highway Definition
high·way (hī′wā′)
highway Synonyms
highway
n.
highway Usage Examples
Converse of object
- obstruct: Later on the monday we had one arrest for obstructing the highway.
- overhang: However, the council has no powers to force deciduous trees to be cut back except where overhanging the public highway.
- adopt: A designated area is an area such as park lands or adopted highways with a speed limit of 40 miles per hour or under.
Adjective modifier
- interstate: Ride With Me - Large collection of original audio programs on travel in the United States with special emphasis on traveling interstate highways.
- north-south: The bridge is a key part of the country's north-south highway.
- paved: Visitors can reach western Labrador along a partially paved highway from Baie Comeau, Québec.
- super: University Computing Services With 200 PCs in different locations across the University, you are never far from the information super highway.
- public: The verge of a public highway is part of the highway.
- dusty: The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs!
Modifies a noun
- robbery: Perhaps this man is an advocate of highway robbery?
- verge: People keep parking their cars on the highway verge near my property which is making them unsightly, can you repair them?
- authority: A gap in the lighting in School Lane would be referred to the highway authority.
- maintenance: Working locally with you... to improve local service delivery in highway maintenance.
- drainage: This is a regular problem that will continue until either an improved highway drainage system or road profiles are altered.
- robber: At last, like a highway robber, I cornered Hanson, and bade him stand and deliver his business.
Noun used with modifier
- four-lane: The aim of this scheme is to build a new four-lane highway.
- six-lane: At a later stage in the inquiry the Department of Transport showed the road as a six-lane highway with an even higher volume.
- two-lane: It's much like turning a two-lane highway into a four-lane highway, allowing mental traffic to flow more smoothly and more quickly.
- off-site: A transport assessment will be required to assess the need for any off-site highway works and improvements to encourage non-car modes of travel.
- toll: Driving around Mexico was surprisingly easy, with most roads in pretty good condition, especially the fast toll highways.
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