"block instrument" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "block instruments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "block instrument (plural block instruments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 March, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Slade Green”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133",
          "text": "The line is signalled with upper quadrant semaphores and Sykes lock and block three-wire two-position block instruments. [...] The Inspecting Officer concludes that both signalmen must share responsibility for the accident by the irregular release of the block instrument, but remarks that the two-position Sykes instruments, although ample for maintaining safety under normal working, do not show clearly the state of the block section ahead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instrument installed in a cabinet, used in block signalling installations."
      ],
      "id": "en-block_instrument-en-noun-bdr99luE",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "signalling",
          "signalling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) An instrument installed in a cabinet, used in block signalling installations."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "block instrument"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "block instruments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "block instrument (plural block instruments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960 March, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Slade Green”, in Trains Illustrated, page 133",
          "text": "The line is signalled with upper quadrant semaphores and Sykes lock and block three-wire two-position block instruments. [...] The Inspecting Officer concludes that both signalmen must share responsibility for the accident by the irregular release of the block instrument, but remarks that the two-position Sykes instruments, although ample for maintaining safety under normal working, do not show clearly the state of the block section ahead.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instrument installed in a cabinet, used in block signalling installations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "signalling",
          "signalling"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport, UK) An instrument installed in a cabinet, used in block signalling installations."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "block instrument"
}