(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
(v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
(v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
(v.) Commodities of the market.
(v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
Example Sentences:
(1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
(5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
(9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
(10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
(11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
(12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
(13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
(14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
(15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
(17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
(18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
(19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
(20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
Viaduct
Definition:
(n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.
Example Sentences:
(1) C-particles were present in t-tubules, which were possible intracellular viaducts of infection or dissemination and perhaps were the loci of receptors of viral invasion of the cytoplasm and sites of egress.
(2) An obvious comparison, made by Gensler, is with the High Line in New York, the phenomenally successful park made out of an old railway viaduct, which like the River Park is long and thin.
(3) Six years before the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge, Gustave Eiffel had completed the lightweight Garabit Viaduct.
(4) The Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 high speed rail scheme.
(5) HS2 will pass over local fields on a viaduct, and skirt a new-ish housing development called Sandwath Drive, built around a snooker-table green and a childrens' play area.
(6) The narrative begins with the story of her sister's illness but also incorporates local history, namely the lives (and deaths) of the men who worked on the nearby Ribblehead viaduct in the 1870s; then there are the stories of fell runners, cavers and farmers.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 network.
(8) After all the romantic mythologising of On the Road 's Americana, it was genuinely comforting to watch a film mapping a journey from Redditch through to Shipton, Chesterfield and Ribblehead viaduct.
(9) An Italian coach crashes through a "safety" barrier and plunges off a viaduct, leaving at least 37 people dead .
(10) While poor Craig was foraging for nettles and chip scraps in the wilderness (the grass next to the railway viaducts), something strange was happening.
(11) There are two particular infrastructure investments in the county that could make a big contribution to capacity and speed challenges on the line as a whole – a single track section at Usan south of Montrose and the old South Esk viaduct at Montrose itself.
(12) HS2 Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘No sensible transport economist stands behind HS2.’ The Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 rail scheme.
(13) HS2 has said it is aiming to avoid an increase in flood risk by using water management techniques and viaducts.
(14) Among those apparently ignored was Alistair Lenczner, who led the design team on the world-famous Millau Viaduct in southern France.
(15) If Musk really found a way to build viaducts for $5 million per kilometer,” Levy wrote, “this is a huge thing for civil engineering in general and he should announce this in the most general context of urban transportation, rather than the niche of intercity transportation.” Similarly, the proposal briefly discusses thermal expansion: as the steel of the tubes heats in the hot California sun, the metal expands.
(16) Boarding at Fort William close to Ben Nevis, passengers cross the famous 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct .
(17) A mile out of Okehampton is the Meldon Viaduct, a gently curved, tottering Victorian lattice of wrought and cast iron 150ft above the West Okement river.
(18) Those viaducts, already curiously undercosted in Musk’s plan?
(19) Although we are more able to appreciate pure engineering structures today, it has been fascinating to witness the publicity surrounding the Millau Viaduct.
(20) Tunnels will hide a proportion of the line, but one historic area, the Missenden valley, will be dissected diagonally by miles of concrete viaducts and embankments.