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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subway
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ Then there was the time he forgot his briefcase in a subway car.
station
▪ Many urban homeless were seeking refuge in subway stations and bus depots.
▪ He heard tourists go past his door talking about the sights, the beautiful subway stations, amazing bronze and marble sculpture.
▪ We went into the lounge bar of an old hotel beside the subway station.
▪ The renewal of the subway station, for example, presented a series of problems only hinted at here.
▪ The brief lull that had cheered my walk home from the Fernhill subway station was over.
▪ Across the street was another subway station as Dadaistically set amid suburban grass and trees.
▪ They leave together and Primo walks her to the subway station on Delancey Street.
▪ Candy bars, bought at the Picadilly Circus subway station, had to suffice for dinner on the bus.
system
▪ The only reliable mode of mass transportation was the subway system.
▪ Rumours circulate of bombs in New York's subway system, and the poisoning of water wells.
▪ Mitchell visualized a hormonal flow chart that resembled a metropolitan subway system, all lines headed for the downtown station.
▪ Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.
▪ Near the window, he put up a framed map of the New York City subway system.
▪ The map of the New York City subway system was pinned to the wall above his bed.
▪ The Metro subway system was operating only a limited schedule of trains, on portions of its system that are underground.
train
▪ Then the subway train was held up for twenty minutes.
▪ A speeding subway train startled them as it roared out of its tunnel like a metal earthworm.
▪ It had begun with a strange episode on a speeding subway train.
▪ The unlucky or unwary freeze in the streets or are hit by passing subway trains.
■ VERB
ride
▪ He rides the subway, rubs shoulders with the crowd, feels himself lunging towards a sense of the moment.
▪ When he rode the subway business types and blond women in pretty office wear would move away from him.
▪ He rode the subway up to Inwood, out to Sheepshead Bay.
take
▪ They took the subway out of that world every morning and returned to it every afternoon.
▪ I took the subway home at two in the morning, the car littered with beer cans and streamers.
▪ I skipped the bar and took the subway home.
▪ Now I had to take the subway home, and my mascara was running.
▪ I flew to New York and took the subway up to Harlem to view her at the funeral home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I legged it over to Broadway and caught the subway.
▪ I wish I could work out how to use the subway.
▪ If he remembered our meeting in the subway or my relationship to my aunt, very correctly, he gave no sign.
▪ Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system.
▪ One of my Hope patients was married to one of the subway workmen.
▪ The renewal of the subway station, for example, presented a series of problems only hinted at here.
▪ The vision of unity I saw on that subway begins here to extend beyond humanity to the whole natural world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subway

Subway \Sub"way`\, n.

  1. An underground way or gallery; especially, a passage under a street, in which water mains, gas mains, telegraph wires, etc., are conducted.

  2. An underground railroad, usually having trains powered by electricity provided by an electric line running through the underground tunnel. It is usually confined to the center portion of cities; -- called also tube, and in Britain, underground. In certain other countries (as in France or Russia) it is called the metro.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subway

1825, "underground passage" (for water pipes or pedestrians, later for electrical wires), from sub- + way (n.). The sense of "underground railway in a city" is first recorded 1892, in reference to London.

Wiktionary
subway

n. 1 (context North America Scotland English) An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas. 2 (context US English) A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way. 3 (context British English) underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US). vb. (context intransitive US informal English) To travel by underground railway.

WordNet
subway
  1. n. electric underground railway [syn: metro, tube, underground]

  2. an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway [syn: underpass]

Wikipedia
Subway (canyoneering)

The Subway is a colloquial name for a uniquely shaped slot canyon in Zion National Park. It is located between two peaks called the North and South Guardian Angels, deep within the Left Fork of North Creek. It is part of the larger Great West Canyon system, which includes both the Left and Right Forks of North Creek.

The Subway is so named for its tube-like, undercut slot canyons. This segment of canyon is less than in length, but long approach and exit hikes are necessary for access.

Subway (film)

Subway is a 1985 French comedy drama film directed by Luc Besson and starring Isabelle Adjani and Christopher Lambert. The film is classified as part of the cinema du look movement.

Subway (restaurant)

Subway IP Inc. (stylized as SUBWAY) is an American fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches (subs) and salads. It is owned and operated by Doctor's Associates Inc., doing business as Subway IP Inc. Subway is one of the fastest growing franchises in the world, with 44,818 restaurants in 112 countries and territories as of August 9, 2016. The United States alone has 26,880 outlets. It is the largest single-brand restaurant chain and the largest restaurant operator in the world.

Subway's international headquarters is in Milford, Connecticut; five regional centers support Subway's international operations. The regional offices for European franchises are located in Amsterdam, Netherlands; the Australian and New Zealand locations are supported from Brisbane, Australia; the Asian locations are supported from offices located in Beirut, Lebanon, and Singapore; and the Latin American support center is in Miami, Florida.

Subway (underpass)

In England and Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong and Commonwealth countries such as India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, a subway is normally an underpass for pedestrians and/or cyclists beneath a road or railway, allowing them to reach the other side in safety. Subways may also be constructed for the benefit of wildlife.

In the United States, as used by the California Department of Transportation and in parts of Pennsylvania such as Harrisburg, Duncannon and Wyoming County, it can mean a depressed road undercrossing.

Subways are less common in North American cities than in European cities of comparable size. They are constructed when it is necessary for pedestrians to cross a railway line or a dual carriageway such as an interstate highway, and they appear at the exits from underground rapid transit systems, but one would be rarely built to enable people to cross an ordinary city street. When they are built, the term pedestrian underpass is more likely to be used, because "subway" in North America refers to rapid transit systems such as the New York City Subway or the Toronto Subway.

In the Philippines, the term is also underpass, and there are two types: underpasses for pedestrians such as along Ayala Avenue in Makati and in the City of Manila near Quiapo Church, and vehicular ones along the length of EDSA and other thoroughfares. One of the earliest and most notable vehicular underpasses is the "Lagusnilad" in front of Manila City Hall.

Subway (group)

The Chicago-based group Subway, was composed of Eric McNeal, Keith Thomas, Trerail Puckett and Roy Jones. The group was signed by Michael Bivins (of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe) to his Motown-distributed label Biv 10. They debuted in 1995 with the hit single " This Lil' Game We Play" featuring labelmates 702 that reached #15 on the Billboard charts. The song was produced and written by Gerald Levert and Edwin Nicholas and was billed as "Subway featuring 702". The single set the group off to a good start, going gold and selling nearly a million copies.

Their debut album was titled Good Times and was released later that year. The cover art and title of the album was inspired by the same-named CBS hit sitcom of the '70s. Written and produced by Gerald Levert and Edwin Nicholas, the album packed some solid hits such as the aforementioned "This Lil' Game We Play."

In 2007, Eric McNeal released a solo EP throughout the box records.

Subway (George Bush Intercontinental Airport)

The Subway (formerly known as the inter-terminal train) at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, (IAH) is the older of the two separate inter-terminal people movers operating at the airport. Opened with the airport, the train system was replaced in 1981 with the current WEDway system, a people mover system built by WED Transportation Systems, a division of what is now known as Walt Disney Imagineering. The Subway serves landside traffic, unlike the newer Skyway which operates airside.

The Subway is the only WEDway people mover built by the Walt Disney Company outside of a Disney property. It uses much of the mechanical technology used by the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, an attraction in the Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland. The design permits the trains to make tight corners that are necessary along portions of the basement route, and is unusual in that on-train station announcements and audible warning messages are actually provided by a trackside audio system through openings in the tops of the vehicle carbodies. The train operates in a circuit, stopping at every terminal as well as the Houston Airport Hotel before returning to its starting point. The system is currently maintained and operated by Johnson Controls.

The airport is conducting preliminary studies of potential new systems to replace the Subway, as both Houston Airport System and major airlines serving the airport have determined that the cost of operating and maintaining the system is no longer viable.

Subway (Homicide: Life on the Street)

"Subway" (sometimes referred to as "The Accident") is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the American police television drama Homicide: Life on the Street, and the 84th episode overall. It first aired on NBC in the United States on December 5, 1997. In the episode, John Lange ( Vincent D'Onofrio) becomes pinned between a subway train and the station platform. The Baltimore homicide department is informed that Lange will be dead within an hour and Pembleton tries to solve the case while comforting Lange in his final minutes.

"Subway" featured guest star Bruce MacVittie as a man suspected of pushing Lange into the path of the train. The episode was written by James Yoshimura, who co-produced with David Simon. It was directed by Gary Fleder and was the only episode of Homicide: Life on the Street helmed by the feature film director. Yoshimura based "Subway" on an episode of the HBO hidden-camera documentary show Taxicab Confessions, in which a New York City detective described a real-life instance of a man trapped between a subway train and platform.

"Subway" was filmed on location in a Baltimore Metropolitan Transit Authority station. Fleder included cinematic elements that were uncommon in the traditionally naturalistic show. This led to conflicts between Fleder and director of photography Alex Zakrzewski. "Subway" received overwhelmingly positive reviews but ranked number three in its time-slot during its original broadcast, capturing 10.3 million viewers but falling behind ABC's 20/20 and CBS's Nash Bridges.

The episode won a Peabody Award for excellence in television broadcasting and was nominated for two Emmy Awards, one for Yoshimura's script and one for D'Onofrio's guest performance. "Subway" was the subject of a two-hour PBS television documentary, Anatomy of a "Homicide: Life on the Street", which originally aired on the network on November 4, 1998. Screenwriter Vince Gilligan said "Subway" directly influenced an episode of The X-Files that he wrote, which in turn helped inspire the casting of Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad.

Usage examples of "subway".

For example, the Japanese terrorist group Aum Shinrikyo, which was responsible for the release of deadly Sarin gas in the Tokyo subway system in 1995, had previously tried to disperse aerosolized anthrax and botulism throughout Tokyo on several occasions.

Half an hour later he came out of a subway station in the financial district and entered a brokerage office.

Lo Manto said to him as they walked toward the subway for the ride back up to the Bronx.

Lo Manto said, resting the back of his head against the hard edge of the subway map.

Lo Manto ran against a red light and a long line of oncoming traffic and stopped at a corner near the elevated subway station, his gun in his right hand.

Lo Manto patted Officer Thompson on the shoulder and began a slow walk toward the elevated subway.

But while Marchand pressed back against the wall, fighting the suction threatening to pull him loose, Eduard rode the front of the subway train away from him, hurtling from the tunnel and back out into the night.

George Schwartz had seen her there and taken the subway back uptown, presumably for his long vacant chair on a copy desk rim, and that Mr.

York straphangers know that there are two subway entrances at Twenty-third Street.

I took the subway to Hot Temps headquarters on Eighth Avenue and Fifteenth Street.

But where else would we adjuncts receive such a spiritual lift than from these eager young- and- often- older learners, who are there every day or night to absorb as much as they can in spite of missed meals, four- hours- anight sleep, crowded subway trains and the unkindest cut of all-- the charge that they are responsible for a deteriorating quality of education.

It was a color printout of the central areas of Caracas, major avenues only, with several points of interest highlighted and an overlay of the subway system.

Jack knew she was referring to her years-ago wild card transformation when trauma had catalyzed her into becoming a more than reasonable facsimile of a local subway car.

He asked a pretty Asian woman how to get to Chinatown and was directed to the subway.

He trailed her to the Dogtown subway hub and headed after her, threading through the passengers standing on the platform as she tried to lose him once again.