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RAIL LINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The road consisting of railroad track and roadbed
Synonyms:
line; rail line; railway line
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rail line" is a kind of...):
road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)
Meronyms (parts of "rail line"):
railroad bed (a bed on which railroad track is laid)
railroad; railroad track; railway (a line of track providing a runway for wheels)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rail line"):
branch line; spur; spur track (a railway line connected to a trunk line)
trunk line; trunk route (line that is the main route on a railway)
