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Definition: Trainman |
TrainmanNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | In metal mining, a laborer who loads ore into railroad cars. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TrainmanSynonyms: railroad man (n), railroader (n), railway man (n), railwayman (n). (additional references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| 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 |
trainman | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 guarda-freio (brakesman, tram-driver). (various references) тормозной кондуктор (brakeman, brakesman), проводник (cicerone, conductor, guide, pilot, porter, vehicle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 69 6E 6D 61 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .-. .- .. -. -- .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a i n m a n |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5484677580796780 |
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