Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railway platform-car carrying a long cylindrical closed, iron tank, adapted for the transportation of petroleum in bulk. Sometimes called
oil-car .
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Examples
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He has also devised a new type of locomotive-tender which is now in practical use; a process of making truck-bolsters, brake-beams, etc.; a draft-gear; a car-truck, and a tank-car which is now widely used.
Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors 2008
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After studying civil engineering in school, I started working on pressure vessels, submarine design, and then worked for rail tank-car builders for 17 years.
New at the Top: Engineer focuses on safety and training 2010
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And such changes are absolutely necessary: When I sneaked on to the grounds of a shoddily protected New Jersey DuPont chemical plant in 2006 for my Washington Monthly article, I got close to a 90-ton chlorine gas rail tank-car which could kill or injure 100,000 people within 30 minutes if attacked.
Art Levine: Latest Sell-Out: Dems Moving to Gut Chemical Security Bill, Risking Millions of Lives 2009
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The FRA's tank-car rule making, which is at an earlier stage, would require trains carrying hazardous materials to go no faster than 50 miles an hour -- and 30 miles an hour or less for trains with out-of-date cars in areas without signals.
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Early in June, a small pipeline was completed to allow Exxon's share of ACG production to be pumped direct from BP's Sangachal terminal to the nearby Azpetrol rail tank-car terminal in Azerbaijan.
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Humans have a whole garden of specialized human-dwelling bacteria -- tank-car E. coli, balloon-shaped staphylococcus, streptococcus, corynebacteria, micrococcus, and so on.
bacteria: a post in quotes jlundberg 2007
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*Reminded because Boing Boing buys pixels by the tank-car.
Further adventures of... jhetley 2007
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Sensibly enough, it was not transported in tank-car lots; it was carried in small special containers by a single man in an automobile, who used the back roads and avoided traffic and stayed away from thickly populated areas -- which was possible in those days.
Anchorite Randall Garrett 1957
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(Sunsoft, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): Jump back into your cool tank-car thing for a sequel to the classic NES vehicular Metroidvania!
Joystiq JC Fletcher 2010
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(Sunsoft, 1 player, 1,000 Wii Points): Jump back into your cool tank-car thing for a sequel to the classic NES vehicular Metroidvania!
Joystiq JC Fletcher 2010
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