locomotive

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[edit] Just stepped away from my desk and took two steps and figured it out: sl = steam locomotive

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Quick take

a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of locomotive gathered in one view.

noun

a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

adjective

of or relating to locomotion

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for locomotive.

noun

a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks

adjective

of or relating to locomotion

Example sentences

[edit] Just stepped away from my desk and took two steps and figured it out: sl = steam locomotive

The steam locomotive, rather than the horse and buggy, was probably the apex of transport technology when Orville was born.

| air rifle fires [...] at a muzzle velocity of | 100 meters per second | The GE Genesis Series I locomotive [...] travels at | around 45 meters per second | If you bounce a single BB off the front of the | locomotive [...] you slow it down by about a foot | per day Why is everything in meters per second, then we jump to using feet all of the sudden?

The technologies that could be called "the internet" solve more well defined problems than the technologies that could be called "the web".TCP/IP for example is a description of an electronic locomotive network.

To use an analogy, it's not as though these development tools are like a hugely powerful locomotive that can drag whatever sorry piece of crap codebase you have out into the world regardless of its faults.

Whenever I find myself having similar thoughts I reread Willa Cather's story, "Paul's Case", here's the relevant part, the very end:"He stood watching the approaching locomotive, his teeth chattering, his lips drawn away from them in a frightened smile; once or twice he glanced nervously sidewise, as though he were being watched.