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Definition: Crosstie |
CrosstieNoun1. One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Industry | A timber cross-member, sawn and/or hewn into sizes varying according to rail-gauge and function, for supporting the rails of railway tracks, directly or through rail chairs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A timber or metal sill placed transversely under the rails of a railroad,tramway, or mine-car track. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CrosstieSynonyms: railroad tie (n), sleeper (n), tie (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: railroading (industry, transportation). |
Crosswords: Crosstie |
| Specialty definitions using "crosstie": half-moon crosstie, half-round, half-round crosstie, headblock ♦ pole tie ♦ two-face, two-face tie. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
crosstie general ledger software | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "crosstie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | svelle (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sill, skid, sleeper, tie), jernbanesvelle (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), jernbane-og sporvejssvelle (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), banesvelle (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wisselhout (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), dwarsligger voor spoorwegen (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), dwarsligger (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), biels (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ratapölkky (cross-tie, sleeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traverse pour voies ferrées, traverse de chemin de fer, traverse (cross-beam, crosses, crossing, crossing point, cross-piece). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwelle (barrier, ramp, sill, sleeper, threshold, tie, treshold), Eisenbahnschwelle (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), Bahnschwelle (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρωτήρας σιδηροδρομικών γραμμών (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | traversina per strade ferrate (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traversina ferroviaria (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traversina della ferrovia (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traversina (sleeper, tie), traversa (arbor, beam, crossbar, crossbeam, crosspiece, crossroad, rail, side street, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osstiecray chulipa (tie), travessa para vias férreas (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), travessa de madeira para vias férreas (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), travessa (bystreet, course, dish, lane, platter, traverse). (various references) traviesa para vías férreas (railroad tie, railway sleeper, sleeper, tie), traviesa (crossbeam, crossing, sleeper, tie). (various references) syll (sleeper), sliper (sleeper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crosstie": crossties. (additional references) | |
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"Crosstie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cossie, Costie, Crissie, Crossaig, crosstab, crustia, Mccrostie, Mcrostie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: corsets, cosiest, costers, erotics, escorts, rosiest, scoters, sectors, sorites, sorties, stories, trioses. | |
-2 letters: cestoi, cestos, citers, corses, corset, cosets, cosier, cosies, cosset, coster, crests, crises, crosse, erotic, escort, escots, osiers, rectos, resist, rosets, scores, scoter, scries, sector, seisor, sister, sorest, sortie, steric, stoics, stores, tories, torses, tosser, trices, triose, tsores, tsoris. | |
-3 letters: ceros. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bisectors, cloisters, coistrels, crossties, dissector, exorcists, ostracise, ostriches. | |
+2 letters: choristers, clitorises, cloistress, cornetists, corsetries, cortisones, costmaries, costumiers, courtesies, courtsides, curiousest, dissectors, eroticisms, eroticists, inspectors, intercross, isometrics, obstetrics, orchitises, ostracised, ostracises, ostracizes, postcrises, recordists, resections, sclerotics, sclerotins, scroggiest, secretions, trisectors. | |
+3 letters: aerostatics, categorises, chrysolites, chrysotiles, coinvestors, concretisms, concretists, constringes, consumerist, coresidents, cornettists, corsetieres, costumeries, courtliness, curiosities, customizers, descriptors, desiccators, disconcerts, discounters, discourtesy, discretions, ecotourisms, ecotourists, escharotics, escritoires, esotericism, intercessor, introspects, microstates, misconstrue, obscurities, prosthetics, rectorships, rediscounts, scroungiest, semitropics, spirochetes, stockpilers, supertonics, surjections, switcheroos, trichinoses, trisections, viscometers, vivisectors. | |
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