different between macadamize vs tarmac
macadamize
English
Alternative forms
- macadamise
Etymology
After Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam who pioneered this method of road construction around 1820.
Verb
macadamize (third-person singular simple present macadamizes, present participle macadamizing, simple past and past participle macadamized)
- To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
- 1824, Thomas Hood, “Ode on a distant Prospect of Clapham Academy” in New Monthly Magazine 10, April 1824, pp. 355-357,[1]
- Lo there what mix’d conditions run!
- The orphan lad; the widow’s son;
- And Fortune’s favour’d care—
- The wealthy born, for whom she hath
- Mac-Adamized the future path—
- The Nabob’s pamper’d heir!
- 1860, Review of Erastus C. Benedict, A Run Through Europe, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Volume 21, p. 546,[2]
- He pointed to the macadamized streets about that great hospital, and said, “The managers applied to the Emperor to macadamize the streets, to prevent the noise, and he did it. He does all that is asked of him.” Some say, however, that the Emperor is so ready to macadamize, because paving stones are so convenient in revolutionary barricades.
- 1900, Aylmer Maude (translator), The Slavery of Our Times by Leo Tolstoy, Maldon, Essex: The Free Age Press, Chapter 6, p. 55,[3]
- But even if a means could be found to get all to agree to produce certain articles (though there is no such means, and can be none, except coercion), who, in a free society, without capitalistic production, competition and its law of supply and demand, will decide which articles are to have the preference? Which are to be made first, and which after? Are we first to build the Siberian railway and fortify Port-Arthur, and then macadamise the roads in our country districts, or vice versâ?
- 2016, Ezabir Ali, “Gwalta: On the Line of Hostility,” Greater Kashmir, 8 July, 2016,[4]
- Though the village has recently got a macadamized road under Prime Ministers Gram Sadak Yojna Scheme and regular bus service has now been provided, there are a number of women who have lost their lives due to not receiving medical aid or help during pregnancy and child birth.
- 1824, Thomas Hood, “Ode on a distant Prospect of Clapham Academy” in New Monthly Magazine 10, April 1824, pp. 355-357,[1]
Portuguese
Verb
macadamize
- first-person singular present subjunctive of macadamizar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of macadamizar
- third-person singular imperative of macadamizar
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tarmac
English
Etymology
Clipping of tarmacadam, which is tar +? macadam (crushed stones). Originally a trademark owned by its inventor Edgar Hooley.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??(?)mæk/
Noun
tarmac (countable and uncountable, plural tarmacs)
- Tarmacadam.
- Coordinate term: asphalt concrete
- (loosely, Britain, Canada) Any bituminous road surfacing material.
- Synonym: asphalt
- (Britain, Canada) The driveable surface of a road.
- (informal, aviation) The area of an airport, other than the runway, where planes park or maneuver.
Translations
See also
- asphalt
Verb
tarmac (third-person singular simple present tarmacs, present participle tarmacking or tarmacing or tarmaccing, simple past and past participle tarmacked or tarmaced or tarmacced)
- (Britain, Canada) To pave with tarmacadam or a similar material.
- 2014, Taking the rough with the smooth: Bolton residents anger over half-tarmaced road, ITV Granada:
- Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes.
- 2014, Taking the rough with the smooth: Bolton residents anger over half-tarmaced road, ITV Granada:
- (aviation) To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance.
Derived terms
- retarmac
- untarmacked
Anagrams
- amtrac, mactra, ram-cat
French
Noun
tarmac m (plural tarmacs)
- tarmac (part of airport)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?.mak/
Etymology
Borrowed from English, a clipping of tarmacadam. Genericized trademark.
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English tarmac.
Noun
tarmac m (genitive singular tarmac)
- tarmac
Declension
Synonyms
- tarramhacadam
References
- "tarmac" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
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