road
n. avenue, street, paved or packed surface designed for travel, hard paved or packed surface for vehicles; route; path, way; means to attain something; roadstead, protected area for ships to anchor; railway, train track; mine tunnel adj. occurring over public roads; working for a short period of time in different locations | ||||
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Road Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
| BTS Transportation Expressions |
Road
An open way for the passage of vehicles, persons, or animals on land. (DOI4)
See also Arterial, Expressway, Freeway, Highway, Local Streets and Roads, Roadway.
An open way for the passage of vehicles, persons, or animals on land. (DOI4)
See also Arterial, Expressway, Freeway, Highway, Local Streets and Roads, Roadway.
| Company Info: Ticker, Name, Description |
ROAD
Roadway Corporation
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiary which provides less-than-truckload freight services on two day and longer major city-to-city routes. new registrant.
Roadway Corporation
Exchange: Nasdaq
Holding company with subsidiary which provides less-than-truckload freight services on two day and longer major city-to-city routes. new registrant.
Road Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Road
(n.)
An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
(n.)
A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
(n.)
A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
(n.)
A journey, or stage of a journey.
(n.)
An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
(n.)
A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
(n.)
A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.
(n.)
A journey, or stage of a journey.
| WordNet 2.0 |
road
Noun
1. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
(synonym) route
(hypernym) way
(hyponym) access road, slip road
(substance-meronym) pavement, paving
(part-meronym) bend, curve
2. a way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame"
(hypernym) means, agency, way
(hyponym) royal road
Adjective
1. taking place over public roads; "road racing"
(synonym) road(a)
(antonym) cross-country
(similar) roadworthy
2. working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"
(synonym) itinerant, touring, traveling
(similar) moving
Noun
1. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
(synonym) route
(hypernym) way
(hyponym) access road, slip road
(substance-meronym) pavement, paving
(part-meronym) bend, curve
2. a way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame"
(hypernym) means, agency, way
(hyponym) royal road
Adjective
1. taking place over public roads; "road racing"
(synonym) road(a)
(antonym) cross-country
(similar) roadworthy
2. working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"
(synonym) itinerant, touring, traveling
(similar) moving
| The Devil's Dictionary |
ROAD
Road, (n.)
A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome,
Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home.
Borey the Bald
Road, (n.)
A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome,
Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home.
Borey the Bald
| The Phrase Finder |
Middle of the road
Meaning
Something bland or inoffensive; opting to go neither one way or the other.
Origin
This may have derived from that fact that during the middle ages food was thrown from buildings into the street. The only safe place to be was 'in the middle of the road'. Often used these days to describe bland and undemanding popular music.
Meaning
Something bland or inoffensive; opting to go neither one way or the other.
Origin
This may have derived from that fact that during the middle ages food was thrown from buildings into the street. The only safe place to be was 'in the middle of the road'. Often used these days to describe bland and undemanding popular music.
One for the road
Meaning
A final drink taken just before leaving on a journey.
Origin
Thought to originate from the practice of offering condemned felons a final drink at pubs on the way to the Tyburn Tree, which was the place of public execution in London.
Road rage
Meaning
Ferocious behaviour indulged in by drivers when annoyed by other road users' actions.
Origin
Appears to have been coined by a Los Angeles Times' writer in 1984 when reporting the story of a truck driver who shot a car driver who cut him up. The term rage has since been added to over-reaction in other areas. E.g. trolley rage in supermarkets, air rage on aircraft, lounger rage at pool sides.
The road less trevelled
Meaning
The unconventional or uninvestigated option. The notion is near to what is nowadays called 'alternative'.
Origin
From Robert Frost's (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Note spellings - In Uk: travelled, in USA: - traveled.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Origin
Proverbial - late sixteenth century. Often wrongly attributed to Samuel Johnson.
| Australian Slang |
Face like a mile of unpaved road
ugly
ugly
Hit the road
set out; depart
Just down the road
if someone says this, ask for more details because this could be 100 yards to a 1000 miles away
One for the road
last alcoholic drink before beginning a journey
Road train
big truck with many trailers
Road-hog
motorist who drives without consideration for other road users
Road-test
test something by using it for a short while: “road-testing several types of letterhead”
Sealed road
surfaced road
| Shakespeare Words |
ROAD
the high road, applied to a common woman
the high road, applied to a common woman
| Anagram |
road
dora
dora
| Lexicon of Thieves' Cant |
Knight of the road
a highwayman
a highwayman
| hEnglish - advanced version |
road
road
\road\ (?), n. [as. rād a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. rīdan to ride. see ride, and cf. raid.]
1. a journey, or stage of a journey. [obs.] with easy roads he came to leicester.
2. an inroad; an invasion; a raid. [obs.]
3. a place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. the most villainous house in all the london road.
note: the word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.
4. [possibly akin to icel. rei?i the rigging of a ship, e. ready.] a place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, hampton roads. now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, for we be come unto a quiet rode [road].
similar words(44)
road mender
on the road
road book
road agent
to go on the road
road surface
road gang
road game
road construction
road builder
private road
telpher road
road map
road hog
road test
road roller
road to damascus
road or way
road runner
road metal
road sense
road show
post road
bridle road
the road
turnpike road
plank road
road steamer
maoadam road
travois or travoy road
ring road
to take the road
to take to the road
skid road
a road
royal road
take the road
shell road
trunk road
jinny road
rule of the road
train road
cable road
track-road
road
\road\ (?), n. [as. rād a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. rīdan to ride. see ride, and cf. raid.]
1. a journey, or stage of a journey. [obs.] with easy roads he came to leicester.
2. an inroad; an invasion; a raid. [obs.]
3. a place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. the most villainous house in all the london road.
note: the word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.
4. [possibly akin to icel. rei?i the rigging of a ship, e. ready.] a place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, hampton roads. now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, for we be come unto a quiet rode [road].
similar words(44)
road mender
on the road
road book
road agent
to go on the road
road surface
road gang
road game
road construction
road builder
private road
telpher road
road map
road hog
road test
road roller
road to damascus
road or way
road runner
road metal
road sense
road show
post road
bridle road
the road
turnpike road
plank road
road steamer
maoadam road
travois or travoy road
ring road
to take the road
to take to the road
skid road
a road
royal road
take the road
shell road
trunk road
jinny road
rule of the road
train road
cable road
track-road
| Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1 |
road
bóthar, otherwise: bealach mór, ród
way: bealach
little road: bóithrín
bóthar, otherwise: bealach mór, ród
way: bealach
little road: bóithrín
| JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary |
Arffordd
Arffordd = n. the high road
Arffordd = n. the high road
Croesffordd
Croesffordd = n. a cross road
Heol
Heol = n. a course, a road, a street, Heol, y gwynt, the milky way
Priffordd
Priffordd = n. a high road
Wttre
Wttre = n. a lane, a bye road
| Dream Dictionary |
Road
Traveling over a rough, unknown road in a dream, signifies new undertakings, which will bring little else than grief and loss of time.
If the road is bordered with trees and flowers, there will be some pleasant and unexpected fortune for you. If friends accompany you, you will be successful in building an ideal home, with happy children and faithful wife, or husband.
To lose the road, foretells that you will make a mistake in deciding some question of trade, and suffer loss in consequence.
Traveling over a rough, unknown road in a dream, signifies new undertakings, which will bring little else than grief and loss of time.
If the road is bordered with trees and flowers, there will be some pleasant and unexpected fortune for you. If friends accompany you, you will be successful in building an ideal home, with happy children and faithful wife, or husband.
To lose the road, foretells that you will make a mistake in deciding some question of trade, and suffer loss in consequence.
| Phobia |
Agyrophobia
Fear of streets or crossing the street
Fear of streets or crossing the street
Dromophobia
Fear of crossing streets
Erytophobia
Fear of redlights
Hodophobia
Fear of road travel
Motorphobia
Fear of automobiles
| Dream Symbols |
Road
Running parallel to river: Spiritual path; Driving along a: Striving towards ideals or activating mental / spiritual; Narrow: Narrow state of consciousness; Dirt road: Colon; Main or Arterial road: Heart, circulatory system;
Running parallel to river: Spiritual path; Driving along a: Striving towards ideals or activating mental / spiritual; Narrow: Narrow state of consciousness; Dirt road: Colon; Main or Arterial road: Heart, circulatory system;
Road Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Easton's Bible Dictionary |
Road
(1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path.
(1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path.
| Smith's Bible Dictionary |
Road
This word occurs but once in the Authorized Version of the Bible, viz. in (1 Samuel 37:10) where it is used in the sense of "raid" or "inroad." Where a travelled road is meant "path" or "way" is used, since the eastern roads are more like our paths.
This word occurs but once in the Authorized Version of the Bible, viz. in (1 Samuel 37:10) where it is used in the sense of "raid" or "inroad." Where a travelled road is meant "path" or "way" is used, since the eastern roads are more like our paths.
Road Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
| maritime&shipping&trade |
Road
A place near the land here ships may anchor, but which is not sheltered.
A place near the land here ships may anchor, but which is not sheltered.
| Olympic Games Glossary - A Babylon Glossary |
Cycling Road
Already in 1896 road cycling became an Olympic sport.
There are two disciplines:
1.) An Individual Time Trial (ITT)is a road-based bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: contre la montre - literally "against the watch").
Starting times are at equal intervals, usually one or two minutes apart, or like at the Olympic Games the intervals are 90secs.
2.) Individual Road Races with mass starts.
Women startet racing at the Olympic Games in 1984.
Road Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English-Latin Online Dictionary |
road
iter itineris, via
iter itineris, via
Road Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan |
Road
fau-yut
fau-yut
Road Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries
| A Basic Guide to ASL |
Road
Both hands, palm facing and fingers together and extended straight out, move in unison away from the body, in a winding manner.
Both hands, palm facing and fingers together and extended straight out, move in unison away from the body, in a winding manner.
Road Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Road
A road is an identifiable route, way or path between two or more places. Roads are typically smoothed, paved, or otherwise prepared to allow easy travel; though they need not be, and historically many roads were simply recognizable routes without any formal construction or maintenance. In urban areas roads may pass through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route. Economics and society depend heavily on efficient roads. In the European Union (EU) 44 % of all goods are moved by trucks over roads and 85 % of all persons are transported by cars, buses or coaches on roads.
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@Road is an American company offering what it terms "Mobile Resource Management" (MRM) services to its customers, using GPS, wireless, voice and Internet technologies to deliver Software as a Service (SaaS) to manage fleet vehicles, dispatchers and mobile professionals. @Road is headquartered in Fremont, California. In 2005 @Road ranked 27th on Deloitte's Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 [1] and was on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for the fourth straight year. As of early 2006, @Road held 15 U.S. patents on their technologies.
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