tarmac
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈtɑrmæk/
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asfalto
- We waited at the tarmac for more than two hours.
- airport tarmac
- wait on the tarmac
- a tarmac road
And I'm coming in on the tarmac of the the runway.
- And I'm coming in on the tarmac of the the runway.
- We land on the tarmac and they say there's been lightning.
- It was like a clinic right on the side of the tarmac.
- But then when the wheels hit the tarmac at Reagan Airport, I lifted the shade up.
- So the bit that actually is responsible for transmitting the grip from the car to the tarmac is the bit that's probably least well understood.
- And then they had Jeep and all these motorbikes and the van, The Cave van on the tarmac ready to take me.
- It has to build up so much speed on that tarmac, on that runway so that it can begin to get lift off.
- He had a daughter from a previous marriage who had joined the Marines, was pregnant and walking across the tarmac and got hit by lightning and killed.
- And as we took off down the runway, when the wheels lifted up off the tarmac and we became airborne, I had the most incredible sense of freedom.
- And as I touched down on the tarmac at LAX, took airplane mode off e-mail.
- Then, Trump appeared with O'Brien on a noisy tarmac at LAX for a West Coast episode of Chopper Talk.
- Flight is still on a tarmac you but you must hurry right.
- This is in the book that was stopped on the tarmac in Kyrgyzstan, right?
Examples
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The plane was stuck on the tarmac, and we didn't have a gate.
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A fuel truck sits on the edge of the tarmac, waiting for a signal.
Fiction book (1992) -
Well, I stood there on the tarmac watching you check your watch over and over again.
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We gotta get this plane off the tarmac.
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I'll see you on the tarmac.
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We land on the tarmac and they say there's been lightning.
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I saw the man with the doctor's bag walking across the tarmac to the Lear jet.
Fiction book (1996) -
And as we took off down the runway, when the wheels lifted up off the tarmac and we became airborne, I had the most incredible sense of freedom.
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Reporters chase CHASE as he walks down the ramp and across the tarmac to his white limousine.
Fiction book (1995) -
The plane was stuck on the tarmac, and we didn't have a gate.
Synonyms
137
3.4
A long flat surface where planes take off and land
56
3.9
A dark sticky material used to make roads and keep roofs dry
47
1.0
A hard road surface used by cars
1
8.6
A road surface made from tar and small stones
1
1.6
A flat area covered with hard material like concrete or stones
How Smooth
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tarmac comes from putting tar, sticky black oil, on roads built by Macadam, a road maker, so it originally meant 'tar on Macadam'. That's why tarmac now means the smooth, hard surface used on roads and at airports.