Another word for subway
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- A narrow, usually fenced passage for horses or cattle.
- A usually straight extension of one side of an oval racetrack, used to start certain longer races so that the finish line can be kept on a straightaway in front of the stands or clubhouse.
- A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
- (Nautical) A submarine.
- A submarine sandwich.
- Substitute
- A system of public transportation in an urban area, using electric trains running along an unimpeded right of way
- A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.
- An organic structure having the shape or function of a tube; a duct:
- An inner tube.
- (Electronics) An electron tube.
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