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Meaning subway meaning

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Definitions in simple English

subway Noun

— A subway is a railroad that is underground. I took the subway to work today. — A subway is a tunnel that is underground and is used by pedestrians.

subway

— noun (= metro, tube, underground, subway system) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) in Paris the subway system is called the 'metro' and in London it is called the 'tube' or the 'underground' — noun (= underpass) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway

Synonyms subway synonyms

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subway English » English

underground metro tube tunnel underpass the underground subway system rapid transit Metro underground train underground railway the tube the T El underground passage underfloor duct ulterior subterraneous subterranean mass rapid transit culvert chthonic belowground MRT L

Topics subway topics

What do people use subway to talk about?

Universe, creation World Land

Underground

What words refer to man-made holes in the ground?

conduit culvert ditch foxhole mine pit pothole rut subway shaft trench trough tunnel well

Examples subway examples

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Simple sentences

The Moscow subway runs until one a.m.

I'm taking the subway to school.

Tom was attacked by an unknown man in the subway.

Is it dangerous to take a subway alone?

What subway goes to the center of town?

Which is quicker, a taxi or the subway?

Where is the nearest subway station?

His house is near the subway.

Subway fares will be raised as of April 1st, 1999.

Where's the nearest subway station?

I go to school by subway.

Do you go by bus, by train, or by subway?

I wish the subway wasn't so crowded every morning.

I expect a subway station will be here in the future.

I want to get there by subway.

Let's take the subway.

Do you have a subway map?

Could you tell me how to get to the subway station?

Movie subtitles

I knew your mom was fast, but she actually scissor-kicked over the subway turnstiles.

Well, ya see, I got the idea. when I was going to work every morning. on the subway to Wall Street.

Drop me at the nearest subway station, James.

Leave a package in line with the subway.

Well, I'm not going to sleep in the subway.

With the streets cold and the subway hot and full of germs.

The subway.

I'd take a subway home.

I'm going to be late. I'm taking the subway.

As I went back through the subway to my own platform. I was walking on air.

No, thanks, I'm taking the subway.

Or you can do it for a nickel in the subway under a train.

I guess I'll take the East Side subway.

You go on over to the subway.

Yeah, you ride to work on the subway with him every morning.

He'd seen us together on the subway.

Which way is it to the East Side subway?

Subway.

It's no worse than the subway.

You could write a love song in a subway train.

To the subway?

Do you feel the breeze from the subway?

I met him in the subway. He's very good-looking.

So I could catch the subway home.

And then on the subway I saw him.

You saw it on the subway.

She even knew that I'd seen his body on the subway.

I lost it in the subway.

In a locker in a subway station.

You can pick up her in 20 minutes at 18 Street Subway station.

Call and get somebody on that subway platform.

News and current affairs

Think, for example of Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, or the Aum Shinrykio cult that released poison gas in the Tokyo subway system the same year.

Similarly, the Aum Shinrykio cult that spread the poison gas sarin in Tokyo's subway in 1995 had no connection to Islam.

French ministers have yet to be seen taking the bus or the subway to their offices.

Stockholm, ruled by conservatives and liberals, has extended its free-market experiments, such as privatization of subway trains, to education vouchers and free choice of alternative schools.

The case of Shoko Asahara, the founder of Aum Shinrikyo (the Japanese group that organized the Sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway in 1995), comes to mind here.

Perhaps we will eventually see the emergence of a rival Fed Subway blog, though I am not optimistic about the prospects for an ECB U-Bahn blog anytime soon.

But the balcony of the Students' Federation of Universidad de Chile no longer exists, having been replaced by the tall buildings and modern subway stations that have marked the intervening years of Chile's history.

The beatings continued and spread to the subway, where the police were essentially powerless.

It is not clear yet whether the nationalist youth rebellion has been suppressed, and whether Muscovites will be able to use the subway without fear during Russia's New Year and Orthodox Christmas holidays.

Riding the Subway often brings unpleasant surprises, while JFK Airport is hardly a favorite among travelers (and there remains no fast rail link to it).

New York City subway passengers are now advised that they might experience random searches of their bags.

Moreover, higher density buildings will be near subway stations or other public mass transport.

The sharp fall in China's exports to the US has been compensated by a sharp rise in the Chinese government's spending on infrastructure - say, on subway construction in China's biggest cities.

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