contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
contact physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
crossing | traveling across |
crossing | a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) |
contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
overhead smash | a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head |
hybridization hybridisation crossbreeding crossing cross interbreeding hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
wire-haired fox terrier | a fox terrier with wiry hair |
wirehair wirehaired terrier wire-haired terrier | a terrier with wiry hair |
griffon wire-haired pointing griffon | breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat, originated in Holland but largely developed in France |
baling wire | wire used to make bales |
barbed wire barbwire | strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage |
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 |
chicken wire | a galvanized wire network with a hexagonal mesh, used to build fences |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
contact tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
cross hair cross wire | either of two fine mutually perpendicular lines that cross in the focus plane of an optical instrument and are use for sighting or calibration, he had the target in his cross hairs |
crossing crosswalk crossover | a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other |
electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
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 |
guy guy cable guy wire guy rope | a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) |
high wire | a tightrope very high above the ground |
intersection crossroad crossway crossing carrefour | a junction where one street or road crosses another |
level crossing grade crossing | intersection of a railway and a road on the same level, barriers close road when trains pass |
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 |
overhead | (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship |
overhead projector | a projector operated by a speaker, projects the image over the speaker's head |
pedestrian crossing zebra crossing | street crossing where pedestrians have right of way, often marked in some way (especially with diagonal stripes) |
pelican crossing | an acronym for pedestrian light control, a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights that are controlled by pedestrians |
piano wire | thin steel wire of high tensile strength |
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 |
school crossing | a pedestrian crossing where school children cross a street on the way to school |
telephone wire telephone line telegraph wire telegraph line | the wire that carries telegraph and telephone signals |
trip wire | a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over |
viewgraph overhead | a transparency for use with an overhead projector |
wiper wiper arm contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
wire | ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc |
wire conducting wire | a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance |
wire cloth | fabric woven of metallic wire |
wire cutter | an edge tool used in cutting wire |