Tarmac
mæk1.
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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| —n | |
| 1. | See also macadam Full name: tarmacadam a paving material that consists of crushed stone rolled and bound with a mixture of tar and bitumen, esp as formerly used for a road, airport runway, etc |
| 2. | the tarmac a runway at an airport: on the tarmac at Nairobi airport |
| —vb , -macs, -macking, -macked | |
| 3. | (tr), (usually not capital) to apply tarmac to |
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Tarmac
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Word Origin & History
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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