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Definition: Tram |
TramNoun1. A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers. 2. A four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine". 3. A wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity: "`tram' and `tramcar' are British terms". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tram" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | The term for filling, in the silk trade. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A silk yarn comprising two or more threads run together and then twisted with 2 or 4 turns/cm(5 or 10 turns/in. ). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. A trip of coal cars b. Generally, to move a self-propelled piece of equipment other than a locomotive; tramcar c. A boxlike wagon of steel, running on a tramway or railway in a mine, for conveying coal or ore. Also called tramcar, tub, cocoa pan, corve, corf, or hutch d. To haul or push trams or cars about in a mine. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Sheffield Supertram is a tram network in Sheffield, England. It runs from Sheffield city centre northwest to Middlewood and Malin Bridge, via the University of Sheffield and Hillsborough, northeast to Meadowhall, via Attercliffe, and southeast to Halfway, via Norfolk Park, Manor, Gleadless and Crystal Peaks.The network was begun in 1991, and the first section was opened in 1994, shortly after a similar scheme in Manchester. Plans are underway to extend the network to Rotherham, Dore, Fulwood and Maltby.
The stops on the tram network are:
Middlewood branch
Meadowhall Branch
- Middlewood
- Leppings Lane
- Hillsborough Park
- Malin Bridge
- Hillsborough
- Bamforth Street
- Langsett (Primrose Ridge)
- Infirmary Road
- Netherthorpe Road
- University of Sheffield
- West Street
- City Hall
- Cathedral
- Castle Square
- Ponds Forge (Fitzalan Square)
Halfway Branch
- Hyde Park
- Cricket Inn Road
- Nunnery Square
- Woodbourn Road
- Attercliffe (Technology Park)
- Don Valley Stadium (Sheffield Arena)
- Valley Centertainment
- Carbrook
- Tinsley (Meadowhall South)
- Meadowhall Interchange
- Sheffield Station (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Granville Road (The Sheffield College)
- Park Grange Croft
- Park Grange
- Arbourthorne Road
- Spring Lane
- Manor Top (Elm Tree)
- Hollinsend
- Gleadless Townend
- Herdings (Leighton Road)
- Herdings Park
- White Lane
- Birley Lane
- Birley Moor Road
- Hackenthorpe
- Moss Way
- Crystal Peaks
- Beighton (Drake House Lane)
- Waterthorpe
- Westfield
- Halfway
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sheffield Supertram."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A tram (or tramway, trolley, streetcar) is a light-rail vehicle for public transport. Trams are distinguished from other forms of light rail in that they travel along tracks laid down in the right-of-way of city streets. Another distinguishing factor is the short length of the vehicle, which usually consists of a standalone car or three at most. A special type is the cable car.An older tram in Vienna, Austria and
a more recent ultra low floor tram in the backgroundTram systems are common throughout Europe and were common throughout the Western world in the early 20th century. In Australia trams are in use in several cities, most extensively in Melbourne with its W-class tram.
In the United States, most trams were removed by the 1950s. As part of a strategy to encourage the use of automobiles and discourage use of public transport, the U.S. firm of General Motors formed a separate subsidiary named "National City Lines", whose business mission was to buy out tram/streetcar operations all around the US and replace the trams with fleets of buses. Not all trams were removed; the San Francisco cable cars are the most famous example of trams in the United States. More recently some American cities have built light-rail systems which operate partially in the right-of-way of city streets. These systems could be called trams by Europeans and Australians but are generally not known by that name within the US.
Early trams were pulled along by horses. Later trams, known as cable cars, attached to a moving cable underneath the road. The cable would be pulled by a steam engine at a powerhouse. Railed vehicles pulled by cable up the hills at steep incline, such as Hong Kong's Victoria Peak Tram, and Monongahela and Duquesne Inclines in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, are also called trams, but are more accurately funiculars. Modern trams generally use overhead electric cables, from which they draw current through a pantograph or a trolley pole.Interior of a tram There are also double-decker trams, see Hong Kong Tramways.
Double track tram lines are sometimes at narrow passages single track, or, to avoid switches, have the tracks intertwined, e.g. in the Leidsestraat in Amsterdam on three short stretches (see map detail).
In some countries, the word "tram" also refers to small localized transportation systems that do not run on rails. These can be small linked vehicles used to shuttle visitors around a tourist attraction or from a large parking lot into a building such as a shopping center. These trams run on regular paved road with rubber tires. Suspended cable cars, such as those found in ski resorts, may also be called trams, see Aerial tramway.
The name "tram" is from Low German traam, meaning the "beam (of a wheelbarrow)".
See also
- List of light-rail transit systems
- Light rail
- List of transport museums
- Tram stop
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tram."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
tram | English | Tracking radar automatic monitoring | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: TramSynonyms: aerial tramway (n), cable tramway (n), ropeway (n), streetcar (n), tramcar (n), tramway (n), trolley (n), trolley car (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tram |
| English words defined with "tram": Tramming. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tram": AERIAL-TRAM OPERATOR, Agecroft device ♦ FORMULA WEIGHER ♦ gradient of equal traction, GUIDE, SIGHTSEEING, guss ♦ IRRADIATED-FUEL HANDLER ♦ load tallier ♦ pole-peeler helper, POLE-PEELING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER, pole-shaver helper ♦ retort engineer, RETORT-LOAD EXPEDITER ♦ spieler ♦ timber-treating-tank operator, tramrail, TREATING ENGINEER, treating-plant operator, TRIM TRAM ♦ Warwick safety device. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tram" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (streetcar, tram), French (car, streetcar, tram), German (streetcar, tram), Italian (streetcar, tram), Manx (tram ), Spanish (tram, tramcar). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Il Tram (1973) Geen tram meer naar het Zuidstation (1966) Hanno rubato un tram (1954) Le Dame dans le tram (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ore loading facility at Manton on Keswick's Reservoir near Redding, CA. Note the tram cable tower at mid-left in the background. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Ready for the tram. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Arret de tramways - tram station / RMS. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Aerial tram leading from mine to loading platform at narrow gauge railway station. Ophir, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ben Bow chromite mine, Stillwater County, Montana. Start of the aerial tram. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Twickenham by tram / E. McKnight Kauffer '24. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Colne River at Uxbridge by tram / E. McKnight Kauffer '24. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Fuze tram" by Zoltan Szalay Commentary: "A tram in Budapest fuzing by speed." | "Tram" by Christoph Burgdorfer Commentary: "Zürich tramway in depot." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was the last tram. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Czech Republic | There are a growing number of bus lines that are accessible to persons with disabilities; tram lines in Plzen are wheelchair accessible. (references) |
Economic History | Australia | The Victorian Government has also franchised its passenger train and tram operations. (references) |
Australia | In January 1999, the Victorian State Government privatized its freight business, V/Line Freight, and franchised its passenger rail and suburban tram networks. (references) | |
Travel | Bulgaria | Sofia has a comprehensive bus, tram and trolley system. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tram" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Tram" is used about 414 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) | 99.28% | 411 | 13,718 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.24% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.24% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.24% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 414 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tram" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tram | Last name | 300 | 26,988 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "tram": go by tram ♦ Tram car ♦ tram conductor ♦ tram driver ♦ tram it ♦ Tram plate ♦ Tram pot ♦ tram rail ♦ tram route ♦ tram yarn. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tram": tram-car, tram-cars, tram-conductress, tram-driver, tram-duty, tram-like-a-train, tram-line, tram-lines, tram-makers, tram-only, tram-ride, tram-riding, tram-road, tram-stop, tram-ttm, tram-way, tram-ways. | |
Ending with "tram": horse-tram, pro-tram. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tram"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tramvaj (streetcar, tramcar, trolley car), vagonetë (handcar, trolley, Velocipede), shkoj me tramvaj. (various references) | |
Arabic | ترام (street car, tramway, trolley), خيط حريري (floss silk). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | трамвайна линия (tram-line, tramway), трамвайни релси (tram-road), трамвай (streetcar, tramcar, trolley, trolley car), вагонетка (corf, lorry, lurry, tram-road, trolley, truck, waggon, wagon), пътувам с трамвай (tram it), пресукана коприна, извозвам с вагонетки. (various references) | |
Chinese | 电车. (various references) | |
Czech | tramvaj (street car, streetcar, tram car). (various references) | |
Danish | trame, silkegarn (silk yarn, spun silk). (various references) | |
Dutch | tram (streetcar). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tramo (streetcar). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sporvognur (streetcar). (various references) | |
Farsi | واگن برقی (Trolley), تراموای , باواگن رفتن . (various references) | |
Finnish | raitiovaunu (streetcar, tram streetcar). (various references) | |
French | tramway (tramcar, trolley). (various references) | |
German | Straßenbahn (cable car, streetcar, tramcar, tramway, trolley, trolley car), Bahn (alley, course, Gore, Lane, length, path, pathway, railroad, railway, road, route, streetcar, track, train, way, web). (various references) | |
Greek | τραμ (railway, streetcar, tramcar). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרון פחם, חשמלית (car, street car, tramcar, trolley). (various references) | |
Hungarian | villamos (electro, streetcar, street-car, tram car, trolley). (various references) | |
Indonesian | trem. (various references) | |
Italian | tram (streetcar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 市電 (city streetcar, municipal railway). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しでん (city streetcar, flash, historical material, history and biography, instruction from a master, municipal railway, purple lightning, swordflash). (various references) | |
Korean | 궤도 전차. (various references) | |
Manx | trammey (tramming), trammal (tramming), tram. (various references) | |
Norwegian | trikk (streetcar), sporvogn (streetcar). (various references) | |
Papiamen | trèm (streetcar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amtray.(various references) | |
Polish | tramwaj (streetcar). (various references) | |
Portuguese | bonde (streetcar). (various references) | |
Romanian | tramvai (tram car, tramway, trolley, two-decker), vagonet (box, carriage, lorry, trolley, truck, tub), linie de tramvai (tram-line, tramway). (various references) | |
Russian | трамвай (streetcar, tramcar, tramway, trolley, trolley car, trolley-car). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tramvaj (streetcar, tram car, tramway, trolley car), svilena potka, rudarska kola, putovati tramvajem. (various references) | |
Spanish | tranvía (streetcar, tramcar, trolley). (various references) | |
Swedish | spårvagn (car, streetcar, tramcar, trolley, trolley car). (various references) | |
Turkish | tramvayla taşımak, tramvay (cable railway, street car, streetcar, tramcar), maden ocağı arabası (bogie), dekovil (narrow-gauge railroad, tub). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | їхати трамваєм, трамвай (streetcar). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đường xe điện (tram-line, tramway). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tram": tramcar, tramcars, tramel, trameled, trameling, tramell, tramelled, tramelling, tramells, tramels, tramless, tramline, tramlines, trammed, trammel, trammeled, trammeling, trammelled, trammelling, trammels, tramming, tramontane, tramontanes, tramp, tramped, tramper, trampers, tramping, trampish, trample, trampled, trampler, tramplers, tramples, trampling, trampoline, trampoliner, trampoliners, trampolines, trampolining, trampolinings, trampolinist, trampolinists, tramps, tramroad, tramroads, trams, tramway, tramways. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tram": arbitrament, arbitraments, extramarital, extramundane, extramural, extramurally, extramusical, gewurztraminer, gewurztraminers, hexamethylenetetramine, hexamethylenetetramines, intramolecular, intramolecularly, intramural, intramurally, intramuscular, intramuscularly, pastrami, pastramis, stramash, stramashes, stramonies, stramonium, stramoniums, stramony, tetramer, tetrameric, tetramerous, tetramers, tetrameter, tetrameters, tetramethyllead, tetramethylleads, ultramafic, ultramarathon, ultramarathoner, ultramarathoners, ultramarathons, ultramarine, ultramarines, ultramasculine, ultramicro, ultramicroscope, ultramicroscopes, ultramicroscopic, ultramicroscopical, ultramicroscopically, ultramicrotome, ultramicrotomes, ultramicrotomies, ultramicrotomy. (additional references) | |
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"Tram" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Etrim, iram, itran, Kramm, lram, rram, taam, Tarama, taran, tarim, tarmy, Tarom, Tarum, tbam, teran, terem, tham, thram, tiam, tiran, toam, torem, torim, tormae, tra, traa, traam, traan, Trab, trac, traf, trag, trah, trai, traim, traj, trak, tral, trama, trame, tran, trang, tranq, traq, trar, traum, trav, traw, trax, traz, trba, tream, treim, trem, tremmy, trimy, trin, triom, trium, troam, trom, Troma, tromf, trum, trym, tsam, tuam, turan, turran, tvam, xtra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tram" (pronounced tra"m) |
| 3 | -r a" m | ram, cram, dram, gram. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mart. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: arm, art, mar, mat, ram, rat, tam, tar. | |
-2 letters: am, ar, at, ma, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: amort, armet, marts, mater, ramet, smart, tamer, tharm, tramp, trams, tryma. | |
+2 letters: amrita, amtrac, antrum, armets, armlet, armpit, atrium, dreamt, format, imaret, impart, maftir, mantra, market, marmot, marted, marten, martin, martyr, master, maters, matres, matrix, matron, matter, mature, mitral, mortal, mortar, ramate, ramets, ramjet, ramtil, remate, reteam, smarts, smarty, stream, stroma, struma, tamari, tambur, tamers, tamper, tarama, tarmac, thairm, tharms, thiram, tramel, tramps, trauma, warmth. | |
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