1) (esp. BE) see railroadI
2) a scenic railway (BE)
3) a cog; rack railway
4) a narrow-gauge; normal-gauge railway
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
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railway — ⇒RAILWAY, subst. masc. Vx. Chemin de fer. Nous attendons une heure le départ du railway pour Liverpool (MICHELET, Journal, 1834, p. 151). J ai repris le chemin de fer. Le rail way court sur une digue qui, d un côté, est battue par les lames du… … Encyclopédie Universelle
railway — rail‧way [ˈreɪlweɪ] noun [countable] 1. TRANSPORT TRAVEL a method of travelling or moving goods by train; = railroad AmE: • Britain s railways • ra … Financial and business terms
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railway — railway, railroad The usual word in BrE is railway, and in AmE railroad. Railroad is used in both varieties as a verb meaning ‘to coerce into a premature decision’ … Modern English usage
Railway — (engl., spr. rēl ŭē, auch Railroad, spr. rōd, »Schienenweg«), Eisenbahn … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
railway — (n.) 1838 in modern sense, from RAIL (Cf. rail) (n.1) + WAY (Cf. way). Earlier used of any sort of road on which rails (originally wooden) were laid for easier transport, from 1776 … Etymology dictionary
railway — ► NOUN chiefly Brit. 1) a track made of rails along which trains run. 2) a system of such tracks with the trains, organization, and personnel required for its working … English terms dictionary
railway — [rāl′wā΄] n. 1. any track with rails for guiding wheels; specif., a road laid with parallel steel rails along which run passenger cars that are lighter than railroad cars 2. RAILROAD … English World dictionary
Railway — Railroad Rail road (r[=a]l r[=o]d ), Railway Rail way (r[=a]l w[=a] ), n. 1. A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
railway — (BrE) (AmE railroad) noun ADJECTIVE ▪ mainline (esp. BrE) ▪ high speed ▪ disused (BrE) ▪ narrow gauge, standard gauge … Collocations dictionary
