| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
transportation
transport transfer
transferral
conveyance | the act of moving something from one location to another |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
transportation shipping
transport | the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials |
air transportation
air transport | transportation by air |
| 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 |
conveyance
transport | something that serves as a means of transportation |
| public transport | conveyance for passengers or mail or freight |
tape drive
tape transport
transport | a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read
write heads of a tape playback
recorder |
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 |
| transport ship | a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment |
troop carrier
troop transport | any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops |
cystic fibrosis transport regulator
CFTR | the gene that is mutated in cystic fibrosis |
traffic light
traffic signal
stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
| contradiction contradiction in terms | (logic) a statement that is necessarily false, the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction |
| 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 |
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 |
| traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
price
terms
damage | the amount of money needed to purchase something, the price of gasoline, he got his new car on excellent terms, how much is the damage? |
| active transport | transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient, requires an expenditure of energy |
| passive transport | transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion, expenditure of energy is not required |
| transport | an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes |
footing
terms | status with respect to the relations between people or groups, on good terms with her in-laws, on a friendly footing |
ecstasy
rapture
transport
exaltation
raptus | a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion, listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture- Charles Dickens |
negociate
negotiate
talk terms | discuss the terms of an arrangement, They negotiated the sale of the house |
transmit
transfer
transport channel
channelize
channelise | send from one person or place to another, transmit a message |
transport
carry | move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body, You must carry your camping gear, carry the suitcases to the car, This train is carrying nuclear waste, These pipes carry waste water into the river |
enchant
enrapture
transport
enthrall
ravish
enthral
delight | hold spellbound |
transport send
ship | transport commercially |
| transport | move something or somebody around, usually over long distances |
| traffic | trade or deal a commodity, They trafficked with us for gold |
| traffic | deal illegally, traffic drugs |