"loop line" meaning in English

See loop line in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: loop lines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} loop line (plural loop lines)
  1. (rail transport) A secondary route which leaves a mainline, following a different route to the main line, before rejoining it several miles further on. Categories (topical): Rail transportation
    Sense id: en-loop_line-en-noun-DKhUYH1t Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
  2. A secondary route which forms a loop between two main lines, so that trains using it return to the same place.
    Sense id: en-loop_line-en-noun-WqBlEaXT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: loopline

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loop lines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "loop line (plural loop lines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Rail transportation",
          "orig": "en:Rail transportation",
          "parents": [
            "Transport",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary route which leaves a mainline, following a different route to the main line, before rejoining it several miles further on."
      ],
      "id": "en-loop_line-en-noun-DKhUYH1t",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "mainline",
          "mainline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A secondary route which leaves a mainline, following a different route to the main line, before rejoining it several miles further on."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary route which forms a loop between two main lines, so that trains using it return to the same place."
      ],
      "id": "en-loop_line-en-noun-WqBlEaXT"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "46 54",
      "word": "loopline"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loop line"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "loop lines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "loop line (plural loop lines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary route which leaves a mainline, following a different route to the main line, before rejoining it several miles further on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "mainline",
          "mainline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A secondary route which leaves a mainline, following a different route to the main line, before rejoining it several miles further on."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A secondary route which forms a loop between two main lines, so that trains using it return to the same place."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "loopline"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loop line"
}

Download raw JSONL data for loop line meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.