different between highway vs speedway

English

Etymology

From Middle English hei?wai, hei?wei, from Old English h?ahwe? (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high +? way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.

Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?we?/

• Rhymes: -a?we?

Noun

highway (plural highways)

1. (historical) A road that is higher than the surrounding land and has drainage ditches at the sides
2. A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
3. (figuratively) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny
4. (law, rail transport) Any public road for vehicular traffic.
5. (computing) Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”)

Synonyms

• (road): hwy. (abbreviation)

Hyponyms

• (main public road): expressway, motorway

Derived terms

• hwy. (abbreviation)
• Highway Code
• highway hypnosis
• highwayman
• highway patrol
• highway robber, highway robbery
• one's way or the highway

Translations

References

• highway at OneLook Dictionary Search
• highway in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Wikivoyage

Etymology

From speed +? way.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi?dwe?/

Noun

speedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)

1. (uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
2. (uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
3. A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
   1. A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
      1. A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
4. (chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.

Synonyms

• (motorcycle racing genre): motorcycle speedway
• (bicycle racing genre): cycle speedway, bicycle speedway
• (racing track): motor speedway, motospeedway

Derived terms

• superspeedway

Translations

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi?d?ei?/, [?s?pi?d?e?i?]

Noun

speedway

1. speedway

Declension