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Definitions for TARMAC
ˈtɑr mæktar·mac

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. tarmacadam, tarmacnoun

    a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving

  2. tarmacadam, tarmac, macadamverb

    a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar

  3. macadamize, macadamise, tarmacverb

    surface with macadam

    "macadam the road"

Wiktionary

  1. tarmacnoun

    The bituminous surface of a road.

  2. tarmacnoun

    Area of an airport where planes park or maneuver.

  3. tarmacverb

    To pave

  4. tarmacverb

    To spend time idling on a runway, usually waiting for takeoff clearance

  5. Etymology: Shortening of tarmacadam, which is tar + macadam (crushed stones).

ChatGPT

  1. tarmac

    Tarmac is a material used for surfacing roads and other outdoor areas, consisting of crushed rock mixed with tar. It's also often used as a term to refer to the paved surfaces of an airport, especially the areas where aircraft stop and are serviced.

Wikidata

  1. Tarmac

    Tarmac is a type of road surfacing material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1901. The term is also used, with varying degrees of correctness, for a variety of other materials, including tar-grouted macadam, bituminous surface treatments and even modern asphalt concrete.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TARMAC in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TARMAC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of TARMAC in a Sentence

  1. Bill Hemmer:

    The US military deserve better than this after 20 years serving in that war. And this was a C-17 US Air Force rolling down the tarmac in Kabul, with 20-year-old men bouncing off the side, the scene was bad. I don't know where it leads, I don't know what happens as a consequence. Dan Hoffman was with us on 'America's Newsroom' earlier in the month, and he talked about dictatorships being on the march in 2021 into 2022. And what he talked about was perhaps at a rate that we have not seen since World War II.

  2. Winslow Wheeler:

    We don’t know if these planes will be delivered and used for fighting, or just sit on the tarmac.

  3. Trey Gowdy:

    It wasn’t the tarmac, it was the information he had about Loretta Lynch that if it became public, people would question their objectivity.

  4. Jeb Bush:

    I'll never forget that, when I went as governor of the state of Florida on the tarmac for a tribute to the astronauts that died in, I think it was 2005, was it? No ... the ... um ... yeah, no the other one, 2002, in the 2000s, it was horrible. It's a recognition that this is a dangerous endeavor, but it's worth us, for all sorts of reasons, to be engaged.

  5. Mark Zandi:

    I think they've got a fighting chance to land the economic plane on the tarmac without crashing it, we need a little bit of luck on the pandemic and on the fallout of the Russian invasion.

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