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- DictionaryRail·road/ˈrālˌrōd/
noun
- 1. a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run. "his uncle works on the railroad"
- 2. a system of tracks with the trains, organization, and personnel required for its working: "the Union Pacific Railroad"
verb
- 1. press (someone) into doing something by rushing or coercing them: "she hesitated, unwilling to be railroaded into a decision"
From Longman Business Dictionary rail‧road1 /ˈreɪlrəʊd-roʊd/ noun [ countable] American English 1 a railway a railroad company 2 the railroad all the work, equipment etc connected with a train system He had taken a job as a ticket agent on the railroad. railroad2 verb [ transitive] to force or persuade someone to do something without giving them...
railroad, Mode of land transportation in which flange-wheeled vehicles move over two parallel steel rails or tracks, drawn by a locomotive or propelled by self-contained motors. The earliest railroads were built in European mines in the 16th century, using cars pulled on tracks by men or horses.
The meaning of RAILROAD is a permanent road having a line of rails fixed to ties and laid on a roadbed and providing a track for cars or equipment drawn by locomotives or propelled by self-contained motors; also : such a road and its assets constituting a single property.
Rail Transport a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail. Rail Transport an entire system of such roads together with its rolling stock, buildings, etc.;
Railroad - Track, Locomotives, History: The modern railroad rail has a flat bottom, and its cross section is much like an inverted T. An English engineer, Charles Vignoles, is credited with the invention of this design in the 1830s. A similar design also was developed by Robert L. Stevens, president of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in the ...
noun. US uk / ˈreɪlrəʊd/ (UK railway / ˈreɪlweɪ/) the systems and organizations connected with trains: He worked on the railroad for much of his life. the metal tracks that trains travel on: A railroad used to be where the highway is now. (Definition of railroad from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Definitions. from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. noun A road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles.
