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RAILWAY LINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
Synonyms:
railroad; railroad line; railway; railway line; railway system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
