Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Traverser
(n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like. |
Traverser
(n.) One who traverses, or denies. |
Traverser
(n.) A traverse table. See under Traverse, n. |
Trench
(v. t.) To cut |
Trench
(v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch |
Trench
(v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in |
Trench
(v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next |
Trench
(v. i.) To encroach |
Trench
(v. i.) To have direction |
Trench
(v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth |
Trench
(v. t.) An alley |
Trench
(v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. |
Trench-plow
(v. t.) Alt. of Trench-plough |
Trench-plough
(v. t.) To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. |
-type
(n.) A combining form signifying impressed form |
Type
(n.) The mark or impression of something |
Type
(n.) Form or character impressed |
Type
(n.) A figure or representation of something to come |
Type
(n.) That which possesses or exemplifies characteristic qualities |
Type
(n.) A general form or structure common to a number of individuals |
Type
(n.) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy |
Type
(n.) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived. |
Type
(n.) A raised letter, figure, accent, or other character, cast in metal or cut in wood, used in printing. |
Type
(n.) Such letters or characters, in general, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively |
Type
(v. t.) To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand |
Type
(v. t.) To furnish an expression or copy of |
Woodbury-type
(n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing. |
Woodbury-type
(n.) A print from such a plate. |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
| trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other, instead of the war ending quickly, it became bogged down in trench warfare |
| trench warfare | a struggle (usually prolonged) between competing entities in which neither side is able to win, the hope that his superior campaigning skills would make a difference evaporated in the realization that electioneering had become a form of trench warfare |
approach trench
communication trench | a trench that provides protected passage between the rear and front lines of a defensive position |
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 |
| fire trench | a trench especially constructed for the delivery of small-arms fire |
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 |
mortar
howitzer
trench mortar | a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range |
| n-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of electrons |
| p-type semiconductor | a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes |
| pump-type pliers | a type of pliers |
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 |
| slit trench | narrow trench for shelter in battle |
| trench | a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth |
| trench | any long ditch cut in the ground |
| trench coat | a military style raincoat, belted with deep pockets |
| trench knife | a knife with a double-edged blade for hand-to-hand fighting |
| type | a small metal block bearing a raised character on one end, produces a printed character when inked and pressed on paper, he dropped a case of type, so they made him pick them up |
type slug
slug | a strip of type metal used for spacing |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
body type
somatotype | a category of physique |
asthenic type
ectomorphy | slender, weak, and lightweight |
endomorphy
pyknic type | round, fat, and heavy |
athletic type
mesomorphy | muscular and big-boned |
blood group
blood type | human blood cells (usually just the red blood cells) that have the same antigens |
A
type A
group A | the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen |
B
type B
group B | the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
AB
type AB
group AB | the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens |
O
type O
group O | the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens, people with type O blood are universal donors |
Rh-positive blood type
Rh positive | the blood group (approximately % of people) whose red cells have the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
Rh-negative blood type
Rh-negative blood
Rh negative | the blood group whose red cells lack the Rh factor (Rh antigen) |
| type | a subdivision of a particular kind of thing, what type of sculpture do you prefer? |
architectural style
style of architecture
type of architecture | architecture as a kind of art form |
type specimen
holotype | the original specimen from which the description of a new species is made |
| type | all of the tokens of the same symbol, the word `element' contains five different types of character |
| type | printed characters, small type is hard to read |
| type family | a complete set of type suitable for printing text |
roman roman type
roman letters
roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
| type genus | (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed, it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described |
| type | (biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon |
| type species | (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs |
Alpine glacier
Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |