Locomotive
Moving from place to place; changing place, or able to change place; as, a locomotive animal.
Used in producing motion; as, the locomotive organs of an animal.
A locomotive engine; a self-propelling wheel carriage, especially one which bears a steam boiler and one or more steam engines which communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Locomotive Quotations
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett Marden
In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.
Jan Egeland
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
George Combe
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
William C. Bryant
Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive.
John Moody
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Eric Massa
Locomotive Translations
locomotive in Dutch is motorisch
locomotive in French is locomotive
locomotive in German is Lokomotive, bewegend
locomotive in Italian is locomotiva
locomotive in Norwegian is lokomotiv, bevegelses-
locomotive in Portuguese is locomotiva
locomotive in Spanish is locomotora
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