Word Finder - passenger

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One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.

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Somebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.

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A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.

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A passer-by; a wayfarer.

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To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.

He reached the passenger side of the car and held the door open for her.

He opened the passenger door with a hopeful smile.

She pushed fast food trash from the passenger seat.

Darcie wasn't the only passenger on the stage to Springtown.

The earth, or other planet, does not actually move round the sun; yet it is carried round the sun in the subtle matter of the great vortex, where it lies in equilibrium, - carried like the passenger in a boat, who may cross the sea and yet not rise from his berth.

The above-named acts enable the Board of Trade to take all the necessary steps to ensure that the safety of passenger trains is sufficiently guarded.

Damian smiled wide and opened the door, sliding into the passenger seat.

Jessi settled into the passenger seat, her seatbelt barely on when Xander throttled the car out of the parking lot.

It also includes immigration and passenger lists.

He faked me out at first 'cause I was only looking at passenger cars.

The passenger, skinny and much younger, had a facial tic that was very noticeable after he pushed back his hat and looked slowly at Dean who, in turn, continued to smile his silly smile.

A passenger vessel requires from 2 to 4 cwt.

She shook her head and strode around to the passenger side of the truck.

It will be seen from these particulars - which are typical of what has happened not only on other British railways, but also on those of other countries - that much more space has to be provided and more weight hauled for each passenger than was formerly the case.

The driver struck his passenger repeatedly on the side of her head with his free hand as he drove deeper into the wood.

The car was backing out of the garage when she grabbed the door on the passenger side.

The group specially described as indirect taxes includes those on alcohol, wine, beer, cider and other alcoholic drinks, on passenger and goods traffic by railway, on licences to distillers, spirit-sellers, &c., on salt and on sugar of home manufacture.

Used to some extent in France and Germany and considerably in England for passenger traffic of moderate weight.

Used on several English lines for fast passenger traffic, and also on many European railways.

For passenger trains and occasionally for fast goods trains screw couplings are substituted for the simple chains.

The Great Western railway company maintains a regular service of passenger steamers to Guernsey and Jersey.

Passenger steamers sail from the port of London to the principal ports of she British Isles and northern Europe, and to all parts of the world, but the most favoured passenger services to and from Europe and North America pass through other ports, to which the railways provide special services of trains from London.

This information will help in distinguishing between various vehicle Mayday systems such as passenger car systems, commercial vehicle systems or portable systems.

The Passenger Much like its discourse on documentary reportage, the film's formal critique of the thriller came straight from the Left Bank.

A flight landing at Chicago Midway International Airport overran a runway during a snowstorm, crashing into auto traffic on a local street and killing a passenger in one of the autos.

The StarSpeeder 3000 finally escapes and takes the passenger back to their starting point.

You get a fancy red Ferrari, a gorgeous girl in the passenger seat, and some crazy tunes to play on the radio.

Players got behind the wheel of a bright red Ferrari and had a female companion in the passenger's seat.

Sick or pregnant immigrants from all passenger classes were sent to the hospital or contagious disease wards until cleared by health officials.

He pushed the passenger's side door open and she leaned down to look at him.

If Patsy had a destination in mind more specific than Chicago, she didn't share this knowledge with her hitchhiking passenger.

The other occupant was slouching down in the passenger's seat with his hat pulled over his eyes, apparently napping.

Jessi refused to look at him and slid into the passenger's seat.

The goods station is approached by a siding or fork set off from the main line at a point short of the passenger station.

In order to keep down the expense of shunting the empty trains and engines to and from the platforms the carriage and locomotive depots should be as near the passenger station as possible; but often the price of land renders it impracticable to locate them in the immediate vicinity and they are to be found at a distance of several miles.

Aspinall on the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway to ascertain the resistance of trains of bogie passenger carriages of different lengths at varying speeds, and the results are recorded in a paper, " Train Resistance," Proc. Inst.

The form of the torque curve, or crank effort curve, as it is sometimes called, is discussed in the article Steam Engine, and the torque curve corresponding to actual indicator diagrams taken from an express passenger engine travelling at a speed of 65 m.

A classification may also be made, according to the work for which engines are designed, into passenger engines, goods engines, and shunting or switching engines.

In America it is still the standard engine for passenger traffic, but for goods service it is now employed only on branch lines.

It has been extensively introduced, both in Great Britain and the continent of Europe, for passenger traffic, and is now the most numerous and popular class.

It may be divided into two classes, according as it is intended for passenger or for goods traffic.

Later, when increased length became desirable, six wheels with Passenger g g three axles came into use; vehicles of this kind were carria es.

In America the long open double-bogie passenger cars, as originally introduced by Ross Winans on the Baltimore & Ohio railway, are universally in use.

End doors opening on end platforms have always been characteristic of American passenger equipment.

This minimum was at first fixed at 50%, but on and after the 1st of August 1906 it was raised to 75%, with the result that soon after that date practically all the rolling stock of American railways, whether passenger or freight, was provided with compressed air brakes.

But goods and mineral trains so fitted are rare, and the same is the case on the continent of Europe, where, however, such brakes are generally employed on passenger trains.

Such l i nes are primarily intended to supply quick means of passenger communication within the limits of cities, and are to be distinguished on the one hand from surface tramways, and on the other from those portions of trunk or other lines which lie within city boundaries, although the latter may incidentally do a local or intra-urban business.

Intra-urban railways, as compared with ordinary railways, are characterized by shortness of length, great cost per mile, and by a traffic almost exclusively passenger, the burden of which is enormously heavy.

The maximum 1st, 2nd and 3rd class passenger fares are, per kilometre, 067 f.

The more numerous vessels of the Turkish service are so small, so inadequately equipped and so poorly handled, that they are used for either passenger or freight transport only by those who cannot secure the services of the British steamers.