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Railroad vs Harass - What's the difference?

railroad | harass |

As nouns the difference between railroad and harass

is that railroad is a permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on while harass is devastation; waste.

As verbs the difference between railroad and harass

is that railroad is to transport via railroad while harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.

railroad

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A permanent road consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
    • ''Many railroads roughly follow the trace of older land - and/or water roads
  • 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
    • ''Railroads can only compete fully if their tracks are technically compatible with and linked to each-other
  • (figuratively) A procedure conducted or bullied in haste without due consideration.
    • The lawyers made the procedure a railroad to get the signatures they needed.

    Synonyms

    * railway (UK)

    Derived terms

    * railroad flat * railroad track

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transport via railroad.
  • To operate a railroad.
    • ''The Thatcherite experiment proved the private sector can railroad as inefficiently as a state monopoly
  • 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.
    • The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.
  • To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
    • They could only convict him by railroading him on suspect drug-possession charges.
  • To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
    • He was railroaded into signing a non-disclosure agreement at his exit interview.
  • (role-playing games) To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.

    • Derived terms

    * railroader

    harass

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
  • * 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
    • In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
  • To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
    • in the early 1940s.

    Synonyms

    * hassle * harry * chivy or chivvy * chevy or chevvy * beset * plague * molest * provoke

    Derived terms

    * harasser * harassment

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    Noun

  • (obsolete) devastation; waste
    • (Milton)
  • (obsolete) worry; harassment
    • (Byron)