(n.) 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.
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(2) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(3) It is the biggest privatisation since John Major sold the railways in the 1990s.
(4) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(5) The Conservatives have held back the development of garden cities on the scale necessary, but if Liberal Democrats are part of the next government, we will ensure at least 10 get under way – with up to five along this new garden cities railway, bringing new homes and jobs to the brainbelt of south-east England.” The Lib Dems insist they are planning to act in the national interest and are not motivated by electoral considerations.
(6) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
(7) She consciously destroyed the workforces in places like the railways, for example, and the mines, and the steelworks … so that transition from adolescence to adulthood was destroyed, consciously, and knowingly.
(8) The railway between Norwich and Ely was blocked when strong winds caused power lines to fall across the tracks.
(9) Where the cycle track is signed to the left, continue on the footpath straight ahead, which runs beside the main railway - this will take you to Didcot station.
(10) A Department for Transport spokesman said the money was available now, adding that it was to deliver 10 projects along the western route, including works at Cowley Bridge in Exeter, which would improve the railway's ability to withstand extreme weather.
(11) Khan said the garden bridge could rival New York’s high line, a public park built on a 1.45-mile elevated former railway.
(12) Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said.
(13) While we do have the safest railway in Europe, we have the oldest railway in Europe … It [HS2] is essential for growth."
(14) Britain's railway was being run at a cost 40% higher than in four comparable countries (France, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherlands).
(15) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
(16) The editor of the Sheffield Star has demanded an explanation as to why his reporter, Alex Evans, was warned off filming a protest against cuts to free travel provision for pensioners and disabled people by railway staff officers on Monday.
(17) An obvious comparison, made by Gensler, is with the High Line in New York, the phenomenally successful park made out of an old railway viaduct, which like the River Park is long and thin.
(18) The road is the main route into Leeds from the south and links the city centre and railways stations to the M1, M621 and M62 motorways.
(19) The role of South African Railways and Harbours in spreading disease and health care is examined.
(20) I came to an overpass and looked at the railway lines beneath me.
Train
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
(v. t.) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
(v. t.) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise; to discipline; as, to train the militia to the manual exercise; to train soldiers to the use of arms.
(v. t.) To break, tame, and accustom to draw, as oxen.
(v. t.) To lead or direct, and form to a wall or espalier; to form to a proper shape, by bending, lopping, or pruning; as, to train young trees.
(v. t.) To trace, as a lode or any mineral appearance, to its head.
(v. i.) To be drilled in military exercises; to do duty in a military company.
(v. i.) To prepare by exercise, diet, instruction, etc., for any physical contest; as, to train for a boat race.
(v.) That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement.
(v.) Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare.
(v.) That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear.
(v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
(v.) The after part of a gun carriage; the trail.
(v.) The tail of a bird.
(v.) A number of followers; a body of attendants; a retinue; a suite.
(v.) A consecution or succession of connected things; a series.
(v.) Regular method; process; course; order; as, things now in a train for settlement.
(v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
(v.) A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.
(v.) A connected line of cars or carriages on a railroad.
(v.) A heavy, long sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, and the like.
(v.) A roll train; as, a 12-inch train.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
(3) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(4) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
(5) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
(6) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(7) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(8) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
(9) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(10) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
(12) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
(13) Before training, SV at VO2max was 9% lower than during exercise at 50% VO2max (P less than 0.05).
(14) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(15) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
(16) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(17) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
(18) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(19) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
(20) Neuromuscular transmission was measured using "train-of-four" stimulation.