Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually paved strip at an airport for use by aircraft in taxiing to and from a runway.
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- noun aviation A path in an
airport connectingrunways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport
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Examples
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The taxiway is very wide and long, better than the rough runways at that airport.
Closed runways can't stop pilot-Sen. James Inhofe Al Kamen 2010
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The taxiway is very wide and long, better than the rough runways at that airport.
Sen. Inhofe is not an X-Man Al Kamen 2010
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The taxiway is very wide and long, better than the rough runways at that airport.
Sen. Inhofe is not an X-Man. Al Kamen 2010
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Instead of landing on the runway, it landed on the taxiway, which is usually used by planes that just landed or are getting ready to takeoff, of course.
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The taxiway are the blue lights to the right of it.
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So the question is, how could the pilots have confused the taxiway, which is what they landed on, for the runway.
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The cost estimate for the larger project, including the ramp expansion and taxiway, which is to run parallel to the runway and be 5,000 feet long by 35 feet wide, remains $6 million.
marconews.com Stories KELLY FARRELL 2010
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The cost estimate for the larger project, including the ramp expansion and taxiway, which is to run parallel to the runway and be 5,000 feet long by 35 feet wide, remains $6 million.
marconews.com Stories KELLY FARRELL 2010
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Getting the runway rebuilt will improve the surface for fliers, but the taxiway is a major safety improvement.
unknown title 2009
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$556,797 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration that would be used to reconstruct a portion of the airport's "Alpha" taxiway, which is the primary taxiway for the facility's main runway.
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