RAILROAD TRACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railroad track mean? 

• RAILROAD TRACK (noun)
  The noun RAILROAD TRACK has 1 sense:

1. a line of track providing a runway for wheels

  Familiarity information: RAILROAD TRACK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAILROAD TRACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line of track providing a runway for wheels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

railroad; railroad track; railway

Context example:

he walked along the railroad track

Hypernyms ("railroad track" is a kind of...):

track (a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels)

Meronyms (parts of "railroad track"):

crosstie; railroad tie; sleeper; tie (one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track)

rail; rails; runway; track (a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railroad track"):

broad gauge (a railroad track (or its width) broader than the standard 56.5 inches)

gantlet (the convergence of two parallel railroad tracks in a narrow place; the inner rails cross and run parallel and then diverge so a train remains on its own tracks at all times)

narrow gauge (a railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard 56.5 inches)

railroad siding; sidetrack; siding; turnout (a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass)

standard gauge (railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches)

switch (railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock)

Holonyms ("railroad track" is a part of...):

line; rail line; railway line (the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed)

 Context examples 

We waited for her down the road and out of sight. It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)