Highway vs Railroad - What's the difference?
highway | railroad |
A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (rail) Any public road for vehicular traffic.
A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
The transportation system comprising such roads and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such roads and usually associated assets
(figuratively) A procedure conducted or bullied in haste without due consideration.
To transport via railroad.
To operate a railroad.
To work for a railroad.
To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
(role-playing games) To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
As nouns the difference between highway and railroad
is that highway is a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers while railroad is a permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.As a verb railroad is
to transport via railroad.highway
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
Hyponyms
* (main public road) expressway, motorwaySee also
*railroad
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads
- ''Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other
- The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.
Synonyms
* railway (UK)Derived terms
* railroad flat * railroad trackVerb
(en verb)- ''The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
- The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
- They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
- He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
