railroad : Idioms & Phrases

• etc. See under Atmospheric, Elevated, etc.

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• noun a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
  funicular; funicular railway.
  

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• . See Cable road, under Cable.

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• noun a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level
  el; elevated railway; overhead railway; elevated.
  

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• a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines.

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• a railroad on which the cars are drawn by horses; in England, and sometimes in the United States, called a tramway.

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• a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water course.

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• noun a bed on which railroad track is laid
  

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• noun a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
  railroad car; car; railcar.
  
  • three cars had jumped the rails

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• noun the operator of a railway locomotive
  locomotive engineer; engine driver; engineer.
  

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• noun an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between them
  

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• noun line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
  railway line; railway; railroad; railway system.
  

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• noun an employee of a railroad
  railway man; railroader; trainman; railwayman.
  

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• noun a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
  siding; turnout; sidetrack.
  

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• noun terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods
  railroad station; train station; railway station; train depot.
  

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• noun terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods
  railroad station; train station; railway station; train depot.
  

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• noun a ticket good for a ride on a railroad train
  train ticket.
  

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• noun one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
  tie; crosstie; sleeper.
  
  • the British call a railroad tie a sleeper

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• noun a line of track providing a runway for wheels
  railroad; railway.
  
  • he walked along the railroad track

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• noun public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
  train.
  
  • express trains don't stop at Princeton Junction

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• noun a tunnel through which the railroad track runs
  

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• noun a prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas
  Ipomoea pes-caprae; beach morning glory.
  

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• noun larvae bore into and feed on apples
  Rhagoletis pomonella; apple maggot.
  

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• a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives.

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• noun a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad
  railroad car; car; railcar.
  
  • three cars had jumped the rails

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• a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. U.S.

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• a railway passenger car. Eng.

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• a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars.

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• . See Transfer table, under Transfer.

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• (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury.

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• noun secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
  Underground Railway.
  

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• . (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city . (b) Formerly, a system of coöperation among certain active antislavery people in the United States, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada . In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was used.

  "Their house was a principal entrepôt of the underground railroad." W. D. Howells.

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