What's the difference between underpass and viaduct?

Underpass


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Diego Felipe Becerra was spray-painting his signature wide-eyed Felix the Cat image on the walls of an underpass when he was killed.
  • (2) In Croydon, south London, a pedestrian underpass will be turned into an emergency pond to hold hundreds of thousands of litres of floodwater threatening homes and businesses.
  • (3) Overnight, hundreds of new pieces adorned the walls of the underpass where Bieber had left his mark.
  • (4) Even the parameters of Princess Diana's death in a Parisian underpass in 1997 had been sketched out, to some degree, in Crash.
  • (5) Continue down onto Govan Mbeki Street, past vendors plying their trade, colossal highways and underpasses, all the while weaving past cars and taxis rushing to get people to and from work.
  • (6) On crash barriers and underpasses in provincial towns and on banners in the heart of Barcelona, graffiti in the Catalan language demand "Liberty for Catalonia".
  • (7) Two distinct types of tunnel radial fibers, upper tunnel radial fibers and underpassing radial fibers, were recognized.
  • (8) Underpasses were open, “not dark and scary places”, and the centre was “joined up” with subtle furniture.
  • (9) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On the evening of 19 August, Diego Felipe Becerra , a 16-year-old street artist who called himself Tripido, was painting pictures of Felix the Cat on the walls of an underpass when the police turned up.
  • (10) She made the work in 1999: a recording of her voice, singing this anthem of international socialism, was installed in an underpass in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  • (11) The country now has one of the highest densities in the world of overhead crossings and underpasses for wild animals.
  • (12) All I know for sure is you're best off avoiding the underpass.
  • (13) From the morphological characteristics, these underpassing radial fibers were thought to be efferent in nature.
  • (14) The rhyme 'Ya mushir, ya mushir, the people are returning to Tahrir', reverberated through backstreets and underpasses as the marches swelled; in the face of such energy, the generals largely opted to stay out of sight, though they did fire up their primary method of public communication these days – Facebook – to repeat their commitment to democratic transition and chide Egyptians for thinking ill of the top brass.
  • (15) But even following the A10 autoroute's relatively motorway straight course between villages and towns means building dozens of new bridges and underpasses where the routes wind and overlap.
  • (16) Officers, many with riot shields and wielding pepper spray, dragged away dozens of protesters, tore down barricades and removed concrete slabs the protesters used as road blocks around the underpass.
  • (17) Our study included (1) investigating the type and amount of information available in the streets including underpass; (2) classifying and organizing signs according to the content of information; and (3) analyzing the relation between different types of information, between situations and signs, and continuity of the signs of the same type.
  • (18) Woodford [tube] is accessible on both platforms but you have to access the southbound platform via an underpass.
  • (19) The alternative to HS2 is not another grand project, it is myriad small, high-return projects that would deliver benefits in the near future: bypasses, flyovers, underpasses, commuter line upgrades, carriage improvements, platform improvements and more ... projects that would serve the many rather than the few.” Day Eight: Berkswell to Birmingham, eight miles My walk ended on the autumn equinox, as it had begun: in the rain.
  • (20) Other migrants caught in the train station underpass pushed back dozens of riot police blocking the top of the stairs to fight their way back on board the train, which remained stationary in high temperatures.

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.

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