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Trainman

Definition: Trainman

Trainman

Noun

1. An employee of a railroad.

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

Date "trainman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)


Specialty Definition: Trainman

DomainDefinition

Mining

In metal mining, a laborer who loads ore into railroad cars. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Trainman

Synonyms: railroad man (n), railroader (n), railway man (n), railwayman (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Trainman

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Saint Augustine, Florida. Trainman signalling from a "Jim Crow" coach. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trainman

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

trainman

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Trainman

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

Greek 

  

σιδηροδρομικόσ υπάλληλοσ. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

乗務" (train crew). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じょうむい" (train crew). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainmantray

   

Portuguese

  

guarda-freio (brakesman, tram-driver). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тормозной кондуктор (brakeman, brakesman), проводник (cicerone, conductor, guide, pilot, porter, vehicle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Trainman

Misspellings

"Trainman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rainman, Raisman, trailmen, Trainant, trainment, Trasimene, Trautman, Trenaman, Treneman, triermain, turonian. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Trainman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-n-n-r-t"

-1 letter: antiman, martian, tamarin.

-2 letters: airman, amrita, antiar, mantra, marina, martin, tamari, tinman.

-3 letters: amain, amnia, anima, antra, atman, atria, inarm, manat, mania, manna, manta, maria, matin, naira, ratan, riant, riata, tiara, train.

-4 letters: airn, airt, amia, amin, amir, anna, anta, anti, aria, atma, maar, main, mair, mana, mart, mina, mint, naan, nana, raia, rain.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-n-n-r-t"
 

+2 letters: maintainer, marinating, marination, nonmarital.

 

+3 letters: amaranthine, arraignment, enamoration, infantryman, maintainers, mandarinate, marathoning, marginating, margination, marinations, nonaromatic, nondramatic, nonmaterial, reanimating, reanimation, transmarine.

 

+4 letters: administrant, antiromantic, arraignments, contaminator, emargination, enamorations, humanitarian, interlaminar, intracompany, mandarinates, marathonings, marginations, premalignant, reanimations, romanization, transaminase, transuranium, unitarianism.

 

+5 letters: administrants, aggiornamento, animadverting, antimarijuana, antiromantics, antisubmarine, argumentation, ascertainment, communitarian, contaminators, determinantal, documentarian, emarginations, fragmentating, fragmentation, germanization, grantsmanship, harmonization, humanitarians, informational, intermarginal, mainstreaming, manufacturing, mediterranean, neuroanatomic, nonmainstream, nonparametric, normalization, ornamentation, randomization, recontaminate, reexamination, rhadamanthine, romanizations, terminational, transaminases, transmittance, transmountain, transmutation, unitarianisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Trainman


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

54 72 61 69 6E 6D 61 6E

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)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01101101 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#109 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0069 006E 006D 0061 006E

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

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

5484677580796780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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