Crossword clues for driveway
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Driveway \Drive"way`\, n. A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context UK English) and (context US English) Short private road that leads to a house or garage; (context UK English) also: drive
WordNet
n. a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway" [syn: drive, private road]
Wikipedia
A driveway (also called drive in UK English) is a type of private road for local access to one or a small group of structures, and is owned and maintained by an individual or group.
Driveways rarely have traffic lights, but some that bear heavy traffic, especially those leading to commercial businesses and parks, do.
Driveways may be decorative in ways that public roads cannot, because of their lighter traffic and the willingness of owners to invest in their construction. Driveways are not resurfaced, snow blown or otherwise maintained by governments. They are generally designed to conform to the architecture of connected houses or other buildings.
Some of the materials that can be used for driveways include concrete, decorative brick, cobblestone, block paving, asphalt, gravel, decomposed granite, and surrounded with grass or other ground-cover plants.
Driveways are commonly used as paths to private garages, carports, or houses. On large estates, a driveway may be the road that leads to the house from the public road, possibly with a gate in between. Some driveways divide to serve different homeowners. A driveway may also refer to a small apron of pavement in front of a garage with a curb cut in the sidewalk, sometimes too short to accommodate a car.
Often, either by choice or to conform with local regulations, cars are parked in driveways in order to leave streets clear for traffic. Moreover, some jurisdictions prohibit parking or leaving standing any motor vehicle upon any residential lawn area (defined as the property from the front of a residential house, condominium, or cooperative to the street line other than a driveway, walkway, concrete or blacktopped surface parking space). Other examples include the city of Berkeley, California that forbids "any person to park or leave standing, or cause to be parked or left standing any vehicle upon any public street in the City for seventy-two or more consecutive hours." Other areas may prohibit leaving vehicles on residential streets during certain times (for instance, to accommodate regular street cleaning), necessitating the use of driveways.
Residential driveways are also used for such things as garage sales, automobile washing and repair, and recreation, notably (in North America) for basketball practice.
Another form of drive is a 'Run-Up', or short piece of land used usually at the front of the property to park a vehicle on.
Usage examples of "driveway".
I saw the whole driveway abustle with small boys and their parents and their trunks and their tuck-boxes, and a man I took to be the Headmaster was swimming around among them shaking everybody by the hand.
Each morning before he went to work, Boomer would stand in his driveway, hands on his hips, scrutinize the Airstream, and shake his head.
They went past the rear porch, through an areaway between house and garage, into the driveway.
Red hips and haws decorated the hedgerows and fallen leaves and beechnut casings strewed the driveway up to the big house.
Dany was terrified that if any American vehicle came into their long driveway, for whatever reason, Binh Duc would retaliateviolently.
Even the leaves of the bougainvillaea had turned brown, and the carefully-nurtured grass along the side of the driveway seemed to have shrivelled and dried.
We were back in the car and heading out on the winding, tree-lined Bowditch driveway.
Ralph Cottle walking up this driveway or had noticed him sitting on the porch, and if the sergeants decided to have a word with the neighbors, Billy would be caught in a lie.
SUV with the Dreamworld logo was pulling out of the driveway of the hotel.
Lionel steered his rented car out the driveway of the Edgewater Hotel onto Wisconsin Avenue.
Sheila steered into the Hays driveway, cut the engine, and watched Melanie expectantly over the seat back.
Whitney, Armstrong, here a Kallikak freshly lettered, even a Hannahan posting driveways off to the right, to the left turning in at a weathered Crease to splash up the pitted drive and these dangling limbs look at them, twelve hundred dollars to those tree people they should pay us for damages, drive up as close as you can will you?
A half hour later he pulled into the driveway of a decrepit house on a side street south of Kingwood, temporarily rented for just such an occasion.
When we pulled into the driveway off Linnaean Street, Susan was sitting on the front steps of the big, five-colored painted-lady Victorian house where she lived and worked.
Roxbury Drive between Lomitas and Sunset in a big stucco and frame house with an arched portico on one side over the driveway.