Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The part of a road, street, or bridge intended to be used by wheeled vehicles; a roadway.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. British one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only, usually in two or three lanes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes
Etymologies
- From carriage + way. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The huge rumbling dual carriageway is a silent, deep red stained strip of concrete.”
“A bridge was built in 1971, and the dual carriageway from the bridge carries you past Barbatre all the way to Noirmoutier-en-l’Île, which is the island’s main town.”
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“In an average day the average London motorist probably breaks a couple of laws - straying into a box junction without the exit being clear, moving into a bus lane to pass a car turning right and blocking the only carriageway allowed to cars, etc.etc. etc.”
“A couple of minutes later he spotted the team from Technical on the far side of the inbound carriageway, opposite the row of shops on Marino Parade.”
“And Mulcahy just grunted as he floored the accelerator again, blazing a full mile up the rule-straight carriageway until, at the Phoenix Monument, he swung the wheel hard left and sped down into the still deeper darkness of Acres Road.”
“So when we stood on a small patch of ground there, beside the ancient chapel and no more than a few yards from the crowded dual carriageway, with two sleeping pygmy goats, a crested cockerel and two hens for company, we were as unaware of the hordes racing past as they were of us or of the chapel, and seemingly translated into a different sphere of existence from theirs.”
“Our driver swerves to the left and stops in the middle of the carriageway facing the hooting, oncoming traffic.”
“Compare that to the usual UK scenario; built up areas, single carriageway winding roads with parked cars and numerous pedestrians.”
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“Both their cars were on the opposite carriageway, one in the overtaking lane, one in the slow lane, doing in excess of 80mph into oncoming traffic.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘carriageway’.
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WF - nominal compounds (concrete)
foodstuff, banknote, crankshaft, earphone, fibreboard, fishplate, forklift, glassware, guardrail, handicraft, headband, kitchenware and 181 more...
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ways
As in routes, avenues & tracts. Omitting, e.g., halfway, anyway, sideways, folkway, Haddaway. (many of those are found thisways)
alleyway, Broadway, highway, hatchway, archway, thruway, railway, doorway, runway, skyway, hallway, shaftway and 79 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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