English Dictionary: railroad train | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Railroad \Rail"road`\, v. t. To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress. [Colloq., U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Railroad \Rail"road`\, Railway \Rail"way`\, n. 1. 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. Note: The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway. 2. The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver. Note: Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States. Note: In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: {Atmospheric railway}, {Elevated railway}, etc. See under {Atmospheric}, {Elevated}, etc. {Cable railway}. See {Cable road}, under {Cable}. {Perry railway}, a submerged track on which an elevated platform runs, fro carrying a train of cars across a water course. {Gravity railway}, a railway, in a hilly country, on which the cars run by gravity down gentle slopes for long distances after having been hauled up steep inclines to an elevated point by stationary engines. {Railway brake}, a brake used in stopping railway cars or locomotives. {Railway car}, a large, heavy vehicle with flanged wheels fitted for running on a railway. [U.S.] {Railway carriage}, a railway passenger car. [Eng.] {Railway scale}, a platform scale bearing a track which forms part of the line of a railway, for weighing loaded cars. {Railway slide}. See {Transfer table}, under {Transfer}. {Railway spine} (Med.), an abnormal condition due to severe concussion of the spinal cord, such as occurs in railroad accidents. It is characterized by ataxia and other disturbances of muscular function, sensory disorders, pain in the back, impairment of general health, and cerebral disturbance, -- the symptoms often not developing till some months after the injury. {Underground railroad} [or] {railway}. (a) A railroad or railway running through a tunnel, as beneath the streets of a city. (b) Formerly, a system of co[94]peration among certain active antislavery people in the United States, by which fugitive slaves were secretly helped to reach Canada. Note: [In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was used.] [bd]Their house was a principal entrep[93]t of the underground railroad.[b8] --W. D. Howells. | |
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Railroading \Rail"road`ing\, n. The construction of a railroad; the business of managing or operating a railroad. [Colloq. U. S.] | |
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Areolar \A*re"o*lar\, a. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areol[91]. {reolar tissue} (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areol[91], between them. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. (d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable. --B. Jonson. 5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. We may again Give to our tables meat. --Shak. The nymph the table spread. --Pope. 6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. 7. The company assembled round a table. I drink the general joy of the whole table. --Shak. 8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo[89], in the walls of the cranium. 9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See {Water table}. 10. (Games) (a) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. (b) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. (c) pl. The games of backgammon and of draughts. [Obs.] --Chaucer. This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice. --Shak. 11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass. A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds. --Ure. 12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. 13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also {perspective plane}. 14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. {Bench table}, {Card table}, {Communion table}, {Lord's table}, etc. See under {Bench}, {Card}, etc. {Raised table} (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended to receive an inscription or the like. {Roller table} (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. {Round table}. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. {Table anvil}, a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. {Table base}. (Arch.) Same as {Water table}. {Table bed}, a bed in the form of a table. {Table beer}, beer for table, or for common use; small beer. {Table bell}, a small bell to be used at table for calling servants. {Table cover}, a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes. {Table diamond}, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface. {Table linen}, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like. {Table money} (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses. {Table rent} (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping. --Burrill. {Table shore} (Naut.), a low, level shore. {Table talk}, conversation at table, or at meals. {Table talker}, one who talks at table. {Table tipping}, {Table turning}, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. {Tables of a girder} [or] {chord} (Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal members. {To lay on the table}, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. {To serve tables} (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants. --Acts vi. 2. {To turn the tables}, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. {Twelve tables} (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings. --Burrill. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Roller \Roll"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts. 2. A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery. 3. (Naut.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. 4. A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also {roller towel}. 5. (Print.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. --W. Savage. 6. A long cylinder on which something is rolled up; as, the roller of a man. 7. A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. 8. (Zo[94]l.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves; a leaf roller. see {Tortrix}. 9. [CF. F. rollier.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family {Coraciad[91]}. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or [bd]tumbling[b8] in flight. Note: Many of the species are brilliantly colored. The common European species ({Coracias garrula}) has the head, neck, and under parts light blue varied with green, the scapulars chestnut brown, and the tail blue, green, and black. The broad-billed rollers of India and Africa belong to the genus {Eurystomus}, as the oriental roller ({E. orientalis}), and the Australian roller, or dollar bird ({E. Pacificus}). The latter is dark brown on the head and neck, sea green on the back, and bright blue on the throat, base of the tail, and parts of the wings. It has a silvery-white spot on the middle of each wing. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Railroad, PA (borough, FIPS 63288) Location: 39.76007 N, 76.69694 W Population (1990): 317 (114 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) |