"contact wire" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
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            "Transport",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:",
          "text": "Overhead electric equipment generally stood up well both to the weight of vertically falling snow and to the effects of snow on contact wires; [...].",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bare wire conducting electricity, often the lower part of the catenary, which comes into contact with a raised pantograph or other form of current collector."
      ],
      "id": "en-contact_wire-en-noun--fsNm863",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "bare",
          "bare"
        ],
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ],
        [
          "catenary",
          "catenary"
        ],
        [
          "pantograph",
          "pantograph"
        ],
        [
          "current",
          "current"
        ],
        [
          "collector",
          "collector"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A bare wire conducting electricity, often the lower part of the catenary, which comes into contact with a raised pantograph or other form of current collector."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "contact wire"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "en:Rail transportation"
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        {
          "ref": "1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:",
          "text": "Overhead electric equipment generally stood up well both to the weight of vertically falling snow and to the effects of snow on contact wires; [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A bare wire conducting electricity, often the lower part of the catenary, which comes into contact with a raised pantograph or other form of current collector."
      ],
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        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "bare",
          "bare"
        ],
        [
          "electricity",
          "electricity"
        ],
        [
          "catenary",
          "catenary"
        ],
        [
          "pantograph",
          "pantograph"
        ],
        [
          "current",
          "current"
        ],
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          "collector",
          "collector"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A bare wire conducting electricity, often the lower part of the catenary, which comes into contact with a raised pantograph or other form of current collector."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
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