4-4-2

English thumb|A 4-4-2 soccer formation thumb|A 4-4-2 steam locomotive thumb|An Oldsmobile 4-4-2 Etymology 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 en football formation en football A popular football formation with 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 strikers. en formation#Noun en They fielded an imposing 4-4-2. en 2012-05-26 Phil McNulty Norway 0-1 England w:BBC Sport http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18184726 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 Rune Almenning Jarstein Jarstein. https://web.archive.org/web/20160123045934/http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18184726 23 January 2016 en locomotive type or an instance thereof 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. en Atlantic#Noun en locomotive#Noun en 4-4-0 ; more at Whyte notation#Wheel arrangement names Whyte notation § Wheel arrangement names en Down the high iron sped a huffing 4-4-2. en 1951-03 David R. Webb British 4-4-2 Tank Locomotives Railway Magazine 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. en 1965 Philip Shuster; Eugene L. Huddleston; Alvin F. Staufer C & O power: steam and diesel locomotives of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, 1900-1965 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. en Oldsmobile model or an instance thereof A model of the former Oldsmobile make; any instance of that model. en Oldsmobile#Noun ; muscle car < car automobile < vehicle en Down the drag strip screamed a custom-tuned 4-4-2. Further reading Anagrams en 244 2-4-4 4-2-4 en Rail transportation