"derailment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: derailments [plural]
Etymology: From French déraillement. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|déraillement}} French déraillement Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} derailment (countable and uncountable, plural derailments)
  1. (rail transport) The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Rail transportation Translations (action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs): 出軌 (Chinese Mandarin), 出轨 (chūguǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), vykolejení [neuter] (Czech), afsporing [common-gender] (Danish), ontsporing (Dutch), raiteilta suistuminen (Finnish), déraillement [masculine] (French), Entgleisung [feminine] (German), kisiklás (english: event) (Hungarian), kisiklatás (note: action) (Hungarian), kisiklasztás (Hungarian), deragliamento [masculine] (Italian), 脱線 (dassen) (alt: だっせん) (Japanese), avsporing [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), avsporing [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), descarrilamento [masculine] (Portuguese), сход с ре́льсов (sxod s rélʹsov) [masculine] (Russian), круше́ние (krušénije) [neuter] (Russian), descarrilamiento (Spanish), urspårning [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic): terelés (Hungarian), elterelés (Hungarian), eltérítés (Hungarian), vakvágányra vezetés (Hungarian)
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  3. An instance of thwarting or frustrating something. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  4. (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychiatry Synonyms: knight's move thinking
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        "(psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas."
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          "ref": "1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Derailment near Holmes Chapel”, in Trains Illustrated, page 652:",
          "text": "The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.",
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        {
          "ref": "2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:",
          "text": "In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.",
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          "text": "But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own gratification.",
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "出軌"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "出轨"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "vykolejení"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
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      "word": "afsporing"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "ontsporing"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "raiteilta suistuminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "déraillement"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Entgleisung"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "event",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "kisiklás"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "note": "action",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "kisiklatás"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "kisiklasztás"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "deragliamento"
    },
    {
      "alt": "だっせん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "dassen",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "脱線"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
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      ],
      "word": "avsporing"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "avsporing"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "descarrilamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "sxod s rélʹsov",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сход с ре́льсов"
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      "roman": "krušénije",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
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      "word": "круше́ние"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
      "word": "descarrilamiento"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs",
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      "word": "urspårning"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic",
      "word": "terelés"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic",
      "word": "elterelés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic",
      "word": "eltérítés"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "an instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic",
      "word": "vakvágányra vezetés"
    }
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  "word": "derailment"
}

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