A ROAD

Definition: A ROAD

A ROAD

1. The branches into which it divides, or which come together to form it; the place where separation or union takes place.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: A ROAD

How the hell do they expect us to keep schedule on a road like this? (A Bridge Too Far; writing credit: Cornelius Ryan; William Goldman)

But first first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

I walk a road, horizons change (THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING; performing artist: King Crimson)

On a road that goes to nowhere (Nowhere To Go; performing artist: Melissa Etheridge)

Rhythm 'n' Bayous: A Road Map to Louisiana Music (2000)

A Road to Elsewhere (1999)

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

Books

• Fire, Faults, & Floods: A Road & Trail Guide Exploring the Origins of the Columbia River Basin (Northwest Naturalist Book) (reference)

• Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers (reference)

• Homosexual Rites of Passage: A Road to Visibility and Validation (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (reference)

• Zora Neale Hurston : Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings : Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles (The Library of America, 75) (reference)

• Nationalization: A Road to Socialism: The Lessons of Tanzania (Third World Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

A road through the live oak forest on Cabretta. The shadows weave a wonderful texture on the road surface. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Some of the scenes on a road trip on the Kenai Peninsula. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

An aerial shows the marsh before it was altered by construction of a road passing through the marsh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Sediment from farm fields fills a road ditch. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Wind-blown soil clogs a road ditch in central Iowa. Credit: Unknown.

A road through the prairie. Credit: Merv Coleman.

A road to Badger Springs in the Agua Fria National Monument. Credit: Chris Tincher.

Cacti and other desert plants growing alongside a road in the Grand Canyon-Parshant National Monument. Credit: Lynn Chamberlain.

A road winds through an Arizona valley. Cloud covered sky in the background. Credit: Unknown.

A road in the lava beds in the Badlands Wilderness Study Area. OR 5-21. Credit: Unknown.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Tom Joad and the preacher walked quickly along a road that was only wheel tracks and beaten caterpillar tracks through a cotton field.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Apart from a number of smaller promotional events, the Visit USA Committee is also planning a road show in October/November 2000, which will be traveling to the four main cities, Oslo, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

Although in principle male citizens have the right to travel freely both inside and outside the country, their ability to travel within the country was hampered by warfare, brigandage, landmines, a road network in a state of disrepair, and limited domestic air service, complicated by factional threats to air traffic. (references)

Economic History

Djibouti

The interior of the country is served by a road system covering 1,172 kilometers, one-third of which is asphalt. (references)

Afghanistan

The Soviets built a road and tunnel through the Salang Pass in 1964, connecting northern and southern Afghanistan. (references)

Human Rights

Bangladesh

Early the following morning, the body of Julhash Uddin Khacha Miah was found on a road near a pond in Tarakandi, where he frequently went to gamble. (references)

Bangladesh

The following morning, the body of Julhash Uddin Khacha Miah was found on a road near a pond in Tarakandi; the body showed signs of a severe beating. (references)

Sierra Leone

For example, an SLA soldier allegedly beat a driver on a road from Kabala to the Guinean border when he refused to pay the guard approximately $5 (10,000 Leones). (references)

Indigenous People

Bangladesh

On February 16, three foreign engineers were abducted at gunpoint from a road in Rangamati District in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. (references)

India

The construction of a road through the forest that is inhabited by this group and the encroachment of Indian settlers have affected negatively this indigenous group's cultural vitality, economic self-sufficiency, and physical and mental health. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

On April 30, three men charged with rioting and defamation of race for a July 2000 attack of six Roma on a road near the village Osek were convicted of rioting and racially-motivated violence; one of the convicted received a 10-month suspended sentence, the second received an 8-month suspended sentence, and the third was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. (references)

Travel

Greece

Greek inland surface transportation is via a road and railroad network. (references)

Worker Rights

Burma

According to credible sources, in February 2000, the SPDC announced plans to develop the Karen hill town of Than Daung Cyi as a tourist "hill resort." Immediately after the announcement, new army battalions moved in, land was confiscated from the town's residents and surrounding villages, and persons began forced labor on a road to the hot springs at Ker Weh. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expressions using "A ROAD": astride a road ♦ astride of a road ♦ be on a road to recovery ♦ goods loaded on a road vehicle ♦ goods unloaded from a road vehicle ♦ leave a road ♦ place of disembarkment from a road vehicle ♦ place of embarkment on a road vehicle ♦ the forks of a road. Additional references.

Afrikaans

berm (shoulder, verge, verge of a road). (various references)

Chinese 

開闢 (build a road, open the flow of some stream; start), �" (astray, branch in a road, diverge). (various references)

Danish

vejens tracé (layout of a road, lie of a road, street lay-out), vej i afgravning (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), vej i afgravet terræn (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road). (various references)

Dutch

weg in ingraving (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), verdiepte weg (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), verdiept liggende weg (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), verdiept liggende straat (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), tracé van de straten (layout of a road, lie of a road, street lay-out), berm (shoulder, verge, verge of a road). (various references)

Esperanto

vojbordero (shoulder, verge, verge of a road), bermo (shoulder, verge, verge of a road). (various references)

Finnish

tieleikkaus (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), raivata tie metsän läpi (cut a road through the forest). (various references)

French

accotement (verge of a road), voie en déblai (trench for a road), tracé des rues (layout of a road, lie of a road), marchandise déchargée d'un véhicule routier (goods unloaded from a road vehicle), marchandise chargée sur un véhicule routier (goods loaded on a road vehicle), lieu d'embarquement sur un véhicule routier (place of embarkment on a road vehicle), lieu de débarquement d'un véhicule routier (place of disembarkment from a road vehicle), efficacité d'une mesure de sécurité routière (efficiency of a road safety measure). (various references)

German

ausfahren (come out, deliver, drive flat out, drive round, extend, go for a ride, leave, leave a road, pull out, put to sea, rut, sail out, take for a ride, turn off, wear out), auf dem weg der besserung sein (be on a road to recovery), Trasse (marked-out route), Straßentrasse (layout of a road, lie of a road, street lay-out), Straßeneinschnitt (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), Linienführung einer Straße (layout of a road, lie of a road, street lay-out). (various references)

Greek 

οδός σε όρυγμα (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road). (various references)

Hungarian

utat kanyarban feltölt (to bank a road, to bank a road at a corner). (various references)

Italian

tracciato delle strade (layout of a road, lie of a road, street lay-out), strada scavata nel terreno (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road), strada in trincea (cutting, road in cutting, sunk road, trench for a road). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

路肩 (berm, shoulder of a road), 敷設 (construction, laying a road). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ろかた (berm, shoulder of a road), ろけ�" (berm, detection, discovery, exposure, shoulder of a road). (various references)

Manx

bayrey (of a road). (various references)

Norwegian

vegkant (shoulder, verge, verge of a road). (various references)

Pig Latin

aay oadray.(various references)

Portuguese

traçado das ruas (layout of a road, lie of a road, street lay-out), berma (verge of a road). (various references)

Scottish

rathad (direction, road, route, way). (various references)

Spanish

lisera (shoulder, verge, verge of a road). (various references)

Swedish

huvudväg (arterial road, trunk road). (various references)

Turkish

yolun karşı tarafına (astride a road, astride of a road). (various references)

patha. (various references)

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

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

Misspellings

"A ROAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aroad. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: orad, road.

-2 letters: ado, dor, oar, ora, rad, rod.

-3 letters: aa, ad, ar, do, od, or.

+1 letter: aboard, abroad.

+2 letters: acaroid, adaptor, armload, bandora, bravado, broadax, carload, deodara, diorama, madrona, matador, monarda, pandora, parador, parados, paradox, podagra, roadmap, roadway.

+3 letters: aardwolf, adaptors, adorable, adorably, adulator, antidora, armloads, bandoras, boardman, boatyard, bravados, broadaxe, cardamom, cardamon, carloads, cartload, coalyard, deodaras, diaspora, dioramas, dragoman, garboard, goalward, labrador, lapboard, larboard, largando, laudator, loadstar, madronas, mandator, matadors, monardas, pandoras, paradors, paradrop, paranoid, parlando, podagral, podagras, radiator, radioman, railroad, roadmaps, roadways, seaboard, tagboard, tapadero, teaboard, tramroad, workaday.