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EXPRESS TRAIN

Specialty Definition: EXPRESS TRAIN

DomainDefinition

Literature

Express Train A fast train between two large towns, with few or no stoppages at intermediate stations. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: EXPRESS TRAIN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Velocity

Lightning, greased lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball, rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum, quicksilver; telegraph, express train; torrent.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: EXPRESS TRAIN

DomainUsage

Screenplays

About the same as spitting in an Air Commodore's eye from an express train, sir. (Mosquito Squadron; writing credit: Joyce Perry; Donald S. Sanford)

Movie/TV Titles

Express Train on a Railway Cutting (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: EXPRESS TRAIN

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The express train. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EXPRESS TRAIN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

orient express train

59

express train

15

american orient express train

6

hogwarts express train

3

acela express train

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EXPRESS TRAIN

Language Translations for "EXPRESS TRAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

eksprestog (corridor train, corridor-train, international express, international express train). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sneltrein (express, fast train). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

internacia rapidtrajno (international express, international express train). (various references)

   

French

  

train express (express). (various references)

   

German

  

Expreß (express). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ταχεία. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

רכבת מ"יר". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

expresszvonat (non-stop train), gyorsvonat (express, fast train, non-stop train). (various references)

   

Italian

  

direttìssimo (express). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

急行列車 , 快速列車 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きゅう"うれっしゃ, かいそくれっしゃ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

expressay aintray

   

Portuguese

  

trem expresso. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tren expres (express). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

экспресс (express, flier, flyer), курьерский поезд. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rápido (agile, darting, express, fast, fast train, fasting, fleeting, heel bar, live, lively, nippy, prompt, quick, quick fire, quick-firing, rapid, rapids, rathe, rattling, riffle, shoot, short, slapping, slashing, slick, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift, swift-flowing, twinkling). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snälltåg (express, fast train). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: EXPRESS TRAIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-p-r-r-s-s-t-x"

-2 letters: pistareens, sparteines, transpires.

-3 letters: antipress, aperients, arsenites, epistaxes, inexperts, inserters, irateness, passerine, persister, pinasters, pistareen, preexists, prerinses, pretrains, pristanes, reinserts, resinates, restrains, retainers, sparriest, sparteine, sprinters, stearines, strainers, ternaries, terrapins, transpire.

-4 letters: aperient, arenites, arsenite, arteries, artiness, asperser, aspirers, assenter, asserter, earnests, epitases, erepsins, etesians, expanses, expiates, expirers, inexpert, inserter, interrex, intersex, naperies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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