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A paved surface in the form of a strip
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taxiway
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport [syn: taxi strip ]
Wikipedia
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A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons , hangars , terminals and other facilities. They mostly have a hard surface such as asphalt or concrete , although smaller general aviation airports sometimes use gravel or grass ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context aviation English) A path in an airport connecting runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As the sun poked through the afternoon clouds, temperatures on the taxiway rose, sweat beaded and water flowed. ▪ He almost missed the turning off the taxiway to the runway and had to brake hard at the last minute. ▪ On Thursday ...
Usage examples of taxiway.
But as we waited on the taxiway, my mind kept pulling me back to 1972, and the events that led up to my second visit to this place.
They had left the ramp area, crossed two taxiways and were traveling east on a parallel access road.
The second team found two parked Backfires and a missilelaunch vehicle for their Rockeyes to hit, and sprinkled more softballsized bomblets over the runways and taxiways.
As he touched down, traveling at least thirty knots beyond normal approach speed to maintain controllability, the first to arrive were the tips of his rotors, chewing huge double gouges into the taxiway.
A pickup truck flying a checkered flag met them at the taxiway turnoff and led them to a new hangar, where a dozen soldiers of the Air Service, Argentine Army, were waiting to push the Lockheed into a hangar.
Using maps of the airport's underground drainage system, they'd found a large concrete pipe eight feet in diameter that carried away the rain and melted snow runoff from the airport's runways, taxiways, and terminal areas.
The tower controller verbally pointed out the dark blue pickup truck with the lighted FOLLOW ME sign waiting on the taxiway adjacent to the end of the taxiway as Scott transitioned his left hand to the nosewheel steering tiller and guided the jet off the end of the runway, where he braked smoothly to a stop.
He could see a few vehicles, he could see an Army transport plane - a C-12 - parked on an outer taxiway and a Delta 727 parked at one of the jetways, but they were as still as statues.
It skidded over across the parallel taxiway just a comfew feet from the patrol car, then flipped over and tumbled end-over-end into the south park of the parking ramp, destroying a half-dozen planes along the way before bursting into flame with a spectacular explosion.
We kept a straight course until a fuel tanker came into view as a dark rectangle crawling across the taxiway, then we swerved and hit gravel and tore a radar scanner away from its base and straightened again with the automatic shift kicking down and giving us another surge of acceleration from the huge 5.
The glare of the sun bounced off the white cement taxiway and made Pitt squint.