Definitions for single-track

single-track sin·gle-track

Spelling: [sing-guh l-trak]
IPA: /ˈsɪŋ gəlˈtræk/

Single-Track is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 2017 anagrams from letters in single-track (-acegiklnrst).

Definitions for single-track

adjective

  1. (of a railroad or section of a railroad's route) having but one set of tracks, so that trains going in opposite directions must be scheduled to meet only at points where there are sidings.
  2. having a narrow scope; one-track:

Origin of single-track

An Americanism dating back to 1825-35

Examples for single-track

The railroad was single-track, so trains could pass only where there was a siding.

That cutting-wheel approximates the width of a single-track in diameter.

Their train is a slow one; it is side-tracked for the great fliers as they reach a single-track road.

The extent of the electrification thus required was found to be about 100 single-track miles.

You are standing with him beside a curving bit of single-track.

We therefore refer him to his class: he is a typical politician, a single-track mind, a combination of Mugwump and Boss Tweed.

"You've sure got a single-track mind, boy," Strawn chuckled.

Popes army was out of subsistence and forage, and the single-track railroad was inadequate.

"Mine is a single-track mind," he remarked as though to himself.

A woman as straightforward and direct as she has what is known as a single-track mind in such matters.

Word Value for single-track
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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