overpass
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈoʊvərˌpæs/
- US
:
puente elevado
- The new overpass allows traffic to flow smoothly above the busy intersection.
- a highway overpass
And he responded to a call on an overpass.
- And he responded to a call on an overpass.
- It had skidded off and hit an embankment and actually flipped over and fallen from an overpass.
- Or you can sit on the overpass while the traffic's going under you and go, OK, there's a lot of anxiety happening right now, OK.
- There's three options, those two and then pushing a shopping cart under an overpass because I'm cemented in PTSD where no one understands me.
- And so eventually I lucked up on finding pre construction condominiums in a place called Dumbo down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass.
Examples
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Hey, we just got a call about a deer collision under the overpass.
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Drop me at the overpass.
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OK, so I want to build an overpass here, right?
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No leaves now fly across the overpass as I walk along it.
Fiction book (1992) -
I want the security tape from the overpass.
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As they head under an overpass, we see kids cheering.
Fiction book (2000) -
This is taken underneath the bridge, just an overpass for two highways.
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A small truck, its sides painted to advertise a security company, goes over the overpass.
Fiction book (2001) -
Gathered beneath the overpass are the police, coroner, criminalists, and a local FBI agent.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're up there now, on the overpass, with the photographer and Novak, examining tire tracks in the soft shoulder.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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7.2
A long bridge that carries a road or railway over low ground like a valley
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4.2
A raised road that carries traffic over another road or railway
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4.3
A bridge or path that lets people cross to the other side of a road
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Etymology
Overpass comes from the parts over ('above') and pass ('a way through'), so an overpass is literally a 'way above' another road or railway. That's why an overpass is a bridge that lets traffic cross over without meeting the traffic below.