Word Meanings - TRACKWALKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
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- PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - SECTIONALITY
The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism. - INSPECTOR
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff - SECTIONALIZE
To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay . - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - SECTIONALISM
A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - INSPECTORSHIP
1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction. - SECTIONIZE
To form into sections. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - INSPECTIVE
Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection. - EMPLOYER
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - INSPECTRESS
A female inspector. - PERSONA
See 8 - PERSONABLE
1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. - PERSONALLY
1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - UNEMPLOYED
1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - TRIPERSONALITY
The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity. - IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form. - SUPERINSPECT
To over see; to superintend by inspection. Maydman. - PREEMPLOY
To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.