railroad

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: rail=road

CIDE DICTIONARY

railroad, n. 

•  A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.  [1913 Webster]

  " The modern railroad is a development and adaptation of the older tramway."  [1913 Webster]
•  The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, a certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.  [1913 Webster]

  " Railway is the commoner word in England; railroad the commoner word in the United States."  [1913 Webster]

  " In the following and similar phrases railroad and railway are used interchangeably: --"  [1913 Webster]

  "[In the latter sense railroad, and not railway, was usually used.]"  [1913 Webster]

railroad, v. t. 

 To carry or send by railroad; usually fig., to send or put through at high speed or in great haste; to hurry or rush unduly; as, to railroad a bill through Condress.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

railroad, n. & v.
--n. esp. US = RAILWAY.
--v.tr.
1 (often foll. by to, into, through, etc.) rush or coerce (a person or thing) (railroaded me into going too).
2 send (a person) to prison by means of false evidence.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

railroad

n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to wher we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

THESAURUS

railroad

L, accelerate, branch, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag, bundle, bustle, cable railway, coerce, cog railway, compel, constitute, crowd, decree, dispatch, dragoon, drive on, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, enact, enact laws, expedite, feeder, feeder line, filibuster, force, forward, get the floor, gravity-operated railway, haste, hasten, hasten on, have the floor, hector, hie on, horse railway, hurry, hurry along, hurry on, hurry up, hustle, hustle up, intimidate, junction, kill, lean on, legislate, light railroad, line, lobby through, logroll, main line, metro, monorail, ordain, pass, pigeonhole, pocket, precipitate, press, pressure, push, push on, push through, put in force, put through, quicken, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad through, railway, roadbed, roadway, roll logs, rush, rush along, sidetrack, siding, speed, speed along, speed up, spur, squeeze, stampede, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, table, take the floor, terminal, terminus, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, tyrannize, underground, urge, veto, whip, whip along, yield the floor

ROGET THESAURUS

railroad

Method

N method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.

Haste

VB haste, hasten, make haste, make a dash, hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward, hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble, plunge, plunge headlong, dash off, rush, express, bestir oneself, lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant, make short work of, make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way, be precipitate, jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry, have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare, work against time, quicken, accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip, railroad.