Word Meanings - BLOCKSYSTEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it, as in absolute blocking, or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.

• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• THREESCORE
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• Another-gaines
  Of another kind.
• Systematology
  The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems.
• Blocking course
  The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
• Three-leaved
  Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
• Combine
  To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical union.
• Electric
  Alt. of Electrical
• Trainel
  A dragnet.
• Permissively
  In a permissive manner.
• BLOCKSYSTEM
  A system by which the track is divided into short sections, as of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric, or combined electric and pneumatic, signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has l
• Section
  The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
• SYSTEMATICSYSTEMATICAL
  Affecting successively the different parts of the system or set of nervous fibres; as, systematic degeneration. Systematic theology. See under Theology.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• THREESIDED
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• Another-gates
  Of another sort.
• Systemic
  Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.

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