highway

«highway» in Mova's school dictionary: A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a highway, highways)

meaning for a pupil

1) A main road, usually big and fast, that joins towns and cities. tree →

2) (old or formal) Any public road; «the Highway Code» is the UK book of road rules. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the USA and Canada «highway» is the everyday word for a big main road, like a «freeway» or «interstate»; in the UK people more often say «motorway» or «main road». Road safety: never walk or play on a highway. Phrases: «on the highway», «highway patrol», «the Highway Code».

examples

• We drove along the highway to the beach. tree →
• The highway was busy with trucks. tree →
• Never cross a highway on foot. tree →
• The highway runs right across the country. tree →
• Learn the rules in the Highway Code before you ride your bike on the road. tree →
• Highway patrol officers stopped the speeding car. tree →
• There was a traffic jam on the highway. tree →
• A Rat was traveling along the King's highway. tree →

note

Countable: a highway, highways. American and Canadian «highway» ≈ British «motorway» or «A-road». A «highwayman» in old stories was a robber on horseback who stopped travellers on the road.

In the corpora

• Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...
• Example: after a hurricane, a photo shows a shark swimming on a flooded highway in Houston.
• «My way or the highway» means «do it my way or go», said by someone who won't bend.
• In the UK the Highway Code advises cyclists to wear a helmet.
• The Highway Code gives a stopping distance at 30 mph of about 23 m: about 9 m thinking plus 14 m braking.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «highway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.