Railhead

Definitions: Railhead

Railhead

Noun

1. A railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution.

2. The end of the completed track on an unfinished railway.

Domain	Definitions
Transportation	The heavy top part of the rail, on which the wheels of cars and engines run is called the --. Source: European Union. (references)
	A point on a railway where loads are transferred between trains and other means of transport. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Railhead

Specialty definitions using "railhead": PLANER SET-UP OPERATOR, TOOL. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	From Ranch to Railhead With Charles Goodnight (My American Journey) (reference) Railhead Round-Up (Scout, No 22) (reference) West of Railhead (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Russia	During Soviet times, industrial production was concentrated in huge plants, each with its own railhead, and the majority of cargo was transported in large volumes by rail. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Railhead" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.96% of the time. "Railhead" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	86.96%	20	78,262
Noun (proper)	13.04%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	23	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "railhead"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fund i shinave. (various references)

Bulgarian		снабдителна станция, крайна гара (dock, terminus), начална гара. (various references)

Danish		omladningsstation fra jernbanetransport til anden transportmåde, endestation (terminal, terminal station, terminus). (various references)

Dutch		eindpunt van een lijn. (various references)

Finnish		päätekohta (terminal point). (various references)

French		terminal ferré, tête de ligne, champignon. (various references)

German		Endbahnhof (terminal, terminal station, terminus). (various references)

Greek		αρχή γραμμής. (various references)

Hungarian		sínfej, átrakóállomás. (various references)

Italian		capolinea (last bus stop, terminal, terminus). (various references)

Manx		kione railley. (various references)

Pig Latin		ailheadray.(various references)

Portuguese		topo (apex, butt, cap, market top, peak, roof, small end, smaller end, stub, summit, tip, top, vertex). (various references)

Russian		головка рельса. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stanica snabdevanja, krajnja stanica (terminal, terminus). (various references)

Spanish		cabeza de línea (airline terminus). (various references)

Swedish		ändstation (central office, end office, terminal, terminal exchange, terminus). (various references)

Thai		จุ�"สิ้นสุ�"ของรางรถไฟ. (various references)

Turkish		rayların son bulduğu nokta, tren garı, gar (depot, station, station house, terminal, terminus). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "railhead": railheads. (additional references)
	Words ending with "railhead": trailhead. (additional references)
	Words containing "railhead": trailheads. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Railhead" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nailhac, Rainhead, Rayhead. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-l-r"
	-1 letter: airhead, radiale.
	-2 letters: aerial, ariled, dahlia, derail, dialer, hailed, hailer, haired, halide, herald, laired, radial, railed, realia, redial, relaid.
	-3 letters: aahed, ahead, aider, ailed, aired, alder, areal, ariel, deair, drail, hadal, haled, haler, halid, hared, heard, hider, hilar, hired, ideal, idler, irade, laari, lader, lahar, laird, liard, lidar, redia, riled.
	-4 letters: aide, alae, alar, area, aria, arid, aril, dahl, dale, dare, deal, dear, deil, deli, dhal, dial, diel, dire, dirl, earl, elhi, haar, hade, haed, hail, hair, hale, hard, hare, harl, head, heal, hear, heil, heir, held, herd, herl, hide, hied, hila, hire, idea, idle, ilea, ired, lade, laid, lair, lard, lari, lead, lear, lehr, liar, lied, lier, lira, lire, raia, raid, rail, rale, read, real, rhea, rial, ride, riel, rile.
	-5 letters: aah, aal, aha, aid, ail, air, ala, ale, are, dah, dal, del, die, ear, edh, eld, era, had, hae, her, hid, hie, ire, lad, lar, lea, led, lei, lid, lie, rad, rah, red, rei, ria, rid.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-l-r"
	+1 letter: diarrheal, railheads, trailhead.
	+2 letters: charladies, trailheads.
	+3 letters: antheridial, exhilarated, hydralazine, icosahedral.
	+4 letters: harlequinade, heraldically, holidaymaker, hydralazines, multiwarhead, withdrawable.
	+5 letters: antidiarrheal, demographical, dischargeable, harlequinades, holidaymakers, hyaluronidase, radiochemical, rehabilitated, straightlaced.
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