speedway
(noun) a racetrack for racing automobiles or motorcycles
speedway
(noun) road where high speed driving is allowed
Source: WordNet® 3.1
speedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)
(uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
(uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
(chiefly, US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
• (motorcycle racing genre): motorcycle speedway
• (bicycle racing genre): cycle speedway, bicycle speedway
• (racing track): motor speedway, motospeedway
Speedway (plural er-noun)
An enclave in Indianapolis, Wayne Township, Marion County, Indiana, United States
Source: Wiktionary
29 June 2024
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
