runway English

Meaning runway meaning

What does runway mean?

Definitions in simple English

runway Noun

— A runway is a roadway where an airplane takes off or lands.

runway

— noun a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land

— noun a narrow platform extending from the stage into the audience in a theater or nightclub etc

— noun a chute down which logs can slide

— noun (= track) a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll

Synonyms runway synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as runway?

runway English » English

track

airstrip

catwalk

rails

rail

strip

lane

landing strip

trough

transition

tramway

tramline

trail

tarmac

streetcar track

stand

spout

sluice

slideway

runway strip

raceway

racecourse

platform

penstock

outdoor stage

groove

gradient

flume

flight strip

fairway

coulisse

cavetto

ascent

airport

airfield

Topics runway topics

What do people use runway to talk about?

Physical actions Move Travel

Fly

• Where do airplanes land?
  airport runway airstrip landing field

Examples runway examples

How do I use runway in a sentence?

Simple sentences

An airplane touched down on the runway.

The Space Shuttle has the ability to take off like a rocket, orbit the Earth like a spaceship, and land on a runway like an airplane.

Movie subtitles

I wasn't ready for the wheelbarrow left on the runway.

Lisbon plane taking off in 10 minutes, east runway.

USE RUNWAY 28.

THE RUNWAY'S PRETTY ROUGH.

THOSE TRACTORS ARE ON THE RUNWAY.

GET THOSE TRACTORS OFF THAT RUNWAY!

THEY HIT THE RUNWAY IN FRONT OF HIM WITH A BIG ONE.

Take runway three.

The International Airlines flight from the capital is now landing on runway number one.

Right out on the runway?

Stop blocking the runway.

Bring it in on the alternate runway.

Tower, tell Dutch we have a Mayday on the alternate runway.

Lisbon plane taking off in ten minutes, east runway.

Never mind that. Listen to me. The runway at the north end of the field is mud and water.

We'll line three up on each side of the runway.

It was reached through a narrow, twisted, and almost hidden canyon. that finally opened onto a torturous runway.

This runway was the only entrance to and the only exit from. the fabulous mine, located on the thin precipitous ledge below.

There's the runway.

This is the runway he told you about.

The runway we came down is the only way on or off this ledge.

Tower to 12 on runway.

Pull into the east runway.

Get on that runway and take off.

Tower to 12. Craig, keep that plane off the runway.

Another plane coming in on main runway.

Tell them I want the runway cleared.

Use east-to-west runway.

Come along in. Use east- to-west runway.

Runway 3-0.

Stand by in crash position on runway 2-0.

Across the runway, there's trees.

Runway: 3-2.

Dead stick. Runway 6.

We have an emergency. We'll be deplaning on the runway.

Taxi following southern taxiway for departure runway two-seven.

The police box on the runway.

Cleared to land. Runway in sight.

News and current affairs

Many other companies (for example, Rent the Runway, which provides short-term rentals of higher-end fashion) are in the process of doing the same thing.

Earlier this year, analysts released images of what is expected to be a 10,000-foot (3,000-meter) runway on Fiery Cross Reef.