passing train

collocation in English

meaningsofpassingandtrain

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passing
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈpɑː.sɪŋ/us
/ˈpæs.ɪŋ/
moving ...
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train
noun
uk
/treɪn/us
/treɪn/
a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or to wheeled containers for ...
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(Definition ofpassingandtrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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From the siding the mental health consultants can watch the ethics consultants speed by, the flickering frames of thepassingtrainleaving impressions and stirring memories.
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Indeed, at this point the mental health consultants on the siding see a pretender on thepassingtrain.
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I take it that there would be something to arrest apassingtrain?
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The heart gone out of him, the mind went too, and he put a stop to his misery under the wheels of apassingtrain.
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One window pane was also cracked on thepassingtrainwith no injuries.
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Mail arrived by rail, being thrown off thepassingtrain.
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This was destroyed by fire caused by hot ash from apassingtrainin 1860.
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The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on apassingtrain.
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In 1946 there was a fire that was started by sparks coming from apassingtrain.
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They placed charges under a railroad track and blew up apassingtrain.
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Apassingtrainthen grounds the insulated rail, completing the circuit and causing the accessory to operate.
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He was hit by a freight train and his body was later discovered by apassingtrainconductor.
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Woodley was seriously injured when he reached across the rail for a tool and was struck by apassingtrain.
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Once, he was having a hallucination which was about apassingtrainwhen he is bored or otherwise unoccupied.
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Usually, a proximity sensor precedes the trim brake in order to identify the current speed of thepassingtrain.
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In 1948, sparks from apassingtrainset fire to of county land and destroyed what was left of the forest.
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Even without an outright failure, any mechanical motion in the plate due to the forces of thepassingtraincould induce waves in the stator that travelled along with it.
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Originally made of wood, the bridge was accidentally set on fire in 1880 by ashes or sparks from apassingtrain.
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If the track and structure are too rigid, they will break under the strain of thepassingtrain.
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