roads, roadstead
(noun) a partly sheltered anchorage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
roads
plural of road
roads pl (plural only)
(nautical, occasionally in the singular) A roadstead.
• Rados, Sardo, dorsa, rados, sarod
Source: Wiktionary
Road, n. Etym: [AS. rad a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. ridan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]
1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.] With easy roads he came to Leicester. Shak.
2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.
Note: The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.
4. Etym: [Possibly akin to Icel. reithi the rigging of a ship, E. ready.]
Definition: A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads. Shak.
Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road]. Spenser. On, or Upon, the road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; on the way. My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road. Cowper.
– Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.] The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called. The century.
– Road book, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances.
– Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.
– Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact.
– often driven by steam.
РRoad runner (Zo̦l.), the chaparral cock.
– Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads.
– To go on the road, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. [Colloq.] -- To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.
– To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways.
Syn.
– Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 April 2024
(adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle
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