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tarmac
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Word definitions for tarmac in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tarmac (Tarmacadam) is a construction material. Tarmac may also refer to: Companies Tarmac (formerly Lafarge Tarmac) - UK building materials company founded 2013 by a joint venture of Lafarge UK and Tarmac Group, owned since 2015 by CRH . Tarmac Building ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (lb en British Canada) The bituminous surface of a road. 2 (lb en aviation) The area of an airport where planes park or maneuver. vb. (context British Canada English) To pave.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1903, Tarmac , a trademark name, short for tarmacadam (1882) "pavement created by spraying tar over crushed stone," from tar (n.1) + John Latin McAdam (see macadam ). By 1919, tarmac was being used generally in Great Britain for "runway."
Usage examples of tarmac.
Without waiting for a response, Manesh headed for the communications bunker across the hot tarmac.
Harvath, Morrell, and the rest of the team buckled into the overstuffed leather seats inside the lounge behind the flight deck, and the 747-400 was towed out of the hangar and onto the tarmac.
It was just a quick hop to the tarmac at Peterson AFB where Air Force One, two C130 transports filled with the remains of the presidential motorcade, and six F-16s armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles were revved up and ready to rock.
ID cards, watch lists, fences, tarmac access, doubling the training and salaries of screeners, and making them federal employees.
They rolled over the now snowless tarmac, and she thought she could see ramps being lowered.
Islamabad, the first interrogation ended and he was delivered to agents Parr and Stern on the tarmac.
Borribles saw the large car drive away in the moonlight, passing along the shining tarmac which led between the trees to the limits of Battersea Park.
Shimmering heat haze rising from the tarmac in the distance along the Ealing Road.
Blarney Garda Station, too, so that they know where to look for absconding road-drills and runaway tarmac spreaders, and any other property that goes for a walk.
And clearly, an Indonesian invasion that began a few hours after Kissinger had stepped off the tarmac at Jakarta airport must have been planned and readied several days before he arrived.
She starts muttering about the Migs the second we left the tarmac and she kept at me on the way out like it was a pop quiz or something.
August afternoon in 1950 that Simon Templar uncoiled his lean seventyfour-inch frame from the seat he had occupied for interminable hours in the creaking Parnassian Airways Dakota, and stepped down on to the tarmac of Athens Airport.
Vladivostok Airport, looking out over the windy tarmac to the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 which would take him to Moscow.
By six-thirty he was at Vladivostok Airport, looking out over the windy tarmac to the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 which would take him to Moscow.
Halogen lamps blasted the tarmac, and the downdraught from the chopper blades snagged his coat tails.