locomotive
机动车,机车,机动车组,机枪
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Definitions
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- : a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.
- : an organized group cheer, usually led by a cheerleader, as at a football or basketball game, that begins slowly and progressively increases in speed in such a way as to suggest a steam locomotive.
- : Archaic. any self-propelled vehicle.
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- : of or relating to locomotives.
- : of, relating to, or aiding in locomotion or movement from place to place: the locomotive powers of most animals.
- : moving or traveling by means of its own mechanism or powers.
- : serving to produce such movement; adapted for or used in locomotion: locomotive organs.
- : having the power of locomotion: an animal that is locomotive at birth.
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The other locomotives, which looked like cubes, did not have such a shape.
Now, a fruitful combination of computational biomechanics and so-called “predictive simulation” are helping fill in these locomotive knowledge gaps.
I felt like a locomotive storming down the valley, fast because I was confident, confident because I was secure.
There they were attached to locomotives that took them south to Washington.
Because of restrictions on locomotives in the city, the cars at President Street had to be pulled by horses many blocks around the Inner Harbor to the Camden Street Station.
GE claims that retrofitting can “reduce locomotive fuel costs by up to 50 %.”
When it was first introduced some 170 years ago, the locomotive ran on a domestic fuel source.
His torso was nude and his legs had been amputated by the locomotive engine.
The big, filthy blue locomotive squeals and labors along the rails.
Another time, I was shooting a locomotive and it blew up, and some of the stuff got in my air scoop, but I managed to fly it back.
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
The south tunnel in New Street was blocked April 18, 1877, by a locomotive turning over.
Now for the second time the old man and the locomotive regarded each other.
In the innermost, Atock, our locomotive engineer, and I chummed together.
In others the arms may have been the chief locomotive organs and the feet have given steadiness.