Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
Examples
- Holonyms: railroad track, rail track, railway track, train track, permanent way
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: railway tie, sleeper, railway sleeper
Antonyms: none provided
A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the British call a railroad tie a sleeper
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tie, crosstie, sleeper
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: brace, bracing
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Bulgarian:
траверса
(traversa)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Catalan:
travessa
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Chinese Mandarin:
枕木
(zhěnmù)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Chinese Mandarin:
軌枕 /轨枕
(guǐzhěn)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Czech:
pražec
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Czech:
železniční pražec
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Danish:
svelle
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Dutch:
dwarsligger
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Dutch:
biels
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Dutch:
biel
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Esperanto:
ŝpalo
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Finnish:
ratapölkky
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
French:
traverse
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
German:
Schwelle
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
German:
Bahnschwelle
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
German:
Eisenbahnschwelle
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Hungarian:
talpfa
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Ido:
traverso
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Italian:
traversa
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Japanese:
枕木
(makuragi)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Korean:
침목
(chimmok)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Māori:
kurupae
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Mongolian:
дэр мод
(der mod)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Mongolian:
ᠳᠡᠷᠡ ᠮᠣᠳᠤ
(der-e modu)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Norman:
dormiéthe
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Norwegian:
sville
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Polish:
podkład
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Portuguese:
travessa
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Portuguese:
dormente
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Romanian:
traversă
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Russian:
шпа́ла
(špála)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Spanish:
durmiente
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Spanish:
traviesa
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Swedish:
sliper
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Swedish:
syll
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Tagalog:
trabyesa
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Thai:
ไม้หมอน
(mái-mɔ̌ɔn)
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Turkish:
travers
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
-
Welsh:
sliper
— piece supporting the rails of a railroad
