dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
semester hour credit hour | a unit of academic credit, one hour a week for an academic semester |
haste hurry rush rushing | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner, in his haste to leave he forgot his book |
rush rushing | (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line, the linebackers were ready to stop a rush |
traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic drug trafficking narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
bumper | a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage |
bumper | a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast), we quaffed a bumper of ale |
bumper car Dodgem | a small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged |
bumper guard | vertical bars attached to a bumper to prevent locking bumpers with another vehicle |
bumper jack | a jack for lifting a motor vehicle by the bumper |
hour hand little hand | the shorter hand of a clock that points to the hours |
rushlight rush candle | a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick |
traffic circle circle rotary roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island safety island safety isle safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
hour minute | distance measured by the time taken to cover it, we live an hour from the airport, its justminutes away |
traffic light traffic signal stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
traffic | the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time, heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines, traffic on the internet is lightest during the night |
rush | a sudden burst of activity, come back after the rush |
rush spate surge upsurge | a sudden forceful flow |
boom bonanza gold rush gravy godsend manna from heaven windfall bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
bang boot charge rush flush thrill kick | the swift release of a store of affective force, they got a great bang out of it, what a boot!, he got a quick rush from injecting heroin, he does it for kicks |
traffic jam snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time |
air traffic | traffic created by the movement of aircraft |
commuter traffic | traffic created by people going to or returning from work |
pedestrian traffic foot traffic | people coming and going on foot |
vehicular traffic vehicle traffic | the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality |
automobile traffic car traffic | cars coming and going |
bicycle traffic | bicycles coming and going |
bus traffic | buses coming and going |
truck traffic | trucks coming and going |
traffic pattern approach pattern pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
hour circle | a great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through both celestial poles |
traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
Rush Benjamin Rush | physician and American Revolutionary leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence (-) |
Juncaceae family Juncaceae rush family | tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes |
rush | grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |
bulrush bullrush common rush soft rush Juncus effusus | tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America |
jointed rush Juncus articulatus | rush of Australia |
toad rush Juncus bufonius | low-growing annual rush of damp low-lying ground, nearly cosmopolitan |
hard rush Juncus inflexus | tall rush of temperate regions |
salt rush Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
slender rush Juncus tenuis | tufted wiry rush of wide distribution |