Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
supplanting displacement | act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics |
displacement | act of removing from office or employment |
displacement deracination | to move something from its natural environment |
translation displacement | the act of uniform movement |
lateral pass lateral | a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer |
lateral line lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians, believed to detect pressure changes in the water |
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 |
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 |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
fissure of Sylvius Sylvian fissure lateral cerebral sulcus sulcus lateralis cerebri | the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures, separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres |
abducens muscle lateral rectus muscle lateral rectus rectus lateralis | the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward |
lateral condyle | a condyle on the outer side of the lower extremity of the femur |
lateral epicondyle | epicondyle near the lateral condyle of the femur |
lateral geniculate body corpus geniculatum laterale lateral geniculate | a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex |
lateral ventricle | either of two horseshoe-shaped ventricles one in each cerebral hemisphere, they communicate with the third ventricle via the foramen of Monro |
lateral thinking | a heuristic for solving problems, you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on |
principle of liquid displacement | (hydrostatics) the volume of a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the volume of the displaced fluid |
shift displacement | an event in which something is displaced without rotation |
trainman railroader railroad man railwayman railway man | an employee of a railroad |
displacement | (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one |
displacement displacement reaction | (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound |
volume unit capacity unit capacity measure cubage unit cubic measure cubic content unit displacement unit cubature unit | a unit of measurement of volume or capacity |
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS Lou Gehrig's disease | thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord, results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs |
tennis elbow lateral epicondylitis lateral humeral epicondylitis | painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand) |
lateral | lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body, lateral lemniscus |
lateral sidelong | situated at or extending to the side, the lateral branches of a tree, shot out sidelong boughs- Tennyson |