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noun
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
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- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
verb
- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
noun
- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
- a movement through space that changes the location of something
- self-propelled movement
- the act of going from one place to another
verb
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- undertake a journey or trip
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- travel upon or across
- travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
- undergo transportation as in a vehicle
- make a trip for pleasure
noun
- An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
- (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
- Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
- (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
- An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
- excessive crowding
- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
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
- 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
- (transport) Initialism of active traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of advanced traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of available ton mile.
- (pornography, vulgar) Initialism of ass to mouth.
- (banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.
- (astronomy) Initialism of amateur telescope maker.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic management.
- (computing) Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.
- (telecommunications, electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.
- (business) Initialism of at the market, see at-the-market offering.
- (slang, by extension) Any source of a large amount of money.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic movement.
- a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data
- an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
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- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
verb
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
noun
- The proportion of annual average daily traffic occurring in an hour.
- (accounting) The ratio of the value of deferrable expenses to the value of estimated gross profits.
- A systematic means of classifying a crude oil according to its paraffinic, naphthenic, intermediate or aromatic nature.
- (marketing) A measure of growth based on the number of invitations sent by users and the number of resulting conversions.
- (electrical engineering) A measurement of how well a power transformer can handle harmonic distortion.
- (metallurgy) The bending capacity of sheet metal, as calculated using a formula.
- The relative pelleting efficiency of a given centrifuge rotor.
- (firefighting) The discharge rate from a nozzle, as calculated using a formula.
- (aeronautics) The number of pulses expected for every volumetric unit of fluid passing through a given flowmeter.
noun
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- (networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- (video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- A screw hob.
- a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
- the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc.) through which the shaft or axle passes
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- A traffic island.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of kitchen island.
- (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- (by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.
- (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
- a zone or area resembling an island
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- A traffic cone.
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
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- A traffic cone.
- (electricity) A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.
- (aviation, historical) A starting derrick for an aeroplane.
- (architecture) A tall steel or concrete tower from which cables are strung.
- (ice hockey, derogatory) An ineffective, useless player.
- (American football) An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.
- A lighting mast; a freestanding support for floodlights.
- (aviation) A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.
- An obelisk.
- (aviation, historical) A post, tower, etc. as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.
- (medicine) A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.
- A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.
- a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines
- a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
adj
- Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
- (colloquial) More or greater than.
- (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
- Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
- (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).
- Toward the north; northward.
- situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north
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- Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).
- (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
- (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
- The up or positive direction.
- The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
- the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
- the direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point
- the direction in which a compass needle points
- a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city
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.
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- (aviation, travel) Initialism of traffic conference area.
- (aviation) Initialism of terminal control area.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of trichloroanisole.
- (accounting) Initialism of true cost accounting.
- (medicine) Initialism of tricyclic antidepressant.
- (photography) Initialism of transverse chromatic aberration.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of tricarboxylic acid.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of trichloroacetic acid.
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- (Nigeria) A traffic jam.
- (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
- (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
noun
- (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
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- a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
- a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
- A light on the rear of a vehicle that is activated when braking; a brake light.
- (US, Philippines) A traffic control signal, traditionally consisting of three lights, colored green, yellow/amber, and red, meaning proceed, prepare to stop, and stop, respectively.
noun
- a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
- A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
- A colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow or amber, and red) as a metaphor.
- (usually in the plural) A road intersection controlled by one or more such devices.
- (philately) The colored dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset printing or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check color accuracy.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
adj
- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- separated or split into pieces
- disunited
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- 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.
- 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 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
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- (road transport, automotive) The amount of time to clear a traffic queue when a signal changes.
- The amount of additional time (clearance) allotted in a situation.
- The amount of time it takes to clear a building or other public area in an emergency.
- (electricity, electronics) The amount of time from when a fault is detected to when a circuit is automatically reopened.
- (aviation) The amount of time from when a pilot requests the right to land at an airport and the tower allows the pilot to land.
- (medicine, pathology) The amount of time for a substance to be eliminated from a body, body part or organ.
- (road transport) The amount of time it takes for a pedestrian to reach the other side of a crosswalk.
- (road transport, automotive) The amount of time to clear a road from traffic after an incident.
- (ecology, chemistry) The amount of time before a foreign substance in the air has dissipated.
- (banking) The amount of time required for a payment to be deposited to an account.
- (postal, business) The amount of time it takes for a backordered item to arrive.
- (travel, aviation) The amount of time it takes to get through customs.
- The amount of time to process all the individuals on a waiting list.
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- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
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- The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
- The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
- The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
- (in the plural) An account of one's travels.
- (in the plural) A series of journeys.
- Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
- a movement through space that changes the location of something
- self-propelled movement
- the act of going from one place to another
verb
- (intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit.
- (transitive) To force to journey.
- (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
- (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
- (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
- undertake a journey or trip
- change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- travel upon or across
- travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
- undergo transportation as in a vehicle
- make a trip for pleasure
noun
- An excess of traffic; usually not a complete standstill of traffic, so usually not synonymous with traffic jam.
- (medicine) Blocking up of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive.
- Edema, water retention, swelling, enlargement of a body part because of fluid retention in tissues and vessels.
- (medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
- An accumulation or buildup, the act of gathering into a heap or mass.
- excessive crowding
- excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part
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
- 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
- (transport) Initialism of active traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of advanced traffic management.
- (transport) Initialism of available ton mile.
- (pornography, vulgar) Initialism of ass to mouth.
- (banking) Initialism of automated teller machine or automatic teller machine.
- (astronomy) Initialism of amateur telescope maker.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic management.
- (computing) Initialism of Adobe Type Manager.
- (telecommunications, electronics) Initialism of asynchronous transfer mode.
- (business) Initialism of at the market, see at-the-market offering.
- (slang, by extension) Any source of a large amount of money.
- (transport) Initialism of air traffic movement.
- a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data
- an unattended machine (outside some banks) that dispenses money when a personal coded card is used
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- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
- A squabble.
- a vicious angry growl
- an angry vicious expression
- something jumbled or confused
verb
- (transitive) To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- (transitive) To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- (transitive) To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
- (intransitive) To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- (transitive, intransitive) To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- (intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- (intransitive) To become entangled.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface; to repoussé
- make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
- twist together or entwine into a confusing mass
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
noun
- The proportion of annual average daily traffic occurring in an hour.
- (accounting) The ratio of the value of deferrable expenses to the value of estimated gross profits.
- A systematic means of classifying a crude oil according to its paraffinic, naphthenic, intermediate or aromatic nature.
- (marketing) A measure of growth based on the number of invitations sent by users and the number of resulting conversions.
- (electrical engineering) A measurement of how well a power transformer can handle harmonic distortion.
- (metallurgy) The bending capacity of sheet metal, as calculated using a formula.
- The relative pelleting efficiency of a given centrifuge rotor.
- (firefighting) The discharge rate from a nozzle, as calculated using a formula.
- (aeronautics) The number of pulses expected for every volumetric unit of fluid passing through a given flowmeter.
noun
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- (surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- (US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- (networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- (video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- A screw hob.
- a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
- the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc.) through which the shaft or axle passes
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- A traffic island.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of kitchen island.
- (by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; a peninsula; a half-island.
- A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water.
- (by extension, West Midlands) A roundabout; a traffic circle.
- (grammar) A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar.
- A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side.
- (government) An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself.
- A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck.
- a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
- a zone or area resembling an island
verb
noun
- A traffic cone.
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
verb
noun
- A traffic cone.
- (electricity) A tower-like structure, usually one of a series, used to support high-voltage electricity cables.
- (aviation, historical) A starting derrick for an aeroplane.
- (architecture) A tall steel or concrete tower from which cables are strung.
- (ice hockey, derogatory) An ineffective, useless player.
- (American football) An orange marker designating one of the four corners of the end zone in American football.
- A lighting mast; a freestanding support for floodlights.
- (aviation) A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.
- An obelisk.
- (aviation, historical) A post, tower, etc. as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.
- (medicine) A rigid prosthesis for the lower leg.
- A gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple.
- a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines
- a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
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.
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- (aviation, travel) Initialism of traffic conference area.
- (aviation) Initialism of terminal control area.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of trichloroanisole.
- (accounting) Initialism of true cost accounting.
- (medicine) Initialism of tricyclic antidepressant.
- (photography) Initialism of transverse chromatic aberration.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of tricarboxylic acid.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of trichloroacetic acid.
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- (Nigeria) A traffic jam.
- (bridge) The holding back of a card that could win a trick in order to use it later.
- (slang) A robbery at gunpoint.
- (military) The inventory of nuclear material within a separation plant.
- (colloquial) A delay or wait.
- (in the plural) Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
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- (figurative) In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
- The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
- (by extension) The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
- (music) A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
- the narrow part of a bottle near the top
- a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
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- a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
- a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
- A light on the rear of a vehicle that is activated when braking; a brake light.
- (US, Philippines) A traffic control signal, traditionally consisting of three lights, colored green, yellow/amber, and red, meaning proceed, prepare to stop, and stop, respectively.
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- a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
- A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
- A colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow or amber, and red) as a metaphor.
- (usually in the plural) A road intersection controlled by one or more such devices.
- (philately) The colored dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset printing or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check color accuracy.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
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- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
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- 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.
- 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 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
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- (road transport, automotive) The amount of time to clear a traffic queue when a signal changes.
- The amount of additional time (clearance) allotted in a situation.
- The amount of time it takes to clear a building or other public area in an emergency.
- (electricity, electronics) The amount of time from when a fault is detected to when a circuit is automatically reopened.
- (aviation) The amount of time from when a pilot requests the right to land at an airport and the tower allows the pilot to land.
- (medicine, pathology) The amount of time for a substance to be eliminated from a body, body part or organ.
- (road transport) The amount of time it takes for a pedestrian to reach the other side of a crosswalk.
- (road transport, automotive) The amount of time to clear a road from traffic after an incident.
- (ecology, chemistry) The amount of time before a foreign substance in the air has dissipated.
- (banking) The amount of time required for a payment to be deposited to an account.
- (postal, business) The amount of time it takes for a backordered item to arrive.
- (travel, aviation) The amount of time it takes to get through customs.
- The amount of time to process all the individuals on a waiting list.
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- On a smaller scale, the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
- (road transport) A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
- (transgender slang) Deliberate misspelling of girlcock and girldick.
- (figuratively, by extension) Any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
- a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
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- (intransitive, of traffic) to become congested.
- (transitive) To block (traffic); to cause (traffic) to be congested.
- (transitive) to entangle
- (transitive) To put into disarray; contort; confuse; muddle up
- (intransitive) To become tangled; to become entangled
- make more complicated or confused through entanglements
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- Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
- (colloquial) More or greater than.
- (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
- Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
- (ecclesiastical) Designating, or situated in, the liturgical north (in a church, the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar).
- Toward the north; northward.
- situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the north
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- Alternative letter-case form of North (“a northern region; the inhabitants thereof”).
- (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
- (ecclesiastical) In a church: the direction to the left-hand side of a person facing the altar.
- The up or positive direction.
- The direction towards the pole to the left-hand side of someone facing east, specifically 0°, or (on another celestial object) the direction towards the pole lying on the northern side of the invariable plane.
- the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees
- the direction corresponding to the northward cardinal compass point
- the direction in which a compass needle points
- a location in the northern part of a country, region, or city
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- having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions
- separated into parts or pieces
- distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose
- having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions
- (US) (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median
- separated or split into pieces
- disunited