Saturday, 17 July 2010

Streets

Streets


avenue: a wide street in a city

  • The avenues in the city are wide and elegant.


beltway: a freeway that forms a circle around a city, connecting its outer suburbs

  • Traffic is fast on the beltway, and you have to be careful.


freeway: a highway with several lanes and few or no stoplights; vehicles enter and exit via ramps

  • There are always a lot of trucks on the freeway.


highway: a main public road that connects towns and cities

  • The highway is usually crowded.


road: an open way for the passage of vehicles, people, or animals

  • The road that leads to our cabin is not paved.


street: a public way for automobiles, usually with buildings on both sides

  • What street do you live on?


toll road: a freeway that charges money to use it

  • We took the toll road and got there much faster, but it cost ten dollars in tolls.

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