See road train in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for road train meaning in English (5.1kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "road trains",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "road train (plural road trains)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Australian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Canadian English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"parents": [
"Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Road transport",
"orig": "en:Road transport",
"parents": [
"Transport",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Adrianna Morganelli, Trucks: Pickups to Big Rigs, page 17",
"text": "Road trains are big rigs made of tractors that pull more than one trailer.[…]They are driven in remote areas of Canada, the United States, and Australia. Australia is home to the largest road trains in the world.[…]It is common for Australian road trains to have up to six trailers attached to a single tractor, with each trailer holding up to 140 tons (127 tonnes) of freight.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Dick Eussen, Australia′s Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome, page 13",
"text": "Livestock road trains tend to travel in convoys and its best to pull over for a rest and watch them pass.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Alan Rushton, Phil Croucher, Peter Baker, The Handbook of Logistics & Distribution Management, page 398",
"text": "Where there are two semi-trailers and one motive unit this is called a double bottomed articulated vehicle or road train. Especially in Australia, road trains may consist of more than two trailers. In the UK, serious consideration is being given to their use on motorways.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A transport concept consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers."
],
"id": "en-road_train-en-noun-0QrjLuw4",
"links": [
[
"prime mover",
"prime mover"
],
[
"truck",
"truck"
],
[
"trailer",
"trailer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, Australia, Canada) A transport concept consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "bridge; B; A; There are no (drawbar) connected Dolly Converter in the train",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "B-double (A Prime mover Towing a - trailer and a turntable"
},
{
"english": "bridge; B; A; There are no (drawbar) connected Dolly Converter in the train",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "5th wheel connected second trailer"
},
{
"alt": "A-double, Prime mover towing 2 semi Trailers, with one(1) -(Drawbar) Dolly Converter",
"english": "A",
"word": "Double Roadtrain"
},
{
"alt": "A-triple, Prime mover towing 3 semi Trailers, with two (2) -(Drawbar) Dolly Converters",
"english": "A",
"word": "Triple Roadtrain"
},
{
"english": "B; 5th Wheel",
"topics": [
"bridge",
"games"
],
"word": "B-Triple (3 trailers, 2x trailers towing a third connected semitrailer"
},
{
"english": "4 trailers with",
"word": "BAB Quad Roadtrain"
},
{
"alt": "ie. Tractor/Prime-mover pulling 2x B-Doubles interconnected by an - (drawbar)",
"english": "A; B; A; dolly converter",
"word": "and connections"
},
{
"alt": "dolly converter with drawbar",
"english": "A; B-Triple",
"word": "ABB Quad Roadtrain - 4 trailers ie. a Semitrailer towing an-connected ."
},
{
"word": "Other configurations B2A"
},
{
"word": "BAA Quad"
},
{
"word": "2BA"
},
{
"alt": "B-connections LoadShare on rear wheelsets with the following semitrailer, A-connected trailers do not LoadShare, ie. use a drawbar to the dolly",
"english": "non load bearing",
"word": "BBA Quad"
},
{
"english": "Super Quad",
"word": "Quad Roadtrain"
},
{
"english": "Dog",
"word": "60m overall length 4 Trailers"
},
{
"english": "mostly seen in Northern WA",
"word": "often with a more stable (3x) hybrid A-type drawbar interconnections"
}
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Canada",
"US"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "transport concept",
"word": "maantiejuna"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "avṭomaṭarebeli",
"sense": "transport concept",
"word": "ავტომატარებელი"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "transport concept",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vogntog"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "transport concept",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vogntog"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"road train"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-road train.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/En-au-road_train.ogg/En-au-road_train.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-au-road_train.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "road train"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "road trains",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "road train (plural road trains)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"Australian English",
"Canadian English",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Road transport"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2007, Adrianna Morganelli, Trucks: Pickups to Big Rigs, page 17",
"text": "Road trains are big rigs made of tractors that pull more than one trailer.[…]They are driven in remote areas of Canada, the United States, and Australia. Australia is home to the largest road trains in the world.[…]It is common for Australian road trains to have up to six trailers attached to a single tractor, with each trailer holding up to 140 tons (127 tonnes) of freight.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Dick Eussen, Australia′s Savannah Way: Cairns to Broome, page 13",
"text": "Livestock road trains tend to travel in convoys and its best to pull over for a rest and watch them pass.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Alan Rushton, Phil Croucher, Peter Baker, The Handbook of Logistics & Distribution Management, page 398",
"text": "Where there are two semi-trailers and one motive unit this is called a double bottomed articulated vehicle or road train. Especially in Australia, road trains may consist of more than two trailers. In the UK, serious consideration is being given to their use on motorways.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A transport concept consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers."
],
"links": [
[
"prime mover",
"prime mover"
],
[
"truck",
"truck"
],
[
"trailer",
"trailer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, Australia, Canada) A transport concept consisting of a conventional prime mover truck pulling two or more trailers."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Canada",
"US"
],
"wikipedia": [
"road train"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-road train.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/62/En-au-road_train.ogg/En-au-road_train.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/En-au-road_train.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "bridge; B; A; There are no (drawbar) connected Dolly Converter in the train",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "B-double (A Prime mover Towing a - trailer and a turntable"
},
{
"english": "bridge; B; A; There are no (drawbar) connected Dolly Converter in the train",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "5th wheel connected second trailer"
},
{
"alt": "A-double, Prime mover towing 2 semi Trailers, with one(1) -(Drawbar) Dolly Converter",
"english": "A",
"word": "Double Roadtrain"
},
{
"alt": "A-triple, Prime mover towing 3 semi Trailers, with two (2) -(Drawbar) Dolly Converters",
"english": "A",
"word": "Triple Roadtrain"
},
{
"english": "B; 5th Wheel",
"topics": [
"bridge",
"games"
],
"word": "B-Triple (3 trailers, 2x trailers towing a third connected semitrailer"
},
{
"english": "4 trailers with",
"word": "BAB Quad Roadtrain"
},
{
"alt": "ie. Tractor/Prime-mover pulling 2x B-Doubles interconnected by an - (drawbar)",
"english": "A; B; A; dolly converter",
"word": "and connections"
},
{
"alt": "dolly converter with drawbar",
"english": "A; B-Triple",
"word": "ABB Quad Roadtrain - 4 trailers ie. a Semitrailer towing an-connected ."
},
{
"word": "Other configurations B2A"
},
{
"word": "BAA Quad"
},
{
"word": "2BA"
},
{
"alt": "B-connections LoadShare on rear wheelsets with the following semitrailer, A-connected trailers do not LoadShare, ie. use a drawbar to the dolly",
"english": "non load bearing",
"word": "BBA Quad"
},
{
"english": "Super Quad",
"word": "Quad Roadtrain"
},
{
"english": "Dog",
"word": "60m overall length 4 Trailers"
},
{
"english": "mostly seen in Northern WA",
"word": "often with a more stable (3x) hybrid A-type drawbar interconnections"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "transport concept",
"word": "maantiejuna"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "avṭomaṭarebeli",
"sense": "transport concept",
"word": "ავტომატარებელი"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "transport concept",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vogntog"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "transport concept",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "vogntog"
}
],
"word": "road train"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 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.