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Definitions: Macadam |
MacadamAdjective1. Covered with paving material. Noun1. Broken stone used in macadamized roadways. 2. A paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "macadam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | Composed of roughly graded crushed stones, pebbles, slag or similar industrial waste. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Crushed stone of regular sizes below 3 in (7.6 cm) for road construction, commonly with tar or asphalt binder. The sizes below 1 in (2.54 cm) are more specif. defined as chippings. See also:penetration macadam;tarmacadam. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
With the advent of motor vehicles, dust became a serious problem on macadam roads. The vacuum created under fast moving vehicles sucked the dust out of the surface leading to a gradual raveling of the larger size materials, as well as an unpleasant dust cloud. This problem was later rectified by spraying tar on the surface thus creating tar-bound macadam, or tarmac.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Macadam."
Synonyms: MacadamSynonyms: asphalt (adj), macadamised (adj), macadamized (adj), tarmac (n), tarmacadam (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Macadam |
| English words defined with "macadam": macadamize ♦ road roller ♦ tarmac. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "macadam": cold-laid mixture ♦ grouted macadam ♦ penetration macadam ♦ tarred macadam, telford macadam. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Macadam" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (macadam, tarmac), Italian (macadam), Manx (macadam), Romanian (metal). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Les Fleurs de macadam (1969) Macadam (1946) | |
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| "Macadam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.77% of the time. "Macadam" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 80.77% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.23% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "macadam" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Macadam | Last name | 300 | 28,691 |
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Expressions using "macadam": grouted macadam ♦ Macadam road ♦ penetration macadam ♦ tarred macadam ♦ telford macadam. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "macadam": tar-macadam. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
macadam | 26 |
cage macadam | 7 |
heurdys macadam | 5 |
ellipse macadam | 5 |
john macadam | 3 |
envol et macadam | 3 |
driveway macadam | 2 |
de fleur macadam | 2 |
computer macadam | 2 |
michelin macadam | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "macadam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhade e asfaltuar, çakëll me serë. (various references) | |
Arabic | حصباء (crushed rock, gravel), صرار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чакълена настилка, с чакълена настилка, макадам. (various references) | |
Danish | makadam, skærvelag, skærvebelægning. (various references) | |
Dutch | macadam, asfaltweg. (various references) | |
Farsi | سنگ فرش کردن خیابان , سنگ فرش (Flag). (various references) | |
Finnish | sepellys, sepelipäällyste. (various references) | |
French | macadam. (various references) | |
German | makadam (tarmac, tarmacadam). (various references) | |
Greek | μακαντάμ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכבת חצץ, חצץ (calculus, gravel, grit). (various references) | |
Hungarian | makadám, zúzottkõ útburkolat. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jalan aspal. (various references) | |
Italian | macadam. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マオリ族 (macaroni, macaroni western, Macbeth, Machiavellism, macrame, macro, macrocosm, macroengineering, macrolens, macron, magazine, magazine rack, Maori, Maxell, maxi, maxim, maximum, McDonalds), 割り 石 (crushed rock). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マカダ , わりぐりいし (crushed rock). (various references) | |
Manx | tar macadam, macadam-terr, macadam. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acadammay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | macadame (macadamize, road metal, tarmac), variedade de lémure, asfalto (asphalt, earth pitch, glance pitch, mineral pitch, petroleum pitch, Trinidad lake asphalt). (various references) | |
Romanian | drum cu macadam. (various references) | |
Russian | щебень (ballast, breakstone, broken stone, metal, road metal, road-metal, scree), щебеночное покрытие. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | makadam. (various references) | |
Spanish | macadán. (various references) | |
Swedish | makadam (metal, metaling, metalling, road metal, tarmac). (various references) | |
Thai | ถนนโรย"้วยหินเป็นชั้นๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | şose (macadamized road, unclassified road). (various references) | |
Ukranian | щебеневе покриття. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đắp bằng đá dăm nện. (various references) | |
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Words beginning with "macadam": macadamia, macadamias, macadamize, macadamized, macadamizes, macadamizing, macadams. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "macadam": tarmacadam. (additional references) | |
Words containing "macadam": tarmacadams. (additional references) | |
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"Macadam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aceldama, Jacada, maaaan, Maada, Ma'aden, macadamed, macadams, macadem, macador, Macaldon, Macanaz, macatam, Maceda, Machava, macrandra, Magadan, Magadi, magatama, makhdoom, Maladoum, massada, Massaman, mcadam, mcadams, Mccudden, Mcdata, Micadia, micdadei, Musandam, Myawadi, Nakadai, Sa'adam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "macadam" (pronounced muka"dum) |
| 4 | -a" d u m | madam, Madame. |
| 3 | -d u m | addendum, boredom, chiefdom, condom, corundum, dukedom, earldom, fiefdom, freedom, kingdom, martyrdom, memorandum, modem, officialdom, random, referendum, Sedum, seldom, sheikdom, Sodom, stardom, subkingdom, tandem, wisdom. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-d-m-m" | |
-2 letters: madam. | |
-3 letters: mama. | |
-4 letters: ama, cad, cam, dam, mac, mad. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, am, ma, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-d-m-m" | |
+1 letter: macadams. | |
+2 letters: macadamia. | |
+3 letters: macadamias, macadamize, tarmacadam. | |
+4 letters: macadamized, macadamizes, tarmacadams. | |
+5 letters: diagrammatic, macadamizing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 61 64 61 6D |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. .- -.. .- -- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c a d a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0061 0064 0061 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47676967706779 |
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