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Switch Engine

Definition: Switch Engine

Switch Engine

Noun

1. A locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard.

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


Synonym: Switch Engine

Synonym: donkey engine (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Switch Engine

English words defined with "switch engine": Switching engine. (references)
Specialty definitions using "switch engine": LOCOMOTIVE OPERATOR HELPER. (references)

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Photo Album: Switch Engine

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Switch engine, Saint Louis, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.

Detail of switch engine in the yards at Big Spring, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cicero, Illinois. Engineer in the cab of a diesel switch engine at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blue Island, Illinois. Switching a train with a diesel switch engine on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Canadian, Texas. Switch engine changing cabooses on a Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad train. Credit: Library of Congress.

Diesel switch engine moving freight cars at the South water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Working on a switch engine at the 40th street shops(?) of the C & NW RR., Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indiana Harbor Belt R.R., switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Calumet City (near Chicago), Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Anagrams: Switch Engine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-s-t-w"

-2 letters: whitenings.

-3 letters: eschewing, ignescent, snitching, switching, whinniest, whitening, witchings.

-4 letters: cheesing, chewiest, eighties, einstein, enticing, entwines, etchings, genetics, ginniest, heisting, ichnites, intwines, itchings, nescient, niceties, nighties, nineties, nitchies, scenting, seething, sennight, sheening, sheeting, sinewing, sithence, sweeting, wenching, wenniest, whiniest, whinnies, whisting, whitings, winching, wingiest, witching.

-5 letters: censing, chewing, chining, chitins, eiswein, engines, entices, entwine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Switch Engine


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

53 77 69 74 63 68      45 6E 67 69 6E 65

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

    

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

01010011 01110111 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01000101 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#119 &#105 &#116 &#99 &#104 &#32 &#69 &#110 &#103 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0077 0069 0074 0063 0068      0045 006E 0067 0069 006E 0065

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

5389758669742398073758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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