| 单词 | railway locomotive |
| 释义 | railway locomotive (once / 328315 pages) n WORD FAMILY railway locomotive: railway locomotives USAGE EXAMPLESDutta, a railway locomotive driver and president of the All India Loco Running Staff Association, a train operators’ trade union. Seattle Times(Nov 22, 2016) GE has received billions of dollars in orders from India in recent years for everything from power turbines to aerospace equipment and railway locomotives. Wall Street Journal(Aug 08, 2016) Flying Scotsman, one of the best-known railway locomotives, has finished its first public test-run after a £4.2m restoration project. BBC(Jan 08, 2016) n a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks Syn|Hypo|Hyper engine, locomotive, locomotive engine choo-choo a child's word for locomotive diesel locomotivea locomotive driven by a diesel engine dinkey, dinkya small locomotive electric locomotivea locomotive that is powered by an electric motor iron horse(c. 1840) an early term for a locomotive pilot enginea locomotive that precedes a train to check the track shuntera small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips steam locomotivea locomotive powered by a steam engine donkey engine, switch enginea locomotive for switching rolling stock in a railroad yard tank engine, tank locomotivea locomotive that carries its own fuel and water; no tender is needed traction enginesteam-powered locomotive for drawing heavy loads along surfaces other than tracks diesel-electric, diesel-electric locomotivea locomotive driven by the electric current generated by a diesel engine diesel-hydraulic, diesel-hydraulic locomotivea locomotive driven by a hydraulic transmission system powered by a diesel engine self-propelled vehicle a wheeled vehicle that carries in itself a means of propulsion |
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