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Traffic vs Pedal - What's the difference?

traffic | pedal |

As nouns the difference between traffic and pedal

is that traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof while pedal is pedal.

As a verb traffic

is to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

traffic

English

(wikipedia traffic)

Alternative forms

* traffick

Noun

(-)
  • Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
    • Traffic is slow at rush hour.
  • Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
  • * 1719 , :
    • I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
  • * 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
    • It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
  • Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
  • Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
  • Commodities of the market.
  • * John Gay
    • You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

    Derived terms

    * traffic boy * traffic jam

    Verb

    (traffick)
  • To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  • To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  • To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

    • References

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    pedal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano
    • There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
    A piano usually has two or three pedals .
    the pedal of a loom
  • (medicine) a foot or footlike part.

    • Derived terms

    * brake pedal * pedal pushers * soft pedal * sostenuto pedal * sustaining pedal

    Verb

  • To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
    • to pedal one's loom
  • To operate a bicycle.
    • He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the foot.

    • Coordinate terms

    * , relating to the hand

    Anagrams

    * * * English heteronyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • a (l)

    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    References

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