Ääntäminen
US
- GA:
- IPA: /ˈɹeɪlɹoʊd/
- IPA: /ˈɹeɪɹoʊd/
- RP:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|
| esperanto | fervoja |
| hollanti | sneltreinprocedure, versporen, aan het spoor werken, er |
| italia | ferrato, strada ferrata, ferroviario, binario |
| japani | 鉄道輸送する (tetsudō-yusō suru), 鉄道を経営する (tetsudō wo keiei suru), 鉄道模型をする (tetsudō-mokei wo suru), 強引に通過させる (gōin ni tsūka saseru), 線路 (senro), 架台 (kadai) |
| kreikka | σιδηρόδρομος (sidiródromos) |
| puola | kolej |
| ranska | chemin de fer |
| ruotsi | järnväg, bana |
| saksa | Eisenbahn |
| suomi | rautatie, rata |
| tšekki | železnice, železniční, dráha |
| unkari | vasúton szállít, keresztülhajt |
| venäjä | железная дорога (železnaja doroga), чугунка (tšugunka), железнодорожный (železnodorožnyi) |
| viro | raudtee |
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (chiefly US, Philippines) A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- (chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- (chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
- (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
Verbi
- (transitive) To transport via railroad.
- (intransitive) To operate a railroad.
- (intransitive) To work for a railroad.
- (intransitive) To travel by railroad.
- (intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- (transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- (transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
- (transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- (roleplaying games) To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.
- (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
Esimerkit
- Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads
- Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other
- The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
- The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
- The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
- They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
- He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
- They railroaded him out of town.
- They railroaded the bill through the Senate.
Taivutusmuodot
(chiefly US) The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
Passengers waiting to board a tube train on the London Underground in the early 1900s (sketch by unknown artist)
(chiefly US) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
The New York City Subway is the world's largest single-operator rapid transit system by number of stations.