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RAILROAD LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railroad line mean? 

RAILROAD LINE (noun)
  The noun RAILROAD LINE has 1 sense:

1. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freightplay

  Familiarity information: RAILROAD LINE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAILROAD LINE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

railroad; railroad line; railway; railway line; railway system

Hypernyms ("railroad line" is a kind of...):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railroad line"):

cable railway; funicular; funicular railway (a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars)

cog railway; rack railway (railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction)

el; elevated; elevated railroad; elevated railway; overhead railway (a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level)

metro; subway; subway system; tube; underground (an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city))

monorail (a railway having a single track)

rail (short for railway)

scenic railway (small railway in an amusement park)


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