highway
substantivoverbocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈhɑjwɛj//
- //ˈhaɪweɪ//
A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
substantivo
- 1
A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
- 2
Any public road.
- 3
figuradoA way; a path that leads to a certain destiny.
You're on a highway to greatness.
I'm on the highway to hell
So how do the scientists cope with their work being ignored for decades, and living in a world their findings indicate is on a “highway to hell”?.
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arcaicoA road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.
- 5
Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
Etimologia
From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road. Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).
verbo
- 1
To travel on a highway
Formas
- plural
- highways
- pretérito
- highwayed
- particípio passado
- highwayed
- gerúndio
- highwaying
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- highways
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