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Part of road for vehicles
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carriageway
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A carriageway ( North American English : roadway ) consists of a width of road on which a vehicle is not restricted by any physical barriers or separation to move laterally . A carriageway generally consists of a number of traffic lanes together with any ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
carriageway \carriageway\ n. one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only, usually in two or three lanes. [British]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dual carriageway COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE dual ▪ Local consultation on the road which would be dual carriageway , with a possible extension is due to end next week. ▪ Every major road out of the centre had ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The part of a road that carries traffic.
Usage examples of carriageway.
The dual carriageway, which had become just one lane on each side for a while, now reasserted itself.
You had to cross the dual carriageway, and then go up a twisty-turny road which the locals called 'the thirteen-bend road'.
They had to take shelter from several of these showers, and when they finally got down to the dual carriageway again, they found hailstones as big as marbles lying around on the road, steaming bizarrely in the bright sunshine.
The Brown Bull of Cooley was seen crossing the dual carriageway north of Shannon.
The dual carriageway wasn't there, but they could recognize the Glen of the Downs as the Good People's horses left it swiftly behind them.
Air slid out and away from them, and they were standing not far from the far side of the dual carriageway, near the pub that stood there.
You've been picking up road-kills by the dual carriageway again, Great Queen.
And of course this woman looked exactly as she had when I'd seen her ghost in the carriageway earlier this evening, and exactly as she had on the day of her death.
These two spirits stood in the carriageway and spoke together, intimately, tête-a-tête, their eyes fixed on me.
Traffic on the opposite carriageway had also been stopped by the police, the flashing blue lights slowing to red as they shone through the fringes of the black mass, distorting the image of the road beyond like the refraction on the edge of a jam jar.
The cars that had been blocking the carriageway were turned round and directed swiftly back down the hard shoulder at a furious rate.
The cars that had been blocking the carriageway were turned round and directed swiftlyback down the hard shoulder at a furious rate.
It seemed an odd type of holiday option to me, the idea of sleeping in a tin box in a lonesome field miles from anywhere in a climate like Britain's and emerging each morning with hundreds of other people from identical tin boxes, crossing the rail line and dual carriageway and hiking over a desert of sinkholes in order to dip your toes in a distant sea full of Liverpool turds.
Dust was raised from the carriageway and, caught in the slats of morning sunlight, turned to gold.
It was set on a long green sward split by an ochre sweep of carriageway flanked on either side by a row of lime trees.