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Tar·mac    Audio Help   [tahr-mak] Pronunciation Key
1.Trademark. a brand of bituminous binder, similar to tarmacadam, for surfacing roads, airport runways, parking areas, etc.
–noun
2.(lowercase) a road, airport runway, parking area, etc., paved with Tarmac, tarmacadam, or a layer of tar.
3.(lowercase) a layer or covering of Tarmac, tarmacadam, or tar.
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tar·mac    Audio Help   (tär'māk')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A tarmacadam road or surface, especially an airport runway.

v.   tar·macked, tar·mack·ing, tar·macs

v.   tr.
To cause (an aircraft) to sit on a taxiway.

v.   intr.
To sit on a taxiway. Used of an aircraft.


[Originally a trademark.]

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

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tarmac

noun
1. 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

verb
1. surface with macadam; "macadam the road" [syn: macadamize

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
tarmac [ˈtaːmӕk] noun
the surface of a road, runway at an airport etc
Example: The plane was waiting on the tarmac.
Arabic: رَصيف الطائِرَه
Chinese (Simplified): 铺有柏油的路(路面、飞机跑道)
Chinese (Traditional): 鋪有柏油的路(路面、飛機跑道)
Czech: silnice, letištní plocha
Danish: asfaltbelægning; startbane
Dutch: asfalt
Estonian: mustkate, maandumisrada
Finnish: asfaltti, kiitorata
French: piste
German: der Teermakadam
Greek: άσφαλτος
Hungarian: kifutópálya
Icelandic: malbikaður vegur, *braut
Indonesian: landasan
Italian: piazzola (asfaltata)*
Japanese: 舗装路
Korean: 타르 머캐덤 포장의 도로
Latvian: gudronēts ceļš, *skrejceļš
Lithuanian: gudronuota skaldos danga, degutbetonis
Norwegian: asfaltdekke; rullebane
Polish: asfalt
Portuguese (Brazil): pista
Portuguese (Portugal): pista
Romanian: pistă
Russian: бетонированная площадка
Slovak: cesta; štartovacia dráha
Slovenian: steza
Spanish: pista
Swedish: asfaltsbeläggning, platta
Turkish: asfalt kaplı pist
See also: tarmacadam

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