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/ˌləʊkəˈməʊtɪv/ · noun
(rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons..
As on all other British Railways standard locomotives to date, the lubrication of motion pins and reversing gear is by grease nipple and gun.
Pindar seems to imply that these figures were actually locomotive automata.
Use locomotive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Locomotive means (rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons..
Common synonyms include loco, engine, railway engine, railroad engine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
As on all other British Railways standard locomotives to date, the lubrication of motion pins and reversing gear is by grease nipple and gun.
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