different between traffic vs speedway

English

Alternative forms

• traffick

Etymology

From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *tr?nsfr?c?re (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic ????????? (tafr?q, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?f'?k, IPA^(key): /?t?æf?k/
• Rhymes: -æf?k

Noun

traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)

1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

2. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
4. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
   1. In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
   2. (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
      • 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)

        Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.

5. Commodities of the market.

   • You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)

1. (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods

   Synonym: trade

2. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3. (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Derived terms

• trafficker
• trafficking

Translations

References

• traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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