British english word for sidewalk

тротуар, пешеходная дорожка

существительное

- амер. тротуар; пешеходная дорожка

sidewalk artist — уличный художник (рисующий на тротуаре)

- боковая дорожка

Мои примеры

Словосочетания

a casual encounter on the sidewalk — случайная встреча на тротуаре  
vagrants sleeping in cardboard boxes on the sidewalk — бродяги, спящие в картонных коробках на тротуаре  
moving sidewalk — движущийся тротуар  
sidewalk manhole — кабельный колодец под тротуаром  
sidewalk interview — интервью на улице; уличный опрос  
crossing gate with sidewalk arm — переездный шлагбаум с перекрытием тротуара  
sidewalk effect — эффект паразитного канала; эффект побочного канала; влияние токов утечки  
sidewalk fire chief — тротуарный «начальник пожарной команды»; зевака на пожаре  
sidewalk glass — тротуарные стеклянные плитки; тротуарные стеклянные блоки  
sidewalk light — тротуарные стеклянные блоки  
sidewalk price — неофициальная цена  
sidewalk sweeper — машина для подметания тротуаров  

Примеры с переводом

He sat on the sidewalk asking for a handout.

Он сидел на тротуаре и просил подаяния.

She slipped and hit her head on the sidewalk.

Она поскользнулась и ударилась головой о тротуар.

They drew pictures on the sidewalk with colored chalks.

Они нарисовали на тротуаре картинки цветными мелками.

The empty can clanked along the sidewalk.

Пустая жестянка тарахтела по тротуару.

It was pleasant to sit in a sidewalk cafe and watch people pass.

Было приятно сидеть в кафе и смотреть, как мимо проходят люди.

Dry leaves skittered over the sidewalk.

По тротуару пронеслись сухие листья.

A little boy puttered along the sidewalk.

По тротуару шёл маленький мальчик.

He was pushed off the sidewalk into the street.

Его вытолкнули с тротуара на проезжую часть улицы.

The grandstands filled the sidewalk and compelled pedestrians to walk on the pavement.

Трибуны перегородили тротуар, и пешеходы были вынуждены идти по мостовой.

A crowd began to gather on the sidewalk.

На тротуаре начала собираться толпа.

A film of ice covered the sidewalk.

Тротуар был покрыт тонким слоем льда.

The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk

Несколько футов тента нависает над тротуаром.

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

I put some rock salt on the sidewalk to melt the ice.

Bicycles are not allowed on the sidewalk.

The sidewalk deformed during the earthquake

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке , напротив примера.

Формы слова

noun
ед. ч.(singular): sidewalk
мн. ч.(plural): sidewalks

21 сентября 2018

Не секрет, что американский английский отличается от истинного, британского. Если в Англии мы пойдем в shop, то в Америке это уже будет store. Конечно, вас поймут, если вы используете «неродное» слово для этого региона. Но если вы знаете американские аналоги английских слов, то вы будете намного быстрее пониматься все вокруг и отлично ориентироваться на местности. Мы выбрали самые популярные слова, которые вы можете встретить везде: в аэропорту, магазине, ресторане и просто прогуливаясь по городу.

British English — American English

Быт

  • bin – trash can – мусорное ведро
  • lift – elevator — лифт
  • flat – apartment – квартира
  • autumn – fall – осень
  • cooker – stove – кухонная плита, печь
  • tap – faucet – водопроводный кран
  • postal code, postcode – zip code – почтовый индекс
  • dustbin – garbage can, trash can – бак для мусора
  • rubbish – garbage, trash – мусор
  • surname – last name, family name – фамилия
  • holiday – vacation – каникулы, отпуск
  • queue – line – очередь
  • cinema – movie theater – кинотеатр
  • film – movie, film – фильм
  • mobile phone, mobile – cellular phone, cell phone – мобильный телефон
  • bill – check — счет
  • book a seat – reserve a seat – забронировать место

Одежда

  • trainers – sneakers – кроссовки
  • trousers – pants – штаны
  • pants (трусы мужские и женские) – underpants (мужские трусы)
  • purse (кошелёк) – purse (женская сумочка)

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Город

  • shop – store – магазин
  • car park – parking lot – парковка
  • taxi – cab – такси
  • pavement – sidewalk – тротуар
  • pharmacy – drugstore – аптека
  • crossroads – intersection – перекрёсток
  • underground, tube – subway – метро
  • railway – railroad – железная дорога
  • single ticket / a single – one-way ticket – билет в одну сторону
  • petrol – gasoline, gas – бензин

Еда

  • biscuit — cookie – печенье
  • chips – French fries – жареный картофель
  • crisps, potato crisps – chips, potato chips – чипсы
  • sweets – candies – конфеты
  • tin – can – консервная банка

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: a usually paved walk for pedestrians at the side of a street.

What is the legal definition of a sidewalk?

Sidewalk means that portion of a street between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.

Why is it called a sidewalk?

The Greek city of Corinth had sidewalks by the 4th-century BC, and the Romans built sidewalks – they called them sēmitae. However, by the Middle Ages, narrow roads had reverted to being simultaneously used by pedestrians and wagons without any formal separation between the two categories.

What does sidewalk mean in England?

It is called a sidewalk in American English, but can also be called a pavement (mainly British English and South African English), a footpath (Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and New Zealand English) or footway (Engineering term). Pedestrians use sidewalks to keep them safe from vehicles on the road.

Is sidewalk one word or two?

What type of word is ‘sidewalk’? Sidewalk is a noun — Word Type.

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Why do we need sidewalks?

Sidewalks provide many benefits including safety, mobility, and healthier communities. In addition to reducing walking along roadway crashes, sidewalks reduce other pedestrian crashes. … Providing walkways for pedestrians dramatically increases how well pedestrians perceive their needs are being met along roadways.

What is the sentence of sidewalk?

1. He parked his car along the sidewalk. 2. The sidewalk is very uneven—be careful where you walk.

Why do British people call the sidewalk the pavement?

Sidewalk is basically the side of the road where you can walk. … T: Pavement refers to the paved area of the road that’s designed exclusively for pedestrians. It’s taken from the Latin pavimentum, which means “trodden down floor.” Trodden on because it’s for pedestrians.

What do South Africans call a sidewalk?

pavement: South Africans walk on pavements and drive cars on the road [at least that’s the idea]. The pavement is the sidewalk.

What do Irish people call a sidewalk?

Americans call it a sidewalk, but in Ireland, it’s called a footpath. This is quite simply a path for your feet.

What is the difference between pavement and sidewalk?

Sidewalk is the American English word for pavement

Think of pavement as anything that’s made of concrete and is flat. It can be for people, cars, planes, or anything. Sidewalks specifically referred to walking paths usually made of concrete.

What is a public walkway?

Public Walkway means a path or Lane intended for the use of Pedestrians only and not located within a Street right-of-way.

When did sidewalks become common?

In the 19th century, curbs and sidewalks became common along heavily traveled city streets. These early sidewalks were often constructed by the abutting businesses and property owners.

What is a sidewalk area?

Sidewalk area means that portion of a street between the street pavement line and the adjacent property line, including a park or parking strip, curbs and gutters, bulkheads, retaining walls, or other works for the protection of any sidewalk area or of any such park or parking strip.

Is the sidewalk city property?

By these definitions, sidewalks are public property, just like streets are public property. Since the city is responsible for maintaining city streets, it should follow that the city is responsible for the sidewalks, too.

What do you call the area between the sidewalk and the street?

Making a yard and a community more beautiful begins at the curb. But that narrow space between sidewalk and street — sometimes called a boulevard, median, hellstrip, parkway, verge or tree belt — is a gardening challenge. For starters, it’s probably owned by the municipality but falls to the homeowner to maintain.

What do South Africans call a toilet?

Toilet. ( File) Call it the restroom or lavatory, Conradie says.

Do Australians say pavement?

I just wanted to point out that the word ‘sidewalk’ is American english word only. I got an exercise wrong for using the word ‘footpath‘ which is actually correct english. Perhaps in British english the word ‘pavement’ is more common but in Australian english ‘footpath’ is definitely the norm.

What is the American English of pavement?

pavement ​Definitions and Synonyms ​‌‌

countable ​Britisha path with a hard surface beside a road. The American word is sidewalk.

What do the British call a driveway?

In American English, we say driveway. In British English we’d call it a drive.

What do British people call biscuits?

Scone (UK) / Biscuit (US)

These are the crumbly cakes that British people call scones, which you eat with butter, jam, sometimes clotted cream and always a cup of tea.

Do pavement in British English and sidewalk in American English have the same sense?

Pavement in British English refers to the surfaced walk for pedestrians beside a street or road (in British English); the American word for this is sidewalk. In American English pavement refers to the surface of a road or street.

What is the synonym of sidewalk?

In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sidewalk, like: walkway, path, track, pavement, lamppost, paved area, pavement (British), foot pavement, boardwalk, parking-lot and cobblestone.

What is the denotative meaning of sidewalk?

noun. a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.

How do you use awfully in a sentence?

Awfully sentence example

  1. I’m awfully glad you’re my brother. …
  2. He was awfully hungry! …
  3. You’re awfully nosy not to have any real interest in this stuff. …
  4. «You seem awfully young to have two teenagers,» Laurie said. …
  5. You’re awfully like me, just such another giggler…. …
  6. He looks awfully big.

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noun

a walk, especially a paved one, at the side of a street or road.

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Origin of sidewalk

First recorded in 1660–70; side1 + walk

Words nearby sidewalk

side table, side tone, sidetrack, side trip, side-valve engine, sidewalk, sidewalk artist, sidewalking, sidewalk sale, sidewalk superintendent, sidewall

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How to use sidewalk in a sentence

  • The sidewalk previously featured a row of tables against its large windows — a setup that Shallal called unattractive for diners who were forced to sit awkwardly close to pedestrians going nearby.

  • Most people walk by trash they pass on streets and sidewalks.

  • The victim was shot on a sidewalk outside a townhouse in the Hunter’s Square community.

  • The latest projections show that the city is gonna need upward of $5 billion to fix things like streets, sidewalks and parks.

  • Eight years ago, Mayor Todd Gloria, then Council president, pledged to craft an infrastructure-focused ballot measure for the 2016 ballot, to address the city’s crumbling roads, sidewalks, pipes and drains.

  • One police officer was coolly dispatched as he lay wounded on the sidewalk.

  • Mills was lying on the sidewalk, dying, right in front of people trained to save him.

  • He now stood by the sidewalk shrine to the two fallen officers and said.

  • Only one of the crowd-control barriers was deployed, to close off a sidewalk as the royals arrived.

  • A 25-year-old man named Alexander Cooper strode up the sidewalk holding his 3-year-old daughter, Alexis, by the hand.

  • While the door was open he caught a glimpse of the street outside—and of Glavis on the sidewalk below.

  • The messenger looked both ways and finally turned up that sidewalk between the two tenements.

  • It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.

  • The people make little effort to keep to the sidewalk, but let the fellow who is driving the car do the looking out for them.

  • How d’ye stand on the proposition to have the town build a sidewalk up the hill apast the Congregational church, Deacon?

British Dictionary definitions for sidewalk


noun

US and Canadian a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a roadAlso called (in Britain and certain other countries): pavement

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sidewalk
[‘saɪdwɔːk]

сущ.

1) боковая дорожка

Syn:

Англо-русский современный словарь.
2014.

Смотреть что такое «sidewalk» в других словарях:

  • Sidewalk — Side walk , n. A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • sidewalk — (n.) path for pedestrians on the side of a street, 1739, from SIDE (Cf. side) (adj.) + WALK (Cf. walk) (n.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • sidewalk — ► NOUN N. Amer. ▪ a pavement …   English terms dictionary

  • sidewalk — ☆ sidewalk [sīd′wôk΄ ] n. a path for pedestrians, usually paved, along the side of a street …   English World dictionary

  • Sidewalk — A sidewalk (chiefly North American English), pavement (British English and Philadelphia dialect), footpath (Australian English, Irish English, Indian English and New Zealand English) or footway (Engineering term) is a path for pedestrians that is …   Wikipedia

  • sidewalk — noun (AmE) ⇨ See also ↑pavement ADJECTIVE ▪ city, public ▪ busy, crowded ▪ deserted, empty ▪ A …   Collocations dictionary

  • sidewalk — [[t]sa͟ɪdwɔːk[/t]] sidewalks N COUNT A sidewalk is a path with a hard surface by the side of a road. [AM] Two men and a woman were walking briskly down the sidewalk toward him. (in BRIT, use pavement) …   English dictionary

  • sidewalk — UK [ˈsaɪdˌwɔːk] / US [ˈsaɪdˌwɔk] noun [countable] Word forms sidewalk : singular sidewalk plural sidewalks American the pavement by the side of a road …   English dictionary

  • Sidewalk — Der Sidewalk (wörtl.: Seitlich Gang, amerik. Englisch auch: Bürgersteig) ist ein dem Moonwalk ähnlicher Tanzschritt, der wie dieser vom Pop Künstler Michael Jackson bekannt gemacht wurde. Durch Fußbewegungen scheint der Tänzer seitwärts über die… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Sidewalk — En danse, le Moonwalk est un mouvement de pas glissé du popping. On peut dire qu il est en quelque sorte un cousin proche du Sidewalk ou backslide qui est le vrai terme du moonwalk. Portail de la danse …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Sidewalk astronomy — refers to a kind of amateur astronomy founded by John Dobson in the 1960s that involves bringing telescopes to urban areas (like sidewalks) to show passers by some of the more prominent features of the night or daytime sky, free of charge.… …   Wikipedia

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