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noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- (UK, New Zealand) A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.
- (US, regional) A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
- (Canada, parts of the US, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Philippines) Synonym of freeway.
noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- (chiefly US) A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
- A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
- (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
- (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
- Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
- A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
- (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
verb
- (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
- (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
- (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- (US) An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.
- an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form
- (figurative) The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway.
- (by extension) A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation.
noun
- a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
- a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
- (transport) A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.
- (anatomy) Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
noun
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A scale of values.
- (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
- (slang) An act of violent robbery.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
verb
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- furnish with a ramp
- creep up — used especially of plants
- be rampant
noun
- A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
- (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
- Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
- The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- (music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
- A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
- A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- (US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
verb
- (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
- (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
- (ambitransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- (ambitransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
- utter in trumpet-like sounds
- play or blow on the trumpet
- proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet
noun
- (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
- (programming, derogatory, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
- (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
- (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
- (film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).
- (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- (rare) plural of spaghetto
- spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
- pasta in the form of long strings
verb
- (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- To cause (something) to become tangled.
- To become tangled.
noun
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
verb
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
noun
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- An electrical shunt.
- A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
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noun
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
noun
- A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
- An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.
- (uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
- (now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.
- a public road from one place to another
noun
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
- a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
- the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
- the set of elements common to two or more sets
- a point where lines intersect
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
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noun
- A type of public roadway.
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- proceed along in a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- work as a driver
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
noun
- the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly
- a hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation
- On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles overtaking or moving at faster speeds.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid.
noun
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
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- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
- move out of position
- spread open or apart
- turn outward
noun
- a wide street or thoroughfare
- a line of approach
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
- A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
noun
- (chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
- A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
- (uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
- (uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
- A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
- A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- road where high speed driving is allowed
- a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles
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adv
noun
- street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
- (UK, Ireland) Physical, bricks and mortar shops, in contrast to Internet shops.
- (UK, Ireland, parts of New England) The main street of any town.
- (UK, Ireland) Mainstream shops, banks, etc. that can be found on such a street, in contrast to more specialist shops and services.
noun
- (US, roadway) Interstate.
- (US politics) Abbreviation of independent.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of instrumental case.
- (computing) Abbreviation of instruction.
- (metaphysics) The ego.
- a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)
- the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
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noun
- a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property
- A relatively narrow road which runs alongside a major transportation route, such as a canal, a railway line, or a controlled-access highway.
- A route which enters or circulates through an institution, compound, land area, etc. for purposes of private access, maintenance, or security.
noun
- A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.
- (figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.
- (nonstandard) A fork in the road.
- (figuratively, by extension) A centrally located position.
- plural of crossroad
- a community of people smaller than a village
- a point where a choice must be made
- a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
noun
- an expressway on which tolls are collected
- (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- (chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
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adj
- (road transport) Of a highway, allowing traffic in two directions.
- (statistics) Of a table, etc., having or involving exactly two variables; bivariate.
- (education) Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.
- (road transport) Of traffic or visibility, moving or occurring in opposite directions.
- Of a project, treaty, etc., involving the mutual action or participation of two parties.
- (American football, ice hockey) Playing both offense and defense in the same game.
- (radio) Permitting communication in two directions, i.e. both transmitting and receiving.
- supported by both sides
- involving two parts or elements
- operating or permitting operation in either of two opposite directions
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- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
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- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- (UK, New Zealand) A road built for high speed traffic, but not up to motorway standards or designated a motorway.
- (US, regional) A divided highway, especially one whose intersections and direct access to adjacent properties have been eliminated.
- (Canada, parts of the US, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Philippines) Synonym of freeway.
noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- (chiefly US) A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales) A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and only permitted) for high-speed motor-traffic (in Europe motor vehicles with a higher speed limit than 40 km/h) running in two directions on one separate carriageway each.
noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere
- highly valued northern freshwater fish with lean flesh
- a sharp point (as on the end of a spear)
- (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
- A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
- (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
- (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
- Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
- A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
- (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
verb
- (ambitransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.
- (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
- (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
- (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
- (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
noun
- a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- (US) An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.
- an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form
- (figurative) The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway.
- (by extension) A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation.
noun
- a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic
- a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
- (transport) A major transit corridor in a system of roads, rivers, or railway lines.
- (anatomy) Any of the muscular- and elastic-walled blood vessels forming part of the circulation system by which blood is conveyed away from the heart regardless of its oxygenation status; see pulmonary artery.
noun
- An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.
- (Australia, slang) A search, conducted by authorities, of a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- A scale of values.
- (slang) A deliberate swindle or fraud.
- A speed bump.
- An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.
- (aviation) A surface inside the air intake of a supersonic aircraft which adjusts in position to allow for efficient shock wave compression of incoming air at a wide range of different Mach numbers.
- (skating) A construction used to do skating tricks, usually in the form of part of a pipe.
- (cricket) A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.
- (slang) An act of violent robbery.
- Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.
- A concave bend at the top or cap of a railing, wall, or coping; a romp.
- (aviation) A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A worthless person.
- A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.
- (aviation) A large parking area in an airport for aircraft, for loading and unloading or for storage (see also apron and tarmac).
- a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft
- North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers
- an inclined surface connecting two levels
verb
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
- To behave violently; to rage.
- To adapt a piece of iron to the woodwork of a gate.
- (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) change value, often at a steady rate.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing
- furnish with a ramp
- creep up — used especially of plants
- be rampant
noun
- A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
- (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
- Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
- The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- (music) A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
- A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
- A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- (US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
verb
- (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
- (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
- (ambitransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- (ambitransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
- utter in trumpet-like sounds
- play or blow on the trumpet
- proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet
noun
- (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
- (programming, derogatory, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
- (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
- (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
- (film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).
- (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
- (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- (rare) plural of spaghetto
- spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
- pasta in the form of long strings
verb
- (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- To cause (something) to become tangled.
- To become tangled.
noun
- a junction of highways on different levels that permits traffic to move from one to another without crossing traffic streams
- mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information)
- the act of changing one thing for another thing
- reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries)
- (countable) A highway junction in which traffic may change from one road to another without crossing a stream of traffic.
- A back-and-forth interaction; an exchange.
- (countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.
- (countable, uncountable) An act of interchanging.
- (rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.
verb
- cause to change places
- put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- give to, and receive from, one another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive) to swap or change places
- (transitive) to mutually give and receive (something); to exchange
- (transport) To act as or carry out an interchange (noun, senses 2, 3).
- (transitive) to switch (each of two things)
- (transitive) to alternate; to intermingle or vary
noun
- a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center
- a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part)
- An electrical shunt.
- A replacement road for obsolete road that is no longer in use because devastating natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides).
- The act of going past or around.
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- (medicine) An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
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- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
- A tern.
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- a railway line connected to a trunk line
- any sharply pointed projection
verb
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate
- goad with spurs
- equip with spurs
- strike with a spur
noun
- A road open at both ends or connecting one area with another; a highway or main street.
- An unobstructed waterway allowing passage for ships.
- (uncountable) The act of going through; passage; travel, transit.
- (now rare except in certain set phrases) A passage; a way through.
- a public road from one place to another
noun
- The junction of two (or more) paths, streets, highways, or other thoroughfares.
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- (geometry) The point or set of points common to two geometrical objects (such as the point where two lines meet or the line where two planes intersect).
- Any overlap, confluence, or crossover.
- (sports) The element where two or more straight lines of synchronized skaters pass through each other.https://web.archive.org/web/20120214131704/http://www.isu.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,4844-128590-19728-18885-295370-3787-4771-layout160-129898-news-item,00.html
- (set theory) The set containing all the elements that are common to two or more sets.
- (category theory) The pullback of a corner of monics.
- a point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations
- the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path)
- the set of elements common to two or more sets
- a point where lines intersect
- a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
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- A type of public roadway.
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- proceed along in a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- work as a driver
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
noun
- the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly
- a hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation
- On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles overtaking or moving at faster speeds.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid.
noun
- A widening of a minor road where it forms a junction with a major road to ensure that the view of traffic on the major road by drivers on the minor road is not obstructed.
- An outward spread of an object such as a bowl or cup.
- The view to the left or right which a driver on a minor road has of traffic on the major road; also, a plan showing this.
- The amount of such a bevel, slant, or slope.
- A bevel, slant, or slope, especially of the frame or jamb of a door or window, by which an opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
- an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
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- To have, or lie in, an oblique or slanted position.
- (chiefly architecture) To construct a bevel or slope on (something, such as the frame or jamb of a door or window); to bevel, to slant, to slope.
- (pathology) To dislocate (a body part such as a shoulder bone).
- (transitive, obsolete except Ireland, Lincolnshire, Shropshire) Synonym of spay (“to destroy or remove the ovaries and/or uterus (of a female animal) to prevent pregnancy”).
- To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
- To spread out awkwardly; to sprawl.
- (computing theory) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
- move out of position
- spread open or apart
- turn outward
noun
- a wide street or thoroughfare
- a line of approach
- A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
- A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
noun
- (chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
- A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
- (uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
- (uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
- A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
- A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- road where high speed driving is allowed
- a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles
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- street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
- (UK, Ireland) Physical, bricks and mortar shops, in contrast to Internet shops.
- (UK, Ireland, parts of New England) The main street of any town.
- (UK, Ireland) Mainstream shops, banks, etc. that can be found on such a street, in contrast to more specialist shops and services.
noun
- (US, roadway) Interstate.
- (US politics) Abbreviation of independent.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of instrumental case.
- (computing) Abbreviation of instruction.
- (metaphysics) The ego.
- a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)
- the 9th letter of the Roman alphabet
- the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
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- a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property
- A relatively narrow road which runs alongside a major transportation route, such as a canal, a railway line, or a controlled-access highway.
- A route which enters or circulates through an institution, compound, land area, etc. for purposes of private access, maintenance, or security.
noun
- A place where one road crosses another; an intersection of two or more roads.
- (figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.
- (nonstandard) A fork in the road.
- (figuratively, by extension) A centrally located position.
- plural of crossroad
- a community of people smaller than a village
- a point where a choice must be made
- a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
noun
- an expressway on which tolls are collected
- (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
- (chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
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noun
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- Cross-breeding.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
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adj
- (road transport) Of a highway, allowing traffic in two directions.
- (statistics) Of a table, etc., having or involving exactly two variables; bivariate.
- (education) Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.
- (road transport) Of traffic or visibility, moving or occurring in opposite directions.
- Of a project, treaty, etc., involving the mutual action or participation of two parties.
- (American football, ice hockey) Playing both offense and defense in the same game.
- (radio) Permitting communication in two directions, i.e. both transmitting and receiving.
- supported by both sides
- involving two parts or elements
- operating or permitting operation in either of two opposite directions