Tarmac

[ tahr-mak ]

Trademark.

1. a brand of bituminous binder, similar to tarmacadam, for surfacing roads, airport runways, parking areas, etc.

noun

1. (lowercase) a road, airport runway, parking area, etc., paved with Tarmac, tarmacadam, or a layer of tar.
2. (lowercase) a layer or covering of Tarmac, tarmacadam, or tar.

tarmac

/ ˈtɑːmæk /

noun

1. 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
2. the tarmac
   a runway at an airport

   on the tarmac at Nairobi airport

verb

1. tr usually not capital to apply tarmac to

Example Sentences

One passenger wrote on X that they were "being made to stand on the tarmac in a very cold Verona waiting for an already delayed flight".

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British Airways passengers are stranded on the tarmac in multiple airports in the UK and internationally after a "technical issue" disrupted operations.

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Two 60m-wide buildings can be seen sitting on a tarmac apron, at least one of which could be a hangar to accommodate the Indian navy’s P-8I aircraft, according to Samuel Bashfield, a PhD scholar at the Australian National University.

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“We love you,” he said in remarks to supporters on a Maryland Air Force base tarmac.

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Sitting on a hillside above the city, small 35-seat propeller planes take off and land from a tarmac airstrip.

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Related Words

• airstrip
• path
• platform
• ramp
• road