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单词 overpass
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Definition of overpass in English:

overpass

noun ˈəʊvəpɑːsˈoʊvərˌpæs
  • A bridge by which a road or railway line passes over another.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Typically, the enemy chooses to stage attacks from areas which have access roads, buildings, overpasses or thick brush along MSRs and auxiliary supply routes.
    • The current structure encompasses a pedestrian walkway, rail line and a vehicle overpass.
    • As part of their August crackdown on drugs, police set up a roadside checkpoint under the overpass on Pratamnak Road on August 12.
    • Overhead, a helicopter hovers at such a low height that it only just clears the occasional overpass bridges that appear.
    • As the driver lost control of the bus and it slid toward a railway overpass, he yelled, ‘Hold on!’
    • To make things worse, the city administration has blamed annual flooding and the worsening condition of overpasses and bridges on squatters.
    • One revealed that hundreds of bridges and overpasses required urgent upgrade, or were described as ‘life expired’.
    • Remember bridges and overpasses freeze up before and remain frozen longer than other road surfaces.
    • Leave your vehicle immediately and seek shelter, but not under overpasses and bridges.
    • He said registration officials would have a hard time registering eligible voters living in slums or under bridges and overpasses.
    • It also involves dismounting to clear bridges, under bridges, overpasses, signs, culverts and guard rails.
    • Osier and Mrs. Thomassen found my sister shivering in a pile of leaves under a railway overpass on the east side of downtown.
    • This involves what's called surface infrastructure, and so you're talking about bridges, roads, overpasses, possibly the reconstruction or refurbishment of ports and so forth.
    • The plan would replace two overpasses - for the railway and the expressway - with tunnels at the foot of these streets, making access to the lake even uglier and more forbidding than it already is.
    • Motorcyclists congregated under overpasses, bridges and bus stops, taking up much of the road as they waited for the rain to ease.
    • The piers of roadway overpasses and underpasses tend to have solid cross sections.
    • It was pulled off beside the road under an overpass.
    • Additionally, prior knowledge of the route will allow soldiers to anticipate actions that will be required at choke points, bridges, overpasses, and intersections.
    • Seven cars filled with oats and one empty car derailed near an overpass on Sangamon Avenue, Springfield police and the Union Pacific Railroad said.
    • ‘Up there, under the overpass and cross the road,’ she said.
    Synonyms
    viaduct, aqueduct, flyover
verb əʊvəˈpɑːsˌoʊvərˈpæs
[with object]rare
  • Surpass.

    did not its sublimity overpass a little the bounds of the ridiculous?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wherefore also he used to overpass by a very great deal the lines marked out, in every way springing higher than the very heaven.
    • I just polished off a can of pineapple juice and was thinking of how it overpassed my love of apple juice.
    • Today I returned and overpassed my normal training loads.
    • Sometimes we overpassed, we overdid things, but our hard work paid off later.
 
 

Definition of overpass in US English:

overpass

nounˈōvərˌpasˈoʊvərˌpæs
  • A bridge by which a road or railroad passes over another.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Leave your vehicle immediately and seek shelter, but not under overpasses and bridges.
    • The current structure encompasses a pedestrian walkway, rail line and a vehicle overpass.
    • To make things worse, the city administration has blamed annual flooding and the worsening condition of overpasses and bridges on squatters.
    • The plan would replace two overpasses - for the railway and the expressway - with tunnels at the foot of these streets, making access to the lake even uglier and more forbidding than it already is.
    • Overhead, a helicopter hovers at such a low height that it only just clears the occasional overpass bridges that appear.
    • Additionally, prior knowledge of the route will allow soldiers to anticipate actions that will be required at choke points, bridges, overpasses, and intersections.
    • As the driver lost control of the bus and it slid toward a railway overpass, he yelled, ‘Hold on!’
    • It also involves dismounting to clear bridges, under bridges, overpasses, signs, culverts and guard rails.
    • The piers of roadway overpasses and underpasses tend to have solid cross sections.
    • As part of their August crackdown on drugs, police set up a roadside checkpoint under the overpass on Pratamnak Road on August 12.
    • One revealed that hundreds of bridges and overpasses required urgent upgrade, or were described as ‘life expired’.
    • This involves what's called surface infrastructure, and so you're talking about bridges, roads, overpasses, possibly the reconstruction or refurbishment of ports and so forth.
    • It was pulled off beside the road under an overpass.
    • Seven cars filled with oats and one empty car derailed near an overpass on Sangamon Avenue, Springfield police and the Union Pacific Railroad said.
    • Osier and Mrs. Thomassen found my sister shivering in a pile of leaves under a railway overpass on the east side of downtown.
    • ‘Up there, under the overpass and cross the road,’ she said.
    • Remember bridges and overpasses freeze up before and remain frozen longer than other road surfaces.
    • Motorcyclists congregated under overpasses, bridges and bus stops, taking up much of the road as they waited for the rain to ease.
    • Typically, the enemy chooses to stage attacks from areas which have access roads, buildings, overpasses or thick brush along MSRs and auxiliary supply routes.
    • He said registration officials would have a hard time registering eligible voters living in slums or under bridges and overpasses.
    Synonyms
    viaduct, aqueduct, flyover
verbˌōvərˈpasˌoʊvərˈpæs
[with object]
  • 1Pass over; traverse.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Also, UVB satellite data is available, at least for a given moment of the day in each region overpassed by the satellite.
    • Everyone overpassed it. It was just an overlooked, overpassed sewer hole in the middle of a great, seething civilization.
    • She had never been more than 5 miles out of Bennett but they had overpassed that mark earlier that day.
    1. 1.1 Surpass.
      a capacity to overpass old limits
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sometimes we overpassed, we overdid things, but our hard work paid off later.
      • I just polished off a can of pineapple juice and was thinking of how it overpassed my love of apple juice.
      • Today I returned and overpassed my normal training loads.
      • Wherefore also he used to overpass by a very great deal the lines marked out, in every way springing higher than the very heaven.
 
 
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