Monorail and Rail

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Monorail noun - A railway having a single track.

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Rail and monorail are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rail" instead a noun "Monorail".

Rail noun - A roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel.

Usage example: an abandoned stretch of rail that was overgrown with brush

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Monorail and rail are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Monorail" instead a noun "Rail".

Nearby Words: railing, railed, railhead, railage

Cool Train: Tim's 'Bat-Monorail', which functions very similarly to a rail gun with the 'pods' being the projectiles, is an almost scary example of this.

Source: Comic Book / Detective Comics (Rebirth)
The first sight the audience gets of Kotetsu in Tiger & Bunny is him standing on the rail in his Wild Tiger costume, waiting to intercept a hijacked monorail.

Source: Establishing Character Moment / Anime and Manga
Vanquish has a rail shooter sequence on a hijacked enemy transport in Act 2-3, and a Silent Scope-style stealth sniping mission on a monorail in Act 3-4.

Source: Unexpected Shmup Level

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