roundabout

roundabout teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı: A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century; A detour; A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed; Indirect, circuitous or circumlocutionary; A fairground carousel; A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; A roundabout in a park or school play area is a circular platform that children sit or stand on. People push the platform to make it spin round; A roundabout is a circular structure in the road at a place where several roads meet. You drive round it until you come to the road that you want; {a} ample, extensive, indirect, loose; Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech; (A) A Pict's camp “His desire of his companion a Pict's camp, or Roundabout ”- Sir W Scott: The Antiquary, chap i; Where two or more roads meet with an island in the middle; a short close-fitting jacket worn by men and boys especially in the 19th century; A type of junction common in Britain Its main feature is a circular, one way roadway onto which all the roads meeting at the junction terminate Traffic approaching the roundabout gives right of way to traffic already on it It then circulates the roundabout until the road it wishes to exit on In Britain roundabouts are always clockwise, but for right-hand driving the direction must be reversed Contrary to popular belief, roundabouts have higher capacity and better safety records than traffic-light coordinated junctions, because of their self-regulating nature and the impossibility to 'run' one Sometimes called "rotaries" in America See roundabout interchange; magic roundabout; mini-roundabout; {i} merry-go-round (British); indirect road or method, detour; rotary, traffic circle (British); close fitting jacket worn by men and boys during the 19th century; A roundabout at a fair is a large, circular mechanical device with seats, often in the shape of animals or cars, on which children sit and go round and round; marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"; Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive; If you go somewhere by a roundabout route, you do not go there by the shortest and quickest route. He left today on a roundabout route for Jordan and is also due soon in Egypt; A dance performed in a circle; Brit A traffic circle; large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride on; British terminology for a carousel English carousels moved in a clockwise direction as opposed to American carousels which ran counterclockwise; on which children ride; a merry-go-round; round about: see round swings and roundabouts: see swing; A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude; A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc; A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc; A childrens play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed; If you do or say something in a roundabout way, you do not do or say it in a simple, clear, and direct way. We made a bit of a fuss in a roundabout way; (A) A Pict's camp “His desire of his companion a Pict's camp, or Roundabout,”- Sir W Scott: The Antiquary, chap i; a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"; deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"; {s} indirect, circuitous
roundabout way: round and round, indirect route
in a roundabout way: in an indirect manner, circuitously
mini-roundabout: a white circle painted on the ground where several roads meet. Vehicles must drive round the circle in one direction only
roundabouts: plural of roundabout