Word Finder - highway

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A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.

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An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.

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(medical industry) An ambulance.

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A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.

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Any public road for vehicular traffic.

What highway was the drop on?

Our motel was at least five or six miles up the coast highway through town.

The next turn found her on a narrow two lane highway that was a succession of curves.

After thirty minutes she spotted the sign indicating the state highway where she was supposed to turn.

They walked parallel to an abandoned highway for a couple of hours until they reached the second fed site.

If you'd take a ride on the information highway like me, you'd know all about this stuff.

The narrow black highway ribboned smoothly down hill under a canopy of trees.

It's about eight miles after you reach the highway.

Just keep to your right on the main road and you'll get to the highway just fine.

Once they reached the highway, Elisabeth opened her laptop.

As he turned, the lights of a silent ambulance bounced across the long stretch of pasture between the highway and the mangled car.

Behind it, sixteen cars were jammed together all the way back to the highway.

He nodded; his attention riveted on the highway.

Glancing at the road behind them he pulled back onto the highway.

We just turned off the highway, so we'll be there pretty soon.

There aren't any open side roads and hardly a plowed turnoff on this highway for twenty miles.

The Highway Act of 1835 specified as offences for which the driver of a carriage on the public highway might be punished by a fine, in addition to any civil action that might be brought against him - riding upon the cart, or upon any horse drawing it, and not having some other person to guide it, unless there be some person driving it; negligence causing damage to person or goods being conveyed on the highway; quitting his cart, or leaving control of the horses, or leaving the cart so as to be an obstruction on the highway; not having the owner's name painted up; refusing to give the same; and not keeping on the left or near side of the road, when meeting any other carriage or horse.

He glared at the ocean and strode up the beach littered with wood, boats, and cars, to the highway.

With each bend of the highway they found breathtaking views.

Further, every city had its own octroi duties, customs, ferry dues, highway and water rates.

Bridges, on the other hand, and so much of the highway as is immediately connected with them, are as a general rule a charge on the county; and by 22 Henry VIII.

A bridge, like a highway, may be a burden on neighbouring land ratione tenurae.

Extensive changes in the English law of highways have been made by various highway acts, viz.

The leading principle of the Highway Act 1835 is to place the highways under the direction of parish surveyors, and to provide for the necessary expenses by a rate levied on the occupiers of land.

The surveyor is likewise specially charged with the removal of nuisances on the highway.

A highway nuisance may be abated by any person, and may be made the subject of indictment at common law.

The amending acts, while not interfering with the operation of the principal act, authorize the creation of highway districts on a larger scale.

At the same time a passenger crossing the highway is also bound to use due care in avoiding vehicles, and the mere fact of a driver being on the wrong side of the road would not be evidence of negligence in such a case.

Cooley's treatise on the American Law of Torts states that "the custom of the country, in some states enacted into statute law, requires that when teams approach and are about to pass on the highway, each shall keep to the right of the centre of the travelled portion of the road."

The public have a right to pass along a highway freely, safely and conveniently, and any wrongful act or omission which prevents them doing so is a nuisance, for the prevention and abatement of which the highways and other acts contain provisions.

The expenses of highway management in each district (or parish), together with a proportion of the general expenses of the act, are levied by the trustees by an assessment on the lands and heritages within the district (or parish).

In statutes dealing with offences connected with the highway, such as gaming, negligence of carriers, &c., "highway" includes navigable rivers.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Sprint's coverage tends to be best in the San Francisco metro area and along Highway 17.

When creating a travel plan with side trips, it is important to remember to chart the return route to the main highway from each restaurant or attractions included in the trip plan.

It has lots of seating for the entire family and is a good place to fill up after the slopes before you hit the highway.

Hopefully her family would be in the restaurant now – safe from any flooding on the highway.

Maybe Sarah or Giddon would take her to the little country store where the dirt road joined the highway.

The words just lay there like road kill on a summer highway.

The topless Jeep offered an unfettered view of the spectacular scenery they entered as soon as they left the highway.

Donald Ryland kept up a nonstop conversation with his son and front seat companion, as they whipped along the highway.

If I don't get stuck in the mud, I should be able to make it to the highway.

Morbid curiosity drew her from the gutter to the highway.

At the door she stopped and watched his truck go down the road – watched the tail lights get bright as he stopped on the main road, and then watched them fade down the highway.

She pulled onto the crowded street and drove with barely contained patience through the residential areas before flooring the car when she reached the highway.

She pulled out of the drive to his apartment and guided the car to the highway.

In the succeeding century it was connected with Carthage by a great highway.

But a highway, available all the year round, was made in 1863-1864 around its southern shore, partly by blasting the cliffs, and it is now (since 1905) followed by the transSiberian railway.

They serve the trade of Lake Pontchartrain and the Florida parishes, the lumber, coal, fish, oyster and truck trade of New Orleans, and to some extent are the highway of a miscellaneous coasting trade.

With the exception of the highway from Pnom-Penh (q.v.) the capital, to Kampot, the roads of Cambodia are not suited for vehicles.