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speed bump

An artificial ridge set crosswise into the surface of a street, parking lot, or driveway to make the operators of vehicles drive at a slow speed. Also called speed hump.

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speed′ bump`

a rounded ridge built crosswise into the pavement of a road to force vehicles to slow down.

[1965–70, Amer.]

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Noun

speed bump - a hindrance to speeding created by a crosswise ridge in the surface of a roadway

hinderance, hindrance, preventative, preventive, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference, hitch - any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

Translations

حَدَبَة السُّرْعَه

retardér

vejbump

Bodenwelle

ralentisseur

dosso anti-velocit...

fartsdemper

retardérspomaľovač

hız engeli

减速路障

speed

(spiːd) noun

1. rate of moving. a slow speed; The car was travelling at high speed.

2. quickness of moving.

verb

1. (past tense, past participles sped (sped) ˈspeeded) to (cause to) move or progress quickly; to hurry. The car sped/speeded along the motorway.

2. (past tense, past participle ˈspeeded) to drive very fast in a car etc, faster than is allowed by law. The policeman said that I had been speeding.

ˈspeeding noun

driving at (an illegally) high speed. He was fined for speeding.

ˈspeedy adjective

done, carried out etc quickly. a speedy answer.

ˈspeedily adverb

ˈspeediness noun

ˈspeed bump noun

a raised part across the road to make drivers slow down.

ˈspeed trap noun

a device used by the police to catch drivers exceeding the speed limit.

speedometer (spiːˈdomitə) noun

an instrument on a car etc showing how fast one is travelling.

speed up – past tense, past participle ˈspeeded

–

1. to increase speed. The car speeded up as it left the town.

2. to quicken the rate of. We are trying to speed up production.

References in periodicals archive ?

In the name of safety, I expect the traffic police to close this u-turn or speed breakers should be put up to avoid them.

Road accidents

They are not used as speed breakers anywhere in the world except in Karachi where cat eyes are used on the main roads as speed breakers.

Cat eyes

Cat eyes are not used anywhere in the world as speed breakers but here in Karachi cat eyes are placed on some of main roads as speed breakers.

Cat eyes

The SSP Mirpurkhas urged the officials concerned to construct speed breakers on the road to control over speeding of the vehicles and road accidents.

SSP Jawed Baloch visits Mirwah Gorchani Road

JHELUM -- Illegally built speed breakers in the Kala Gujran area of Jhelum have added to the miseries of residents who claim that these speed bumps have become a source of accidents for children as well as for the elderly.

Illegally built speed breakers causing accidents

MULTAN -- Multan Development Authority (MDA) enforcement cell demolished ten illegal gates, speed breakers, ramps and sheds from various roads.

MDA removes road hurdles

Minister said , the local community has also been warned to refrain from erecting such unjustified speed breakers on roads in future otherwise they would be fined of Rs 20,000.

Law against wall-chalking, loud music to introduce soon in KP: Shaukat Yousafzai

Furthermore Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Wednesday ordered immediate removal of all illegal speed breakers across the province.

Effective taxation system to improve revenue generation: CM

PESHAWAR -- District administration has abolished speed breakers from the areas in the jurisdiction of Chamkani.

Speed breakers in Chamkani area abolished

The work includes building safe roads around schools, providing parking spaces for vehicles, building small roundabouts that will regulate traffic in these areas, installation of road signs near schools, setting 30 kmph as the maximum speed limit in the surrounding areas and set up speed breakers. Continued on page 2 a

Work on to enhance road safety around schools

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Wednesday started constructing speed breakers on the roads in and around educational institutions and also on appropriate places to help enable passers-by cross roads safely and stop road accidents, reports BSS.