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funicular::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | cable railway, funicular railway |
| Type of | railroad line, railway line, railway system, railroad, railway |
funicular:: | Spocien Dictionary
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funicular railway.
Examples of funicular
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Unless you love dodging marauding donkeys and their dung, opt for the funicular.
From the chron.com
Pick one of the 60 days when the sun shines to ride Bergen's popular funicular.
From the charlotteobserver.com
In addition to the funicular stations, a restroom for public use will be built.
From the ocregister.com
Odessa also has a cable car, funicular railway, and recreational ferry service.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The funicular was built in 1890 and has been in operation since April 23, 1893.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The funicular will be one of the only active inclined elevators in California.
From the ocregister.com
This card allows you unlimited journeys on all metros, buses, trams and funicular.
From the independent.co.uk
You descend into the cave, more than 100m underground, by a funicular railway.
From the guardian.co.uk
Both of these can be reached by a funicular railway, the Wellington Cable Car.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Cable railway: a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
- Relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway"
- A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. ...
- (funiculi) Three pairs of columns of myelinated fibers that run the length of the white matter of the spinal cord.
- A funicular shape is one similar to that taken by a suspended chain or string subjected to a particular loading.
- A type of lift which uses a car traveling on steel rails, as a carrier. Most funiculars are "jigback" lifts, meaning that the weight of a car coming down counterbalances the weight of a car going up. ...
- Pertaining to a rope or its tension
