motorway
noun/ˈməʊtəweɪ/UK
Etymology
Definitions
A highway with grade-separated crossings (rather than level crossings) and designed (and…
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.
- All the R. R.'s of America will have to be furnished with a biking way and a motor way on each side of the rails.
- It is presumed that in the working out of the program the motor trucks will automatically have the major use of the local low-speed highways paralleling the motorway.
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- In December, track operators replaced the crushed rock with brick, earning the motorway the nickname, Brickyard.
- The 9-degree banking you see in the Speedway’s four turns is believed to be the first intentionally banked motorway in the United States.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for motorway. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA