| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| tarmac |
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| SYLLABICATION: | tar·mac |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  tär m k |
| NOUN: | A tarmacadam road or surface, especially an airport runway. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: tar·macked, tar·mack·ing, tar·macs
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cause (an aircraft) to sit on a taxiway. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To sit on a taxiway. Used of an aircraft. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Originally a trademark.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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