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ELECTRIC RAILWAY

Definition: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

ELECTRIC RAILWAY

1. A railway in which the machinery for moving the cars is driven by an electric current.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

English words defined with "ELECTRIC RAILWAY": EL, elevated railroad, elevated railwaymetrooverhead railwaysubwaytubeunderground. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ELECTRIC RAILWAY": distribution clerkMAIL HANDLERsuperintendent, electrical department, SUPERINTENDENT, POWERTHIRD-RAIL INSTALLER. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

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References

  • Hanshin Electric Railway Co Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Keihan Electric Railway Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Keio Electric Railway Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Keisei Electric Railway Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Hiroshima Electric Railway Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Electric Railway Pioneer: Commuting on the Northwestern Pacific, Nineteen Hundred Three-Nineteen Hundred Forty-One (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

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Business

In front of the Namba Station (Nankai Line); an approximate 10 hectare contains developments of five landowners, Osaka Stadium (a subsidiary of Nankai Electric Railway), Nankai Electric Railway, Kubota, Takashimaya and Nippi. (references)

Women

Japan

In March Keio Electric Railway Company decided to make a trial women-only rail car program permanent, reserving one car only for women on all express and limited express trains running after 11 p.m. Monday to Friday. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

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Japan

Hanshin Electric Railway Co Ltd

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Modern Translations: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

Language Translations for "ELECTRIC RAILWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

sähkörata. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

電鉄 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

で"てつ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

electricay ailwayray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ELECTRIC RAILWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-i-i-l-l-r-r-t-w-y"

-4 letters: erratically.

-5 letters: arctically, arterially, critically, electrical, illiteracy, literarily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ELECTRIC RAILWAY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 4C 45 43 54 52 49 43      52 41 49 4C 57 41 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01000011 00100000 01010010 01000001 01001001 01001100 01010111 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#67 &#32 &#82 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#87 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 0045 0043 0054 0052 0049 0043      0052 0041 0049 004C 0057 0041 0059

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3946393754524337252354346573559

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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