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Tarmac
[ tahr-mak ]
- a brand of bituminous binder, similar to tarmacadam, for surfacing roads, airport runways, parking areas, etc.
noun
- (lowercase) a road, airport runway, parking area, etc., paved with Tarmac, tarmacadam, or a layer of tar.
- (lowercase) a layer or covering of Tarmac, tarmacadam, or tar.
tarmac
/ ˈɑːæ /
noun
- a paving material that consists of crushed stone rolled and bound with a mixture of tar and bitumen, esp as formerly used for a road, airport runway, etc Full nametarmacadamˌtɑːməˈkædəm See also macadam
- the tarmaca runway at an airport
on the tarmac at Nairobi airport
verb
- tr usually not capital to apply tarmac to
Example Sentences
A fire from a portable battery engulfed a plane on the tarmac in South Korea in January, and U.S. air safety regulators say lithium-ion battery fires occur nearly twice per week.
Hungarian Defence Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky, greeted Netanyahu on the tarmac of Budapest airport on Wednesday night, welcoming him to the country.
The Reform UK MP feared miles of countryside would be "covered with tarmac" adding: "Where has our pride and ambition gone?"
Along a tarmac street, a speeding motorcycle comes under a hail of bullets and suddenly flips over throwing off its rider.
"I came here and the engineers and mechanics have done a great job to fine-tune the car and it felt great today. There is so much grip on this new tarmac but I think everyone struggled."
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