derailment
10
6.7
- noun
- /dɪˈreɪlmənt/
:
descarrilamiento
- Yet, there have been dozens of derailments on your lines in the last year alone.
You look at what's happening in the world today, everything from the Chinese spy balloon to that, that trail derailment in in, in Ohio.
- You look at what's happening in the world today, everything from the Chinese spy balloon to that, that trail derailment in in, in Ohio.
Examples
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Ladies and gentlemen, at the present time... we're attempting to piece together the chain of events... that led to the derailment of Midrail's 417.
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Local teacher Thomas Woodward is still being treated by Air Force medical personnel after last night'’s train derailment.
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14 injured in train derailment.
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More updates on the train derailment will be shared there as well, county officials said.
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Due to a derailment at Victoria... ...District Line trains are subject to extensive delay.
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More details are emerging now in the wake of that Hudson North derailment...
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You were the sole survivor of a devastating train derailment 19 years ago.
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Parts of the historic district have been off-limits since the derailment just after midnight on Tuesday.
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CSX is investigating the cause of the derailment, which was unknown at about 8 a.m.
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The NTSB is trying to find out what caused last night's deadly train derailment in Philadelphia.
Synonyms
How Severe
10
6.7
14
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
derailment = de + rail + ```json { "senses": [ { "sense_index": 1, "morphological_decomposition": { "prefixes": [ "de" ], "roots": [ { "text": "rail", "english_word": { "headword": "rail", "part_of_speech": "NOUN", "definition": "A steel bar forming part of a railway track.", "concept_id": null } } ], "suffixes": [ "ment" ], "immediate_base": { "base_words": [ { "headword": "derail", "part_of_speech": "VERB", "definition": "To cause a train to leave the tracks or to come off the tracks.", "concept_id": null } ], "prefix": null, "suffix": "ment", "transparency": "transparent", "transparency_notes": "The noun is a regular event/result formation from the verb 'derail'.", "transformation_type": "suffixation" }, "transparency": "transparent", "transparency_notes": "The meaning is directly recoverable as 'the event of derailing', and 'derail' itself is transparently connected to trains leaving the rails." }, "is_false_friend": false } ] }
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Etymology
The word derailment comes from the parts de- meaning 'off' and rail meaning 'track'. So, a derailment is when a train goes 'off the rails' and leaves the tracks.