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Tar·mac

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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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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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