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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
/ 藞迟蓱藧尘忙办 /
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 nametarmacadam藢t蓱藧m蓹藞k忙d蓹m 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
Passengers have been forced to evacuate a Delta plane after an engine caught fire while on the tarmac at Orlando International Airport in Florida.
Video apparently taken from the terminal shows passengers waiting on the tarmac with emergency vehicles parked next to the aircraft.
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?"
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