railway : Idioms & Phrases

• one in which pneumatic power, obtained from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force.

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• 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; cable railway.
  

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• . See Cable road, under Cable.

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• noun railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction
  cog railway.
  

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• a railway having the rails set on edge.

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• a railway in which the machinery for moving the cars is driven by an electric current.

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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; elevated; elevated railroad.
  

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• one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

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• . See under Railway.

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• any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers who pay the highest regular rate; distinguished from a second-class car.

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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; cable railway.
  

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

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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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• . See Atmospheric railway, under Atmospheric.

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• noun railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction
  cog railway.
  

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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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• noun a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross
  

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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; railroad line.
  
• noun the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
  line; rail line.
  

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• noun a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks
  engine; locomotive; locomotive engine.
  

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

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

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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; railroad line.
  

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• noun an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
  railyard; yard.
  

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• noun small railway in an amusement park
  

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• . (a) An inclined railway with a cradelike car, by means of which a ship may be drawn out of water, as for repairs . (b) A railway arranged for the transportation of vessels overland between two water courses or harbors.

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

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