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Railway engineering

Track, signalling, timetable and operation — the words without which no train runs.

La rampa característica is the ruling gradient, and la rampa is a word that does three jobs English keeps well apart. It is the ramp you push a trolley up. It is the gradient of a line, which is this page. And then it leaves engineering altogether: me ha dado una rampa en la pierna means a cramp, the sudden knot in a muscle. Ramp, gradient and cramp are one word in Spanish, and nothing about the sentence warns you which is coming.

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