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tarmac | murray |

As a noun tarmac

is the bituminous surface of a road.

As a verb tarmac

is (british|canada) to pave.

tarmac

English

(wikipedia tarmac)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The bituminous surface of a road.
  • * '>citation
  • (lb) The area of an airport where planes park or maneuver.

    • Usage notes

    * The tarmac is any area of an airfield that is paved. It is often used to describe planes that are still sitting on a paved surface due to some sort of delay.

    See also

    * asphalt

    Verb

  • (British, Canada) To pave.
  • * {{quote-book, 2008, Valerie Belsey, Exploring Green Lanes in North and North-West Devon citation
    • , passage=To your left is a green lane, partly tarmacked with chippings, which leads up to a little car-parking area. }}
  • * 2014 , Taking the rough with the smooth: Bolton residents anger over half-tarmaced road, ITV Granada:
    • Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes.
  • (aviation) To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.
  • * {{quote-book, 1989, Donald F. Wood & James C. Johnson, Contemporary Transportation citation
    • , passage="It is not unusual these days for the time spent tarmacking to exceed the time spent in the air, " said Senator John Danforth, R-Mo.}}

    Alternative forms

    * tarmack

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    murray

    English

    (wikipedia Murray)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A river in southeastern Australia, flowing 2,589 km (1,609 mi) to the Indian Ocean.
  • Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. and elsewhere.
  • * :Scene 1:
    • Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son / To beaten Douglas, and the Earls of Athol, / Of Murray , Angus, and Menteith.
  • , transferred from the surname.
  • * 1992 , The End of the Pier , page 151:
    • Murray' was the sort of name he might have expected his father to pick. '''Murray''' : not a family name, not a friend's name, not some old blowhard up in New Hampshire (his father's home state) who'd sat around in the general store playing checkers and sucking his teeth. ' Murray was a name you couldn't do anything with. Murr — what the hell kind of nickname was that? The kids in second and third grade had certainly seen the name's possibilities. With the appropriate swishes and vocal flutings, they called him "Mary".

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