Another word for railroad
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Noun
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- (Informal, former) A locomotive
- (Transport) A steam railroad locomotive.
- A railroad locomotive.
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- The letter l.
- An elevated railway.
- Harmonious interaction or order:
- An organism as a whole, especially with regard to its vital processes or functions:
- A network of structures and channels, as for communication, travel, or distribution:
- A direct line between two telephone switchboards.
- A main line of a railroad, canal system, telephone system, etc.
- (Slang) A principal and easily accessible vein, usually in the arm or leg, into which a drug can be injected.
- A principal section of a railroad line.
- Material, such as boards or shingles, used for surfacing the outside walls of a frame building.
- A covering for an outside wall, as of a frame building, consisting generally of overlapping shingles, boards, aluminum panels, etc.
- A short section of railroad track connected by switches with a main track.
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- (Rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- (Sometimes) Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- A railway designed to operate on steep slopes and having a locomotive with a center cogwheel that engages with a cogged center rail to provide traction.
- A railway for a very steep grade with traction supplied by a central cogged rail that meshes with a cogwheel on the engine
- A single rail serving as a track for cars suspended from it or balanced on it
- A railway with such a track
- A railway system using a single rail.
- A railroad on which the cars are moved by an endless cable driven by a stationary engine.
- A street railway on which the cars are pulled by a continuously moving underground cable
- An underground urban railroad, usually operated by electricity.
- A passage for such a railroad.
- An underground, metropolitan electric railway or the tunnel through which it runs
- The entire region beneath the surface of the earth
- A secret movement organized in a country to oppose or overthrow the government in power or enemy forces of occupation
- (Chiefly British) A subway system.
- Plural form of rail
- Plural form of train
- A transport system using these rails used to move passengers or goods.
- Any track with rails for guiding wheels; specif., a road laid with parallel steel rails along which run passenger cars that are lighter than railroad cars
- A railroad, especially one operated over a limited area:
- A wire or system of wires connecting telephone or telegraph systems.
- A particular section of a railway network:
- A railway track or system of tracks.
- The narrow channel, containing lengthwise copper wires or strips carrying electric current, into which track lights are inserted
- A distinct path, as along a length of film or magnetic tape, on which sound, images, or other information is recorded.
- A rail or set of parallel rails upon which railroad cars or other vehicles run.
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