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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monorail
noun
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▪ A trip by cable car or monorail gives the best view of the 180-acre site, four miles from Exmoor.
▪ And Jakarta is now planning a monorail system.
▪ Info: http: / / www. monorail. com Comments?
▪ Ireland opened the first commercial monorail in 1888.
▪ Linking Disney World together is a network of monorail trains, buses, river steamers and launches.
▪ Pupils also are asked to identify different desert animals -- after the monorail tour.
▪ The first electric monorail was opened in Wüppertal in 1900.
▪ The reserve is so quiet that the animals stare at the monorail intently, making some visitors wonder who is on display.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monorail

1897, a hybrid coined from mono- + rail (n.1).

Wiktionary
monorail

n. 1 a railroad system where the trains run on one rail 2 a train running on a single rail

WordNet
monorail

n. a railway having a single track

Wikipedia
Monorail

A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail. The term is also used to describe the beam of the system, or the vehicles traveling on such a beam or track. The term originates from joining mono (one) and rail (rail), from as early as 1897, possibly from German engineer Eugen Langen, who called an elevated railway system with wagons suspended the Eugen Langen One-railed Suspension Tramway (Einschieniges Hängebahnsystem Eugen Langen).

Colloquially, the term "monorail" is often used to describe any form of elevated rail or people mover. More accurately, the term refers to the style of track, not its elevation, with 'Mono' meaning 'one' and 'Rail' meaning 'rail'

MonoRail (software)

MonoRail (formerly called Castle on Rails), a component of the Castle Project, is an open source web application framework built on top of the ASP.NET platform. Inspired by Ruby on Rails Action Pack, MonoRail differs from standard ASP.NET Web Forms development by enforcing separation of concerns using a model–view–controller (MVC) architecture. The framework is commonly used in conjunction with Castle ActiveRecord, an ORM layer built on NHibernate. In January 2010, version 2.0 of MonoRail was released, however, many projects use the trunk version of the source to take advantage of new features without waiting for official releases.

Although the project's name is MonoRail, it does not have any affiliation with the Mono project.

Monorail (disambiguation)

Monorail and similar can mean:

  • Monorail, for its use in transportation
  • Overhead crane, for its use in mechanical handling
  • Monorail camera, for its use in photography
  • MonoRail (software) (formerly called Castle on Rails), for computer programming, a component of the Castle Project, is an open source web application framework built on top of the ASP.NET platform
  • Marge vs. the Monorail, an episode of The Simpsons

Usage examples of "monorail".

The twelve-centimeter assault cannon mounted into the nose of his Jagatai OmniFighter spat out a long tongue of flame and several hundred rounds of angry metal, laying down a storm of fire that tore through yet another line of monorail tracks.

Rough wooden or tin partitions, slatted floors, and rudimentary ladderlike stairs had been attached as best they could be to the original bare steel strutting and concrete buttresses of the monorail station.

The womb breathed life into these conventions, making the pulses race along the tracks like a quadrillion cars shuttling between the trillion junctions of a ten-thousand-tiered monorail.

Since the tramcar was powered by an overhead monorail, they made rapid progress by walking down the center of the tunnel.

It was a fast-track monorail, cutting directly through the City, south to Turku, then east to Helsinki Terminal.

The darkest spots were actually tunnels with monorails and conduits running into the depths of the gigantic asteroid.

A spiderweb of roads, rail-sidings, monorails, landing platforms for freight airships.

They had come to the end of the corridor, and there were no monorails in sight.

Traffic raced around on monorails or in the air, rising and falling several hundred feet precipitously in no discernible pattern.

They felt they had been through such a lot that their generation could do things in an entirely new way: write theatre plays that would bring about socialism in Scotland at their first performance, design monorails that ran under the sea powered by plankton, make typewriters that you could wear as a sombrero.

As the monorail pulled out of the Academy station, heading into San Francisco and parts unknown, along with Elma and the tricorder, Jayme’s foot slid off the brake box.

The tunnel promised by Dave Barret had been finished in less than five days, with the rail for the monorail spur installed overhead as each yard of the shaft was completed.

And now they were converging even more tightly, flowing over the surface of Mercury in monorails or tractors or short-hop suborbit shuttles, gathering in the great basin of Caloris Planitia: the shattered ground where, under a high and unforgiving Sun, humans had burrowed in search of water.

He would be strolling on the monorail platform in Ashland before noon on Saturday.

Between the shoulder injury from the monorail and now this, she was beginning to realize why doctors were routinely assigned to away teams.