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Locomotive

Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.

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Shunter 76% connected

A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

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Go 74% connected

Gone.

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Go 74% connected

Gone.

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Locomotion 74% connected

The act of moving from place to place.

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Locomotion 74% connected

The act of moving from place to place.

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Buffer 70% connected

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

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Fender 70% connected

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm

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Footplate 70% connected

See Footboard (a).

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Pilot 70% connected

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

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Train 70% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Locomotion 66% connected

The act of moving from place to place.

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Synonym 2

Engine 92% connected

(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

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Locomotor 92% connected

Of or pertaining to movement or locomotion.

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-able unknown · 78% connection

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, m…

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Able superl. · 78% connection

Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications…

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Afloat adv. & a. · 78% connection

Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.

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Alterative adjective · 78% connection

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.

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Ambulant adjective · 78% connection

Walking; moving from place to place.

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Backing noun · 78% connection

The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

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Chameleon noun · 78% connection

lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue

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Change verb · 78% connection

To alter by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation…

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Circulation noun · 78% connection

The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.

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Conversion noun · 78% connection

A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world t…

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Coriolis effect noun · 78% connection

(physics) an effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the…

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Countermarch noun · 78% connection

An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…

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Develop verb · 78% connection

To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

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Displace verb · 78% connection

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in…

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Flow verb · 78% connection

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rive…

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Flying verb · 78% connection

Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightly or rapidly; intended for rapid movement.

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Gelatine noun · 78% connection

Animal jelly; glutinous material obtained from animal tissues by prolonged boiling. Specifically (Physiol. Chem.), a nitrogeneous coll…

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