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cableway

Meaning of "cableway" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CABLEWAY

ˈkeɪbəlˌweɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CABLEWAY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cableway is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CABLEWAY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cable car

A cable car is any of a variety of transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate. The terminology also refers to the vehicles on these systems. The cable car vehicles are motor-less and engine-less pulled by cable that is rotated by motor off-board.

Definition of cableway in the English dictionary

The definition of cableway in the dictionary is a system for moving people or bulk materials in which suspended cars, buckets, etc, run on cables that extend between terminal towers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CABLEWAY

aisleway · anyway · Broadway · castaway · Conway · crawlway · gateway · giveaway · hallway · highway · midway · Norway · oilway · parkway · pathway · railway · rollway · runway · spillway · subway

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CABLEWAY

cable · cable car · cable length · cable railway · cable release · cable stitch · cable television · cable-knit · cable-laid · cable-laying · cable-stayed bridge · cable-stitch · cable´s length · cablecast · cablegram · cabler · cablet · cablevision · cabling · cabman

WORDS THAT END LIKE CABLEWAY

aerial cableway · bikeway · breezeway · bridleway · carriageway · causeway · cycleway · dual carriageway · entranceway · freeway · Giant´s Causeway · guideway · leeway · lifeway · passageway · raceway · ridgeway · ropeway · slideway · someway

Synonyms and antonyms of cableway in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cableway» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CABLEWAY

Find out the translation of cableway to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of cableway from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cableway» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

索道
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

teleférico
570 millions of speakers
en

English

cableway
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

cableway
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تليفريك
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

канатная дорога
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

teleférico
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

কেবলওয়ে
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

téléphérique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kabelway
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Seilbahn
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

空中ケーブル
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

케이블카
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Kabelway
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cáp treo
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

கேபிள்வழி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

केबलवे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tramvay kablosu
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

funivia
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

kolejka linowa
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

канатна дорога
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

pe cablu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συρματόσχοινο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cableway
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

linbana
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

taubane
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cableway

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CABLEWAY»

Discover the use of cableway in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cableway and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A bank-operated traveling-block cableway for stream ...
A hand-operated cableway permits the accurate and safe collection of discharge and sediment data from the stream bank. This system provides a low-cost, safe alternative to cable cars or operation from bridges during high runoff.
James J. Paradiso, Stream Systems Technology Center (Fort Collins, Colo.), 2000
2
Table Mountain to Cape Point
The cableway then & now • 17 November 1929 - weather misty and windy. Passengers: 172. Trips made: 37 • 17 November 2005 - weather partly cloudy. Passengers 3 522. Trips made: 70 • May 1930 - average number of passengers per day: ...
Carrie Hampton, 2006
3
Popular Science
SWIFTER transportation of U. S. Army trucks and tanks across rivers and ravines is made possible by a compact portable military cableway invented by Lt. Col. R. B. Lord. In three hours, 13 skilled men, with the help of 40 unskilled ones, can  ...
4
Hoover Dam 75th Anniversary History Symposium: Proceedings ...
The main workhorses for Crowe were his five 20-ton cableway cranes strategically located over Black Canyon (Figure 8). The 20-ton cableway cranes had a traverse speed of 1 ,200 feet per minute, and a hoist speed of 300 feet per minute.
David R. Gilbert, Richard L. Wiltshire, Jerry R. Rogers, 2011
5
The Lidgerwood Cableway
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company, 2012
6
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Hydraulic cable car powered by a gasoline engine installed at the Upper Cableway to allow use of a 300-lb sounding weight during discharge measurements. A P-46 point-integrating suspended-sediment sampler was used for the first time at ...
David J. Topping, John C. Schmidt, L. E. Vierra
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Dictionary Of Civil Engineering
Cableways may have both towers stationary (fixed cable- way), one tower stationary (radial cable- way), or both towers movable on rails (full-travelling cableway). Cf. aerial ropeway and see Blondin, excavating cableway, slack-line cableway, ...
John S. Scott, 1992
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Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Design in ...
Photo-realistic rendering of student design for a cableway station shown at the jury defense. Students of the reservoir section further mentioned that they spent a great deal of time re-opening old course notes and textbooks in fluid mechanics,  ...
Mary Kathryn Thompson (Ed.)
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Meaning Predictability in Word Formation: Novel, ...
4.3.2.4 to cableway Table 32. to cableway - native speakers 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 - to travel by cableway - to build/construct a cableway - to lay cables - to transport items via a cableway X X 6 4 8 X 8 7 X X 8 X 9 X ...
Pavol _tekauer, 2005
10
Ski
On a cableway, you can ski twice as long for a third of the price, (Compare two hours of cable skiing at $15 with two hours of boat time at $100.) And it's lots of fun, because the pull from the cable is similar to the pull from the boat but without the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CABLEWAY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cableway is used in the context of the following news items.
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The world's most breathtaking cable cars, plus one of our own [photos]
Sure, almost all of these are insane; some even featured in major Hollywood blockbusters, but why not include the Table Mountain Cableway? «TheSouthAfrican, Jun 15»
2
BRIEF-Wuhan Sante Cableway to acquire a landscape firm, plans …
June 29 Wuhan Sante Cableway Group Co Ltd. * Says plans to acquire a landscape firm for 2.48 billion yuan ($399.45 million) via cash, share ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
3
Village residents' association renews calls to stop new homes on …
... to form mounds for a cableway and slides, construction of a new access footpath and the installation of play equipment, including a spire net, ... «Sunderland Echo, Jun 15»
4
Paying homage to China's holiest mountain
For comfort and expediency, there's a cableway, which reduces the climb to only several hundred steps. The ride in the cable car provides ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»
5
The Curious Traveler Goes To Australia
Make your rainforest tour even more enjoyable by taking a Skyrail Rainforest Cableway gondola ride to get an unforgettable top-down view of ... «Gazette Newspapers, Jun 15»
6
Italy-France Tale Of Two Borders: Alpine Chic Meets Migrant Drama
The Turin-based daily La Stampa reports that the new cableway has three stations: it starts at Entrèves, a hamlet near Courmayeur at the foot of ... «Worldcrunch, Jun 15»
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9 Awesome Honeymoon Trips No One Takes
In addition, there are also tons of outdoor activities: Take a ride on Table Mountain Aerial Cableway, visit the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
8
Cairns: More than just the Great Barrier Reef
With the help of the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway, we were able to soar above the canopies of Barron Gorge National Park, taking in the rugged ... «TODAYonline, Jun 15»
9
Kids' specials in our parks
On this side of the mountain, children can look forward to experiencing the Table Mountain Cableway at a discounted rate until Saturday 31 ... «News24, Jun 15»
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15 breathtaking views of the world from the window of gondola rides
The Tianmen Mountain Cableway in Hunan Province, China. Image: Oleksiy Maksymenko/imageBROKER/Corbis. 42-16178061 ... «Mashable, Jun 15»
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