Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word OVERPASS

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Definitions of OVERPASS

1. A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
2. To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
3. (transitive) To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
4. (transitive) To disregard, skip, or miss something.

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Examples of Using OVERPASS in a Sentence

• An overpass between eastbound Route 3 and northbound Route 120 was completed in 2009 and a flyover from southbound Route 120 to eastbound Route 3 was completed in 2010.
• Six local properties have been added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP): Dollarway Road (1974), West James Street Overpass (1995), Lone Star Baptist Church (2005), Redfield School Historic District (2014), and Redfield Commercial Historic District (2023).
• Highway 36 serves as a main route in the city; it is a four-lane highway with both at-grade and overpass intersections.
• The speed cameras are on a mobile trailer which is located on top of I-170 on the Lackland Road Overpass.
• In the summer of 2006 the exit ramps and overpass on I-75 were widened to accommodate heavy truck and car traffic to the truck stops.
• The tracks ran from east to west through Sharpsburg and still exist in the same location today, parallel to the Norwood Lateral Expressway and passing under the Montgomery Road overpass.
• Such access would eliminate the large distance between the closest exits (Winston-Salem Northern Beltway/Exit 227 and Linville Rd/Exit 230) and provide easier access for motorists to surrounding areas of the overpass.
• The biggest hurdles included crossing floodplains and an overpass over both FM78 and the Union Pacific Railroad.
• To the east of the JFK Boulevard East overpass, the roadway of Route 495 curves to the south and starts its descent.
• Khao Yai – Thap Lan Tunnel (250 m and 180 m road tunnel, total of 430 m in Prachinburi Province, for wildlife overpass).
• A system of collector and express lanes serves the Parclo interchanges with Kipling Avenue and Islington Avenue, and as the eastbound collector lanes merge into the express lanes approaching the Royal York Road overpass this also marks the start of the lengthy off-ramp to Park Lawn Road.
• Tribeca is one of a number of neighborhoods in New York City whose names are syllabic abbreviations or acronyms, including SoHo (South of Houston Street), NoHo (North of Houston Street), Nolita (North of Little Italy), NoMad (North of Madison Square), DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and BoCoCa, the last of which is actually a collection of neighborhoods (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn and Carroll Gardens).
• Gaglardi Way in Burnaby, British Columbia, ended suddenly as an overpass of Highway 1 at the south end at just a forest, due to a residential subdivision beyond the point with two cloverleaf ramps that were blocked off, now removed along with the dead end peculiarity in the 2000's.
• Following a freight railroad, the freeway passes the Washington State History Museum and Union Station near the Bridge of Glass, a pedestrian overpass that crosses I-705 and links the Museum of Glass on the Thea Foss Waterway shore to downtown Tacoma.
• An overpass, called an overbridge or flyover (for a road only) in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that is over another road or railway.
• In 2008, two mentally ill Swedish sisters, Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, caused mayhem on the nearby M6, and one of them jumped from an overpass on the A50.
• The Kanata Avenue–Castlefrank Road overpass next to Royal Canadian Legion National Headquarters, opened in December 2003 and renamed Valour Bridge on December 1, 2006, is dedicated to all Canadians who have served in defence of freedoms in the great battles and campaigns since the turn of the 20th century.
• Early in the series, he was trying to peep at a short-skirted schoolgirl as she was climbing the stairs of an overpass, and his scooter crashed into a mini-truck.
• On the American side, the I-beam girder overpass crossing Pine Grove Avenue was replaced by a much wider embankment, which also added a four-story customs office building in the center.
• There was once an inverted SPUI north of I-55; however, the overpass became pedestrianized and became part of McCormick Place in the mid-1990s, leading to the closure of this interchange.

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