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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tarmac
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
road
▪ As they picked up speed along the main tarmac road it was already 3 a.m.
▪ Take the green gate on the left and continue to a tarmac road.
▪ Follow the tarmac road opposite for 70yds and at the right hand bend turn left into the fields.
▪ Turn right to a tarmac road, then left to St Ives and Porthmeor Beach.
▪ But as we left the tarmac road and headed up the hill I made a grave error.
▪ Then turn right at the tarmac road and follow it to the main road and the car park.
▪ You descend further through the trees and turn left along the forest road to meet a tarmac road.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A ground party was immediately organised to manhandle the aircraft on to sheets of corrugated iron positioned on the tarmac.
▪ And an hour later in the House of Sport, the road race committee will hear the views of tarmac competitors.
▪ I watched as my dear man made his way across the tarmac to the small Doha airport.
▪ More tarmac and concrete has left fewer green fields for water to drain into underground reserves, as Sheila Brocklebank reports.
▪ The men hopped to the tarmac and unraveled a rust-stained intestine of hose.
▪ There was a flustered conference on the tarmac between two groups of officials.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tarmac

1903, Tarmac, a trademark name, short for tarmacadam (1882) "pavement created by spraying tar over crushed stone," from tar (n.1) + John Latin McAdam (see macadam). By 1919, tarmac was being used generally in Great Britain for "runway."

Wiktionary
tarmac

n. 1 (lb en British Canada) The bituminous surface of a road. 2 (lb en aviation) The area of an airport where planes park or maneuver. vb. (context British Canada English) To pave.

WordNet
tarmac

  1. n. a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving [syn: tarmacadam]

  2. a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar [syn: tarmacadam, macadam]

  3. v. surface with macadam; "macadam the road" [syn: macadamize, macadamise]

Wikipedia
Tarmac

Tarmac (short for tarmacadam) is a type of road surfacing material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1901. The term is also used, with varying degrees of correctness, for a variety of other materials, including tar- grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments, and modern asphalt concrete. The term is also often used to describe airport aprons, "ramps", and runways.

Tarmac (company)

Tarmac is a British building materials company headquartered in Solihull, Birmingham. The company was formed as Lafarge Tarmac in March 2013 by the merger of Anglo American's Tarmac UK and Lafarge's UK operations. In July 2014, Anglo American agreed to sell its stake to Lafarge, to assist Lafarge in its merger with Holcim and allay competition concerns.

Prior to 1999 Tarmac Plc was an aggregates to construction company dating from 1903. It was demerged in 1999 with the Construction and Professional services arms forming Carillion plc. The aggregates and building materials side of the business retained the Tarmac name and was bought by Anglo American shortly afterwards.

In February 2015, Lafarge announced that the business would be sold to CRH plc, once Anglo American had sold its stake. Anglo American completed the sale in July 2015, and the acquisition by CRH completed the following month. Following the purchase, Lafarge Tarmac was rebranded as Tarmac.

Tarmac (disambiguation)

Tarmac (Tarmacadam) is a construction material. Tarmac may also refer to:

Companies
  • Tarmac (formerly Lafarge Tarmac) - UK building materials company founded 2013 by a joint venture of Lafarge UK and Tarmac Group, owned since 2015 by CRH.
  • Tarmac Building Products, the construction materials division of Tarmac, previously an independent company from 2010-2014.
  • Tarmac Group - former UK-based multinational building materials and construction company, latterly owned by Anglo American prior to the 2013 Lafarge Tarmac joint venture.
  • Tarmac Construction - part of Tarmac Group until 1999 when sold off as Carillion.
Airport features
  • Either the airport apron or runway

Usage examples of "tarmac".

Without waiting for a response, Manesh headed for the communications bunker across the hot tarmac.

Harvath, Morrell, and the rest of the team buckled into the overstuffed leather seats inside the lounge behind the flight deck, and the 747-400 was towed out of the hangar and onto the tarmac.

It was just a quick hop to the tarmac at Peterson AFB where Air Force One, two C130 transports filled with the remains of the presidential motorcade, and six F-16s armed with Sidewinder air-to-air missiles were revved up and ready to rock.

ID cards, watch lists, fences, tarmac access, doubling the training and salaries of screeners, and making them federal employees.

They rolled over the now snowless tarmac, and she thought she could see ramps being lowered.

Islamabad, the first interrogation ended and he was delivered to agents Parr and Stern on the tarmac.

Borribles saw the large car drive away in the moonlight, passing along the shining tarmac which led between the trees to the limits of Battersea Park.

Shimmering heat haze rising from the tarmac in the distance along the Ealing Road.

Blarney Garda Station, too, so that they know where to look for absconding road-drills and runaway tarmac spreaders, and any other property that goes for a walk.

And clearly, an Indonesian invasion that began a few hours after Kissinger had stepped off the tarmac at Jakarta airport must have been planned and readied several days before he arrived.

She starts muttering about the Migs the second we left the tarmac and she kept at me on the way out like it was a pop quiz or something.

August afternoon in 1950 that Simon Templar uncoiled his lean seventyfour-inch frame from the seat he had occupied for interminable hours in the creaking Parnassian Airways Dakota, and stepped down on to the tarmac of Athens Airport.

Vladivostok Airport, looking out over the windy tarmac to the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 which would take him to Moscow.

By six-thirty he was at Vladivostok Airport, looking out over the windy tarmac to the Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 which would take him to Moscow.

Halogen lamps blasted the tarmac, and the downdraught from the chopper blades snagged his coat tails.