Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit NÂș 277 Version 3.
Main Definitions
- traffic |n| the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time.
- "There's always a lot of traffic at this time of day."
- "In the town centre, traffic was already building up as early as 3 p.m."
- "The driver calmly navigated the heavy traffic."
- "Traffic clogs the streets of the city centre."
- pedestrian traffic / foot traffic |n| people coming and going on foot.
- traffic jam / traffic congestion |n| a line of road traffic at or near a standstill because of road construction, an accident, or heavy congestion.
- "It may cause a traffic jam or a tailback to the point of gridlock."
- fine / mulct |n| a financial punishment for the commission of crimes, especially minor crimes.
- crash / vehicle accident / wreck |n| an accident in which a vehicle hits something, for example another vehicle, usually causing damage and often injuring or killing the passengers.
- "A girl was killed yesterday in a crash involving a stolen car."
- "A car/plane crash."
Streets and Routes
- avenue |UK| |n| in the UK, streets are usually called avenue.
- street |n| paved part of road in a village or a town.
- "She lives just a few streets away."
- side street |n| a minor or unimportant street, esp one leading off a main thoroughfare.
- roundabout |UK| / traffic circle |US| |n| a place where three or more roads join and traffic must go around a circular area in the middle, rather than straight across.
- railway |n| a road composed of parallel steel rails supported by ties and providing a track for locomotive-drawn trains or other wheeled vehicles.
Streets and Routes Elements
- lane |n| a division of road intended to separate single lines of traffic according to speed or direction.
- "She signalled and pulled over into the slow lane."
- slow lane |n| the part of the street where vehicles drive slowest.
- "The bus was crawling along in the slow lane."
- fast lane |n| the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly.
- "Cars in the fast lane were travelling at over 80 miles an hour."
- turnpike |n| an expressway, especially one on which a toll is charged.
- "Ohio's section of highway 80 is called a turnpike , and they charge a toll to drive on it."
- traffic sign / road sign / street sign |n| a sign erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users.
- signal |n| a piece of equipment that uses different coloured light to tell drivers to go slower, stop, etc, used especially on railway / railroads and roads.
Weather
- weather |n| weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
- fog |n| a cloud like mass or layer of minute water droplets or ice crystals near the surface of the earth, appreciably reducing visibility.
- "We get heavy fogs on this coast in winter."
- rain / rainfall |n| drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds.
- "The rain had not stopped for days."
- smog |n| mixture of smoke, gases, chemicals and fog.
- "The city is covered in smog for much of the year."
- snow / snowfall |n| atmospheric water vapour frozen in to ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer.
- "We had a light snowfall last night."
People
- commuter belt |n| an area around a large city, from which many people travel to work every day.
- "Motorists are being encouraged to switch to public transport."
- "The window on the driver's side was open."
- driver |n| someone who regularly drives, or someone who is driving a car, train, etc at a particular time.
- "Car drivers now pay more than ever for fuel."
- "The coach was badly damaged, but the driver was unhurt."
- motorist |n| (usually plural) especially written someone who drives a car (used especially when talking about car drivers in general).
- "Motorists who are caught speeding have to pay a heavy fine."
- chauffeur |n| someone whose job is to drive a car for someone else.
- "He was picked up by a chauffeur in a limousine."
- trucker |US| |inf| |n| someone who drives a truck.
- "Mexico has no limit on how many hours truckers can drive daily."
- road hog |inf| |n| someone who drives dangerously, without considering the safety of other people on the road, for example by not letting other drivers pass.
- "Some road hogs drive at well below the speed limit, because they want to use their mobile phones."
- cyclist |n| a person who rides a bicycle.
- "They are both very keen cyclists."
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