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FREIGHT TRAIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A railroad train consisting of freight cars
Synonyms:
freight train; rattler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("freight train" is a kind of...):
railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)
Meronyms (members of "freight train"):
cabin car; caboose (a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train)
freight car (a railway car that carries freight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freight train"):
freight liner; liner train (a long-distance express freight train between industrial centers and seaports with facilities for rapid loading and unloading of goods)
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