单词 | underpass |
释义 | underpassn. Originally U.S. A (section of) road providing passage beneath another road or a railway; a subway. Cf. overpass n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > underground passage or tunnel crypt1583 burrow1615 gallery1630 syrinx1678 rock hole1738 cellarwaya1762 tunnel1765 heading1811 subpassage1822 subway1822 subway1831 underpass1904 1904 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 16 Sept. 8 The need of an underpass at the union railroad station in this city. 1929 Amer. City Oct. 104/2 In certain cases where the construction of under- or over-passes cannot be avoided..my system simplifies them to an astonishing extent. 1930 Times 24 Mar. 23/5 The elimination of twenty-one highway grade crossings by the construction of viaducts and underpasses. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Oct. 4/3 The Ponca-Lombard street bypass, is designed to bypass the Eastern underpass. 1959 Manch. Guardian 26 June 8/7 A four-lane underpass..would run under Euston Road. 1973 R. Busby Pattern of Violence vi. 96 The familiar streets..down the east ringway to the Queen's underpass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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