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Definition: Railway |
RailwayNoun1. Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a railway system. 2. A line of track providing a runway for wheels; "he walked along the railroad track". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "railway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | Transport system in which the vehicles are supported and guided on rails or cables. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A maintained way consisting of two parallel rails for the passage of trains. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rail tracksA railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, both passengers and freight are transported on railways. It consists of two parallel rails, usually made of steel, and wooden or concrete sleepers or ties that hold the rails exactly at the proper distance from each other. See Rail tracks
General
Rail transport is one of the most energy efficient means of mechanised land transport known. The rails provide very smooth and hard surfaces on which the wheels of the train may roll with a minimum of friction. This is more comfortable and saves energy. Trains also have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying, which cuts down on air resistance and thus energy usage. In all, under the right circumstances, a train needs 50-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than by road. Furthermore, together with the sleepers the rails distribute the weight of the train evenly, allowing significantly greater loads per axle/wheel than in road transport.
Rail transport is also one of the safest modes of transport, and also makes a highly efficient use of space: a double tracked rail line can carry more passengers or freight in a given amount of time, than a four-laned road.
Railways can be built with different distances between the two rails, the distance between the two rails is known as the rail gauge.
Railways use signaling (usually colour lights) to prevent trains from colliding.
Railroads may or may not be electrified. If they are not, they can only be used by non-electric trains, mainly diesel trains. In many parts of the world large parts of the railroad network have been electrified. Electric trains do not have to carry their own fuel. They are cleaner and less noisy.
To be electrified, a means of supplying electricity to the train is needed, this may be done by overhead wires, or by a third rail system. The former is the most common method.
High speed rail, with speeds up to 350 kilometers per hour, are achieved by a specially built railroad and special trains.
For short, steep stretches funiculars or cable car railways and cog railways provide railway functionality.
In a broader sense, the term railroad includes monorail, rubber-tired metro and maglev, since the cars also run in a guided path.
Major cities often have metro and/or light rail/tram systems. For a tram on the road the terms streetcar track or tram track are used, rather than railroad or railway. A tram with its own right-of-way it is called a tramway.
Depending on how much traffic they carry, railways can be built with a varying number of tracks. Rail lines that carry little traffic are often built with a single track which is used by trains traveling in both directions; on rail lines like these, "passing loops" or "passing sidings", which consist of short stretches of double track, are provided at certain points along the line to allow trains to pass each other, and travel in different directions. Alternatively, there may be larger sections of the line that are double track - effective timetabling can allow train travel up and down the partially double track line equivalent to travel on fully double tracks. Conversely, double tram track is sometimes intertwined at narrow passages (see Tram). Single-track lines are cheaper to build, but can only handle a limited amount of traffic.
On busier lines, two or more tracks are provided, one or more for each direction of travel. On very busy lines as many as eight tracks (four tracks in each direction) are used to handle large amounts of traffic.
With the advent of containerized freight in the 1960s, rail and ship transportation have become an integrated network that move bulk goods very efficiently with a very low labor cost. An example is that goods from east Asia that are bound for Europe will often be shipped across the Pacific and transferred to trains to cross North America and be transferred back to a ship for the Atlantic crossing.
High altitude railways are in Peru and Tibet (under construction).
History in brief
Early horse drawn wagonways operated in Europe, from around 1550 usually operating with crude wooden tracks.
The first steam locomotive to operate on tracks, built by Richard Trevithick was operated in 1804 In Wales, although it was not fianancially successful.
The first successful steam locomotives were built by George Stephenson, culminating in his famous Rocket locomotive.
The first successful steam operated railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northern England in the 1820s, which was soon followed by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway proved the viabillity of rail transport.
Railways soon spread throughout England and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
Diesel and electric trains and locomotives replaced steam, in many countries, in the decades after World War II.
Many countries since the 1960s have adopted High-speed railways.
for more detail see History of rail transport.
Terminology
To distinguish two directions on a given line sometimes one is called the up train and the other down train, which may for example mean from and toward the center or the big city.
In Britain and other commonwealth countries the term railway is used in preference to railroad, while in the United States the reverse is true. However, railroad has been used historically in Britain and a number of American companies have railway in their names instead of railroad (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway being the most pre-eminent modern example).
In Britain the term railway is often used to refer to the complete organisation of tracks, trains, stations, signaling, timetables and the organising companies which collectively make up a coordinated railway system, while permanent way or p/way refers to the tracks alone. See also British railway system.
- American English - railroad
- Commonwealth English - railway
- Romanian - ''cale feratã' (iron way)
- Danish - jernbane (iron way)
- Dutch - spoorweg (track road)
- Finnish - rautatie (iron road)
- French - chemin de fer (way of iron)
- German - die Eisenbahn (iron road)
- Greek - Σιδηρόδρομος - Sidirodromos (iron road)
- Italian - ferrovia (iron way)
- Japanese - tetsudou (iron road)
- Korean - cheoldo (iron road)
- Portuguese - caminho de ferro (way of iron)
- Spanish - ferrocarril (iron road)
- Swedish - järnväg (iron way)
- Russian - zheleznaya doroga (железная дорога) (iron road)
Statistics
Of the 236 countries and dependencies, 143 have rail transport (including several with very little), of which ca. 90 with passenger services.
see also Rail usage statistics by country.
See also
Underground railway, Rail gauge, History of rail transport, List of railway companies, Locomotive, Public transport, Private transport, Private railroad, Railroad switch, Famous trains, Railway Mail Service, Economy of Earth (Transportation section), Driving, List of countries by rail transport network size, First Transcontinental Railroad (North America).
External links
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- http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2121.html - rail transport by country
- http://www.bahn.de/pv/uebersicht/die_bahn_international_guests.shtml - travel planner of German Railways (covers Europe, as well as at least each branch of the Trans-Siberian railway)
- http://www.vagabondo.net/Indexeng.htm?/Eng/Thenet/Travel/rail.htm - links to railway companies and timetables
- http://www.routesinternational.com/rail.htm - links
- http://www.railpassengers.org.uk/News/OtherPublications/Council/Railfuture_NRIS - National Railcard International Survey - Survey of national rail discount cards in various European countries
- Track maps
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rail transport."
Synonyms: RailwaySynonyms: railroad (n), railroad line (n), railroad track (n), railway line (n), railway system (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Journey | Depot, railway station, station. |
Method | Roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut; (mid-course); carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal; (conduit); street; (abode); speedway. |
Velocity | Adverb: swiftly; Adjective: with speed; Noun: apace; at a great rate, at full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full sail, tantivy; trippingly; instantaneously. |
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Crosswords: Railway |
| English words defined with "railway": cable railway, cog railway ♦ Edge railway, Electric railway, elevated railway ♦ Ferry railway, funicular railway ♦ Gravity railway ♦ overhead railway ♦ Pneumatic railway ♦ rack railway, Railway brake, Railway car, Railway carriage, railway junction, railway line, railway locomotive, Railway scale, railway system, railway yard ♦ scenic railway, Ship railway. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "railway": host/hostess, railway ♦ light railway ♦ MARINE RAILWAY OPERATOR, mountain railway ♦ place of embarkment on a railway vehicle ♦ Railway Abbreviations, Railway Classification Yard, Railway King, Railway Signals, railway sleeper ♦ secondary railway enterprise ♦ tube railway. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "railway": Detrain. (references) |
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Screenplays | An elementary knowledge of the Railway Acts would tell you that I'm perfectly within my rights (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs (24 Hour Party People; writing credit: Frank Cottrell Boyce) Oh, I don't mind, as long as it's near the railway. (Oh, Mr Porter!; writing credit: Marriott Edgar; Val Guest) Once a month, twenty-five thousand pounds in gold was loaded into strongboxes inside the London bank of Huddleston and Bradford and taken by trusted armed guards to the railway station (The First Great Train Robbery; writing credit: Michael Crichton) Well, they got me on the old Ragoon railway in '42. I was laying mines for the bloody Japanese pop-pops (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick) | |
Lyrics | I'm sittin' in the railway station (Homeward Bound; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) In the quiet of the railway station, runnin' scared, laying low, (The Boxer; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Railway Children (1970) Runaway Railway (1965) Railway Platform (1955) Kankantala Light Railway (1950) Le Railway de la mort (1912) | |
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 | "Loading outfit onto cable railway" At Station Morrison, Colorado Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Crossing a railway embankment on the Salt Lake City Base Using the Eimbeck base bar apparatus Figure No. 8, Appendix No. 12 Part II, Report of the Superintendent ... 1897, p. 774. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Menhaden steamer discharging its catch at the oil and guano factory Incline railway to carry fish to cooking tanks From a sketch by Capt. B. F. Conklin. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Menhaden oil and guano factory at Milford, Conn. Unloading fish at the wharf Incline railway to carry fish to cooking tanks on upper floor of factory Oil tanks and storage sheds in foreground. Platform for drying scrap in rear Platform connected with factory building by elevated railway From a photograph. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Black and White phot of a railway town in forest country. Credit: Unknown. |  | Caption: Edison Electric Railway Locomotive and Car with Inset Printed with Caption Pioneering in Electric Transportation at Menlo Park, New Jersey, 1880-1882; 1880-1882; {15.110/6} (jpg). |
 | Model railroad car illustrating Shaffer's patented railway, designed to operate on a single rail above the ground;February, 1892;{16.000/5}. |  | On display in East Willard Park, Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in October 1972. This gun is Number 111, built at the Washington Navy Yard in 1922 for planned installation on the abortive South Dakota (BB 49-54) class battleships and Lexington (CC 1-6) class battle cruisers. Note railway trucks supporting the gun barrel. The two sixteen-inch projectiles displayed alongside the gun are inert shells fired by USS New Jersey into San Clemente Island, California, during shore bombardment practice in 1968. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Squadron personnel at the Magnolia Bluffs railway station. Note boys seated on bench at left and navy men on steps carrying assorted gear. Sailor in center is holding a Model 1878 Hotchkiss Magazine Rifle and wears leggings and a cartridge belt. Credit: NAVY. |  | View from Trans-Siberian Railway east of Krasnoiarsk near Shushun, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
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| "Railway fragment" by Lukasz Sz. Commentary: "This railway is near to my house :> (Minolt a E201, quality: econ)." | "Railway and road" by Tomas Cermak Commentary: "Scenery from Gifu, Japan." |
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Friedrich Nietzsche | The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the sealing of railway trucks subject to customs inspection, and Protocol of May 18, 1907. (reference) |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I was thinking about the bad language of that railway porter |
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Business | The Czech railway system has always been state owned. (references) | |
The sole operator of the railway transport is, for time being, the Czech Railways company (Ceske drahy). (references) | ||
Another projected plan, while not included in the current budget, is the extension of the railway to the wharf itself. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | During the year, 4,000 others who had been living in railway cars were transferred to a tent camp set up for winter. (references) |
Russia | NGO's also estimated that at least a quarter of a million residents, including almost the entire Russian, Armenian, and Jewish populations, emigrated from Chechnya as a result of both the conflict and the war of 1994-96. Approximately 8,000 persons lived in railway carriages in the region. (references) | |
Economic History | Hong Kong | Hong Kong is serviced by three major railway systems. (references) |
Human Rights | India | In addition to ambushes, terrorists increasingly resorted to destroying bridges, and the laying of time bombs on roads, on railway tracks, and in trains. (references) |
Minorities | Croatia | In April a gang of skinheads beat a teenage Romani boy at Zagreb's main railway station. (references) |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | Truckers, railway workers, air controllers, ground handling and Sabena personnel have conducted strikes in recent years without government intimidation. (references) |
Trade | Switzerland | In the case of direct transit by rail, duties and taxes are guaranteed by the railway authorities. (references) |
Croatia | Other projects included: Municipal Environmental Infrastructure Project and a Railway Modernization/Restructuring. (references) | |
Argentina | Inaugurated on July 9, 1998, this free zone is located 7 km. from the city of San Miguel de Tucuman, 3 km. from the railway station, and 15 km from the International Airport. (references) | |
Travel | Spain | The Spanish railway system is extensive. (references) |
Uruguay | There is very limited internal passenger railway service. (references) | |
Peru | Two operators are currently running three railway systems. (references) | |
Women | Italy | This rises to 10 percent in the public administration sector; of 943 state railway managers, 68 are women; of 160 managers at state run Alitalia, 10 are women. (references) |
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) | |
Japan | As a result, several railway companies started a poster campaign to raise awareness of antigroping ordinances and to advertise railway police contact information, including contact information for the molestation complaint offices established by the Metropolitan Police Department in 1995. At the suggestion of the Metropolitan Police, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly also revised its antigroping ordinance in September to make first-time offenders subject to imprisonment. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Botswana | The industrial or wage economy is small, and unions are concentrated largely in mineral extraction and to a lesser extent in the railway and banking sectors. (references) |
India | Work by children under 14 years of age is barred completely in "hazardous industries," which includes among other things, passenger, goods, and mail transport by railway. (references) | |
Russia | The law bans strikes in the railway and air traffic sector, at nuclear power stations, and by members of the military, militia, government agencies, and disaster assistance organizations. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools. |
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John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | The examinations and inquiries to ascertain the practicability and expediency of a marine railway at Pensacola, though not yet accomplished, have been post-poned but to be more effectually made. |
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| "Railway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.05% of the time. "Railway" is used about 7,279 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) | 95.05% | 6,919 | 1,399 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.95% | 361 | 14,936 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,279 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | British Columbia Railway Company | China | Guangshen Railway Company Limited |
| Japan | Central Japan Railway Company | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "railway": Aerial railway ♦ atmospheric railway ♦ cable railway ♦ Cash railway ♦ circular railway ♦ cog railway ♦ cogged railway ♦ cogwheel railway ♦ Conduit railway ♦ Edge railway ♦ Electric railway ♦ Elevated railway ♦ federal railway ♦ Ferry railway ♦ funicular railway ♦ Gravity railway ♦ guard on the railway ♦ metropolitan railway ♦ miniature railway ♦ mountain railway ♦ overhead railway ♦ Perry railway ♦ place of embarkment on a railway vehicle ♦ pneumatic railway ♦ privately owned railway wagon ♦ rack railway ♦ railway accident ♦ railway brake ♦ railway bridge ♦ railway car ♦ railway carriage ♦ railway coach ♦ railway crossing ♦ railway depot ♦ railway embankment ♦ railway engine ♦ railway engineering ♦ railway enterprise costs ♦ railway guide ♦ railway journey ♦ railway junction ♦ railway line ♦ railway line capacity ♦ railway loading ramp ♦ railway locomotive ♦ railway man ♦ railway map ♦ railway official ♦ railway points ♦ railway police ♦ railway porter ♦ railway scale ♦ railway shares ♦ railway sleeper ♦ railway slide ♦ railway spine ♦ railway station ♦ railway system ♦ railway terminal ♦ railway ticket ♦ railway timetable ♦ railway track ♦ railway traffic ♦ railway tunnel ♦ railway worker ♦ railway yard ♦ rope railway ♦ scenic railway ♦ secondary railway enterprise ♦ ship railway ♦ street railway ♦ suspension railway ♦ tube railway ♦ tubular railway ♦ underground railway. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "railway": railway-board, railway-bridge, railway-builders, railway-building, railway-coach, railway-company, railway-destruction, railway-engine, railway-engineering, railway-line, railway-man, railway-men, railway-owned, railway-platform, railway-poster, railway-rooted, railway-sidings, railway-signalling, railway-station, railway-station refreshment room, railway-stations, railway-style, railway-timetable, railway-town, railway-trucks, railway-wagon, railway-wagons, railway-workers. | |
Ending with "railway": ex-railway. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
indian railway | 1,714 | garden railway | 67 |
railway | 1,400 | model railway | 62 |
railway of india | 307 | railway history | 61 |
canadian pacific railway | 254 | kettle valley railway | 58 |
grand canyon railway | 157 | cog railway | 56 |
canadian national railway | 146 | railway uk | 54 |
british railway | 144 | french railway | 47 |
southern railway | 131 | japan railway | 46 |
hamilton street railway | 128 | italian railway | 42 |
indian online railway | 105 | pakistan railway | 41 |
express railway trinity | 101 | metro north railway | 40 |
express railway virginia | 91 | trans siberian railway | 39 |
railway reservation | 82 | the railway station | 39 |
canadian railway | 78 | railway western | 35 |
indian railway reservation | 73 | konkan railway | 34 |
railway timetable | 73 | european railway | 34 |
pike peak cog railway | 72 | europe railway | 33 |
illinois museum railway | 71 | swiss railway | 33 |
amtrak railway | 69 | great smoky mountain railway | 33 |
german railway | 68 | wooden railway | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "railway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hekurudhor (railroad), hekurudhë (railroad). (various references) | |
Arabic | سكة حديدية (rail, railroad), شبه سكة حديدية لنقل البضائع. (various references) | |
Basque | trenbide. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кранов път, железопътен (railroad), железница (rail, railroad), жп линия (rail, road), еднорелсов път. (various references) | |
Chinese | 鐵路 (railroad), 铁路 (Railroad). (various references) | |
Czech | dráha (career, course, path, race, route, track, trajectory), železnice. (various references) | |
Danish | jernbane (railroad). (various references) | |
Dutch | spoorweg (railroad), spoor (imprint, print, railroad, spur, trace, track, trail). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fervojo (railroad). (various references) | |
Faeroese | jarnbreytarvognur (carriage, coach, railway carriage, waggon), hjalli (platform, railway platform, terrace). (various references) | |
Farsi | وابسته به راه اهن , خطاهن (Rail, Track), راه اهن (Railroad, Road). (various references) | |
Finnish | rautatie (railroad). (various references) | |
French | chemin de fer (rail, railroad). (various references) | |
Frisian | spoarwei (railroad). (various references) | |
German | Eisenbahn (railroad, train), Bahn (alley, course, Gore, Lane, length, path, pathway, railroad, road, route, streetcar, track, train, tram, way, web), Gleis (line, platform, rail, rails, rut, track). (various references) | |
Greek | σιδηρόδρομος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסלת ברזל (rail, railroad). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vasút (rail, railroad). (various references) | |
Icelandic | járnbraut (railroad). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jalan kereta-api (railroad). (various references) | |
Italian | ferrovia (rail, railroad). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鉄路 (railroad). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | てつろ (railroad). (various references) | |
Korean | 철도 (Railroad). (various references) | |
Manx | railley (rail, rail track, rave), raad yiarn (railway line). (various references) | |
Maori | rerewe. (various references) | |
Norwegian | vogn (carriage, coach, railway carriage, waggon, wagon), perrong (platform, quay, railway platform, wharf). (various references) | |
Occitan | camin de fèrre. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailwayray.(various references) | |
Polish | kolej (railroad). (various references) | |
Portuguese | via férrea (railroad, trackway), ferrovia (railroad), estrada de ferro (railroad). (various references) | |
Romanian | feroviar (railwayman), cale feratã (permanent way, rail, railroad, road, trackway). (various references) | |
Russian | железнодорожный (rail-freight, railroad), железная дорога/ .железнодорожный (railroad), железная дорога (railroad). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolosek (gauge, groove, rut, track), železnica (railroad), železnički (rail, railroad), železnička pruga. (various references) | |
Spanish | vía férrea (permanent way, railroad, railway line), ferrocarril (railroad, train). (various references) | |
Swahili | reli (railroad). (various references) | |
Swedish | järnväg (rail, railroad). (various references) | |
Tagalog | ríles (railroad). (various references) | |
Thai | รางรถไฟ (rail), ระบบทางรถไฟ (railroad). (various references) | |
Turkish | tren yolu (railroad), demiryolu (rail, railroad, road), banliyö hattı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | залізниця (rail, railroad), будувати залізницю (railroad), подороджувати залізницею. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đường xe lửa (railroad), đường sắt. (various references) | |
Welsh | rheilffordd, cledrffordd. (various references) | |
Zulu | ujantsi wesitimela (railroad). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "railway": railways. (additional references) | |
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"Railway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Easiway, Raila, railw, railwa, railwayed, railwey, Ramlawi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "railway" (pronounced rā"lwā') |
| 3 | -l w ā' | hallway, spillway. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: airway, warily. | |
-2 letters: alary, aliya, alway, laari, rawly, riyal. | |
-3 letters: airy, alar, aria, aril, aryl, away, awry, lair, lari, liar, lira, raia, rail, raya, rial, wail, wair, waly, wary, wily, wiry, yawl. | |
-4 letters: aal, ail, air, ala, awa, awl, lar, law, lay, raw, ray, ria, rya, war, way, wry, yar, yaw. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, al. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: railways. | |
+4 letters: wearability. | |
+5 letters: wallydraigle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Company Usage 16. Expressions | 17. Expressions: Internet 18. Translations: Modern 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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