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Definition: Yardmaster |
YardmasterNoun1. A railroad employer who is in charge of a railway yard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yardmaster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Synonyms: YardmasterSynonyms: train dispatcher (n), trainmaster (n). (additional references) |
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 | Cicero, Illinois. A yardmaster at the Clyde yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fort Madison, Iowa. Mr. H. D. Tyres, yardmaster on the route of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yardmaster in railroad yards, Amarillo Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Yardmaster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yardmaster" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yardmaster | 19 |
lawn mower yardmaster | 3 |
lawn mowers yardmaster | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yardmaster"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | رءیس محوطه باراندازراه اهن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Rangiermeister (yardmasters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yardmasteray şef de manevrã, şef al unui centru de triaj. (various references) старший (elder, head, high-order, major, oldest, senior, seniors, Snr Senior, superior, superiors). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yardmaster": yardmasters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-m-r-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: daymares, martyred, yardarms. | |
-3 letters: armrest, arrased, arrayed, daresay, darters, daymare, daystar, erratas, martyrs, mastery, retards, smarted, smarter, starred, strayed, strayer, streamy, traders, yardarm. | |
-4 letters: armers, armets, arrays, arrest, artery, astray, damars, darers, darter, datary, daters, demast, derats, derays, dermas, dramas, dreams, dreamt, dreamy, drears, dreary, dryers, dryest, errata, estray, madras, madres, marred, marted. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-m-r-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: yardmasters. | |
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