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词汇 wye
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wye1

noun wʌɪ
  • 1North American A triangle of railway track used for turning locomotives or trains.

    〈北美〉(用于火车头或火车转向的)Y形铁轨,三角形铁轨

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This facility was first located off Markham Road on the south side of Oshawa Sub. mainline with a wye into it.
    • Today the goal is to re-lay 4 kilometers of track to reach the wye at this point.
    • The train runs around the circle of track once, then enters a long spur behind buildings along U.S. 395, where it runs around the train, turns on the wye, then re-couples onto it backwards for the next trip.
    • It operated this way until it got to Medonte where the locomotive could be turned on the wye.
    • The north end of the line ended at a wye connection with the Ashland Coal & Iron Railway at present day 6th.
    • David showed me the wye and the freight line that begins here.
    • There are also ten secondary tracks used for minor repairs, a train-wash, and a loop track and a wye.
    • Instead of heading directly into the station, we pulled around a wye and down to METRA's Halstead St. Station.
    • On the west, Dutch has the previously mentioned wye connecting two subdivisions and on the east a 12, 556 ft siding.
    • While Yard A turns a train south towards LM Cabin, the Mud Track turns north towards HV junction, thus creating a wye.
    • The train continued straight across the top of a wye, so that we could back into the station.
    • The train was pulled into the wye south of the station to uncouple the roadrailers (Amtrak express freight cars) added in Albany and then backed into the station.
    • A two-stall engine house was located on the tail of the wye, (it was still there in 1976!
    • The Hawk Jct. yard engine made a short trip southbound to Tabor, 25 miles, with a single locomotive tonnage train, set it off, turned on the wye and returned to Hawk Jct. as a caboose hop.
    • After some of the passengers detrained, the special continued to Belvidere to turn on the wye, and Museum visitors were invited to make the short round trip to Belvidere and back.
    • After detraining the passengers, the train backed out on the main, reversed direction, and then went east 18 miles to Seth to turn on the wye.
    • Most of the coal trains are serving mines around Gillette, WY, but some of them originate north of Dutch and join the mainline at West Dutch via a wye.
    • After backing down to the Bartle wye, the remaining time will be on the Burney line with just the passenger cars.
  • 2(in plumbing) a short pipe with a branch joining it at an acute angle.

    (管子工行业的)Y形管子

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pipe wyes are used to to allow one pipe to join another pipe at some degree or angle.
    • As the name suggests, the pipe wyes are Y-shaped pipe fitting devices.
    • We suspect that the 90 [degrees], three-way connector between the ETT and the wye trapped aerosolized particles.

Origin

Mid 19th century: the letter Y represented as a word.

Wye2

proper nounwʌɪ
  • A river which rises in the mountains of western Wales and flows 208 km (132 miles) generally south-eastwards, entering the Severn estuary at Chepstow. In its lower reaches it forms part of the border between Wales and England.

Rhymes

ally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, cry, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, xi, Xingtai, Yantai

wye1

noun
  • 1North American A triangle of railroad track used for turning locomotives or trains.

    〈北美〉(用于火车头或火车转向的)Y形铁轨,三角形铁轨

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The train continued straight across the top of a wye, so that we could back into the station.
    • After some of the passengers detrained, the special continued to Belvidere to turn on the wye, and Museum visitors were invited to make the short round trip to Belvidere and back.
    • David showed me the wye and the freight line that begins here.
    • After detraining the passengers, the train backed out on the main, reversed direction, and then went east 18 miles to Seth to turn on the wye.
    • It operated this way until it got to Medonte where the locomotive could be turned on the wye.
    • There are also ten secondary tracks used for minor repairs, a train-wash, and a loop track and a wye.
    • A two-stall engine house was located on the tail of the wye, (it was still there in 1976!
    • The Hawk Jct. yard engine made a short trip southbound to Tabor, 25 miles, with a single locomotive tonnage train, set it off, turned on the wye and returned to Hawk Jct. as a caboose hop.
    • Most of the coal trains are serving mines around Gillette, WY, but some of them originate north of Dutch and join the mainline at West Dutch via a wye.
    • Instead of heading directly into the station, we pulled around a wye and down to METRA's Halstead St. Station.
    • After backing down to the Bartle wye, the remaining time will be on the Burney line with just the passenger cars.
    • While Yard A turns a train south towards LM Cabin, the Mud Track turns north towards HV junction, thus creating a wye.
    • The train runs around the circle of track once, then enters a long spur behind buildings along U.S. 395, where it runs around the train, turns on the wye, then re-couples onto it backwards for the next trip.
    • Today the goal is to re-lay 4 kilometers of track to reach the wye at this point.
    • This facility was first located off Markham Road on the south side of Oshawa Sub. mainline with a wye into it.
    • The north end of the line ended at a wye connection with the Ashland Coal & Iron Railway at present day 6th.
    • On the west, Dutch has the previously mentioned wye connecting two subdivisions and on the east a 12, 556 ft siding.
    • The train was pulled into the wye south of the station to uncouple the roadrailers (Amtrak express freight cars) added in Albany and then backed into the station.
  • 2(in plumbing) a short pipe with a branch joining it at an acute angle.

    (管子工行业的)Y形管子

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As the name suggests, the pipe wyes are Y-shaped pipe fitting devices.
    • Pipe wyes are used to to allow one pipe to join another pipe at some degree or angle.
    • We suspect that the 90 [degrees], three-way connector between the ETT and the wye trapped aerosolized particles.

Origin

Mid 19th century: the letter Y represented as a word.

Wye2

proper noun
  • A river that rises in the mountains of western Wales and flows southeast for about 132 miles (208 km) before entering the Severn estuary at Chepstow. In its lower reaches it forms part of the border between Wales and England.

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