observation car
1Observation car — Ob ser*va tion car A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …
2observation car — ☆ observation car n. a railway car with extra large windows or a transparent dome for facilitating a view of the scenery …
3Observation car — A heavyweight observation on display at the Illinois Railway Museum. An observation car/carriage/coach (in US English, often abbreviated to simply observation or obs) is a type of railroad passenger car, generally operated in a passenger train as …
4observation car — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms observation car : singular observation car plural observation cars tourism a railway carriage designed for passengers to look at the view through large windows. It is usually the last carriage of a train …
5observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed. [1870 75, Amer.] * * * ˌobserˈvation car 7 [observation car] noun a coach/car on a train with large windows, designed to give passengers a good view of the …
6observation car — a railroad passenger car having a lounge or platform from which the scenery can be viewed. [1870 75, Amer.] * * * …
7observation car — railroad passenger car with large windows to enable the passengers to view the scenery …
8observation car — /ɒbzəˈveɪʃən ka/ (say obzuh vayshuhn kah) noun a railway carriage usually attached to the rear of a passenger train, designed to afford passengers an unobstructed view of passing scenery …
9Pearl the Observation Car — Pearl is the new girl character and female lead in the West End musical Starlight Express . She is a railway observation carriage, although in Germany she is referred to as the first class car . Rusty is madly in love with her but when he asks… …
10Observation (disambiguation) — Observation is sensing and assimilating the knowledge of a phenomenon into a framework of previous knowledge and ideas. Observation may also refer to: Observation in auditing, a procedure to obtain audit evidence. Observation deck Observer… …
