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地铁 — meaning in English

dì tiě

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English meaning

  • subway noun An underground railway system used for urban public transport.
  • tube noun A hollow cylinder used to carry liquid, gas, or other material.

Senses

地铁 is used for these senses in English:

  • Tube (informal) The London Underground.
  • rapid transit A commuter rail system that combines aspects of an interurban railway with those of a subway, using a menagerie of pathways such as viaduct, tunnel, beam, cut and cover, trench, at grade, and others.
  • subway (Canada, US) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.

subway — full definition

  1. noun An underground railway system used for urban public transport.
  2. noun An underground pedestrian tunnel or walkway.

tube — full definition

  1. noun A hollow cylinder used to carry liquid, gas, or other material.
  2. noun (informal, chiefly British) The London Underground railway system.
  3. verb To fit or enclose something in a tube, or to float down a river on an inflated inner tube for fun.

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