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An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
To print (something) using slugs (A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine).
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.
A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
To create hollow castings in which molten metal is poured into a metallic mould and then poured out again, leaving a thin solidified layer of the metal on the walls of the mold.
An icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions.
Abbreviation of space launch vehicle.
Initialism of slip marker.
One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured, smaller than a medium.
A portable or semiportable machine, generally used on tabletops, countertops or other platforms, to accomplish a household task.
A boy employed to put small coals to a stowboard.
A character that was once stored in the bottom half of a compositor's typecase.
The size of type between long primer and pica, standardized as 11 point.
an integration type for digital circuits that contain transistors numbering in the tens providing a few logic gates per chip
A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points.
A clip used to connect a rope to a tub of coal in order to haul it.
Acronym of self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology: a monitoring system included in computer HDDs and SSDs in order to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability with the intent of anticipating imminent hardware failures.
A style that is informal yet smart enough for a particular situation.
A type of farming that takes advantage of information technology in order to maximise efficiency or product yield; most commonly via tracking, automation and big data analysis.
A section of motorway that uses active traffic management (ATM) techniques to increase capacity by use of variable speed limits and hard-shoulder running at busy times.
A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone.
A person employed to break up waste rock.
Initialism of surface-mount(ed) device.
A circuit used to eliminate the overshoot of a pulse.
The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
single-mode fibre; a type of an optical fibre which is designed to carry only a single ray of light.
Initialism of Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique.
A small fire chamber with attached bellows used to blow smoke on a hive to pacify the bees before the beekeeper works on it.
a device fitted to either side or on top of the smokebox of some steam locomotives, the purpose of which was to lift smoke clear of the locomotive at speed, so it wouldn't obscure the driver's vision.
An explosion of flue gases accumulated inside a burning building.
A vehicle that generates smoke; specifically, an automobile or a train.
Any industry or large manufacturing facility that uses smokestacks to dispose of unwanted materials into the atmosphere.
Initialism of Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, a satellite from the Living Planet Programme.
A kind of cover crop planted near a primary crop in order to prevent the growth of weeds in that area.
Initialism of Small Mission Program Group, a division for missions with a small budget at NASA.
Initialism of switching mode power supply.
Initialism of shingled magnetic recording.
SMS, Seiner Majestät Schiff, literally, "His Majesty's Ship" in German;
Initialism of surface-mount technology.
Bad, soft coal containing earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
A locomotive with a prime mover but no traction motors, used to provide extra electrical power to another locomotive.
To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads.
Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.
A miner's metal lunchbox.
To bevel the end of a timber to fit against an inclined surface.
Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
the law that, for a ray incident on the interface of two media, the sine of the angle of incidence times the index of the refraction of the first medium is equal to the sine of the angle of refraction times the index of refraction of the second medium
A small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke.
To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a brig formerly used as a warship, with a foremast, a mainmast, and a trysail mast immediately abaft (behind) the mainmast.
A device or series of devices attached to the roof in a pattern that attempts to hold the snow in place, thus preventing sudden snow or ice slides from the roof
The live load due to the weight of snow on a structure, such as a roof; included in the design calculations.
A tunnel-like structure that provides roads and railroad tracks with protection from avalanches and heavy snowfalls that cannot be easily removed.
A tire with rubber that remains soft at most winter temperatures, designed to maintain grip on snow and ice (historically these tires have poor tread life on tarmac and pavement, especially in non-cold temperatures)
A replica of the original Y spoke wheel design for the Chevrolet, GMC, and Cadillac Escalade trucks and SUVs.
A vehicle that can travel through snow.
A vehicle with skis at the front and a caterpillar track at the rear, used for travelling over snow, sometimes as sport.