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Road

Definition: Road

Road

Adjective

1. Taking place over public roads; "road racing".

2. Working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company".

Noun

1. An open way (generally public) for travel or transportation.

2. A way or means to achieve something; "the road to fame".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "road" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Road

DomainDefinition

Satire

ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. All roads, howsoe'er they diverge, lead to Rome, Whence, thank the good Lord, at least one leads back home. Borey the Bald. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

Bible

Road (1 Sam. 27:10; R.V., "raid"), an inroad, an incursion. This word is never used in Scripture in the sense of a way or path. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Dream Interpretation

Traveling over a rough, unknown road in a dream, signifies new undertakings, which will bring little else than grief and loss of time.
If the road is bordered with trees and flowers, there will be some pleasant and unexpected fortune for you. If friends accompany you, you will be successful in building an ideal home, with happy children and faithful wife, or husband.
To lose the road, foretells that you will make a mistake in deciding some question of trade, and suffer loss in consequence. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Food & Agriculture

Any way, more or less prepared, over which logs are dragged. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Road Gentlemen of the road or Knights of the road. Highwaymen. In the latter a double pun is implied. A first-class highwayman, like Robin Hood, is a "Colossus of Roads."
King of Roads [Rhodes]. John Loudon Macadam (1756-1836).
The law of the road-
"The law of the road is a paradox quite,
In riding or driving along;
If you go to the left you are sure to go right.
If you go to the right you go wrong."
Road or ~~~Roadstead,
Roadstead, as "Yarmouth Roads," a place where ships can ride at anchor. (French, rader, to anchor in a rade; Anglo-Saxon, rad, a road or place for riding.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Mining

A. A roadway in a mine, e.g., gate road, traveling road, dummy road b. Any mine passage or tunnel e.g., gate road, traveling road, dummy road. (references)

Statistics

All fuels used in road vehicles(including military)as well as agricultural and industrial highway use. Excludes motor gasoline used in stationary engines, and diesel oil for use in tractors that are not for highway use. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: European route

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Europe has a system of European routes that are numbered E1 and up. The cross national borders. They are the responsibility of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). They are somewhat similar to the interstate highway system of the United States.

Numbering System

The route numbering system, defined by UNECE, is as follows.
  1. Reference roads and intermediate roads, called class-A roads, have two-digit numbers. Branch, link and connecting roads, called class-B roads, have three-digit numbers.
  2. North-south reference roads have two-digit odd numbers terminating in the figure 5 and increasing from west to east. East-west orientated reference roads have two-digit even numbers terminating in the figure 0 and increasing from north to south. Intermediate roads have two-digit odd (north-south) and two-digit even (west-east) numbers between the numbers of the reference roads between which they are located. Class-B roads have three-digit numbers, the first digit being that of the nearest reference road to the north, the second digit being that of the nearest reference road to the west; and the third digit being a serial number.
  3. North-south class-A roads located eastward from road E99 have three-digit odd numbers from 101 to 129. Other rules mentioned in paragraph 2 above apply to these roads.
  4. Branch, link and connecting roads located eastwards of E101 have 3-digit numbers, beginning with 0, from 001 to 099.

Class A Roads

North-South Reference

West-East Reference

North-South Intermediate

West-East Intermediate

Class B Roads

See also Road transport.

References

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Road

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A road is a strip of land connecting two or more destinations.

Word, history, funding

In original usage, a "road" was simply fit for riding ("road" is cognate with "ride", e.g.: ships ride at anchor in roads). The word "street" was kept for roads that had been prepared to ease travel in some way (thus, many "Roman Roads" have the word "street" in their names whose origin is the Latin strata, given before the usage changed).

However modern usage does not usually make this distinction, and it is only important since place names often hold the earlier usage in them; these days roads are also prepared in some way. This includes, at the least, the removal of trees and smoothing of the ground. In some dialects, lower grade roads are called trails and wheel tracks, and it is uncertain where "road" begins and trail ends. Roads are a prerequisite for road transport of goods on wheeled vehicles.

Many historical examples exist of road and road-building. Some of the most famous are the Roman roads and the Incan courier roads. In ancient times, transport by river was far easier and faster than travel by road, especially considering the cost of road construction and the difference in carrying capacity between carts and river barges - provided only that the rivers were navigable in the right places (but, of course, availability of water transport also influenced settlement patterns). During the industrial revolution, a development of the road was made: the railway. Today, roads are almost exclusively built to enable travel by car and other wheeled vehicles, and in most countries road transport is the most utilized way to move goods.

Roads situated in cities are often, but not always, called streets or alleys; this reflects the historical fact that when they were first named there were more likely to be unmade roads in open country and paved roads in urban areas. This leads to roads being sometimes named for their destination or direction, while streets may be named for their location.

Road building and maintenance is one of the few areas of economic activity (compare military spending) that remain dominated by the public sector (though often through private contractors). Roads (except those on private property not accessible to the general public) are typically paid for by taxes (often raised through levies on fuel), though some public roads are funded by tollss.

Driving on the right or on the left

Traffic drives, depending on the country, either on the right or on the left side of the road. Driving on the left occurs in the UK, most of her former colonies, Japan and some other counties, covering about a third of the world's population. Sweden changed from left to right in 1967, depite a referendum in 1955 where 83% voted to stay on the left. There is some evidence of cart tracks from a quarry in Blunsdon Ridge near Swindon which suggests that Romans drove on the left, and until the 18th century, this was probably the most common choice in Europe. However driving on the right was more common in France; this was imposed by Napoleon Bonaparte on the countries he occupied, and thus it became the practice in their colonies. (See also Road transport and Rules of the road and the external link Which side of the road do they drive on?.)

In countries where traffic drives on the right:

and conversely.

Traffic flow and road design in both cases are each other's mirror image.

Design

Road design consists of two important technical aspects:

Besides these two technical sides of the design, environmental issues, planning issues and juridical issues are important.

Construction

Roads are built by removing vegetation. The soil is tested to see if it will support weight and if not, a layer of soil is removed and replaced. The soil is compacted to form what is known as a "base course". On top of the base course is placed a wearing course which consists of asphalt or concrete. The main purpose of the wearing course is to prevent moisture from entering the road.

On the side of the road there may be retroreflectors on pegs, rocks or crash barriers, white toward the direction of the traffic on that side of the road, and red toward the other direction. In the road surface there may be cat's eyes: retroreflectors that stick out a bit, but you can drive over them.

Road signss are often also made retroreflective. For greater visibility of road signs at daytime, sometimes fluorescence is applied to get very bright colors.

Causeway

A causeway is an elevated road, not on a bridge but on elevated ground, often through a body of water or through wet land. It may also serve as a dyke that keeps two bodies of water apart, e.g. with a different water level on both sides, and/or with salt water on one side and fresh water on the other side (this may also be the primary purpose, the road being a side benefit).

Examples are those that connect Marken, Singapore and Venice to the mainland, and the Afsluitdijk, Brouwersdam, Markerwaarddijk.

See also

External links

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Road transport

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Road transport (alternatively road transportation) is transport on roads, i.e. most transport over land which is not rail transport in the wide sense.

The first forms of road transport were horses or oxen carrying goods over dirt tracks that often followed game trails. As commerce increased, the tracks were often flattened or widened to accommodate the activities. With the advent of the Roman Empire, there was a need for armies to be able to travel quickly for one area to another, and the roads that existed were often muddy, which greatly delayed the movement of large masses of troops. To resolve this issue, the Romans built great roads. The Roman roads used deep roadbeds of crushed stone as a underlaying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. The legions made good time on these roads and some are still used millennia later.

On the more heavily traveled routes, there were additional layers that included six sided capstones, or pavers, that reduced the dust and reduced the drag from wheels. The pavers allowed the Roman chariots to travel very quickly, insuring good communication with the Roman provinces. Farm roads were often paved first on the way into town, to keep produce clean. Early forms of springs and shocks to reduce the bumps were incorporated in horse drawn transport, as the original pavers were sometimes not perfectly aligned.

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, steam powered engines were developed, but most were too heavy for common roads, and were implemented on railroads, where the weight could be isolated to supporting rails, which also reduced the friction or drag. Of notable interest is that common British rail gauge is the same width as the Roman chariot wheelbase, as that was the common width for carts ever since.

At the time of the Industrial Revolution, and because of the increased commerce that came with it, improved roadways became imperative. The problem was rain combined with dirt roads created commerce miring mud. A Scotsman named McAdam designed the first modern highways. He developed an inexpensive paving material of soil and stone aggregate (aptly known as macadam), and he embanked roads a few feet higher than the surrounding terrain to cause water to drain away from the surface (and hence the birth of the term highway.)

As the horse-drawn carriage was replaced by the automobile and lorry or truck, and speeds increased, the need for smoother roads and less vertical displacement became more apparent, and pneumatic tires were developed to decrease the apparent roughness.
Bicyclists campaigned for good roads early on.

With the development, mass production, and popular embrace of the automobile, faster and higher capacity roads were needed. In the 1920s limited access highways appeared. Their main characteristics were dual roadways with access points limited to (but not always) grade-separated interchanges. Their dual roadways allowed high volumes of traffic, the need for no or few traffic lights along with relatively gentle grades and curves allowed higher speeds.

The first limited access highways were Parkways, so called because of their often park-like landscaping and, in the Metropolitan NYC area, they connected the region's system of parks. In the 1930s came the German Autobahns, which brought higher design standards and speeds. In this decade, the US started building toll roads to similar high standards.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, after WWII interrupted the evolution of the highway, the US resumed building toll roads. They were to still higher standards and one road, the NY State Thruway, had standards that became the prototype for the US Interstate Sytem. The American Interstate Road System uses 12 foot lanes, wide medians, a maximum of 4% grade, and full access control. This system was started in the mid-1950s, and created a continental-sized network meant to connect every population center of 50,000 people or more.

The least populated and most remote states of Australia have huge truck trailer combinations called road trains.

Driving on the right or on the left

(see also Road and Rules of the road)

For many years, the British and the Americans drove on opposite sides of the road. In American cars, the driver sits on the left and the car goes on the right hand side of the road. The author C. Northcote Parkinson has presented a "proof" that the British way of driving (on the left side of the road) is the natural one.

Sweden used to drive on the left hand side of the road (like the British), even though the cars were left hand drive (had the steering wheel on the left hand side). Several experts suggested that changing to driving on the right (like America) would reduce accidents, because drivers would have a better view of the road ahead. In addition, it would avoid confusion among drivers from neighbouring Norway, Denmark and Finland, who drove on the right. A referendum was held in 1956, but rejected the change. Finally in the parliament decided (against the referendum) to change to driving on the right in 1967. Fatal car-to-car and car-to-pedestrian accidents dropped sharply as a result.

Today former British colonies tend to drive on the left, and former European colonies or places that came under heavy American influence tend to drive on the right. Australia and New Zealand both drive on the left. Canada, although it is a former British colony, drives on the right due to its proximity to the United States. Japan also drives on the left.

See also

motorcycle, scooter, Roundabout intersection

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Road transport."

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Roman road

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Romans, as a military, commercial and political expedient, became adept at constructing long straight roads. The Roman roads were essential for the growth of their empire in terms of being able to speedily move armies. The Roman emphasis on constructing straight roads often resulted in steep grades relatively impractical for most economic traffic. These lengthy highways were very important in maintaining both the stability and expansion of the empire.

The Roman roads often used deep roadbeds of crushed stone as a underlaying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from the crushed stone, instead of becoming mud in clay soils. The legions made good time on these roads and some are still used millennia later.

A popular proverb says that "every road leads to Rome". Roman roads were designed that way to hinder provinces organising resistance against the Empire.

Some Roman roads

There are many examples of roads that still follow the route of Roman roads.

France

Greece

Italy

the name of these (all active today) roads is derived from the censor that ordered their construction

Spain

United Kingdom

External link

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Road

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
ROCOCOEnglishRoad Condition Control project in conjunction with industrial partners is studying the applications of radar systems for automatic collision avoidanceEnvironment

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Road

Synonyms: itinerant (adj), road(a) (adj), touring (adj), traveling (adj), route (n). (additional references)
Antonym: cross-country (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Road

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk, embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.

Direction

Line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment, allignment; air line, beeline; straight shoot.

Method

Path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Road

English words defined with "road": access road ♦ Bridle road ♦ Jinny road ♦ main road, Maoadam road ♦ Post road, private road ♦ ring road, road agent, road gang, road sense, road to Damascus, royal road ♦ Shell road, side road, skid road, slip road ♦ Telpher road, Turnpike road. (references)
Specialty definitions using "road": 2 lane road ♦ 3 lane road ♦ active mode road accompanied transport, age of road vehicle ♦ blowing road, BRAKE COUPLER, ROAD FREIGHT, brattice road ♦ chain road, cross-trade road transport ♦ dual carriageway road ♦ gate road, GENERAL MANAGER, ROAD PRODUCTION, gob road, goods having entered the country by road, goods in transit by road throughout, goods loaded on a road vehicle, goods unloaded from a road vehicle, gravity road, Green Baize Road ♦ haul road, heavily traveled road, high risk road user group, hutch road ♦ Just a Squirrel in the Road ♦ KNIGHT OF THE ROAD, Knights of the Road ♦ licensed road haulage, local distributor road ♦ paved road, pioneer road, place of disembarkment from a road vehicle, place of embarkment on a road vehicle, public road haulage, Purchaser road credits ♦ rapid road, road making machine which vibrates concrete, road marking, road tester, Road transport and intermodal linkages research programme, Road transport research programme, road with 2 lanes, road with 3 lanes, road with 4 lanes, road with four lanes, road with four separate carriageways, road with limited access, road with separate carriageways, road with three lanes, road with three separate carriageways, road with two lanes, road with two separate carriageways, Royal Road to Learning, Rule of the Road ♦ Simplon Road, skidding road, spine road, strip road ♦ three-lane road, transalpine road transport, two-lane road ♦ unprotected road user, urban road passenger enterprise ♦ vulnerable road user ♦ wind road. (references)
Etymologies containing "road": Viary. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Road" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (road), Pidgin English (direction), Swedish (amused).

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Modern Usage: Road

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Because you have been down there Neo, you know that road, you know exactly where it ends (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

You're over-paid, hit the road. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

'Course I doubt they'll toss up any road blocks for that, not for an old crook like me. I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

I'm driving down the road with your head stuck in my window (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Lyrics

Well I hit the rowdy road and many kinds I met there (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

At the end of the road. (Somewhere Down The Road; performing artist: Faith Hill)

On Allison Road (ALLISON ROAD; performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

He says he's been down this road more than twice (Everyday is a Winding Road; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

And I can't wait to get on the road again ("On the Road Again"; performing artist: Willie Nelson)

Clever

The road to success is always under construction. (references; author: unknown)

How do they get a deer to cross at that yellow road sign? (references; author: unknown)

If the road you travel has no obstacles, it leads nowhere. (references; author: unknown)

Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Roland road in a Rolls Royce. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Road Home (2003)

High Road to China (1983)

On the Road with Duke Ellington (1974)

Road Movie (1974)

Three for the Road (1974)

Song Titles

Allison Road (performing artist: Gin Blossoms)

On The Road Again (performing artist: Willie Nelson)

Hit The Road Jack (performing artist: Ray Charles)

Hit the Road Jack (performing artist: The Residents)

On The Road To Fairfax County (performing artist: The Roches)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Road

DomainTitle

References

  • At Road, Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Country Road Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Kings Road Entertainment, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Mitsui Road Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Obayashi Road Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways (Road Trip Usa. Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways, 3rd e (reference)

  • The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (reference)

  • The Zone: A Dietary Road Map to Lose Weight Permanently: Reset Your Generic Code: Prevent Disease: Achieve Maximum Physical Performance (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Lost on the Bohemian Road (reference)

  • Classic Albums - Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (reference)

  • Road Construction Ahead (reference)

  • Arlington Road (reference)

  • The Peyote Road - Ancient Religion In Contemporary Crisis (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Zojirushi 14-Ounce Stainless Steel Tuff Road Commuter Mug, Stainless Steel (reference)

  • Zojirushi Tuff Road 16-Ounce Commuter Mug, Metallic Green (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Road

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Photo Album: Road

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Placement of corner stone for the CDC Clifton Road building. Credit: CDC.

CDC Clifton Road buildings, aerial view. Credit: CDC.

Station Post emulating the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" Leg settled badly in vicinity of ditch Tower was rebuilt with one leg placed in center of road. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"A dusty road" - White 3/4 ton truck Astro Party of C. V. Hodges. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A road through the live oak forest on Cabretta. The shadows weave a wonderful texture on the road surface. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Westend Road overlook of Fortuna Bay. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Bill Love avertising free service ahead on the road to Flaxman Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Some of the scenes on a road trip on the Kenai Peninsula. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The Route 9 Bridge that crosses Army Creek just upstream from the tide gate. The Army Creek wetlands are on both sides of the road. The road runs North/South , Army Creek runs East West. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The road down to the only existing housing at Mona Island leads to the staging and docking areas for the restoration workers. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Road
 

"On the road" by Michel Post
Commentary: "On the dutch highway."		"Country Road" by Blake Krasner
Commentary: "Rural trail."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Road".

PlayCaption
Horse's hooves clicking as he trots on paved road.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Road

AuthorQuotation

Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Author Unknown

Pay as you go or you'll have a rough road back.

Euclid

[To Ptolemy I] There is no royal road to geometry.

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

Homer

"He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road."

MoliFre

Long is the road from conception to completion.

Wendell Phillips

Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

William Ewart Gladstone

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Road

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Germany renounces in favour of Belgium all rights and title over the territory of Prussian Moresnet situated on the west of the road from Liege to Aix-la-Chapelle; the road will belong to Belgium where it bounds this territory. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Road

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

He did not think we ever walked this road.

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

But there was no use in replying, as he had already vanished round the bend of the road.

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on either hand

Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams

The road suddenly turns out to be impassable because it's being rebuilt by the Chinese, only we're not supposed to know that

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The road, after the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland, was no other than a footpath

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

About this hill the balls ricocheted over the paved road up to Napoleon

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

The old man was a nimble walker in spite of his corns and often ten or twelve miles of the road were covered

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Tom Joad and the preacher walked quickly along a road that was only wheel tracks and beaten caterpillar tracks through a cotton field

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I fell into a high road, for so I took it to be, though it served to the inhabitants only as a footpath through a field of barley

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

At six I passed him and his family on the road.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Road

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

To find out if a particular filter removes crypto, contact NSF International (3475 Plymouth Road, P.O. Box 130140, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-0140, 1-800-673-8010, 1-313-769-0109 [fax]), an independent testing group. (references)

Safety belts, air bags, infant and child car seats, as well as changes in speed limits, road design, and traffic control have reduced motor vehicle-related deaths and TBI. Additional preventive measures to reduce TBI caused by alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents should be developed and assessed. (references)

Trauma can occur after injuries in the home, at the workplace, during sports activities, or on the road. Any of these injuries can result in severe disability and pain. Some patients who have had an injury to the spinal cord experience intense pain ranging from tingling to burning and, commonly, both. Such patients are sensitive to hot and cold temperatures and touch. (references)

Business

Ivoirians also travel to neighboring countries by air, road and railways. (references)

In 1999, the Land Transport Safety Authority recorded 8,444 road crashes. (references)

Domestic deliveries are normally undertaken by road or rail from Auckland. (references)

Children

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Most persons with severe disabilities rarely leave their homes because of the poor road system and lack of affordable wheelchairs. (references)

Cameroon

On September 10, several blind persons blocked the road junction in Yaounde between the Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister's office and asked to speak to the Prime Minister about the eviction of several blind persons from a building in which they were living illegally. (references)

Civil Liberties

Suriname

In May three men forced a Dutch journalist off the road and beat him. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Land transportation is by road. (references)

Venezuela

Roads: Transport is mostly by road. (references)

Kiribati

Its location is Lagoon Road, Majuro. (references)

Human Rights

Haiti

In April a gang killed 10 motorists traveling on a Port-au-Prince road. (references)

Bolivia

Members of the army's Chapare Expeditionary Force attempted to clear the road. (references)

Peru

Hospital care is 6 to 8 hours away, depending on road conditions, by overland transportation. (references)

Indigenous People

Brazil

Road construction and deforestation are also threats. (references)

Bangladesh

On February 16, three foreign engineers were abducted at gunpoint from a road in Rangamati District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. (references)

India

The construction of a road through the forest that is inhabited by this group and the encroachment of Indian settlers have affected negatively this indigenous group's cultural vitality, economic self-sufficiency, and physical and mental health. (references)

Minorities

Burma

Evidence of such resettlement is visible along the Heho-Nyaungshwe road in Shan State and along the Mandalay-Mogok road toward Shan State. (references)

Czech Republic

On April 30, three men charged with rioting and defamation of race for a July 2000 attack of six Roma on a road near the village Osek were convicted of rioting and racially-motivated violence; one of the convicted received a 10-month suspended sentence, the second received an 8-month suspended sentence, and the third was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. (references)

Political Economy

Nigeria

Food production improved during the year due in part to record rainfalls; however, much of the agricultural produce was lost due to poor transportation infrastructure and road closures caused by ethno-religious violence. (references)

Trade

Burma

No. 21/25, Sule Pagoda Road, Pabedan P.O. Yangon, Myanmar. (references)

Albania

Leading public sector projects involve road building and energy sector loans. (references)

Switzerland

The issuing authority is the guarantor of road transit covered by a TIR carnet. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Off Ring Road, near Sankara Circle. (references)

Trinidad

Driving is on the left side of the road. (references)

Ghana

Located on Cantonments Road in downtown Osu. (references)

Worker Rights

Eritrea

The students were later sent to coastal areas to perform road work under conditions of extreme heat. (references)

Ethiopia

In January employees of the Chinese Addis Ababa Road Authority began to strike after 60 workers were dismissed. (references)

Eritrea

Unlike in previous years, there were no reports that Ethiopian civilian detainees were forced to perform paid farm labor and road repair. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Road

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Alexander Benedetto

They're six months down the road and realize, wow, what a mistake we've made. How are we going to get out of this one. In walks Mr. Plant.

Marlo Thomas

I don't think rough spots. Hard times, you know, of my being on the road with a play, and that kind of stuff, where we had to really struggle to find time, you know, to come back and forth to each other.

Paul Burrell

Well, I saw letters from a man who actually wanted to keep the family firm on the road, who wanted to keep things together, who cared. And that's strange because Prince Phillip gets a very bad press.

Phil McGraw

That's right. Do something. Take action. The world rewards action. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you want different, do different.

Robert Novak

But almost all the Democrats I've talked to, sir, believe that the party, to win, must have an image in the middle of the road, such as Bill Clinton provided. Do you disagree with that.

Rush Limbaugh

Your foot might be ready to stomp out that cigarette, but if you're not careful, you could find yourself tripping over that same foot down the road.

Trisha Meili

Right. And it was always on either the main road of the park or the cross drive is a road, and it has lights on it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Road

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

James Monroe

1817-1825This road is of incalculable advantage in facilitating the intercourse between the Western and the Atlantic States.

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829On a national road from Washington to Buffalo.

John F. Kennedy

1961-1963For the road has been long, the burden heavy, and the pace consistently urgent.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We pursued a strategy of more police, tougher punishment, smarter prevention, with crime-fighting partnerships with local law enforcement and citizen groups, where the rubber hits the road.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Road

"Road" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.04% of the time. "Road" is used about 27,071 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)71.04%19,231470
Noun (proper)28.96%7,8411,234
                    Total100.00%27,071N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Road

CountryNameCountryName
Australia

Country Road Limited

Japan

Maeda Road Construction Co., Ltd.

Malaysia

Road Builder (M) Holdings Berhad

United Kingdom

Loftus Road Plc

USA

At Road, Inc

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Road

Expressions using "road": 2 lane road ♦ 3 lane road ♦ a nearer road ♦ a road ♦ a switchback road ♦ access road ♦ accommodation road ♦ across the road ♦ active mode road accompanied transport ♦ ad on the road ♦ age of road vehicle ♦ aggressive road user behaviour ♦ ancillary road ♦ approach road ♦ arterial road ♦ asphalt road ♦ astride a road ♦ astride of a road ♦ at the turn of the road ♦ Automatic Road Analyzer Con l'A.R.A.N.è possibile definire,per ogni tipo di strada una scala di regolarità a cui riferirsi sia nell'accettare i nuovi lavori che nel decidere il momento in cui effettuare gli interventi di manutenzione. ♦ be in smb.'s road ♦ be on a road to recovery ♦ be on the road ♦ be on the road to recovery ♦ beside the road ♦ branch road ♦ Bridle road ♦ Bryans Road ♦ BU road ♦ bumpy road ♦ by road ♦ Cable road ♦ cart road ♦ CD road ♦ church Road ♦ circuitous road ♦ circular road ♦ classified road ♦ close road ♦ cobbled road ♦ connecting road ♦ corduroy road ♦ corniche road ♦ country road ♦ cut off road ♦ demand for road use, accidents and their gravity ♦ dirt road ♦ down the road ♦ dual carriageway road ♦ earth road ♦ end of the road ♦ energy consumption by road transport ♦ exit road ♦ face road ♦ feeder road ♦ foreign road vehicle ♦ Fosse road ♦ gentlemen of the road ♦ go across the road ♦ go down the road ♦ goods having entered the country by road ♦ goods in transit by road throughout ♦ goods loaded on a road vehicle ♦ goods transported by road ♦ goods unloaded from a road vehicle ♦ gravel road ♦ Green Road ♦ grip the road ♦ hard road ♦ haul road ♦ heavily traveled road ♦ high risk road user group ♦ high road ♦ hit the road ♦ hog the road ♦ hold the road well ♦ investment expenditure on road vehicles ♦ Jinny road ♦ knight of the road ♦ ladder road ♦ lakeside road ♦ leave a road ♦ licensed road haulage ♦ local distributor road ♦ Macadam road ♦ macadamized road ♦ main road ♦ main road out of town ♦ maintenance expenditure on road vehicles ♦ major road ♦ Maoadam road ♦ metalled road ♦ motor road ♦ NBU road ♦ off the road ♦ on the high road to ♦ on the road ♦ on the road to ♦ one for the road ♦ open road ♦ orbital road. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "road": road-accidents, road-adhering, road-based, road-biased, road-block, road-blocking, road-blocks, road-book, road-books, road-breaking, road-bridge, road-builder, road-builders, road-building, road-burning, road-car, road-casualty, road-charging, road-cleaning, road-closure, road-communications, road-contracting, road-crash, road-dirt, road-drills, road-effect, road-end, road-filthy, road-flints, road-friendly, road-gang, road-going, road-handling, road-haulage, road-hog, road-holding, road-holding qualities, road-humps, road-junction, road-kill, road-led, road-lobbied, road-maker, road-makers, road-making, road-map, road-maps, road-menders, road-mending, road-network, Road-north, road-novel, Road-on, road-passenger, Road-price, road-pricing, road-race, road-racing, road-rail, road-railway, road-rally, road-ready, road-repairers, road-route, road-runner, road-running, road-safe, road-safety, road-sense, road-sensitive, road-show, road-side, road-sign, road-signs, road-station, road-stone, road-sweeper, road-tax, road-tested, road-testing, Road-to-damascus, road-to-house, road-traffic, road-traffic-accident, road-train, road-transpor