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Meanings of grade crossing in English
Portuguese
passagem de nível Catalan
pas a nivell 
A point where a railway line crosses a road or a path on one level (that is, without a tunnel or a bridge).
Synonyms
Examples for "level crossing"
Examples for "level crossing"
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Enke died in an incident at a railway level crossing earlier yesterday.
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I've sat in the car at a level crossing and seen it.
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A level crossing connects two sections of Bill Gribble's Eltham dairy farm.
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At this moment the wagon arrived at the level crossing of the railway.
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The train had slowed down as it reached a level crossing.
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Suddenly, the red lights on the railroad crossing sign begin to flash.
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We were approaching a railroad crossing and there was a train coming.
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He sat helplessly at a railroad crossing as the twisters touched down.
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The accident was at the bad railroad crossing just above Riverwood.
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At the same instant Madge plunged recklessly toward the railroad crossing.
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My lungs rattled like a freight train crossing a rickety bridge.
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The note clicked from theme to theme like the wheels of a train crossing a freightyard.
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She slammed on the brakes when she found herself opposed by a freight train crossing the tracks.
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The national TASR news agency said the collision occurred at a train crossing near the town of Brezno.
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The crash of breakers came out of the dark, like the rattle of a goods train crossing an iron bridge.
Usage of grade crossing in English
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Then she heard the loud ringing of a gong at a grade crossing.
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This preamble is to warn you off the grade crossing of a true story.
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Bitterly he waited at the grade crossing while "Number Twenty-seven" went lumbering by.
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Slideshow (4 images) We are concerned with grade crossing accidents.
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The whole "Montreal Express" was derailed, here in the flat land at the grade crossing.
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Only the grade crossing war remained as an issue, and that would require still another vote after this.
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Whenever she was detained at a " grade crossing" she caught herself looking at the locomotive to find a lady in a blue himation.
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The New Yorker, December 3, 1927 P. 19 Motorist at grade crossing crashes gate and part of it is imbedded in the rear seat.
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Warning bells clanged peremptorily at the lowered gates of grade crossings.
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Past traffic lights, over bridges and grade crossings the mad chase of the phantom continued.
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Thousands and thousands of dollars in improvements-rollingstock, better service, new bridges, and eliminations of grade crossings.
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For abolishing railroad grade crossings?
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This gave Mr. Coffin, as he afterwards confessed, fresh impetus in his determination to get grade crossings abolished in Massachusetts.
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On cross-examination they declared they had no objection to grade crossings which were properly safeguarded; this crossing was a death-trap.
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She snapshotted watertanks, whistling posts, lunch stands, section houses, grade crossings and holes in the snowshed-alsoscenery, people and climate.
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The roads leading out of the city in various directions have many dangerous grade crossings, and accidents must be of common occurrence.