"4-2-4" meaning in English

See 4-2-4 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: 4-2-4s [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} 4-2-4 (countable and uncountable, plural 4-2-4s)
  1. (soccer, uncountable) A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 2 midfielders and 4 strikers Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-4-2-4-en-noun-2-lZTsA0 Categories (other): Football (soccer) Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
  2. (countable) Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a four-wheel leading truck, one powered driving axle and a four-wheel unpowered trailing truck. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-4-2-4-en-noun-44tiwUne Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Rail transportation Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 74 Disambiguation of Rail transportation: 6 94

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "4-2-4s",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "4-2-4 (countable and uncountable, plural 4-2-4s)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Football (soccer)",
          "orig": "en:Football (soccer)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 2 midfielders and 4 strikers"
      ],
      "id": "en-4-2-4-en-noun-2-lZTsA0",
      "links": [
        [
          "soccer",
          "soccer"
        ],
        [
          "formation",
          "formation"
        ],
        [
          "defender",
          "defender"
        ],
        [
          "midfielder",
          "midfielder"
        ],
        [
          "striker",
          "striker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(soccer, uncountable) A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 2 midfielders and 4 strikers"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "soccer",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a four-wheel leading truck, one powered driving axle and a four-wheel unpowered trailing truck."
      ],
      "id": "en-4-2-4-en-noun-44tiwUne",
      "links": [
        [
          "steam locomotive",
          "steam locomotive"
        ],
        [
          "leading truck",
          "leading truck"
        ],
        [
          "powered",
          "powered"
        ],
        [
          "driving axle",
          "driving axle"
        ],
        [
          "unpowered",
          "unpowered"
        ],
        [
          "trailing truck",
          "trailing truck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a four-wheel leading truck, one powered driving axle and a four-wheel unpowered trailing truck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "4-2-4"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English palindromes",
    "English terms spelled with numbers",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English words without vowels",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Rail transportation"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "4-2-4s",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "4-2-4 (countable and uncountable, plural 4-2-4s)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Football (soccer)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 2 midfielders and 4 strikers"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soccer",
          "soccer"
        ],
        [
          "formation",
          "formation"
        ],
        [
          "defender",
          "defender"
        ],
        [
          "midfielder",
          "midfielder"
        ],
        [
          "striker",
          "striker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(soccer, uncountable) A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 2 midfielders and 4 strikers"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "soccer",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a four-wheel leading truck, one powered driving axle and a four-wheel unpowered trailing truck."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "steam locomotive",
          "steam locomotive"
        ],
        [
          "leading truck",
          "leading truck"
        ],
        [
          "powered",
          "powered"
        ],
        [
          "driving axle",
          "driving axle"
        ],
        [
          "unpowered",
          "unpowered"
        ],
        [
          "trailing truck",
          "trailing truck"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive that has a four-wheel leading truck, one powered driving axle and a four-wheel unpowered trailing truck."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "4-2-4"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 4-2-4 meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.