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Traffic Island

Definition: Traffic Island

Traffic Island

Noun

1. An island area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded; provides safe area for pedestrians.

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


Synonyms: Traffic Island

Synonyms: safety island (n), safety isle (n), safety zone (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Traffic Island

DomainUsage

Lyrics

On a traffic island stopped (Carnival; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

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

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Modern Translation: Traffic Island

Language Translations for "traffic island"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

пешеходно островче. (various references)

   

Danish

  

trafikhelle (divisional island), bremsehelle (divisional island). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verhoogde rijbaanscheiding (divisional island). (various references)

   

French

  

îlot séparateur. (various references)

   

German

  

Verkehrsinsel (street refuge). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απορροή των ομβρίων υδάτων (divisional island). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

járdasziget (refuge, safety island). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spartitraffico (reservation), salvagente (life buoy, life preserver, lifebelt, lifejacket), pedana di divisione del traffico (divisional island), isolotto (eyot, islet), isola spartitraffico (divisional island), isola di traffico (divisional island), divisorio (divisional island, partition, partition wall, wall). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

affictray islanday

   

Portuguese

  

ilha separadora (divisional island). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

refugio (Alpine hut, asylum, climber's hut, cover, covert, harborage, harbourage, haven, housing, lieu, mountain hut, pied a terre, place of refuge, refuge, retreat, safety island, sanctuary), parterre (divisional island, flower bed), isleta de tránsito (divisional island), isleta (islet), isla de tránsito (divisional island), divisoria (divide, leak), bandejón (divisional island, floe), arriate (border). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trafikdelare, trafikö (divisional island, refuge), skiljeremsa (divisional island), sidorefug (divisional island), refuge (island, refuge). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

refüj (refuge, safety island, safety zone). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Traffic Island

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-f-f-i-i-l-n-r-s-t"

-4 letters: cardinals, diffracts, fatidical, flancards, racialist, satirical, taffrails.

-5 letters: actinias, affiants, afflicts, airlifts, antacids, ascidian, caitiffs, cardinal, carditis, diastral, diffract, distrain, fanatics, fantails, filarian, finalist, flancard, flatcars, fractals, iatrical, indrafts, infarcts, inflicts, infracts, intarsia, laniards, radiants, radicals, santalic, sialidan, taffrail, tailfans, traffics, triacids, triadics, triclads.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Traffic Island


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 61 66 66 69 63      49 73 6C 61 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101001 01100011 00100000 01001001 01110011 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#102 &#102 &#105 &#99 &#32 &#73 &#115 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 0066 0066 0069 0063      0049 0073 006C 0061 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

548467727275692438578678070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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