Railroad

What do we mean by railroad?

A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles. noun

A system of railroad track, together with the land, stations, rolling stock, and other related property under one management. noun

To transport by railroad. intransitive verb

To supply (an area) with railroads. intransitive verb

To rush or push (something) through quickly in order to prevent careful consideration and possible criticism or obstruction. intransitive verb

To convict (an accused person) without a fair trial or on trumped-up charges. intransitive verb

To work for a railroad company. intransitive verb

To hasten or push forward with railroad speed; expedite rushingly; rush: as, to railroad a bill through a legislature.

A road upon which are laid one or more lines of rails to guide and facilitate the movement of vehicles designed to transport passengers or freight, cr both. noun

In the United states before the abolition of slavery, a secret arrangement for enabling slaves to escape Info tree territory, by passing them along from one point of concealment to another till they reached Canada or some other place of safety. noun

To build railroads through (a country).

To carry by railroads.

In printing, to mark with parallel lines.

To work on railroads; to be in the railroad business.

In printing, to overrun: indicated in proof-reading by parallel lines.

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. transitive verb

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. noun

The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property. noun

Etc. See under Atmospheric, Elevated, etc. noun

A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.

The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.

A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets

A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.

Words that are spelled similarly to railroad:
railroad, railhead, railroaded, railroads, nailrod.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word railroad:
trackage, seaboard, depot, amtrak, freight, chartered, erie, mainline, locomotive, lumber, spur, rail, rails, passenger, gauge, commuter, haven, tracks, connecting, syracuse, railway, delaware, junction, norfolk, line, pacific, penn, milwaukee, transportation, trains, train, bridge, coal, wyoming, incorporated, operated, baltimore, crossing, steam, terminal, hudson, connect, tunnel, yard, bridges, merged, subsidiary, terminus, branch, corridor, maine, pennsylvania, cars, interchange, ferry, vermont, abandoned, lines, station, jersey, trail, intersection, avenue, ohio, extended, buffalo, chicago, interstate, denver, narrow, pittsburgh, route, confederate, illinois, richmond, cincinnati, downtown, portland, built, elevation.

Words that rhyme with railroad:
code, road, mode, node, load, download, goad, toad, ode, episode, abode, payload, bode, erode, diode, lode, moad, chode, explode, implode, anode, workload, commode, encode, overload, coed, bestowed, shrowd, inroad, showed, rode, decode, crossroad, corrode, spode, forebode, unload, trode, nematode, cathode, strode, snowed, bowed, caseload, reload, sewed, owed, thode, plateaued, toed, bar code, a la mode, zip code, unbowed, borrowed, boatload, penal code, truckload, mowed, crowed, glode, lymph node, shode, stowed, troad, overrode, morse code, bestrode, microcode, towed, sowed, shoad, flowed, rowed, lowed, carload, winnowed, glowed, busload, source code, mustachioed, building code, methode, radioed, secret code, blowed, musical mode, asynchronous transfer mode, overflowed, brode, area code, slowed, legal code, on the road, tiptoed, rhode, knowed, arterial road, shipload, outmode.

Adjectives that are often used to describe railroad:
first, new, underground, great, elevated, american, old, nearest, siberian, western, only, electric, narrow, southern, northern, single, mile, track, central, main, anti, modern, short, owned, continental, unfinished, transcontinental, longest, entire, line, miniature, pre, south, famous, non, bankrupt, interstate, standard, largest, west, eastern, canadian, street, manchurian, nearby, russian, alaskan, interurban, vital, pro, called, northwestern, continuous, municipal, built, oldest, contemplated, mexican.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective railroad:
track, building, highway, car, aid, builders, apple, tie, contest, rate, trucker, station, train, competition, locomotives, the, crossing, steamship, rates, hacks, truckers, era, republicans, landscape, shares, school, worm.

Words that sound like railroad:
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