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Definition: Traffic |
TrafficNoun1. The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles or messages) coming and going in a particular locality. 2. Buying and selling; especially illicit trade. 3. Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with'). Verb1. Deal illegally; "traffic drugs". 2. Trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "traffic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | The volume of telephone calls that are passed through a telephone exchange or other facility during a specified period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The aggregate of calls originated by a group of subscribers or passing over a group of circuits or trunks, having regard to the duration as well as the number of calls. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | Persons and property carried by transport lines. (references) |
Transportation | The total data defining the amount of traffic running over one or several lines during a certain period. The distance covered, or the combined distance covered and loads conveyed, may be taken into consideration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Traffic is the movement of vehicles and pedestrians on a road, and more generally (and more traditionally) also the movement of trains, ships, planes, etc.; with the focus more on the content than on the vehicle it is also the movement of goods or information. In addition to considering traffic along a route one may consider traffic coming and going in a particular locality. In some contexts "traffic" means commerce.In telecommunication the term traffic has the following meanings:
From Federal Standard 1037C.
- The information moved over a communication channel.
- A quantitative measurement of the total messages and their length, expressed in CCS, erlang or similar units, during a specified period of time.
Transport traffic engineering deals with vehicular traffic, whereas telecommunications traffic engineering deals with communication. Logistics is concerned with the movement of goods.
Organized Traffic
Western vehicular traffic is generally organized, flowing in lanes of travel for a particular direction, with interchanges, traffic signals, and/or sineage at intersectons to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic. Vehicles also generally travel at the same speed on a given roadway.Organized traffic typically reduces travel time. Though vehicles wait at some intersections, wait time at others is much shorter. Organized traffic degenerates to disorganized with an unexpected occurrence, be it road construction, an accident, or an animal obstructing the road. On particularly busy freeways, a disruption can persist until traffic thins. William Beaty observed persistant disruptions and named the phenomenon traffic waves.
Simulations of organized traffic frequently involve queuing theory and stochastic processes.
Unorganized Traffic
Unorganized traffic occurs in the absence of lanes and/or signals. Roads do not have lanes, though operators tend to keep to the appropriate side if the road is wide enough. Operators frequently overtake other operators, and obstructions are not uncommon.Intersections have no signals or sineage, and a particular road at a busy intersection may be dominant (that is, its traffic flows) until a break in traffic, at which time the dominance shifts to the other road where vehicles are queued. At the intersection of two perpendicular roads, a traffic jam results if four vehicles face each other side-on.
Which Side?
Brian Lucas answers the question, "Which side of the road do they drive on?" About 34% of the world by country population drives on the left, and 66% keeps right. By roadway miles, about 72% drive on the right.
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See also:
- Traffic (2000 movie)
- Traffic (band)
- Transport
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Traffic."
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Traffic is a film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, politician, trafficker. It stars Michael Douglas.Based loosely around the Channel 4 television series Traffik, the film avoids sanctimony and was responsible for renewed discussion of drug issues in the United States.
Soderbergh won an Academy Award for Directing for the film.
Rumour has it that George W. Bush sat down with his drug czar and told him to watch Traffic, saying, this is what the drug situation is like in America.
Main Cast
- Benicio Del Toro
- Michael Douglas
- Don Cheadle
- Dennis Quaid
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Steven Bauer
- Clifton Collins, Jr.
- Erika Christensen
- Topher Grace
- Jacob Vargas
- Miguel Ferrer
- Amy Irving
- Luis Guzman
- D.W. Moffett
- Tomas Milian
- Peter Riegert
- Benjamin Bratt
- James Brolin
- Albert Finney
- Salma Hayek
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Traffic (2000 movie)."
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In Britain, in the heady days of 1968, bands were compelled to focus on their musical ambitions with regard to a multitude of possible routes. The Beatles had established a position at the apex of studio produced psychedelia, with Pink Floyd arguably leading the way in live psychedelic performance. Despite being apparantly indistinguishable from today's perspective, live psychedelic performances at that time were quite different affairs to their counterpart studio-spun head-trips. Groups existed in the shadow of the Beatles declaration that they would stop performing their work live, anywhere, from 1966 on. This was a luxury only they could afford, and one that marked them as unassailable within the self-styled [and self-conscious] rock aristocracy. Released in 1968, 'Traffic' was a ,Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Traffic (album)."
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Traffic was a 1970s rock band led by Steve Winwood. With Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason, the band formed after Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group. Their debut single was 1967's "Paper Sun", a UK hit. "Hole in My Shoe", the second single, was an even bigger hit, and set the stage for a rivalry between Winwood and Mason, the group's principal songwriters. Their debut album was Mr. Fantasy which, like the singles, was a hit in the UK but not in the US or elsewhere. Their second album, Traffic, was released in 1968. The band began touring the US, but Mason was fired and Winwood announced the band's break-up. Winwood formed Blind Faith but after that band split in 1969 he began working on a solo recording which eventually turned into another Traffic album, John Barleycorn Must Die, their most successful album yet.After some personnel changes (including the return of Mason), Traffic released The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, an American hit that didn't chart in the UK. Once again, personnel problems wracked the band as Capaldi began a solo career. Still, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory was another hit, as was When the Eagle Flies (1974 in music). Capaldi's solo career began to heat up, and Winwood finally launched one of his own, recording the smash hit album Arc of a Diver. Winwood's solo career peaked with the album Back in the High Life. Traffic did not record again until 1994, when they released Far From Home. After re-uniting, Capaldi and Winwood toured widely but were unable to regain their former stature.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TRAFFIC | English | Trade Records Analysis of Fauna and Flora in Commerce | Biology & Biotechnology, Business |
| TRANSIT | English | Traffic networks study tool | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TrafficSynonym: dealings (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Barter | Trade, traffic, buy and sell, give and take, nundinate; carry on a trade, ply a trade, drive a trade; be in business, be in the city; keep a shop, deal in, employ one's capital in. |
Trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Traffic was murder (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) My father was killed making a routine traffic stop in broad daylight by some punk who didn't want no ticket (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) Oh, I gotta yawn, stare at traffic, lick myself (Stuart Little; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan) Pull it the hell over! Let's see, you can't negotiate traffic, you can't signal properly, you can't parallel park (Gone in Sixty Seconds; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) Yeah, so can the mid-town traffic! (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling) | |
Lyrics | A traffic jam when you're already late (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) School bus driver in a traffic jam (Only In America; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn) Out on the street the traffic starts jumpin' ("9 to 5"; performing artist: Dolly Parton) On a traffic island stopped (Carnival; performing artist: Natalie Merchant) And he saw the lights of traffic beckoning like the hands of Blake (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith) | |
Clever | The horn of plenty is usually the one behind you in traffic! (references; author: unknown) Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? (references; author: unknown) Anybody who thinks talk is cheap never argued with a traffic cop. (references; author: unknown) Outside of traffic, there is nothing that holds this country back as much as committees. (references; author: unknown) The similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies. If ATC screws up, the pilot dies. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Heavy Traffic (1973) Traffic Live at Santa Monica (1972) The Tide of Traffic (1972) Traffic Trouble (1967) | |
Song Titles | John Barleycorn (performing artist: Traffic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Taping party protected from traffic by police. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tanker traffic on the Mississippi River during spring flooding. Mississippi River levee with river water coming through and flowing to a marsh east of the river. Flooding usually occurs every spring. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Water hyacinth, an exotic, filling a canal. Water hyacinth stops boat traffic and interferes with circulation of water. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Train and traffic going to the Great Wall. Credit: Small World. |
 | Mary Emerick checking traffic counter. Credit: Scott Moore. |  | Traffic fatality rates per 100,000 population, registered vehicles, and licensed drivers, United States, 1977-98. Credit: NIAA. |
 | Alcohol-related traffic fatality rates per 100,000 population, registered vehicles, and licensed drivers, United States, 1977-98. Credit: NIAA. |  | Stairhall, stair, details of balusters. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November 1960. (Reproduction Number: HABS, MINN, 62-SAIP,13-7) This carved oak staircase connects the first and second floors of the three-story mansion built for James C. Burbank, a Vermont-born pioneer and major figure in early Minnesota transportation. Burbank, who made his fortune in stage-coach and riverboat traffic, hired the Chicago architect Otis C. Wheelock in 1862 to build him a mansion in the latest style. That style, commonly known as Italianate, features round arches, brackets, belvederes or cupolas, and other architectural elements found in villas and country houses around Italy. Today, the Burbank House is one of the finest early Italianate-style houses in St. Paul. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | [Dental examination and traffic regulation]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Inviting the undertaker. Ignore the fact that pedestrians die in rural districts due to unlighted highways, speeding cars and failure to walk facing the traffic. Be right. Walk left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Light traffic" by Filipe Commentary: "Traffic light in lisboa." | "Traffic" by Szincsák László Commentary: "Traffic in budapest." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Traffic jam; lay on the horn; beep; honk; horn; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | The "Extra Mile" will have no traffic jams. |
Emo Philips | I was driving down the highway, and I'm swerving all over, coz I'm trying to change the radio, and just as I get the old one taken out I hear this traffic cop behind me, "Whee-oo, whee-oo, whee-oo!" Well, I shouldn't make fun of his speech impediment. He asks me to walk in a straight line, so I do, then he asks me, "You call that a straight line?" Well, I should have said, I *should* have said, "Yes." But I was nervous and the only thing I could think of was "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you'll ever come to a straight line is if they do an electroencephalagram of your own brainwave." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Such regulations must be reasonable and uniform and must not impede traffic unnecessarily. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The bright warm sunlight was streaming through the window and he could hear the din of traffic. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The light morning traffic buzzed by on the highway, and the sun grew warm and bright |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The colors used with each zone come from the traffic light. (references) | |
The brain, for its part, may send signals that guide the traffic of cells through the lymphoid organs. (references) | ||
Cytokines encourage cell growth, promote cell activation, direct cellular traffic, and destroy target cells—including cancer cells. (references) | ||
Business | First is waterways traffic administration and management. (references) | |
There are 49 airports offering scheduled traffic in Sweden. (references) | ||
Port traffic accounts for 9.5% of all goods transported in Poland. (references) | ||
Children | Luxembourg | A 1999 law increased penalties for adults who traffic in children, facilitate child prostitution, or exploit children through pornography. (references) |
Brazil | Of all deaths of 15- to 19-year-olds, 72 percent are due to causes such as homicide, suicide, and traffic accidents, which reduces by at least 3 years the average life expectancy of men. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | Vehicles stopped traffic on the highway to Escuintla. (references) |
Economic History | Poland | Highway routes were selected on the basis of traffic volume. (references) |
Russia | Roads currently carry only 10 percent of total cargo traffic. (references) | |
Pakistan | In November 1997, the Lahore-Islamabad motorway was opened for traffic. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bahamas | The Road Traffic Department officer was charged for this offense. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Due to a lack of funds, the traffic courts have not been established. (references) | |
Russia | There appears to be no mechanism to prevent unauthorized FSB access to Internet traffic without a warrant. (references) | |
Minorities | Germany | Neighbors have expressed concerns about an increase in traffic if visitors come to attend services at the mosque. (references) |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | Despite government protests over wildcat strikes by air traffic controllers, no strikers were prosecuted. (references) |
Central African Republic | While the civil war in the DRC prevented shipping on the Ubangui River in 2000, barge traffic from Kinshasa, DRC, resumed in September. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Air Traffic Control-TDA is providing funding ($500,000) for a study on upgrading the ATC system in Ukraine. (references) |
Bulgaria | TDA has been active in Bulgaria with projects in energy, environment, transport, air traffic control, and telecommunications. (references) | |
Argentina | TDA offered to train air traffic controllers at FAA facilities if a project to modernize the national radar system favors a U.S. supplier. (references) | |
Travel | Guyana | Traffic moves on the left. (references) |
Mauritius | Traffic drives on the left. (references) | |
Singapore | Traffic flow is quite good. (references) | |
Women | Czech Republic | Prostitution and sex shops were prevalent particularly in the border regions with Germany and Austria, where international vehicular traffic is heaviest. (references) |
Uruguay | A 1999 Ministry of Public Health study projected that within 5 years, domestic violence would constitute the second most prevalent threat to public health, after traffic accidents. (references) | |
India | Numerous laws exist to protect women's rights, including the Equal Remuneration Act, the Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act, the Sati (Widow Burning) Prevention Act, and the Dowry Prohibition Act. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mongolia | It is not difficult to traffic persons across the country's borders. (references) |
India | In West Bengal, the organized traffic in illegal Bangladeshi immigrants is a source of bonded labor. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | The measure is aimed at improving worker and traffic safety by requiring employers to transport employees in buses. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The National Security Agency's sole job is to monitor the traffic that goes on between those thought to be enemies of America. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | In execution of the law of the last session for the suppression of the slave trade some of our public ships have also been employed on the coast of Africa, where several captures have already been made of vessels engaged in that disgraceful traffic. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | There would be little traffic in illegal liquor if only criminals patronized it. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The canal is operating as well as ever, with traffic through it reaching record levels this year. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Traffic" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Traffic" is used about 6,651 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) | 99.95% | 6,648 | 1,456 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6,651 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Germany | IVU Traffic Technolgies AG (IVU) | USA | The Penn Traffic Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "traffic": a block in the traffic ♦ a line of traffic ♦ a traffic jam ♦ abandoned traffic ♦ advanced traffic management system ♦ aerodrome traffic ♦ aerodrome traffic circuit ♦ aerodrome traffic zone ♦ air movement traffic section ♦ air traffic ♦ air traffic advisory service ♦ air traffic control ♦ air traffic control center ♦ air traffic control clearance ♦ air traffic control officer ♦ air traffic control service ♦ air traffic control tower ♦ air traffic control unit ♦ air traffic controller ♦ air traffic flow management system ♦ air traffic management ♦ air traffic pattern ♦ air traffic service ♦ air traffic services reporting office ♦ air traffic services unit ♦ airport traffic ♦ annual average weekday traffic ♦ annual Change Traffic ♦ automated traffic surveillance and control ♦ automatic traffic system route ♦ automobile traffic ♦ average daily traffic ♦ average weekday daily traffic ♦ barring traffic jam ♦ bicycle traffic ♦ block the traffic ♦ bursty traffic ♦ bus traffic ♦ car traffic ♦ carried traffic ♦ centralised traffic control ♦ centralized traffic control ♦ color coding of traffic flow information ♦ colour coding of traffic flow information ♦ commercial traffic ♦ commuter traffic ♦ direction of the traffic ♦ drug traffic ♦ dynamic traffic assignment ♦ expenses per traffic unit ♦ foot traffic ♦ freight traffic ♦ frontier traffic ♦ generated traffic ♦ goods traffic ♦ gross hauled traffic ♦ gross traffic hauled ♦ harbor traffic ♦ harbour traffic ♦ heavy traffic ♦ induced traffic ♦ international air traffic ♦ international Traffic in Arms Regulation ♦ local traffic access plan ♦ lost traffic ♦ maritime traffic ♦ mixed traffic street ♦ motor traffic ♦ movement of traffic ♦ narcotics traffic ♦ Natural language description of object movements in a traffic scene ♦ obstruct the traffic ♦ obstruction of traffic ♦ open to traffic ♦ operational air traffic ♦ overflow traffic ♦ overflying traffic ♦ paint for traffic markings ♦ passenger traffic ♦ peak of traffic ♦ pedestrian traffic ♦ pedestrian traffic only ♦ rail traffic ♦ railway traffic ♦ rated air traffic controller ♦ real time traffic control ♦ regional traffic control ♦ reserved traffic lane ♦ revenue per traffic unit ♦ river traffic ♦ road traffic ♦ road traffic act ♦ road traffic regulations ♦ rotary traffic ♦ roundabout traffic ♦ senior traffic officer ♦ slave traffic ♦ squelched traffic ♦ station having light traffic ♦ street traffic ♦ telecommunication traffic. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "traffic": traffic-affecting, traffic-bearing, traffic-bound, traffic-calmed, traffic-calming, traffic-choked, traffic-clogged, traffic-filled, traffic-flow, traffic-free, traffic-generating, traffic-grimed, traffic-hells, traffic-induced, traffic-islands, traffic-jam, traffic-jams, traffic-laden, traffic-light, traffic-lights, traffic-logged, traffic-offenders, traffic-orientated, traffic-related, traffic-restrained, Traffic-safety, traffic-scheme, traffic-signal, traffic-slowing, traffic-stopping, traffic-warden. | |
Ending with "traffic": air-traffic, road-traffic, through-traffic. | |
Containing "traffic": air-traffic-control, non-traffic stop, road-traffic-accident, slow-traffic lane, stop for non-traffic purpose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
traffic | 4,041 | national highway traffic safety administration | 243 |
traffic report | 1,344 | florida traffic school | 242 |
traffic school | 1,289 | traffic builder | 242 |
web site traffic | 742 | houston traffic | 234 |
traffic sign | 725 | internet traffic | 226 |
traffic ticket | 554 | california traffic school | 224 |
web traffic | 529 | air traffic controller | 205 |
traffic school online | 496 | increase web traffic | 203 |
chicago traffic | 408 | search engine traffic | 202 |
air traffic control | 390 | penn traffic | 194 |
traffic light | 384 | traffic law | 189 |
atlanta traffic | 363 | targeted web site traffic | 186 |
increase web site traffic | 325 | traffic cone | 180 |
los angeles traffic | 314 | traffic monitoring | 171 |
traffic accident | 292 | check go traffic | 168 |
seattle traffic | 275 | guaranteed traffic | 163 |
san diego traffic | 273 | traffic control | 158 |
traffic violation | 269 | la traffic | 155 |
traffic cam | 264 | traffic signal | 153 |
interconnection monitoring traffic | 243 | targeted traffic | 148 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "traffic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verkeer (be found, be located, concern, find, find oneself, relate). (various references) | |
Albanian | tregti (business, commerce, market, sale, trade, trading, truck), trafik (movement), shitblerje (bargain, market, transaction), qarkullim (circulation, currency, exchange, movement, rotation, turnover), lëvizje (bustling, buzz, drift, flow, locomotion, motion, move, movement, removal, shifting, stir, transfer). (various references) | |
Arabic | حَرَكَة (activity, development, movement), هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, turn tail), حركة سكة الحديد, حركة السير, تجارة غير شروعة, تجارة (business, commerce, mercantile, merchandise, trade, trading), تاجر (commercialize, deal, dealer, mercantile, merchandise, merchant, merchantman, sell, seller, shopkeeper, storekeeper, trade, trader, tradesman), الحركة الجوية, إشتغل بتجارة غير مشروعة, روح و يجئ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съобщения, улично движение, свързан с транспорта, свързан с движението, търгувам с (handle, transact), търговски обмен, трафик, транспортна търговия, общувам с (haunt, rub shoulders with, run around with), незаконна търговия, имам вземане-даване с (mess about, mess around). (various references) | |
Chinese | 交通 (communication). (various references) | |
Croatian | semaforu (traffic lights). (various references) | |
Czech | smìòovat, provoz (flow, service, working), obchod (business, commerce, deal, market, shop, store, trade, transaction), kupèit, kramařit (truck), kšeftařit, dopravní ruch, doprava (carriage, conveyance, freight, to the right, transfer, transport, transportation). (various references) | |
Danish | trafik. (various references) | |
Dutch | verkeer (relation, understanding), roulatie (circulation), omloop (circulation), circulatie (circulation). (various references) | |
Esperanto | trafiko, cirkulado (circulation). (various references) | |
Estonian | valgusfoori (traffic light). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ferðsla. (various references) | |
Farsi | مخابره (Transmittal), کسب (Avocation, Metier, Trade, Vocation), کالا (Article, Commodity, Lot, Merchandise, Object, Stuff), وساءطنقلیه , ترددکردن (Haunt), عبوومرور, امدوشدکردن , امدوشد, رفت وامد, دادوستدارتباط. (various references) | |
Finnish | liikenne (service). (various references) | |
French | circulation (movement of traffic), trafic (trafficking). (various references) | |
Frisian | ferkear. (various references) | |
German | Verkehr (business, circulation, commerce, communication, company, contact, intercourse, service, trade, transport, transportation). (various references) | |
Greek | κυκλοφορία (circulation, currency), δοσοληψία (transaction). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מסחר (business, commerce, dealing, mercantile, trade, trading), לסחור (bargain, barter, deal, negotiate, sell, trade), תעבורה, תחבורה (communication, transport), תנועה (fluctuation, kinesis, locomotion, motion, move, movement, moving, stir), סחר (business, commerce, trade, trading). (various references) | |
Hungarian | forgalom (business done, circulation, commerce, return, through traffic, travel, turnover). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lalu-lintas, bundaran (hoop). (various references) | |
Irish | tráchta (of traffic). (various references) | |
Italian | traffico (racket, trade), circolazione (circuit, circulation, currency, cycle, tour, whitlow). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 輸送量 (volume or quantity of goods transported), 運輸量 , 交通量 (traffic volume), 交通 (communication, transportation), 交通 (communication, intercourse, transportation), トラップ射撃 (electrical transistor, tradition, traditional, traffic builder, trance, tranquilizer, transaction, transactional analysis, Trans-Am, trans-American, transceiver, transcription, transformer, transistor, transistor glamour, transit, transnational, transparency, transponder, Transylvania, trap shooting, trappiste, trappistine, travel, travel agency, travel bureau, travel set, travel watch, travelers check, travellers' cheque, travelling, traverse, trouble, trouble shot, troublemaker, trouble-shooting, trough, trunk, trunk room, trunks, work), 往還 (coming and going, highway). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうかん (bottle cap, coming and going, crown, diadem, highway), トラフィック , うんゆりょう, こうつうりょう (traffic volume), こうつう (communication, doing well, intercourse, prosperous, transportation), ゆそうりょう (volume or quantity of goods transported). (various references) | |
Korean | 소통량. (various references) | |
Manx | kionneeaght (buy, purchase, redemption), dellal (commerce, deal, negotiate, trade, transactions). (various references) | |
Norwegian | trafikk. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tráfiko. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | affictray.(various references) | |
Polish | ruch (movement). (various references) | |
Portuguese | tráfego, trânsito (passage, passing, thoroughfare, transit), tráfico (trade). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | trânsito, tráfico. (various references) | |
Romanian | trafica, trafic (communication), sens (acceptance, acceptation, amount, bearing, direction, drift, hang, importance, logic, meaning, purport, reason, sense, signification, use, value, way), negoţ (mart, trade), face comerţ cu (trade, traffic in), comerţ (commerce, trade), circulator (circulative, circulatory), circulaţie (circulation, communication, determination, movement, running). (various references) | |
Russian | трафик, транспорт (trans transportation, transp transportation, transport, transportation), торговля (commerce, market, salesmanship, trade, trading), грузы (shipment), движение (gait, locomotion, motion, move, movement, process, service, stir, sweep, travel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trgovina (business, commerce, dealership, trade, truck), saobraćaj (communication, transportation), promet (movement, overturn, turn over, turnover). (various references) | |
Spanish | tráfico (trade, trading), tránsito (transit), circulación (circulation, currency, movement). (various references) | |
Swedish | trafik (service). (various references) | |
Turkish | trafik, yolculuk etmek (itinerate, peregrinate, travel, voyage), karanlık işler yapmak, iş yapmak (deal, do business, job, trade, transact business, work), gidiş geliş, değiş tokuş etmek (bargain, barter, change, exchange, interchange, swap, swop, truck), alışveriş (buying and selling, connection, deal, dealing, shopping, trading). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gatnaw (movement). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | транспортний (transport, transportational), транспорт (carriage, carry over, convoy, transport, transportation), торгувати (chap, higgle, market, merchandise, merchandize, niffer, peddle, trade), торгівля (business, commerce, market, marketing, merchandise, nundination, sale, trade, trading, vending), перевезення (carriage, carry, carrying, ferriage, portage, tote, transit, transportation). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thương mại, sự giao thông sự vận tải, sự đi lại (contact), sự đổi chác (barter, exchange, swap, swop). (various references) | |
Welsh | trafnidiaeth, masnachu (do business, trade), masnach (commerce, trade), mael (gain, profit). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | nundinis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai agagete proV me ton adelfon umwn ton newteron kai gnwsomai oti ou kataskopoi este all' oti eirhnikoi este kai ton adelfon umwn apodwsw umin kai th gh emporeuesqe |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Fratremque vestrum minimum adducite ad me ut sciam quod non sitis exploratores et istum qui tenetur in vinculis recipere possitis ac deinceps emendi quae vultis habeatis licentiam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And goth, and youre leest brother ledith to me, that Y knowe that ye ben not aspyes, and this that is holdun in boondis ye mowen reseyue, and theraftir of biggyng that ye wolen ye han leue. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And brynge youre yongest brother vnto me And thereby shall I knowe that ye are no spyes but meane truely: So will I delyuer you youre brother agayne and ye shall occupie in the lande. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And bring your youngest brother unto me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but that ye are true men: then will I deliver to you your brother, and ye shall traffick in the land. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And come back to me with your youngest brother: then I will be certain that you are true men, and I will give your brother back to you and let you do trade in the land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 42, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Ug dad-on ninyo nganhi kanako ang inyong igsoon nga kamanghuran, unya masayud ako nga kamo dili mga tiktik, kondili mga tawo nga matuod: sa ingon niini igahatag ko kaninyo ang inyong igsoon, ug magapatigayon kamo sa yuta. |
| Croatian | Onda mi dovedite svoga najmlaðeg brata, tako da znam da niste uhode, nego pošteni ljudi. Poslije toga vratit æu vam vašeg brata, i vi æete se moæi slobodno kretati u ovoj zemlji.'" |
| Danish | Siden skal I bringe eders yngste Broder til mig, for at jeg kan kende, at I ikke er Spejdere, men ærlige Folk; så vil jeg udlevere eders Broder til eder, og I kan frit rejse i Landet." |
| Dutch | En brengt uw kleinsten broeder tot mij; zo zal ik weten, dat gij geen verspieders zijt, maar dat gij vroom zijt; uw broeder zal ik u wedergeven, en gij zult in dit land handelen. |
| Finnish | Ja menkää ja tuokaa nuorin veljenne luokseni, saadakseni tietää, ettette ole vakoojia, vaan rehellisiä miehiä. Sitten minä annan teille veljenne takaisin, ja te saatte vapaasti liikkua maassa`." |
| French | Je saurai ainsi que vous n`êtes pas des espions, que vous êtes sincères; je vous rendrai votre frère, et vous pourrez librement parcourir le pays. |
| German | und bringt euren jüngsten Bruder zu mir, so merke ich, daß ihr nicht Kundschafter, sondern redlich seid; so will ich euch euren Bruder geben, und ihr mögt im Lande werben. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, m'a konnen se pa espyon nou ye, nou pa t'ap ban m' manti. m'a renmèt nou frè nou an. m'a kite nou trafike nan peyi a. |
| Hungarian | És hozzátok hozzám a ti legkisebbik atyátokfiát, akkor megtudom, hogy nem vagytok kémek, hanem igaz emberek; akkor visszaadom néktek a ti atyátokfiát, és ebben az országban kereskedhettek. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setelah kamu kembali membawa adikmu yang bungsu, aku akan tahu bahwa kamu bukan mata-mata, melainkan orang jujur. Maka saudaramu yang kutahan itu akan kukembalikan kepadamu dan kamu boleh tinggal di negeri ini dan bebas berdagang.'" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan bawalah akan adikmu itu ke mari kepadaku, supaya kuketahui akan kamu bukannya orang pengintai, melainkan orang baik-baik, kemudian aku akan mengembalikan saudaramu itu kepadamu dan kamupun boleh berniaga dalam negeri ini. |
| Maori | A me kawe mai to koutou teina, te whakaotinga, ki ahau: kia mohio ai ahau ehara koutou i te tutei, engari he hunga pono koutou: penei ka hoatu e ahau to koutou tuakana ki a koutou, a ka hokohoko koutou ki tenei whenua. |
| Norwegian | og kom så hit til mig med eders yngste bror, så jeg kan forstå at I ikke er speidere, men ærlige folk! Da vil jeg gi eder eders bror igjen, og I kan fritt dra omkring i landet. |
| Portuguese | e trazei-me vosso irmão mais novo; assim saberei que não sois espias, mas homens de retidão; então vos entregarei o vosso irmão e negociareis na terra. |
| Rumanian | wi aduceyi-mi pe fratele vostru cel tknqr. Voi wti astfel cq nu sknteyi iscoade, ci sknteyi oameni de treabq; apoi vq voi da knapoi pe fratele vostru, wi veyi putea sq strqbateyi yara kn voie.`` |
| Russian | Й РТЙЧЕДЙФЕ ЛП НОЕ НЕОШЫПЗП ВТБФБ ЧБЫЕЗП; Й ХЪОБА С, ЮФП ЧЩ ОЕ УПЗМСДБФБЙ, ОП МАДЙ ЮЕУФОЩЕ; ПФДБН ЧБН ВТБФБ ЧБЫЕЗП, Й ЧЩ НПЦЕФЕ РТПНЩЫМСФШ Ч ЬФПК ЪЕНМЕ. |
| Spanish | Pero traedme a vuestro hermano, el menor, para que yo sepa que no sois espías sino hombres honestos. Entonces os devolveré a vuestro hermano, y podréis negociar en el país." |
| Swedish | Sedan mån I föra eder yngste broder hit till mig, så kan jag veta att I icke ären spejare, utan redliga män. Då skall jag giva eder broder tillbaka åt eder, och I skolen fritt få draga omkring i landet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "traffic": trafficabilities, trafficability, trafficable, trafficked, trafficker, traffickers, trafficking, traffics. (additional references) | |
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"Traffic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: traff, traffick, traffico, Traffik, trafic, trafice, trefriw, trific, Trofim. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "traffic" (pronounced tra"fik) |
| 5 | -r a" f i k | calligraphic, choreographic, demographic, epigraphic, ethnographic, geographic, graphic, holographic, hydrographic, lithographic, logographic, micrographic, oceanographic, orographic, photographic, pornographic, reprographic, stenographic, stereographic, stratigraphic, topographic. |
| 3 | -f i k | anthropomorphic, autotrophic, catastrophic, delphic, dimorphic, geostrophic, heterotrophic, hieroglyphic, honorific, horrific, metamorphic, nonspecific, orphic, Pacific, philosophic, polymorphic, prolific, pseudoscientific, scientific, specific, terrific, transpacific, unscientific. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-f-i-r-t" | |
-1 letter: fracti, tariff. | |
-2 letters: afrit, craft, farci, triac. | |
-3 letters: airt, caff, cart, fact, fair, fiar, fiat, frat, frit, raff, raft, riff, rift, tiff. | |
-4 letters: act, aff, aft, air, ait, arc, arf, art, car, cat, far, fat, fir, fit, iff, rat, ria, rif, tar, tic. | |
-5 letters: ai, ar, at, fa, if, it, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-f-i-r-t" | |
+1 letter: diffract, traffics. | |
+2 letters: affricate, diffracts. | |
+3 letters: affricates, diffracted, trafficked, trafficker. | |
+4 letters: affricative, diffracting, diffraction, trafficable, traffickers, trafficking. | |
+5 letters: affricatives, diffractions. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Company Usage 18. Expressions 19. Expressions: Internet 20. Translations: Modern | 21. Translations: Ancient 22. Bible Trace 23. Abbreviations 24. Acronyms | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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