Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of derailing, or causing to leave the rails, as a railroad-train or -car.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rail transport The action of a
locomotive ortrain leaving therails along which it runs - noun psychiatry A
pattern ofdiscourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an accident in which a train runs off its track
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Examples
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I apologize for my part in derailment, I kinda hoped there's a segue from controlled pathways to ultraconservation of non-coding DNA.
Controlled Pathways 2008
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A big train derailment happened in Los Angeles earlier this morning.
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005
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If a derailment is unavoidable, though, trust me, it is better to make Tootle think that frolicking among the daffodils was the teacher's idea (as in, "Let's set aside these problems for a minute and focus on [insert holes-in-brain remedy activity here]").
Feed a cold; starve a (spring) fever? M-mv 2005
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The Orioles, who postponed three games last week due to a train derailment one mile north of Camden Yards that dumped hazardous materials in the area, have dropped 14 of their last 17 contests.
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This game was a make-up from July 19 when a train derailment near Camden Yards forced the postponement of two contests with the Rangers.
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The doubleheader was necessitated after Friday's game was postponed due to Wednesday's train derailment one mile north of
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The second game was postponed due to a train derailment that forced the evacuation of Camden Yards.
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The Orioles had games postponed for three consecutive days, including Friday's opener of this series, following a train derailment one mile north of Camden Yards.
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I also suffered an acetabular fracture of the right hip—a serious derailment, in other words—and an open femoral intertrochanteric fracture in the same area.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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The people who helped out at the evacuation centres during the train derailment in Mississauga in 1979.
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