4-4-2
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Etymology
[edit]In each sense, from a grouping of things in sets of four, four, and two: in football, players in certain positions; on locomotives, wheels in certain positions; in the car model, four barrels (of carburetion), four gears (of the manual transmission), and dual exhausts.
Noun
[edit]- (soccer) A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 strikers.
- Hypernym: formation
- They fielded an imposing 4-4-2.
- 2012 May 26, Phil McNulty, “Norway 0-1 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- England's formation was a rigid 4-4-2 against a Norway side of surprisingly limited ambition and on one of the rare occasions James Milner got in the action he forced a save from Jarstein.
- Under the Whyte notation system, a type of steam locomotive that has a two-axle leading truck, two powered driving axles and a one-axle trailing truck; any instance of that type.
- Synonym: Atlantic
- Hypernym: locomotive
- Coordinate terms: 4-4-0; more at Whyte notation § Wheel arrangement names
- Down the high iron sped a huffing 4-4-2.
- 1951 March, David R. Webb, “British 4-4-2 Tank Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 152:
- While not, perhaps, the handsomest of 4-4-2 tanks, as they had a rather large proportion of their driving wheels exposed, they proved very useful locomotives, doing yeoman work on suburban trains around London and Birmingham, and later on numerous rural routes.
- 1965, Philip Shuster, Eugene L. Huddleston, Alvin F. Staufer, C & O power: steam and diesel locomotives of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1900-1965, page 16:
- This group of 30 0-8-0’s came from Baldwin between July and October 1948 and were given road numbers 255 to 284 (C/N 74024 to 74053) pushing aside several 4-4-2’s in the 275-284 bracket in the process.
- A model of the former Oldsmobile make; any instance of that model.
- Hypernyms: Oldsmobile; muscle car < car, automobile < vehicle
- Down the drag strip screamed a custom-tuned 4-4-2.
