standard gauge
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but only the centre portion, from Penygroes to Afonwen, 11¾ miles, was built."
- "The city began as a local trading centre for north Chinese settlers at the end of the 18th century. It expanded rapidly and from 1905 to 1935 was a major junction and transshipment point between the Russian-owned broad-gauge Chinese Eastern railway and the Japanese-owned standard-gauge South Manchurian railway. Ch’ang-ch’un was equipped with sizable railroad shops and also became the junction for railways extending westward into Inner Mongolia and eastward into northern Korea."
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Inflected Forms
standard gage (alternative)