Crossword clues for gridlock
gridlock
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way. 2 On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a traffic light-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock. 3 Figuratively and by extension, any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
WordNet
n. a traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible
Wikipedia
Gridlock is a type of traffic jam where "continuous queues of vehicles block an entire network of intersecting streets, bringing traffic in all directions to a complete standstill". The term originates from a situation possible in a grid plan where intersections are blocked, preventing vehicles from either moving forwards through the intersection or backing up to an upstream intersection.
The term gridlock is also incorrectly used to describe high traffic congestion with minimal flow (which is simply a traffic jam), where a blocked grid system is not involved. By extension, the term has been applied to situations in other fields where flow is stalled by excess demand, or in which competing interests prevent progress.
Gridlock is a San Francisco based experimental electronic band originally created by Mike Wells in 1994. A year later, Mike Cadoo joined up, and the duo released their first two demos, Sickness and Frozen, and soon signed to Pendragon Records in 1997.
Their style was originally akin to the sound of Skinny Puppy with less vocals and an ambient aspect not normally found in industrial at the time. Eventually, they took on more and more ambient and futuristic electronic sounds and slowly lessened their industrial edge whilst removing any trace of vocals.
On March 24, 2005, the band announced its dissolution on its website, but promised to continue making music under Wells' and Cadoo's respective side projects. Their last recorded material to be released was two tracks on the 2006 Hymen Records compilation Travel Sickness.
Gridlock is a 1991 novel by Ben Elton.
Gridlock was an Irish television game show, hosted by Derek Mooney, that premiered on RTÉ on September 14, 1998. Gridlock replaced the long-running series Blackboard Jungle, which was hosted by Ray D'Arcy.
The show lasted only one season. There were three teams of two people, each team representing a secondary school. One player on each team would answer general knowledge questions, while the other would try to achieve "gridlock" on a puzzle diagram.
Due to the complex nature of the puzzle, viewers, the studio audience, and sometimes even contestants, struggled to follow the show and ratings started to fall. In a bid to boost ratings, RTÉ introduced the performances of cheerleaders during intermissions. However, Gridlock was cancelled after just one series, much to the upset of its core following.
Gridlock is a board game where you have to fit various sized pieces on a grid with various shaped pegs, matching pegs to holes and filling the rectangular grid with the prescribed pieces.
In politics, gridlock or deadlock or political stalemate refers to a situation when there is difficulty passing laws that satisfy the needs of the people. A government is gridlocked when the ratio between bills passed and the agenda of the legislature decreases. Think of laws as the supply and the legislative agenda as demand. Gridlock can occur when two legislative houses, or the executive branch and the legislature are controlled by different political parties, or otherwise cannot agree.
Gridlock is the inability to move on a transport network.
Gridlock may also refer to:
- Gridlock (politics), a difficulty in passing party agenda items due to an evenly divided legislature
- Gridlock (novel), a novel by Ben Elton
- Gridlock (band), an electronic music band
- Gridlock (game show), a 1990s game show in Ireland
- Gridlock (board game)
- "Gridlock", a song by Anthrax from the album Persistence of Time
- "Gridlock!", a song by Electric Six from the album Heartbeats and Brainwaves
- Gridlock'd, a 1997 film
- "Gridlock" (Doctor Who), an episode of Doctor Who
- "Gridlock", a music video by Angry Kid
"Gridlock" is the third episode of the third series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 14 April 2007. It was written by Russell T Davies and directed by Richard Clark.
In the episode, alien time traveller the Doctor ( David Tennant) takes his new companion Martha Jones ( Freema Agyeman) to New New York in the far future, where they discover the remainder of humanity on the planet live in perpetual gridlock within the Motorway, an underground highway system. When Martha is kidnapped, the Doctor races to find her before she enters the dangerous "fast lane".
"Gridlock" completes a loose trilogy that began with " The End of the World" (2005) and " New Earth" (2006), and contains hints at the series' story arc. The story is designed to show how the Doctor can bring hope into a world. Production of "Gridlock" took place in September and October 2006. Much of the episode was filmed in-studio and used a large amount of computer-generated imagery, so it appeared to be set in a "CGI world". Some location filming was done in Cardiff, most notably at the Temple of Peace. "Gridlock" was viewed by 8.41 million viewers in the UK and received generally positive reviews from critics.
Usage examples of "gridlock".
She took Ventura Boulevard the rest of the way, encountered gridlock, foul tempers, distracted cell phone gabbers, some truly frightening risk-taking.
Soon the phone lines were gridlocked and a seemingly productive day was shot to hell.
Parliament Square, which was gridlocked in three directions with the fourth inching along at the speed of cold treacle.
The season of goodwill was everywhere, it seemed, except behind the steering wheels of gridlocked vehicles and inside my head.
After a hurried stop downstairs for their equipment, Evon and Robbie buffeted through the after-work crowd, the walks illuminated by the autos gridlocked in the avenues.
They dodged traffic and ran along the top of a gridlocked line of car roofs before turning off the freeway.
Fifty feet away a tall untethered man had whirled out with his chain to flog the gridlocked traffic.
After the shunting torment of Central Park South the Autocrat got gridlocked in a theatreland sidestreet.
Instead of being packed like rats into a gridlocked suburb, you can relax on a lush, secluded ten-acre ranchette, not far from the historic Suwannee River.
And then, approaching the gridlock at Coldwater again via the drive-through lane of the Marcos Whiplash Clinic, I saw in the fluorescent blue haze blanketing the intersection a vision from Hell itself: out of the sea of traffic a red intake port began to surface, snout-like, lupine.
Newman waited until just before the doors closed before boarding the train and pressed himself in with other standees, who were glad to be riding instead of fighting gridlock on the highways to get home.
They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles, Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bun-gee jumping.
Just as predictably, he blamed it on the usual suspects: gridlock in Congress, the growth of entitlements, the insurmountable power of PACs, and, of course, the need to pay interest on the national debt, which had grown to something like ten trillion dollars.
Hooter moaned louder as the minivan crept ahead in the barely moving gridlock of race fans, all of whom were getting out of sorts and worrying about missing the start of the race, when the pace car would roar out onto the track and Air Force F-16s would fly over in formation.
Normally at this time of day, Ryan knew all too well from his own experience, the nation's capital was gridlocked with the automobiles of federal employees, lobbyists, members of Congress and their staffers, fifty thousand lawyers and their secretaries, and all the private-industry service workers who supported them all.