single-track
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.87 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a single curriculum or other educational approach for all students.
Example Sentences
- "[…]a single-track main line between Richmond, Ind., and Norwood Heights, Ohio"
- "It was once the busiest singletrack section of railway line in the country but, almost three decades after its closure, the short route which once linked Tunbridge Wells’s two stations is a ghostly presence"
- "On the now defunct Guildford-to-Horsham line, there was a foolproof way of avoiding collisions on singletrack lines"
- "Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton."
- "Highglen elementary school will maintain a dual-track system of a Montessori program and a regular neighbourhood school program side-by-side for one more year, Prince George trustees decided this week. In January, the board had voted in favour of making the Montessori program into a single-track program where it would occupy an entire school like Highglen."
- "This week the district placed Cathedral City Elementary and Landau Elementary back to a “single-track” schedule in which all students attend school on the same days throughout the year. A few years ago, overcrowding forced the district to split students into tracks so that some kids attended classes while others were on vacation."