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overpass

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++o·ver·pass /ˈəʊvəpɑːs $ ˈoʊvərpæs/ noun [countable] American English  a structure like a bridge that allows one road to go over another road 立交桥,高架公路5 see picture at 见图 bridge1
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overpassAbout 70 people were injured in Seattle, including two men critically injured from an assault and a fall from an overpass.The tide of red taillights ahead of them ran under an overpass and turned up an incline.Motorists peek as they zoom across it on bridges or freeway overpasses.Pauline lives in a warehouse at the far end of a San Francisco street that dead-ends under a highway overpass.The night Karen was raped, the body of a 13-year-old girl was found under a Houston overpass.He loses the Greyhound in a maze of overpasses and freeway exits.I crossed a railroad overpass and reached a bunch of shacks where two highways forked off, both for Denver.A train was going by on the overpass.
o·ver·pass nounChineseSyllable
a bridge a structure allows like that one Corpus road


overpass
overpass /ˈəʊvəpɑːs $ ˈoʊvərpæs/ noun [countable] American English
 Word Family: noun: pass, overpassunderpass, passage, passing; adjective: passing, passableimpassable; verb: pass

a structure like a bridge that allows one road to go over another road


over·passBrE /ˈəʊvəpɑːs/ 🔊NAmE /ˈoʊvərpæs/ 🔊 (NAmE) (BrE fly·over) nouna bridge that carries one road over another one 跨线桥;上跨式立交桥   compare underpass