railroad
rail·road (rāl′rōd′)
noun
- a road laid with parallel steel rails along which cars carrying passengers or freight are drawn by locomotives
- a complete system of such roads, including land, rolling stock, stations, etc.
- the persons or corporation owning and managing such a system
transitive verb
- ☆ to transport by railroad
- ☆ Informal to rush through quickly, esp. so quickly as to prevent careful consideration to railroad a bill through Congress
- ☆ Slang to cause to go to prison on a trumped-up charge or with too hasty a trial
intransitive verb
☆ to work on a railroad
railroad
n.
Converse of object
- build: Examples include building a railroad, or a factory, clearing land, or putting oneself through college.
- run: It is no way to run a railroad, or we suggest, a police service.
- use: Although the text used is in the American form of the English language - e.g. using the word railroad instead of railroad!
- have: We already have a nascent global underground railroad of sorts, thanks partly to mobility within the communion.
- cross: Take the first right turn past the factory: after about 500m you will cross a railroad.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- through: This has led to crisis year after year where cuts have been proposed and railroaded through.
Adjective modifier
- transcontinental: Want to create a race to complete a transcontinental railroad in 30 years using only steam engines?
- underground: Link The Underground Railroad Curious about how slaves escaped?
- American: Thursday 16 February 2006 North America Ian Lothian A selection of slides of North American railroads.
- great: The bank is as necessary to the thrifty farmer as it is to the greatest railroad or the most wide-spread trust.
- first: America's first railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio, used the 4 foot 8.5 inches standard.
- new: Materials for the new railroad were brought in on the River on Thames barges ironically utilizing waterpower for the new railroad.
Modifies a noun
- ty: Would you believe that they are now going to ban railroad sleepers ( railroad ties )?
- enthusiast: This rare archive steam footage was lovingly captured on 16mm film by the famous American railroad enthusiast, Harry P. Dodge.
- track: Walk down the track, to the old railroad track.
- bridge: A short walk from the hotel is a railroad bridge you can walk on that gives a magnificent view of the river Eden.
- station: The world's longest railroad station name is in Wales.
- yard: It began to rain, so they went to a box car in the railroad yards.
Noun used with modifier
There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewelldivine as the vale of Tempe; you might have seen the gods there morning and eveningöApollo and the sweet Muses of the Light You enterprised a railroadyou blasted its rocks away And, now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
Browse dictionary entries near railroad
- raillery
- railing
- railhead
- railbird
- rail-splitter
- rail at
- rail
- raider
- raid
- rah-rah
- railroad flat
- railroading
- railway
- raiment
- rain
- rain attenuation
- rain-barrel effect
- rain check
- rain fade
- rain forest
