Multilane vs Highway - What's the difference?
multilane | highway |
(of a road or of vehicular traffic) Having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.
*1972 , "
*:The Government since 1956 has laced the U.S. with 33,000 miles of multilane highways.
*2002 , "
*:What fascinated me the most were the futuristic superhighways, multilane ribbons of traffic filled with cars, buses and trucks.
A main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (rail) Any public road for vehicular traffic.
As an adjective multilane
is (of a road or of vehicular traffic) having more than one lane of traffic traveling in at least one direction.As a noun highway is
a main, direct public road, especially a multi-lane, high speed thoroughfare connecting major population centers.multilane
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Adjective
(-)Away from Highways," Time , 27 Mar.,
Mail Call: Ten Years From Now," Newsweek , 28 Oct.,
highway
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
