Synonyms of the word railroad


RAILROADCOERCE - DRAGOON - FORCE - FURNISH - HALE - LINE - PRESSURE - PROVIDE - RAILWAY - RENDER - SANDBAG - SEND - SHIP - SQUEEZE - SUPPLY - TRACK - TRANSPORT

railroad

  • n. (chiefly US and Canada) A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized…
  • n. (chiefly US and Canada) The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel…
  • n. (chiefly US and Canada) A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads…
  • n. (figuratively) A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
  • v. (transitive) To transport via railroad.
  • v. (intransitive) To operate a railroad.
  • v. (intransitive) To work for a railroad.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel by railroad.
  • v. (intransitive) To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
  • v. (transitive) To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
  • v. (transitive) To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
  • v. (transitive) To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
  • v. (role-playing games) To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
  • v. (upholstery) To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.

coerce

  • v. (transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
  • v. (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his…
  • v. (transitive, computing) To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another…

dragoon

  • n. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
  • n. A carrier of a dragon musket.
  • n. A variety of pigeon.
  • v. To force someone into doing something; to coerce.

force

  • n. Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or…
  • n. Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
  • n. (countable) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.
  • n. (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body…
  • n. Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.
  • n. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
  • n. (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving…
  • n. (law) Legal validity.
  • n. (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
  • n. (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, …) to…
  • n. (science fiction) A binding, metaphysical, and ubiquitous power in the fictional universe of the Star…
  • v. (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
  • v. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
  • v. (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something.
  • v. (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
  • v. (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
  • v. (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
  • v. (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
  • v. To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to…
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return…
  • v. (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
  • v. (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
  • v. (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
  • v. (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
  • n. (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
  • v. To stuff; to lard; to farce.

furnish

  • n. Material used to create an engineered product.
  • v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

hale

  • n. (archaic) Health, welfare.
  • adj. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
  • v. To drag, pull, especially forcibly.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

pressure

  • n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
  • n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
  • n. Distress.
  • n. Urgency.
  • n. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
  • n. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
  • v. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

provide

  • v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
  • v. To act to prepare for something.
  • v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
  • v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
  • v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
  • v. To make possible or attainable.
  • v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
  • v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

railway

  • n. (chiefly Britain, Ireland and Commonwealth of Nations) A transport system using rails used to move passengers…
  • n. (chiefly Britain, Ireland and Commonwealth of Nations) A track, consisting of parallel rails, over which…

render

  • v. (transitive) To cause to become.
  • v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
  • v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To pass down.
  • v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
  • v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
  • v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
  • v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
  • v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
  • v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
  • v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
  • v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
  • v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
  • v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
  • v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
  • v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
  • n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
  • n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
  • n. (obsolete) A surrender.
  • n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
  • n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
  • n. One who rends.

sandbag

  • n. a bag, filled with sand, that can be used to weigh something down, to make a defensive wall against flooding…
  • v. To construct a wall of sandbags (around something).
  • v. (transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
  • v. (transitive) To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (in cards) to have a weak hand.
  • v. To pretend to drink early on so that as the night draws on one can drink everyone "under the table".

send

  • v. (transitive) To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another.
  • v. (slang, dated) To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
  • v. To bring to a certain condition.
  • v. (intransitive) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • v. To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  • v. (nautical) To pitch.
  • n. (telecommunications) An operation in which data is transmitted.
  • n. (nautical) Alternative form of scend.

ship

  • n. A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
  • n. (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an…
  • n. (archaic, nautical, formal) A sailing vessel with three or more square-rigged masts.
  • n. A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
  • v. (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
  • v. (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To release a product to vendors; to launch.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
  • v. (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
  • v. (transitive, nautical) To put in its place.
  • v. (transitive) To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
  • v. (transitive) To pass (from one person to another).
  • v. (poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.
  • v. (sports) To trade or send a player to another team.
  • v. (rugby) To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
  • n. (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional.
  • v. (fandom slang) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either…

squeeze

  • v. (transitive) To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit into a tight place.
  • v. (transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
  • v. (transitive) To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
  • n. A close or tight fit.
  • n. (figuratively) A difficult position.
  • n. A hug or other affectionate grasp.
  • n. (slang) A romantic partner.
  • n. (slang) An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the…
  • n. (baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
  • n. (card games) A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
  • n. (caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
  • n. (epigraphy) An impression of an inscription formed by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling…
  • n. (mining) The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
  • n. (dated) A bribe or fee paid to a middleman, especially in China; the practice of requiring such a bribe…

supply

  • v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
  • v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
  • v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
  • v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
  • v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
  • n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
  • n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
  • n. (in the plural) provisions.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
  • n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
  • adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

track

  • n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
  • n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
  • n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
  • n. A road or other similar beaten path.
  • n. Physical course; way.
  • n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
  • n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
  • n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
  • n. A tract or area, such as of land.
  • n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
  • n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
  • n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
  • n. (cricket) The pitch.
  • n. Sound stored on a record.
  • n. The physical track on a record.
  • n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
  • n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
  • n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
  • n. A session talk on a conference.
  • v. To continue observing over time.
  • v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).

transport

  • v. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
  • v. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • v. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
  • n. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  • n. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  • n. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.).
  • n. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  • n. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  • n. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  • n. (historical) A deported convict.

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