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Tarmacadam.
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Any bituminous road surfacing material.
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The driveable surface of a road.
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The area of an airport, other than the runway, where planes park or maneuver.
verb
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To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material.
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To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.
Examples of tarmac in a Sentence
Pick Arcade if you just want to hop into the game and tear up some tarmac.
A special cycle lane has been built in red tarmac alongside the footpath.
These include such oddments as the sound of shoes on mud, leaves and tarmac to accompany the players movements.
Gradually the tarmac was crumbled at the edge causing dangerous potholes.
As she greeted Canadian soldiers on the airport tarmac, the wind blew her billowy yellow skirt up, revealing her underwear.
There is 5ft high bracken up to the tarmac.
While the information superhighway keeps growing, Ian hopes to keep trucking on its digital tarmac.
Outside The property is accessed via a tarmac driveway to the side which provides ample parking leads to the detached garage / workshop.
Lighting from the garage areas has been reused along the new tarmac footpath and seating from Dumbarton Town Center has also been reused.
Turn right up the short tarmac road until you see the gateposts and a sign " Croft Park " .
Should be interesting to see if Tarmac will let us use the henge again this Beltane.
After all, a block of resin can contain any number of nasties - including henna and tarmac!
Indeed, many never leave Tarmac or gather the faintest hint of mud.
The gleaming tarmac of the last 10 km to the Chinese border seemed an omen of things to come.
Ample parking and turning on the lengthy tarmac drive, which leads to a large detached brick garage with pantile roof.
With the outbreak of war an east-west tarmac runway was constructed, followed by a NE-SW one.
The tarmac driveways have low speed bumps with open access through the middle.
The root suckers need amazing strength to push up through the tarmac.
The car park is within easy walking distance of the terminal, is well lit and is on newly laid tarmac.
At that very moment the wheels of the plane hit the tarmac with a bang causing the suitcase lid to slam shut once more.
Then again, you don't get a winter of miserably pounding the tarmac through all kinds of foul weather with the triathlon.
As you reach the tarmac, just adjacent to the farm, turn right and follow the road for 350 meters.
Just past the small town of Hatch we leave the tarmac to go off-road through the Dixie National Forest.
Terrain is generally suitable of unaided access on smooth tarmac surfaces.
The first obstacle she came across was some different colored tarmac in the road.
The creature's soft, black eyes, slick as wet tarmac regarded me with what I can only describe as recognition.
A face lost forever to the cruel kiss of hot tarmac; a love abandoned forever to the cleansing fervor of the flames.
Car Parking is FREE, with a network of level tarmac roads for ease of access for the disabled.
On tarmac - not very twisty tarmac - where they can use all their power, they are in their element.
Picture the slow motion mind video - sounds of alloy on tarmac, shattering plastic and breaking glass.
Weeds and weedkiller We spray weedkiller on pavements made of bricks and concrete slabs, and on the sides of tarmac pavements.
This is the hot and cold air refracting the light waves above the hot tarmac.
Sit back and enjoy the roar of the engine and the squeal of tires on tarmac from the great racing circuits of the world.
Finally where appropriate, a tack coat is applied that gives a good bond to the tarmac that will be laid immediately above it.
Today, most of us take relatively smooth, tarmac roads for granted.
Then again, you do n't get a winter of miserably pounding the tarmac through all kinds of foul weather with the triathlon.
The creature 's soft, black eyes, slick as wet tarmac regarded me with what I can only describe as recognition.
The majority of the terrain is tarmac on very quiet country roads but there are many options to increase the amount of off-road action.
Access is very easy, with a tarmac path all the way around the loch edge.
The tarmac gang claim to be contractors for the County or District Council.
The fitting of less knobbly tires will make the bike usable on tarmac.
Tarmac aggregate operate on a 5 hectare site dedicated to the import of marine dredged aggregate.
The tarmac rapidly crumbled into a dirt road shadowing the line of the old Central Pacific Railroad.
At the footpath sign, we crossed the road and went along the tarmac path sign, we crossed the road and went along the tarmac path, which took us through a cemetery.
Take proper Avoid using naked black tarmac wherever possible.
Although the number of incidents have declined in recent years, dogs do still sometimes get lost in transit, escape on the tarmac, and even die in the cargo hold.