What's the difference between railroad and underpass?

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.

Underpass


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Diego Felipe Becerra was spray-painting his signature wide-eyed Felix the Cat image on the walls of an underpass when he was killed.
  • (2) In Croydon, south London, a pedestrian underpass will be turned into an emergency pond to hold hundreds of thousands of litres of floodwater threatening homes and businesses.
  • (3) Overnight, hundreds of new pieces adorned the walls of the underpass where Bieber had left his mark.
  • (4) Even the parameters of Princess Diana's death in a Parisian underpass in 1997 had been sketched out, to some degree, in Crash.
  • (5) Continue down onto Govan Mbeki Street, past vendors plying their trade, colossal highways and underpasses, all the while weaving past cars and taxis rushing to get people to and from work.
  • (6) On crash barriers and underpasses in provincial towns and on banners in the heart of Barcelona, graffiti in the Catalan language demand "Liberty for Catalonia".
  • (7) Two distinct types of tunnel radial fibers, upper tunnel radial fibers and underpassing radial fibers, were recognized.
  • (8) Underpasses were open, “not dark and scary places”, and the centre was “joined up” with subtle furniture.
  • (9) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On the evening of 19 August, Diego Felipe Becerra , a 16-year-old street artist who called himself Tripido, was painting pictures of Felix the Cat on the walls of an underpass when the police turned up.
  • (10) She made the work in 1999: a recording of her voice, singing this anthem of international socialism, was installed in an underpass in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • (11) The country now has one of the highest densities in the world of overhead crossings and underpasses for wild animals.
  • (12) All I know for sure is you're best off avoiding the underpass.
  • (13) From the morphological characteristics, these underpassing radial fibers were thought to be efferent in nature.
  • (14) The rhyme 'Ya mushir, ya mushir, the people are returning to Tahrir', reverberated through backstreets and underpasses as the marches swelled; in the face of such energy, the generals largely opted to stay out of sight, though they did fire up their primary method of public communication these days – Facebook – to repeat their commitment to democratic transition and chide Egyptians for thinking ill of the top brass.
  • (15) But even following the A10 autoroute's relatively motorway straight course between villages and towns means building dozens of new bridges and underpasses where the routes wind and overlap.
  • (16) Officers, many with riot shields and wielding pepper spray, dragged away dozens of protesters, tore down barricades and removed concrete slabs the protesters used as road blocks around the underpass.
  • (17) Our study included (1) investigating the type and amount of information available in the streets including underpass; (2) classifying and organizing signs according to the content of information; and (3) analyzing the relation between different types of information, between situations and signs, and continuity of the signs of the same type.
  • (18) Woodford [tube] is accessible on both platforms but you have to access the southbound platform via an underpass.
  • (19) The alternative to HS2 is not another grand project, it is myriad small, high-return projects that would deliver benefits in the near future: bypasses, flyovers, underpasses, commuter line upgrades, carriage improvements, platform improvements and more ... projects that would serve the many rather than the few.” Day Eight: Berkswell to Birmingham, eight miles My walk ended on the autumn equinox, as it had begun: in the rain.
  • (20) Other migrants caught in the train station underpass pushed back dozens of riot police blocking the top of the stairs to fight their way back on board the train, which remained stationary in high temperatures.

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