RAILWAY SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does railway system mean? 

• RAILWAY SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun RAILWAY SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight

  Familiarity information: RAILWAY SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAILWAY SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

railroad; railroad line; railway; railway line; railway system

Hypernyms ("railway system" is a kind of...):

line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "railway system"):

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)

 Context examples 

This network of small tubes within a cell provides structural support and acts as a kind of inner cellular railway system, transporting organelles and molecular complexes vital for a cell’s survival.

(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)