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Railroader

Definition: Railroader

Railroader

Noun

1. An employee of a railroad.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Railroader

Synonyms: railroad man (n), railway man (n), railwayman (n), trainman (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: railwayman (transportation).

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Modern Usage: Railroader

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

She's a Railroader (1978)

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

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Commercial Usage: Railroader

DomainTitle

Books

  • Model Railroader Cyclopedia: Steam Locomotives (reference)

  • Trackwork and Lineside Detail for Your Model Railroad (Model Railroader Books) (reference)

  • The Classic Layout Designs of John Armstrong: A Compilation of Ideas and Commentary from the Dean of Custom Layout Designers (Model Railroader Series (reference)

  • Caleb Conover: Railroader (reference)

  • 48 Top Notch Track Plans: From Model Railroader Magazine (Model Railroad Handbook, No 39) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Railroader

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

model railroader

87

railroader

7

altoona museum railroader

3

finescale railroader

3

altoona memorial museum railroader

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Railroader

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

Albanian

  

punpnjës hekurudhash, pronar hekurudhe (railwayman). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

железничар (railway official, railwayman). (various references)

   

German

  

Eisenbahner (railway man). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vasutas (railroad worker, railway employee, railwayman). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ferroviere (railwayman). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ailroaderray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ferroviário. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

железнодорожник (railwayman). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

železničar (railwayman). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ferroviario (railwayman), ferrocarrilero (railwayman). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

järnvägägare. (various references)

   

Thai

  

พนักงานรถไฟ (railman). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

demiryolu işçisi (navvy, platelayer, railwayman). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

власник залізниці, залізничник. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhân viên đường sắt chủ công ty đường sắt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Railroader

Derivations

Words beginning with "railroader": railroaders. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Railroader

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-o-r-r-r"

-2 letters: railroad.

-3 letters: areolar, dariole, lardier, radiale.

-4 letters: adorer, aerial, alodia, areola, arider, ariled, arrear, derail, dialer, eidola, irreal, laired, larder, loader, ordeal, radial, raider, railed, railer, realia, redial, relaid, reload, roadie, roared, roarer, roiled.

-5 letters: adore, aider, ailed, aired, airer, alder, ardor, areal, ariel, aroid, darer, deair, direr, drail, drear, drier, error, ideal, idler, irade, laari, lader, laird, liard, lidar, oared, oiled, oiler, older, oldie, order, oread, oriel, radar, radio, rared, rarer, redia, reoil, rider, riled.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-l-o-r-r-r"
 

+1 letter: railroaders.

 

+5 letters: extraordinarily.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Railroader


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

52 61 69 6C 72 6F 61 64 65 72

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .-    ..    .-..    .-.    ---    .-    -..    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01110010 01101111 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#105 &#108 &#114 &#111 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0069 006C 0072 006F 0061 0064 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

52677578848167707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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