Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
elaboration
working out | developing in intricate and painstaking detail |
parcel
portion
share | the allotment of some amount by dividing something, death gets more than its share of attention from theologians |
| working dog | any of several breeds of usually large powerful dogs bred to work as draft animals and guard and guide dogs |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
part
portion | something less than the whole of a human artifact, the rear part of the house, glue the two parts together |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
working
workings | a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
| working memory | memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking |
working principle
working rule | a rule that is adequate to permit work to be done |
working papers
work papers
work permit | a legal document giving information required for employment of certain people in certain countries |
| working papers | records kept of activities involved in carrying out a project, the auditor was required to produce his working papers |
| working agreement | an informal agreement to work together |
helping
portion
serving | an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal, the helpings were all small, his portion was larger than hers, there's enough for two servings each |
labor
labour
working class
proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
working group
working party | a group of people working together temporarily until some goal is achieved, the working group was supposed to report back in two weeks |
c prostitute
cocotte
whore
harlot
bawd
tart
cyprian fancy woman working girl sporting lady
lady of pleasure
woman of the street | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money |
trainman
railroader
railroad man
railwayman
railway man | an employee of a railroad |
| working girl | a young woman who is employed |
workman
workingman
working man
working person | an employee who performs manual or industrial labor |
dowry
dowery
dower portion | money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage |
share
portion
part
percentage | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group, he wanted his share in cash |
| capital working capital | assets available for use in the production of further assets |
part
portion
component part
component
constituent | something determined in relation to something that includes it, he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself, I read a portion of the manuscript, the smaller component is hard to reach, the animal constituent of plankton |
fortune
destiny
fate
luck
lot
circumstances portion | your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you), whatever my fortune may be, deserved a better fate, has a happy lot, the luck of the Irish, a victim of circumstances, success that was her portion |
workday
working day | the amount of time that a worker must work for an agreed daily wage, they work an -hour day |
| workday working day work day | a day on which work is done |
| assign allot portion | give out, We were assigned new uniforms |
share
divvy up
portion out
apportion
deal | give out as one's portion or share |
propertyless
wage-earning
working-class
blue-collar | of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers, party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw |
| working | serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity, discussed the working draft of a peace treaty, they need working agreements with their neighbor states on interstate projects |
working(a)
on the job(p) | actively engaged in paid work, the working population, the ratio of working men to unemployed, a working mother, robots can be on the job day and night |
running(a)
operative
functional
working(a) | (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing, in running (or working) order, a functional set of brakes |
| working(a) | adopted as a temporary basis for further work, a working draft, a working hypothesis |
| working | adequate for practical use, especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something, the party has a working majority in the House, a working knowledge of Spanish |
wage-earning
working-clas | working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries, working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor |