"railway key" meaning in English

See railway key in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: railway keys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} railway key (plural railway keys)
  1. (rail transport) A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees. Categories (topical): Rail transportation
    Sense id: en-railway_key-en-noun-fwL~L166 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for railway key meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "railway keys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "railway key (plural railway keys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees."
      ],
      "id": "en-railway_key-en-noun-fwL~L166",
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "lock",
          "lock"
        ],
        [
          "unlock",
          "unlock"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "compartment",
          "compartment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "railway key"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "railway keys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "railway key (plural railway keys)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Rail transportation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rail transport",
          "rail transport"
        ],
        [
          "lock",
          "lock"
        ],
        [
          "unlock",
          "unlock"
        ],
        [
          "carriage",
          "carriage"
        ],
        [
          "compartment",
          "compartment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rail transport) A key that allows one to lock and unlock doors to railway carriages and compartments, typically only permitted to railway employees."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "rail-transport",
        "railways",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "railway key"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). 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.