Phrases: «horse trailer», «film trailer», «movie trailer», «trailer park».

### examples

- Dad hooked the trailer onto the back of the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x1)
- The horse stepped carefully into the trailer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x2)
- We watched the trailer for the new cartoon film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x3)
- The trailers before the movie lasted twenty minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x4)
- My cousin in Texas lives in a trailer near the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x5)
- The tractor pulled a trailer full of hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x6)
- A truck weighs 3 tonnes and its trailer weighs 2 tonnes, so together they weigh 5 tonnes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x7)

### note

Countable: «a trailer», «two trailers». In the UK people say «caravan» for a holiday trailer; in the USA «trailer» or «RV». Comes from «trail», to drag behind. A film trailer comes before the film even though the word sounds like «after» – long ago they were shown after it.

### In the corpora

- [Trailers show the most exciting or scary bits squeezed together, so a trailer can feel scarier than the whole film.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/16/)
- [In Texas, Josiah's family lives in a trailer (a mobile home).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «trailer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.