locomotive

IPA: ɫoʊkʌmˈoʊtɪv

(rail transport) The power unit of a train that pulls the coaches or wagons.
(rare) A traction engine.
(slang) A cheer characterized by a slow beginning and a progressive increase in speed.
(archaic) Any of various early road vehicles, steam-powered, etc., forerunners of the modern car.
(economics) A country which drives the world economy by having a high level of imports, such as the United States.

Of or relating to locomotion.
Of or relating to the power unit of a train which does not carry passengers or freight itself.
Moving, or capable of motion.

Examples of "locomotive" in Sentences

Who, like a locomotive, is moving forward, no matter what.
Mr. McCollum, now 40, has been arrested 21 times, most recently last June when he tried to steal a locomotive from a railyard in Jamaica, Queens.
If the locomotive is science, we should remember that locomotives run down tracks laid by someone else and can only go to those places to which the tracks already run.
There's no spunk to it, no life; it's very straightforward, almost to the point where I'm going to have to call it locomotive, which is an adjective I try not to use much when describing fiction.
KIEV, Ukraine — A train locomotive rammed through a stalled passenger bus on a railroad crossing in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing 43 people and injuring eight others as the bus was pushed 300 meters (yards) down the tracks.
He was trying to estimate the possible result of putting the "kettle," as he called the locomotive, at full steam ahead, disregarding every other tap and gauge on the driving plate, and devoting himself to heaping up the furnace.
Engine 279 is a Baldwin locomotive, built in Philadelphia, first brought into service in 1904, and now spends most of its time resting contentedly in the Cuautla museum, the museum that is housed in the oldest building ever used as a railway station anywhere in the world.