replacing switch
tie plate
fishbelly
rail joint
tie
sleeper
rerail
crosstie
railroad tie
plateway
fishplate
track
rails
runway
rail
sandwich girder
points
railroad track
trackwork
buck fence
jackleg fence
long-welded
Jim Crow
rack railway
equalising beam
switch
running rail
headchair
double crossover
reballasting
stopblock
gully
cantrail
key
railroad
block
tipple
diamond crossover
mixed gauge
metal
bullhead
cross-member
side chain
flanged T rail
buffer beam
railway track
fender beam
running line
trackage
work train
double track
railhead
switchyard
meet
ballasting
lay-by
cut-out
point
railway line
railbridge
scissors crossover
bitts
train track
gantry
permanent way
loop-line
sun kink
fishing space
Chopper
dead block
axle bar
singling
reballast
pass
sheth
rail track
double-heading
sidetrack
beam
gauntry
midrail
ballast
buffer
controller
test track
solebar
coping stone
wrecking car
rail off
bridgework
railbank
carline
ironclad
undertrack
long-welded
ironclad
undertrack
replacing switch
tie plate
fishbelly
rail joint
tie
sleeper
crosstie
railroad tie
plateway
fishplate
track
rails
runway
rail
sandwich girder
points
railroad track
trackwork
buck fence
jackleg fence
Jim Crow
rack railway
equalising beam
switch
running rail
headchair
double crossover
reballasting
stopblock
gully
cantrail
key
railroad
block
tipple
diamond crossover
mixed gauge
metal
bullhead
cross-member
side chain
flanged T rail
buffer beam
railway track
fender beam
running line
trackage
work train
double track
railhead
switchyard
meet
ballasting
lay-by
cut-out
point
railway line
railbridge
scissors crossover
bitts
train track
gantry
permanent way
loop-line
sun kink
fishing space
Chopper
dead block
axle bar
singling
pass
sheth
rail track
double-heading
sidetrack
beam
gauntry
midrail
buffer
controller
test track
solebar
coping stone
wrecking car
bridgework
railbank
carline
rerail
reballast
ballast
rail
rail off
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a rester who is sleeping
- a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
- an unexpected achiever of success
- a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- pajamas with feet; worn by children
- a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- an unexpected hit
noun
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- a course over which races are run
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
verb
noun
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a chute down which logs can slide
- a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.
- a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
noun
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
verb
noun
- A tool for bending railway rails, by holding the rail with two arms and pushing a screw into the other side.
- A double-action planing tool invented by Joseph Whitworth, in which the blade ‘jumps’ to face the other way on the back-stroke.
- A World War II code name for patrols along the British coastline to intercept enemy aircraft, originally intended to warn of invasion in 1940.
name
verb
adj
noun
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- make a shift in or exchange of
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
- A road drain.
- A small valley.
- A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- A large knife.
- A drop kerb.
- an alleyway or side street.
verb
noun
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
adj
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
noun
- A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
- A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
verb
- To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
- To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
- To travel by railroad.
- To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- To operate a railroad.
- To work for a railroad.
- To transport via railroad.
- To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
noun
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A roughly cuboid building.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
noun
- The rails of a railway.
- A category of rock music encompassing a number of genres (including thrash metal, death metal, heavy metal, etc.) characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
- Molten glass that is to be blown or moulded to form objects.
- The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
- Crushed rock, stones etc. used to make a road.
- Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
- A light tincture used in a coat of arms, specifically argent (white or silver) and or (gold).
- Any material with similar physical properties, such as an alloy.
- The ore from which a metal is derived.
- An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.
- The effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war.
adj
- Having the emotional or social characteristics associated with metal music; brash, bold, frank, unyielding, etc.
- Characterized by strong drum-beats and distorted guitars.
verb
noun
- A bullhead rail.
- The yellow bullhead, Ameiurus natalis.
- The black bullhead, Ameiurus melas.
- A fish of species Gobiomorphus gobioides.
- An obstinate person.
- The European bullhead, Cottus gobio.
- The brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus.
- Any of various sculpins of the suborder Scorpaenoidei
- A chronograph (watch or stopwatch) with two push buttons arranged like the horns of a bull on the top end of the case, typically with the crown between them.
- A bullhead shark (Heterodontus spp.).
noun
- On some railways, a chain fitted on both sides of a centre coupler or buffer at each end of a rail vehicle, which has a hook for connection to a corresponding chain on the next vehicle in a train.
- Auxiliary audio input fed to a synthesizer etc. and used to selectively trigger an effect.
- That part of a molecule attached to some core structure; a radical.
- A separate blockchain attached to a parent blockchain (mainchain) to extend its functionalities.
- Any of the variable parts of amino acids that extend from the peptide backbone in proteins; they are referred to as R-groups, which branch off the backbone at the alpha carbon (Cα).
verb
noun
- A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross.
- The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∧.
- A meeting.
- A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting.
- A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming.
verb
- To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
- To touch or hit something while moving.
- To converge and finally touch or intersect.
- To respond to (an argument etc.) with something equally convincing; to refute.
- To be mixed with, to be combined with aspects of.
- To satisfy; to comply with.
- To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
- To get acquainted with someone.
- To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
- To play a match.
- To balance or come out correct.
- To come together in conflict.
- To adjoin, be physically touching.
- To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
noun
- A railroad siding; a second, short railroad track just to the side of a railroad track, connected with the main track by a switch and used for unloading, bypassing, etc.
- A paved area at the side of a highway designated for drivers to stop in, for emergency parking, or where vehicles can wait, with larger lay-bys possibly having facilities like food vendors or public telephones.
- A method of retail purchase in which the selected goods are set aside and the customer pays for them in instalments, receiving them when fully paid; layaway.
- A widened section of a narrow river or canal, formed to one side so as to leave the channel free, for mooring of vessels, where vessels can lay over or allow others to pass.
noun
- A railway cutting.
- Any of several devices that halt the flow of a current, especially an electric current; a trip-switch or trip.
- A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.
- A trusted middleman or intermediary, especially in espionage.
- A free-standing, rigid print (usually life-sized), often displayed for promotional purposes; a standee.
- A piece cut out of something.
- A hole or space produced when something is removed by cutting.
- The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.
- Clip art.
noun
- A railroad switch.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- A railway track; a pair of rails on which a railway train runs.
- A group of railway tracks running parallel, allowing one track to be used for each direction (a double-track railway line), or allowing segregation of fast trains from stopping trains (a four-track railway line).
- An organization that runs a railroad.
noun
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
noun
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
verb
- To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
- To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
noun
- An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- A ray; a gleam.
- The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
verb
- To put (something) on a beam.
- To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
- To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
- To furnish or supply with beams.
- To give the appearance of beams to.
- To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
- To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
verb
- To lay ballast on the bed of a railroad track.
- To stabilize or load a ship with ballast.
- To weigh down with a ballast.
noun
- Anything that steadies emotion or the mind.
- Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship (or in the gondola of a balloon), to provide stability.
- A material, such as aggregate or precast concrete pavers, which employs its mass and the force of gravity to hold single-ply roof membranes in place.
- That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit)
- Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete; track ballast.
noun
- The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
- A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
- Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- The chief boatswain's mate.
- A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
verb
noun
- An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
- The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- One who controls something.
- The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
- In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
- A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
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