subway

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An underground railway, especially for mass transit of people in urban areas.

   “He is going to Westminster by subway.”

2. isim A train that runs on such an underground railway.

   “Just before you leave, the subway comes. You get on. It stops at the next station.”

3. isim A rapid transit system, regardless of the elevation of its right of way; a metro system.
4. isim An underground walkway, tunnel for pedestrians (called pedestrian underpass in US).

   “At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.”

5. isim An underground route for pipes, sewers, etc.
6. isim An underground route for creatures (e.g. bats).
7. fiil To travel by underground railway.

   “I suppose I could have subwayed around town in search of froufrou French pastry shops.”