Crossword clues for runway
runway
- Aircraft landing ground
- Where planes take off and land
- Unwary (anag)
- Take-off and landing strip
- Strip on which planes taxi
- Strip in plane view?
- Strip at the airport
- Place for strutters
- Place for planes or models
- Place for model citizens?
- Models' path
- Modeling spot
- Model's milieu
- Fashionista's walk
- Delta location?
- Burlesque promenade
- Airport strip
- Airport necessity
- "Project __": fashion design show
- Model's beat
- Takeoff site
- Fashion show locale
- View from a control tower
- Model's path
- Strip for a fashion show
- Where fashions debut
- A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
- Theater ramp
- Where models model
- Logan lane
- Landing strip
- Essential airport feature
- Endlessly regret method securing new airport facility
- Plane path
- Plane lane
- Model's spot
- Model's place
- Model path
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
catwalk \catwalk\ n.
a narrow walkway projecting from a stage into the seating area of a theater; it is used, e. g. by models displaying clothes on it at a fashion show. Called also runway.
a narrow walkway high in the air to allow workers access to parts of a structure otherwise difficult to reach. Catwalks are located, e.g. above a stage in a theater, between parts of a building, along the side of a bridge, on the outside of a railroad car, on the outside of a large storage tank, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a defined, usually paved section of land for airplanes to land on or take off 2 a narrow platform extending from a stage on which people walk, especially used by models in fashion shows 3 the usual path taken by deer or other wild animals, i.e. from the forest to the stream 4 a stream bed
WordNet
n. a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc.
a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
Wikipedia
According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface ( grass, dirt, gravel, ice, or salt).
Runway was a morning quiz programme that was produced by Action Time in association with Granada and ran on the ITV network from 12 October 1987 until 19 February 1993. It was originally hosted by Chris Serle in 1987, then Richard Madeley hosted from 1988 until it ended in 1993.
Runway is a 2009 action thriller directed by Suneil and Praful Tiwari.
Runway is a 2010 Bangladeshi drama film directed by Tareque Masud.
In fashion, a runway, catwalk or ramp is a narrow, usually flat platform that runs into an auditorium or between sections of an outdoor seating area, used by models to demonstrate clothing and accessories during a fashion show. In fashion jargon, "what's on the catwalk" or similar phrasing can refer to whatever is new and popular in fashion. A runway could be as basic as a narrow space between rows of chairs or more elaborate setups with multiple catwalks. Most runway shows are held inside, for shelter against the weather, but there are times when runway shows are held outdoors. In the 2016 Paris Fashion Week, Chanel presented an elaborate setup by designing the hall as if it were an airport. The viewing guests sat as if they were awaiting their flights while the models walked around the airport approaching ticket counters.
Runway ( Malayalam:റണ്വേ) is a 2004 Malayalam action drama film written by Udayakrishna and Siby K. Thomas and directed by Joshiy. It stars Dileep, Indrajith, Murali, Kavya Madhavan and Harisree Ashokan.
The film revolves around the Unni (Dileep) who due to financial problems becomes the renowned smuggler Valayar Paramasivam in the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border check post Walayar. The film was a box office blockbuster.
The film was remade in Telugu as Nayakudu with Rajasekhar
A runway is a strip of land at an airport on which aircraft can take off and land.
Runway may also refer to:
- Runway (fashion), a narrow, usually elevated platform that runs into an auditorium, used by models
- Runway (game show), a UK daytime quiz programme
- Runway (Transformers), a fictional character in the various Transformers universes
- Runway (2004 film), a Malayalam (India) film, a crime drama centred on a spirit smuggler
- Runway (2009 film), a Hindi action film
- Runway (2010 film), a Bangladeshi film directed by Tareque Masud, centred on a boy living near an airport
- Runway, a fictional fashion magazine in the novel The Devil Wears Prada and the adapted film
- Runway TV, a TV channel focused on fashion
- Runway is time during which a newly founded business is not yet making a profit and is relying on money from investors.
Usage examples of "runway".
A rabbit snare is made of fine babiche, sinew, cord, or wire, and the loop is hung over a rabbit runway just high enough to catch it round the neck.
Others, like Tombstone and Batman, set down at U Feng, dropping onto a runway partly masked by drifting smoke.
An hour later Bluey set up a landing at Marathon, called Flight Services and canceled his flight plan, then roared down the runway, ten feet above the ground.
As soon as their wheels touched the runway, Bluey shoved the throttle in and reduced the flaps.
The second Frogfoot, just moving to the end of the runway, crumpled as bomblets exploded around it, then erupted into flame.
As the Devastators taxied down the short runway, she lifted up her mask, grateful to be seeing clearly out of both eyes and happy to be up in the air, even if it meant playing pirates for a little while longer.
At home, she even made her mother pretend to be the emcee and announce JonBenet walking down the runway.
So the floor worker, who was one of the Gatch brothers, drove out on the runway in his own car.
Starship Captain stood in the spotlight at the end of the runway turning round, round, round, looking out over the Ralfies and the globuloids, the computer nerds and the costumers, the brilliant intellectual misfits and the teenage malcontents, the fans who would be slans.
In the cockpit Van Hoven released the brakes and started them rolling once more along the runway to their takeoff point.
Van Hoven veered Iron Fist off the runway into the grass to avoid the Dornier, and as he passed the black night fighter he failed to note the figure that was following.
The flying saucers were impossible to ignore as they hovered above the main runway while an instructor in radar operation conducted class for new personnel of the Control Tower.
Cooper, suddenly the only two survivors remaining out in the open, moved away from the runway as first Lawrence and then Keele started the engines of their respective aircraft.
We were swinging back now towards the bare fat bull-dozed expanse of Gan and as we crossed the runway end I saw some wag of a matelot had painted in enormous white letters - YOU ARE NOW UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE ROYAL NAVY.
I somehow managed to slide into a tight downwind leg and arrived on the wet runway with nothing more than a mildish rush of adrenalin.