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Definition: Gridlock |
GridlockNoun1. A traffic jam so bad that no movement is possible. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Gridlock is a term describing an inability to move on a transport network. The term originates from a situation possible in a grid network where intersections are blocked, prohibiting vehicles from moving through the intersection, backing up to an upstream intersection, as illustrated below.
| V | | ^ | ---- V -------- --------- V <<<<<<<<<<<<< ---- V ------ --------- | V | | ^ | | V | | ^ | | V | | ^ | | V | | ^ | ---- V ------- ^ --------- >>>>>>>>>> ^ ---- V ------- ^ --------- | V | | ^ |Most jurisdictions have legislation prohibiting drivers from entering an intersection if they cannot clear it before the traffic light turns red. If drivers follow this rule of the road, gridlock will be prevented and traffic will only be slow in the direction that is actually congested.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gridlock."
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gridlock (1996) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Major cities already face daily traffic jams bordering on gridlock. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Nicaragua | Due to the continuing gridlock between rival journalist associations, the law has had no practical consequence. (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | The result has been legal gridlock. (references) |
Haiti | Partisan rancor from the election dispute led to deep divisions within Parliament and between the legislative and executive branches, resulting in almost total governmental gridlock. (references) | |
Political Rights | Kuwait | In May 1999, the Amir dissolved the National Assembly in response to the political gridlock that developed between Parliament and the Government. (references) |
Travel | Nigeria | Traffic congestion in built up areas often causes gridlock. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Then our nation was gripped by economic distress, social decline, political gridlock. |
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| "Gridlock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Gridlock" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gridlock | 121 |
game gridlock | 25 |
gridlock d | 15 |
gridlock load | 6 |
gridlock sam | 5 |
d gridlock soundtrack | 4 |
gridlock soundtrack | 3 |
dr gridlock | 3 |
gridlock puzzle | 3 |
busters gridlock | 3 |
cheat gridlock | 3 |
game gridlock solution | 2 |
gridlock preventing strategic | 2 |
gridlock solution | 2 |
game gridlock online | 2 |
gridlock traffic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gridlock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | μποτιλιάρισμα (tailback, traffic jam). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idlockgray.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gridlock": gridlocked, gridlocking, gridlocks. (additional references) | |
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"Gridlock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Britrock, Gilcock, Greycloak, grimlock. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gridlock" (pronounced gri"dlÄ'k) |
| 4 | -d l Ä' k | deadlock, padlock, wedlock. |
| 3 | -l Ä' k | flintlock, hammerlock, Havelock, hemlock, matchlock, oarlock, roadblock, Sherlock, Shylock. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-g-i-k-l-o-r" | |
-3 letters: corgi, dolci, logic, orgic. | |
-4 letters: clod, clog, coil, coir, cold, cord, cork, dick, diol, dirk, dirl, dock, dork, gild, gird, girl, giro, gold, grid, idol, kilo, lick, lido, loci, lock, lord, odic, rick, rock, roil. | |
-5 letters: cig, cod, cog, col, cor, dig, doc, dog, dol, dor, gid, god, gor, ick, ilk, irk, kid. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-g-i-k-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: goldbrick, gridlocks. | |
+2 letters: goldbricks, gridlocked. | |
+3 letters: goldbricked, gridlocking. | |
+4 letters: goldbricking, roadblocking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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