What's the difference between railroad and sidetrack?

Railroad


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Railway

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A review of all railroad-related deaths and significant injuries that occurred in a medium-sized metropolitan area from January 1, 1979, to June 30, 1986, was conducted.
  • (2) And in the 1840s, American railroads began designating a “ladies’ car” for the exclusive use of women and their male escorts.
  • (3) Officers took up positions on rooftops and along railroad tracks and scanned the terrain through rifle scopes and binoculars.
  • (4) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
  • (5) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
  • (6) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
  • (7) He said police reports in Sweden showed SW had told a friend, Marie Thorn, that she felt police and others around her "railroaded her" into pressing charges.
  • (8) Manuel said Obama had done this by designating large landscapes as well as places significant to landmark social movements, including labor activist Cesar Chavez’s home ; the Stonewall Inn , where a 1969 police raid kicked off a new front in the LGBT equality movement; and a park dedicated to the work of Harriet Tubman , a former slave who helped other slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
  • (9) A total of 25 male railroad and underground railroad car painters were studied.
  • (10) horns of cars, sirens of emergency vehicles and alarm signals of railroad crossings, and then displays them as vibration to the driver.
  • (11) With the epizootic situation remaining tense and the danger of TBE virus infection still present, TBE morbidity and mortality rates decreased in the years of the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railroad, which was due to greater attention given to measures for the prophylaxis of TBE during this period.
  • (12) Exposure, smoking, and respiratory histories, chest radiographs, flow-volume loops, and single breath DLCOs were obtained on 383 railroad workers.
  • (13) On the basis of 1518 values of concentration of glycosylated Hb in blood of workers responsible for safety in railroad transportation authors tried to calculate the range of normal values of this parameter.
  • (14) Metro North and the Long Island Railroad remain closed today.
  • (15) The majority are railroaded into the so-called sport from massively disadvantaged backgrounds.
  • (16) An adaptation of the Palmes personal passive sampler was used to measure the NO2 exposures of 477 U.S. railroad workers at four railroads.
  • (17) The study indicates a causal relation between urinary stone formation in the investigated railroad shopmen and their exposure to oxalic acid at work.
  • (18) The 44-year-old railroad worker grew up on the other side of the canal where Paris Avenue meets Treasure Street, a few blocks from Elysian Fields Avenue.
  • (19) Data from white adult men working for U.S. railroad companies in 1957 to 1960, who were free of pre-existing cardiovascular disease (N = 2,356), were used to study these relationships cross-sectionally.
  • (20) Our findings are similar; they showed slight positive signs of slowed nerve conduction velocities among the car painters and no increase in EEG abnormalities in comparison to the reference group of railroad engineers.

Sidetrack


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We're in danger of being sidetracked by a simplistic debate that suggests an emphasis on people and their responsibility somehow blames individuals and ignores the real social determinants of health and disease.
  • (2) The problem starts at school, and girls very quickly get sidetracked out of maths and physics.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many respondents felt more girls needed to study Stem subjects at younger ages.
  • (3) Wants to avoid getting sidetracked by applications.
  • (4) One expert goes so far as warning , "Cleavage could sidetrack a legal career".
  • (5) Learning about the super-clarity that is needed on stage to bring about thatslight sidetracking of reality.
  • (6) As he lays out his plan, you are totally with him, even when it gets sidetracked a bit by his big buddy Groot.
  • (7) But the Syrian “revolution” was quickly and predictably sidetracked and deformed by the much more powerful Islamists.
  • (8) Other women who have run their states laughed wryly at similar memories of enduring sexist insults and being obliged to sidetrack their election campaigns to deal with them.
  • (9) So from now on, my focus will be on working with them, face-to-face, for the whole day rather than getting sidetracked with emails, phone calls, meetings or proposals.
  • (10) And it was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on that and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle, which a lot of other films I've done have been.
  • (11) Asked about this Pulis said: "To say he was doing it as a sidetrack to influence the referee, you've said it.
  • (12) Environment groups urged countries to renew their pledges under the Kyoto treaty and not be sidetracked by promises of a better deal.
  • (13) Soon, dozens of cases were sidetracked by endless technical argument.
  • (14) I’m all for important discussions on the state of authorship and recognition for black artists in pop – but as Swift’s tweet showed, couching those analyses in something as pointless as the VMAs soon sidetracks the conversation.
  • (15) Yes, I want to ask a question.” Scolari was promptly sidetracked by the extra question that is invariably jammed in from somebody in the room.
  • (16) Recent debates about redress mechanisms for medical accident victims have been sidetracked by fears of an American-style medical malpractice crisis.
  • (17) In Britain we have simply allowed ourselves to be sidetracked by our governing elite's military adventures and the bread and circuses of royal occasions and sporting festivals.
  • (18) Lord knows we had the tunes but the times that we did it when we should have been great was the first year we headlined it and we got sidetracked.
  • (19) Nursing organizations formed coalitions, held meetings, published position statements, and mounted campaigns to sidetrack the AMA plans.
  • (20) 'It was refreshing to be able to spend all the time on my character in Rush and not be sidetracked by special effects and spectacle' With Daniel Bruhl in Rush.