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# trailer

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

«trailer» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A trailer is a wheeled box or platform pulled behind a car, truck or tractor to carry things or animals. [tree →](https://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#m4)

### 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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x1)
- The horse stepped carefully into the trailer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x2)
- We watched the trailer for the new cartoon film. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x3)
- The trailers before the movie lasted twenty minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x4)
- My cousin in Texas lives in a trailer near the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/#x5)
- The tractor pulled a trailer full of hay. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «trailer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trailer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«trailer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/trailer.html) on Mova free.