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highway

[hahy-wey]

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noun

a main road, especially one between towns or cities: the highway between Los Angeles and Seattle.

any public road or waterway.

any main or ordinary route, track, or course.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English heyewei, Old English heiweg. See high, way

Synonyms
1. expressway, freeway, thruway, interstate.

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Example Sentences

Every year, the police here receive two or three reports of highway shootings.

But below the canopy, danger lurks in the shape of a new paved highway.

African elephants have been recorded imitating truck noises from a nearby highway.

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Every year, the police here receive two or three reports of highway shootings.

But below the canopy, danger lurks in the shape of a new paved highway.

African elephants have been recorded imitating truck noises from a nearby highway.

I've heard that the police are now using lasers in addition to radar to catch speeders on the highway.

Aa new highway opens later this week, promising to relieve traffic congestion and move freight.

As anyone who has been rear-ended on a highway knows, judging distance by sight is a useful skill.

There is, of course no viscerally-satisfying sport-car roar as it reaches highway speeds.

Officials closed the highway for more than two hours after three cars skidded off the road.

Just because it is a matter of public record doesn't mean you need to put in on the equivalent of a billboard along the highway.

Highway construction generated some positive effects and some negative effects.

Vanderbilt says he decided to write about driving on a whim, in the midst of performing a daring highway merge maneuver.

Head off the highway to a sandstone wonderland, hiking, and a hidden.

India is struggling to modernize thousands of miles of its decrepit national highway system, and in the process, itself.

Now there are some parks where the highway and construction debris used to.

Opponents of the project say the highway could be built around the forest and that a high level corruption is involved.

Reducing aggressive driving on the highway can improve your gas mileage significantly.

So think again about getting rid of highway subsidies.

We learned that semis rumble down the highway all night.

Their goal was to simulate a highway speed collision.

Through the indifference of government and industry, hundreds of people die each year in accidents in highway work zones.

And many think the interstate highway system led us in the wrong direction.

Trains ten times more efficient at hauling freight, but the highway system makes it cheap to waste energy and haul by truck.

Hybrid technology doesn't do much good for highway driving.

Let's say that there are two roads, a highway and an alley shortcut.

If you look on a map though, apparently the state didn't want to put this on a highway sign.

But absent a highway boom something would have been built and markets would have optimised to that something.

Make sure to accelerate and brake a lot as you drive, which can lower your highway mileage by a third.

The whole point of dropping the car was to get it up to highway speeds.

There was actually a highway that went on for a thousand miles if you drove long enough.

Recently a highway collapsed, causing an epic snarl-up.

Obviously, buffalo highway and railroad intersections provide an interesting engineering problem.

Most academics are putting relatively easy miles on their cars: highway commuting, for example.

We have built extensively for years, believing that a highway would lead to growth.

Eventually, gasoline stations will close, and state and local highway workers won t be able to get to work.

Unless, of course, you're riding along the highway in a motorcoach.

Course credits serve as mileposts on the highway of talent development.

Normally, on such a weekend, half a million cars might travel on this highway.

For instance a hybrid car may save energy driving in the city but the savings may not be so great on a highway.

Then it overlays that data with highway maps to determine where the phones are and how fast they are moving.

Some locals want more fences along the highway and better lighting at intersections.

Use solar energy on car top panel for car slow speed propagation on long highway in pleasure drive instead of gasoline as fuel.

Notarbartolo pulled off the highway and turned onto a dirt road that led into a dense thicket.

The former is great on the highway and the latter is great in the city.

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World English Dictionary

highway (ˈhaɪˌweɪ)

—n
1.	a public road that all may use
2.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) law a main road, esp one that connects towns or cities
3.	a main route for any form of transport
4.	a direct path or course

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Word Origin & History

highway

O.E. heiweg "main road from one town to another;" highwayman "one who travels the highways with intent to rob people" (often on horseback and thus contrasted to a footpad) is from 1649. High street (O.E. heahstræte) was the word before 17c. applied to highways and main roads, whether in the country

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or town, especially one of the Roman roads. In more recent usage, it generally is the proper name of the street of a town which is built upon a highway and was the principal street of the place.

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Highway definition

a raised road for public use. Such roads were not found in Palestine; hence the force of the language used to describe the return of the captives and the advent of the Messiah (Isa. 11:16; 35:8; 40:3; 62:10) under the figure of the preparation of a grand thoroughfare for their march. During their possession of Palestine the Romans constructed several important highways, as they did in all countries which they ruled.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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