Definitions
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- adjective railways Having a pair of
tracks in order to allowtrains to pass in opposite directions
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Examples
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One proposed design split the double-track into seperate single-tracks through town.
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola 2010
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Wheeler directed fifteen thousand American soldiers and some thirty-five thousand local laborers, laying down a winding double-track road across steep mountain passes, roaring torrents, and sheer drops.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Qunicy Jones has a recording technique where he does the double-track vocals but he moves the singer around 6-feet away from the microphone the second time just to get a different sound.
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As a minister she was responsible for the privatization of the Post and Telephone Services, as well as the commissioning of the Betuwe Railway, the double-track freight railway that links the Netherlands and Germany.
Tech's Top 25 2011
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Wheeler directed fifteen thousand American soldiers and some thirty-five thousand local laborers, laying down a winding double-track road across steep mountain passes, roaring torrents, and sheer drops.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Then it's time to double-track and he proceeds to do a PERFECT SYNC.
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The council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a double-track rail line between downtown Bethesda and Langley Park -- Montgomery's section of a transit link that would extend east into Prince George's County to New Carrollton.
Montgomery's Purple Line plan includes more access to Georgetown Branch trail 2010
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The council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a double-track rail line between downtown Bethesda and Langley Park -- Montgomery's section of a transit link that would extend east into Prince George's County to New Carrollton.
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The council voted unanimously Tuesday to add a double-track rail line between downtown Bethesda and Langley Park -- Montgomery's section of a transit link that would extend east into Prince George's County to New Carrollton.
Montgomery's Purple Line plan includes more access to Georgetown Branch trail 2010
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Songs like Mi Re Do and Burnt, with their fizzing staccato vocal lines in unison with her right hand are full of spiky energy; the cantorial organ-accompanied Ahavas Oylam has a suitably declamatory power; and there's a warm double-track vocal harmony on the Yiddish folk song Hulyet Hulyet.
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