Road

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An open, generally public way for the passage of vehicles, people, and animals.
  • noun. The surface of a road; a roadbed.
  • noun. A course or path.
  • noun. A railroad.
  • noun. A roadstead.
  • idiom. (down the road) In the future; at a later date.
  • idiom. (on the road) On tour, as a theatrical company.
  • idiom. (on the road) Traveling, especially as a salesperson.
  • idiom. (on the road) Wandering, as a vagabond.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The tour or route of a theatrical company. See on the road.
  • noun. A road over which logs are dragged, having heavy transverse skids, partially sunk in the ground, usually at intervals of about five feet.
  • To furnish with a road or with roads.
  • To follow the trail of by scent; track or pursue on foot, as game: said of dogs.
  • To jostle (one) off the road by riding against him.
  • noun. A ride; journey; expedition.
  • noun. A hostile expedition; an incursion; an inroad; a raid. See raid.
  • noun. A public way for passage or travel; a strip of ground appropriated for travel, forming a line of communication between different places; a highway; hence, any similar passage for travel, public or private; by extension, a railroad or railway. See street.
  • noun. Hence Any means or way of approach or access; a course; a path.
  • noun. A place near the shore where vessels may anchor, differing from a harbor in not being sheltered. Also called roadstead.
  • noun. The regulations embodied in a code of rules for the safe handling of vessels meeting or passing each other.
  • noun. Synonyms Street, Passage, etc. (see way), lane, route, course, thoroughfare.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A journey, or stage of a journey.
  • noun. An inroad; an invasion; a raid.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural.
  • noun. traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; traveling; on the way.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism.
  • noun. a guidebook in respect to roads and distances.
  • noun. See roadkill in the vocabulary.
  • noun. the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.
  • noun. a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact.
  • noun. the chaparral cock.
  • noun. a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads.
  • noun. to engage in the business of a commercial traveler.
  • noun. to begin or engage in traveling.
  • noun. to engage in robbery upon the highways.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a way or means to achieve something
  • noun. an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
  • Word Usage
    "The difficulties of our road now increased, "if _road_ that might be called, which road was none," but black loose ashes, and masses of scoria and lava heaped in ridges, or broken into hollows in a manner not to be described."
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