Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
improvisation
temporary expedient | an unplanned expedient |
| suspension temporary removal | a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc) |
| fixed intonation | the intonation of keyboard instruments where the pitch of each note is fixed and cannot be varied by the performer |
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 |
hard disc
hard disk
fixed disk | a rigid magnetic disk mounted permanently in a drive unit |
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 |
read-only memory
ROM
read-only storage
fixed storage | (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
temporary hookup
patch | a connection intended to be used for a limited time |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
| fixed phagocyte | a phagocyte that does not circulate in the blood but is fixed in the liver or spleen or bone marrow etc. |
temporary injunction
interlocutory injunction | injunction issued during a trial to maintain the status quo or preserve the subject matter of the litigation until the trial is over |
mantissa
fixed-point part | the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm, in the expression log . the mantissa is . |
fixed-point notation
fixed-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is fixed by convention |
typewriter font
constant-width font
fixed-width font
monospaced font | a typeface is which each character is given the same width (as by a typewriter) |
| fixed star | any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion |
temp
temporary
temporary worker | a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis |
trainman
railroader
railroad man
railwayman
railway man | an employee of a railroad |
fixed charge
fixed cost
fixed costs | a periodic charge that does not vary with business volume (as insurance or rent or mortgage payments etc.) |
nondiscretionary trust
fixed investment trust | an investment trust that can buy only those securities listed when the trust was organized |
| fixed-point number | a number represented in fixed-point notation |
| temporary state | a state that continues for a limited time |
fixed oil
fatty oil | nonvolatile animal or plant oil |
fixed
frozen | incapable of being changed or moved or undone, e.g. frozen prices, living on fixed incomes |
| fixed | (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value |
| fixed | securely placed or fastened or set, a fixed piece of wood, a fixed resistor |
irregular
temporary | lacking continuity or regularity, an irregular worker, employed on a temporary basis |
fixed
set
rigid | fixed and unmoving, with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare, his bearded face already has a set hollow look- Connor Cruise O'Brien, a face rigid with pain |
impermanent
temporary | not permanent, not lasting, politics is an impermanent factor of life- James Thurber, impermanent palm cottages, a temperary arrangement, temporary housing |
comfortable
easy
prosperous
well-fixed
well-heeled
well-off
well-situated
well-to-do | in fortunate circumstances financially, moderately rich, they were comfortable or even wealthy by some standards, easy living, a prosperous family, his family is well-situated financially, well-to-do members of the community |