railway
US: /ˈɹeɪɫˌweɪ/
UK: /ɹˈeɪlweɪ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
railway /'reilwei/- danh từ
- đường sắt, đường xe lửa, đường ray
- (định ngữ) (thuộc) đường sắt
- railway company: công ty đường sắt
- railway car (carriage, coach): toa xe lửa
- railway engine: đầu máy xe lửa
- railway rug: chăn len để đắp chân (trên xe lửa)
- railway station: nhà ga xe lửa
- at railway speed: hết sức nhanh
Advanced English dictionary
(BrE) (AmE railroad)+ noun
1 (BrE also railway line) a track with rails on which trains run: The railway is still under construction. + a disused railway
2 a system of tracks, together with the trains that run on them, and the organization and people needed to operate them: Her father worked on the railways. + a railway station / worker / company + the Midland Railway + a model railway
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
train, rail, rolling-stock, Archaic iron horse, US railroad:
Railway service could be improved on some suburban lines. Diamond Jim Brady, the American millionaire, made his money from the railway.
Collocation
ADJ.
mainline | high-speed | disused | narrow gauge, standard gauge | miniature
A miniature railway runs around the park.
| model | funicular, overhead
Tourists can take the funicular railway to the top of the mountain.
| private, regional, state | electric, steam
VERB + RAILWAY
manage, operate, run | nationalize, privatize | build, construct | close, open
RAILWAY + VERB
run | carry sth
The railways carry millions of tons of freight every year.
RAILWAY + NOUN
carriage, coach, train, wagon | station, terminus | platform | ticket | ticket office | timetable | service | connection | journey, travel
the pleasures of railway travel
| passenger, traveller | employee, porter, staff, worker | architect, engineer | authorities, company | network, system | line, track | junction, sidings | bridge, tunnel, viaduct | enthusiast
He is a lifelong railway enthusiast.
| accident | age
Such speed of travel was unimaginable before the railway age.
PREP.
on a/the ~
doing maintenance work on the railway He works on the railways.
| ~ between
the railway between Funchal and Monte
| ~ from, ~ to
Concise dictionary
railways'reilweɪnoun
+line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
+a line of track providing a runway for wheels
