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RAILWAY LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railway line mean? 

RAILWAY LINE (noun)
  The noun RAILWAY LINE has 2 senses:

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

2. the road consisting of railroad track and roadbedplay

  Familiarity information: RAILWAY LINE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RAILWAY 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 ("railway line" is a kind of...):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railway 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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

line; rail line; railway line

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

road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)

Meronyms (parts of "railway line"):

railroad bed (a bed on which railroad track is laid)

railroad; railroad track; railway (a line of track providing a runway for wheels)

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

branch line; spur; spur track (a railway line connected to a trunk line)

trunk line; trunk route (line that is the main route on a railway)


 Context examples 


It’s down in Kent, seven miles from Chatham and three from the railway line.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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