locomotive 
loco·mo·tive (-mōt′iv)
adjective
- of locomotion
- moving or capable of moving from one place to another; not stationary
- designating or of engines that move under their own power locomotive design
Etymology: < loco- + LL motivus, moving
noun
an engine that can move about by its own power; esp., an electric, steam, or diesel engine on wheels, designed to push or pull a railroad train
locomotive
n.
Converse of object
- shunt: October 4 2003 This works shunting locomotive is somewhat different too!
- condense: With high-density PCM thermal storage technology, it may be possible for a condensing fireless steam locomotive to be developed for extended operating range.
- preserve: There is a fine selection of preserved narrow gage locomotives, at least two of which are in steam on Open Days.
- articulate: So far I have not been able to find out what sort of articulated locomotive this was.
Adjective modifier
- fireless: It offered fireless steam locomotive the potential of a constant level of power output during their duty cycles.
- diesel: We rushed out of the shop in time to see four diesel locomotives hauling an enormous line of wagons to the East.
- diesel-electric: The railroad was the first line to use diesel-electric cog locomotives.
- electric: Later, 47 830 appeared to pick up the errant electric locomotive.
- mainline: However by early 1997 only two mainline locomotives were present, one of which was 850.
- diesel-hydraulic: Not the least of these problems were electrical for control and protection devices and each diesel-hydraulic locomotive needed some 2½ miles of electrical wiring.
Modifies a noun
- depot: Five locomotive depots are visited to see the engines being serviced.
- No.: Marketing 2004 began with some nationwide publicity when Locomotive No. 2 Dolgoch featured on a Royal Mail 20p stamp.
- boiler: This railroad uses ' Porta Treatment ' in the locomotive boilers.
- fleet: Standardization within the LMS locomotive fleet by 1934 rendered obsolete the larger non-standard boilers of the second batch of locomotives.
Noun used with modifier
- steam: Take for example the first steam locomotive to run on rails in England.
- diesel: Part of Young Members day was a display of TR diesel locomotives.
- gage: We come now to the three 5ft 6in gage locomotives.
- freight: ESG has successfully fitted French signaling systems to the freight locomotive of choice in Britain, the class 66.
- saddle: Among this short list were a couple of two-foot gage 0-6-2 saddle tank locomotives.
- railroad: Energy efficiency in steam railroad locomotives was always a problem.
It often happens that a man of considerable eminence in his own profession, but without the smallest acquaintance with the fundamentals of economics, will make a suggestion which is precisely on a level with the proposition that the locomotive would be much more efficient if itsweight weretakenoffthe driving wheelsso that they could revolve more easily. The editor of an important magazineacceptswithjoy the contributionin whichhedevelopshisideas, and thepublic feebly thinks that there may be something in it, and is confirmed in this view by the fact that professional economists are as disinclined to publisha refutationof it asthe Astronomer Royal is to answer the theorists who declare that the world is flat.
Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
The subject is to the painter what the rails are to a locomotive. He cannot do without it.
Ist es schwer und kann es ein AuÞenseiter begreifen,dass man eine Geschichte von ihrem Anfang in sich erlebt, vom fernen Punkt bis zu der heranfahrenden Lokomotive aus Stahl, Kohl und Dampf, sie aber auchjetzt noch nicht verl a« sst, sondern von ihr gejagt wird und aus eigenem Schwung vor ihr l a« uft, wohin sie nur st o« Þt und wohin man sie lockt. It is so difficult and can an outsider understand that you experience a story within yourself from its beginning, fromthe distant point up to theapproaching locomotive of steel, coal and steam, and you don't abandon it even now, but want to be pursued by it and have time for it, therefore are pursued by it and of your own volition run before it wherever it may thrust and wherever you may lure it.
You were never no locomotive, Sunflower, you were a sunflower! And you Locomotive, you are a locomotive, forget me not!
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