locomotive
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1. locomotive - Noun
2. locomotive - Adjective
Meaning
Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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It's like a steam locomotive or a stone axe: just because it's obsolete doesn't make it any less of an achievement, or any less fit for purpose.
No one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.