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jmdict 1391880 Active (id: 1158669)
線路 [ichi1,news1,nf10]
せんろ [ichi1,news1,nf10]
1. [n]
▶ railway track
▶ railway line
▶ railroad
▶ railway
▶ track
▶ line
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1746940 軌条【きじょう】 1. rail (of a railroad)



History:
2. A 2014-06-10 10:49:00  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2014-06-09 00:15:30  Richard Warmington <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
The existing definition is ambiguous 
- 'line' and 'track' are not necessarily related to railways
- the first meaning of 'roadbed' in at least one dictionary is "the material laid down to form a road" (i.e. again, a meaning unrelated to railways)
.
Another sense of "roadbed" is "another term for 'trackbed'", but that sense doesn't seem to be in GG5, for example.
.
GG5
a 「railway [rail, 《米》railroad] track; a 「railway [《米》railroad]; tracks; a (railway) line. [⇒てつどう]
  Diff:
@@ -17,0 +18,5 @@
+<gloss>railway track</gloss>
+<gloss>railway line</gloss>
+<gloss>railroad</gloss>
+<gloss>railway</gloss>
+<gloss>track</gloss>
@@ -19,2 +23,0 @@
-<gloss>track</gloss>
-<gloss>roadbed</gloss>

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