What's the difference between railroad and tire?

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.

Tire


Definition:

  • (n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
  • (n.) Attire; apparel.
  • (n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
  • (n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
  • (n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
  • (n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
  • (v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.
  • (v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  • (v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  • (v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
  • (v. t.) To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
  • (2) I was so tired I just used to fall asleep on my feet.
  • (3) According to articles presented by Breitbart, Clinton is tired and ailing.
  • (4) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
  • (5) I’m personally sick and tired of Pristina and Belgrade, because we’ve been victimised by high politicians.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The bridge connecting the Albanian and Serb parts of Mitrovica.
  • (6) An example calculation of rolling resistance for a polyurethane tire is given in detail.
  • (7) The extent of inadequate rest has prompted fears that many people are too tired to do their jobs properly, with some so sleep-deprived their brains are as confused as if they had consumed too much alcohol.
  • (8) Do you not get tired of the mass surveillance in this country?” Finicum told reporters.
  • (9) We’re tired of answering these questions,” one woman said.
  • (10) I’m tired, man.” But he hopes that it might be done quickly.
  • (11) I, along with many others, am tired of this toxic propaganda.
  • (12) Further the diabetics claimed to be more tired and diabetic males had more sexual concerns.
  • (13) Apart from that, it’s becoming increasingly tiring to see people posing about how there is no point voting because it’s all rigged, the politicians are all the same and the rest.
  • (14) In any case, people had tired of combative rhetoric and wanted softer platitudes.
  • (15) There is no guarantee of surgical success with such an injury but Murray was tiring of the constant reliance on pain killers to get through tough matches.
  • (16) The concentrations of 1-NP and airborne particulates changed significantly in all examined areas in parallel with the rise and fall of the frequencies of studded tire use.
  • (17) Transposable and interspersed repetitive elements (TIREs) are ubiquitous features of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
  • (18) The players come to Australia tired and exhausted already because they’ve been going since mid-November.” Another issue is the way the women treat their practice time.
  • (19) But when you're tired, you've played in 94 or 95 minutes, players choose power rather than technique, rather than placing it.
  • (20) On the return journey, the tired passengers exchange smuggling anecdotes and safety tips.

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