Crossword clues for cloverleaf
cloverleaf
- An interchange that does not require left-hand turns
- Engineering feat on a highway
- Highway intersection arrangement
- Highway interchange
- Chagall's frame on the next page with plant-like design
- Level of car (anag) —type of road junction
- Junction layout of west end of Central Line covering page
- Highway feature
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cloverleaf \cloverleaf\ n. a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions.
Interchange \In`ter*change"\, n. [Cf. OF. entrechange.]
The act of mutually changing; the act of mutually giving and receiving; exchange; as, the interchange of civilities between two persons. ``Interchange of kindnesses.''
--South.The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.
--Howell.-
Alternate succession; alternation; a mingling.
The interchanges of light and darkness.
--Holder.Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--Milton. An intersection between highways, having two or more levels and a series of connecting roadways so that traffic on one highway may pass over or under the other highway without crossing through the line of traffic, and vehicles may pass from one highway to the other while traffic on both highways continues uninterrupted. A common interchange is the cloverleaf.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed. alt. In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed. n. 1 (''with plural'' '''cloverleaves''') The leaf of a clover plant 2 (context US English) (''with plural'' '''cloverleafs''' ''or'' '''cloverleaves''') A cloverleaf interchange. v
(context intransitive English) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
WordNet
n. an interchange that does not require left-hand turns
[also: cloverleaves (pl)]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 7865
Land area (2000): 3.567642 sq. miles (9.240151 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.567642 sq. miles (9.240151 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15628
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.784676 N, 95.172959 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cloverleaf
Wikipedia
Cloverleaf or clover leaf may refer to:
Usage examples of "cloverleaf".
Brewer, through a big cloverleaf, past the brick hulks of two old hosiery mills, along a three-lane highway where in these last years several roadside restaurants have begun proclaiming themselves as Pennsylvania Dutch, with giant plaster Amishmen and neon hex signs.
The complex swirl of looping wide ramps we were descending from the west culminated in a phantasmagoria of cloverleafs and delicate concrete columns supporting roads on a dozen levels.
They were leaving the expressway now, ascending a long cloverleaf curve that brought them into a city neighborhood whose wide streets appeared to be lined chiefly with hospitals and parking lots.
Oddfellows Hall and the Cloverleaf Hall, the only buildings large enough to house them during the laborious jury selection.
The track ran in a cloverleaf pattern perhaps five feet in each direction, with a web of heavy cording leading to a black control panel on the floor.
I have seen the patty cross, the anchor cross, and the cloverleaf cross overlapping in relief.
Full of tourists tired of cloverleaf freeways and bustling big-city street corners.
Jesus, and as we drove through the cloverleaf bedlams and past the morbid gray towns I perceived that all was in harmony, the stunned land feeding the convulsive radio, every acre of the night bursting with a kinetic unity, the logic beyond delirium.
Ten minutes after nine o'clock he had reached the cloverleaf four miles west of the town, where the road climbed up to join the autobahn.
With us all the way had been Sullivan's three-antenna marine-band hi-fi portable radio, a never-ending squall of disc jockey babytalk, commercials for death, upstate bluegrass Jesus, and as we drove through the cloverleaf bedlams and past the morbid gray towns I perceived that all was in harmony, the stunned land feeding the convulsive radio, every acre of the night bursting with a kinetic unity, the logic beyond delirium.
The Enfield Tennis Academy occupies probably now the nicest site in En-field, some ten years after balding and shaving flat the top of the big abrupt hill that constitutes a kind of raised cyst on the township's elbow, the better part of 75 hectares of broad lawns and cloverleafing paths and topologically cutting-edge erections, 32 asphalt tennis courts and sixteen Har-Tru composition tennis courts and extensive underground maintenance and storage and athletic-training facilities and briers and calliopsis and pines mixed artfully in on the inclines with deciduous trees, the E.
As he resumed manual control of the sportscar, he added, "The overpasses and cloverleaves of the interchange ahead might afford us some cover.
Some intersections looked like diamonds, and some like cloverleaves, and some like masses of spaghetti.
It was a short one, up a divided highway, over a cloverleaf interchange built under the reign of the Shah, then west to Hasanabad.
Even an interstate highway, with its cloverleaf interchanges and parallel roadways, looked benign and thoughtful, like the illustrations you used to get in children’.