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PRONUNCIATION OF ELEVATED RAILROAD

elevated railroad  [ˈɛlɪˌveɪtɪd ˈreɪlˌrəʊd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELEVATED RAILROAD

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Elevated railroad 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 ELEVATED RAILROAD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

elevated railroad

Elevated railway

An elevated railway is a rapid transit railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other steel, concrete or brick structure. The railway may be standard gauge, narrow gauge, light rail, monorail or a suspension railway. Elevated railways are usually used in urban areas where otherwise there would be a large number of level crossings.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELEVATED RAILROAD


anyroad
ˈɛnɪˌrəʊd
byroad
ˈbaɪˌrəʊd
crossroad
ˈkrɒsˌrəʊd
electrode
ɪˈlɛktrəʊd
erode
ɪˈrəʊd
highroad
ˈhaɪˌrəʊd
inroad
ˈɪnˌrəʊd
joyrode
ˈdʒɔɪˌrəʊd
nesselrode
ˈnɛsəlˌrəʊd
outrode
ˈaʊtˌrəʊd
overrode
ˌəʊvəˈrəʊd
railroad
ˈreɪlˌrəʊd
road
rəʊd
rode
rəʊd
sarod
sæˈrəʊd
sideroad
ˈsaɪdˌrəʊd
strode
strəʊd
superroad
ˈsuːpərˌrəʊd
tramroad
ˈtræmˌrəʊd
trode
trəʊd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELEVATED RAILROAD

elevate
elevated
elevated railway
elevated train
elevation
elevational
elevator
elevator car
elevator operator
elevator pitch
elevator shaft
elevatory
eleven
eleven o´clock
eleven-plus
elevenses
eleventh
eleventh chord
eleventh hour
eleventh-grader

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELEVATED RAILROAD

A road
abroad
approach road
broad
country road
dirt road
high road
hit the road
knight of the road
link road
main road
middle-of-the-road
off-road
on the road
relief road
ring road
take the road
the end of the road
to take the high road
underground railroad

Synonyms and antonyms of elevated railroad in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «elevated railroad» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELEVATED RAILROAD

Find out the translation of elevated railroad to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of elevated railroad from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «elevated railroad» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

高架铁路
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ferrocarril elevado
570 millions of speakers

English

elevated railroad
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊंचा रेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السكك الحديدية ارتفاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

повышенная железная дорога
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ferrovia elevada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উচ্চতর রেলপথ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chemin de fer surélevée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kereta api yang dinaikkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hochbahn
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

高架鉄道
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고가 철도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Munggah jalur sing luwih dhuwur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đường sắt cao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உயர்த்தப்பட்ட இரயில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उंच रेल्वेमार्ग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yükselen demiryolu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

elevata ferrovia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

podwyższone kolejowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підвищена залізниця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cale ferată crescute
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυξημένα σιδηρόδρομος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verhoogde spoorweg
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

upphöjd järnväg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forhøyet jernbane
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of elevated railroad

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELEVATED RAILROAD»

The term «elevated railroad» is normally little used and occupies the 125.807 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELEVATED RAILROAD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about elevated railroad

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELEVATED RAILROAD»

Discover the use of elevated railroad in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to elevated railroad and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Report on the Union Elevated Loop Railroad Submitted to the ...
Dear Sir: — The following is a statement of the results of conferences between the elevated railroad companies' engineers and the writer, representing the city, in discussing the "Weston Report" upon the Union Elevated Loop Railroad. 1st.
George Weston, 1908
2
Report on the Union Elevated Railroad of Chicago: Covering ...
THE UNION ELEVATED RAILROAD "LOOP." Location. The Union Elevated Railroad "Loop" comprises about two miles of double-track elevated structure in the business district of Chicago, occupying Lake Street from Fifth Avenue to Wabash, ...
Charles Keagle Mohler, 1908
3
Morris Frohmann Against The MAnhattan Railway Company and ...
... use and operate the same in the street Inentioned in the complaint herein; that prior to the 3d day of February, 1890, the Manhattan Railway Company was the lessee of all the railroads of the New York Elevated Railroad Company, and that,  ...
4
The Rise and Growth of Elevated Railroad Law
Theodore Frelinghuysen Cornell Demarest. perimental section. Commissioners were provided for, who were to inspect the railroad, its structures and operating machinery, and, if they approved of the same and found that the road could be ...
Theodore Frelinghuysen Cornell Demarest, 1894
5
Report on Passenger Subway and Elevated Railroad Development ...
Prepared for the Committee on Traffic and Transportation of the City Club of Chicago Charles Keagle Mohler. B.— ELEVATED RAILROADS. There is considerable prejudice against elevated railroads which should not be well founded if ...
Charles Keagle Mohler, 1912
6
Shall the Metropolis of New England Have an Elevated ...
But by the elevated railroad it can be done. The elevated railroad can run through trains, which can carry all the people and take them where they desire to go. Now , while that is the necessity of Boston which calls for an elevated railroad, it is ...
Charles E. Powers, 1880
7
Court of Appeals. Rufus Story, Appellant, Against the New ...
... of property is not taking it within themean- ing of the constitutional prohibition.'" Our contention is that Front street opposite to the plaintiffs lot is public property, and that applying it to the use of an elevated railroad is applying it to a public use.
Dorsheimer, Bacon & Deyo, firm, 1881
8
Metropolitan Railways: Rapid Transit in America
Brooklyn had transportation problems of its own, and the city's first elevated railroad, the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad Company, was chartered in r874 to operate from Brooklyn to Queens, but it would be another decade before the company ...
William D. Middleton, 2003
9
Proceedings of the City Council ...
>any, subject tothe right of theNorth- □m Elevated Railroad Company and Chicago and South Side Kapid Transit i»d Company to become parties to the supplemental agreement at any time it her or both of tbem should see fit do; the object ...
Chicago (Ill.). City Council, 1808
10
The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All ...
Stockholder of railroad company has privilege of and is not bound to intimate beforehand his intention to vote on cumulative s vstem. Pierce v. Commonwealth, (Pa.) 18, 74. ELEVATED RAILROAD. See Streets and Highways. 1. Abutting owner ...
Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, William Mark McKinney, 1890

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELEVATED RAILROAD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term elevated railroad is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bridge installed in Center Springs Park, Broad St. area
Plans had originally called for a precast, arched pedestrian tunnel through the elevated railroad berm. But citing concerns about pedestrian ... «Journal Inquirer, Jul 15»
2
Runway opens to smooth landing
Before October 2014, an elevated railroad berm used by CN on one of its busiest stretch of tracks in the United Stated blocked the existing ... «Chicago Tribune, Jun 15»
3
Planners see new opportunity in old elevated infrastructure
In fact, the very concept of an elevated railroad was born on Manhattan's Greenwich Street, as urban historian Thomas Campanella notes in an ... «Capital New York, Jun 15»
4
Unicoi BMA passes budget, firearms ordinance
... stops at Unicoi Elementary where there is an elevated railroad crossing to reach the destination, can register with the Unicoi County Sheriff's ... «Erwin Record, Jun 15»
5
Video: Ride the Bloomingdale Trail from End to End
... of our sidewalks and existing infrastructure as we've given to the $90 million conversion of an elevated railroad to a park and trail system. «Streetsblog Chicago, Jun 15»
6
Get Outside in the USA
Spanning the urban oasis is the centerpiece Bloomingdale Trail, a multiuse skyway built on a former elevated railroad. At the western trailhead, ... «National Geographic Traveler Magazine, Jun 15»
7
Parks could reach new heights in Cleveland
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - You may have heard of the High Line in New York City. It's a linear park built on old, elevated railroad tracks that ... «19 Action News, Jun 15»
8
606 Trail Officially Opens
The $95 million 606 is officially open after a decade of planning and construction converting an old elevated railroad into Chicago's newest ... «CBS Local, Jun 15»
9
America's First Political Cartoons
Standing on his feet are two other powerful industry figures, Cyrus West Field (left), who controlled the New York Elevated Railroad Company, ... «National Journal, May 15»
10
Franklinton rebirth around the bend
"Franklinton has had the challenge of natural and psychological boundaries: the Scioto River itself, double-elevated railroad tracks and State Route 315, which ... «Columbus CEO, May 15»

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