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Trainmaster

Definition: Trainmaster

Trainmaster

Noun

1. A railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard.

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


Synonyms: Trainmaster

Synonyms: train dispatcher (n), yardmaster (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Trainmaster

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Needles, California. Francis Stuppi, a trainmaster on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trainmaster

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

trainmaster

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Trainmaster

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

Albanian

  

përgjegjës treni (brakeman). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

началник влак. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ainmastertray

   

Russian 

  

начальник поезда. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vozovođa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Trainmaster

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: retransmit.

-2 letters: airstream, animaters, arrestant, attainers, marinates, martinets, metatarsi, reattains, restraint, retirants, staminate, tarantism, tearstain, trimarans.

-3 letters: amaretti, amentias, amirates, animater, animates, antisera, ariettas, aristate, astatine, attainer, intreats, marinate, mariners, martians, martinet, minarets, mistreat, narrates, nitrates, raiments, ratanies, reattain, restrain, retirant, retrains, sanitate, sarmenta, seatrain, strainer, straiten, straiter, tamarins, tarriest, teratism, terrains, tertians.

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

+1 letter: arbitraments, transmigrate.

 

+2 letters: transmigrated, transmigrates.

 

+3 letters: transformative.

 

+4 letters: semitransparent.

 

+5 letters: administratrices, antiferromagnets, malpractitioners, parametrizations, retransformation, teratocarcinomas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Trainmaster


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

54 72 61 69 6E 6D 61 73 74 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)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01101101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#109 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0069 006E 006D 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072

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

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

5484677580796785867184

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INDEX

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


  

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