different between causeway vs superhighway

English

Etymology

From Middle English cauceweye, with the first element from Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French caucee or Old French caucie, cauchie (“route, highway”), from Vulgar Latin *calci?ta (compare modern French chaussée from Old French chaucie, itself from the same source), either from Latin calx, calcis (“limestone”), or alternatively from Latin calci?re (“to stamp with the heels, tread”), from calx (“heel”). The second element corresponds to English way.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??z.we?/

Noun

causeway (plural causeways)

1. A road that is raised, so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles. Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.
   • 1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis [1]

     . . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges and causeway now are nearly one mile, at which passage many persons passing over it at divers times were drowned, and in great danger, and when after so much danger came to the knowledge of Lady Matilda, Queen of England […]

Derived terms

• causewayed
• causewaying

Translations

Verb

causeway (third-person singular simple present causeways, present participle causewaying, simple past and past participle causewayed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pave, to cobble.

English

Etymology

super- +? highway

Noun

superhighway (plural superhighways)

1. (US) An expressway, especially one designed for high speeds.
2. (by extension) A major route that carries most of the traffic going in a given direction by a specified mode of transportation.
3. (metaphoric) The primary mechanism used in the movement of electronic data or information; information superhighway.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:superhighway.

Derived terms

• information superhighway

Translations