speedway
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See also: Speedway
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈspiːdweɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]speedway (countable and uncountable, plural speedways)
- (uncountable) A form of motorcycle racing on flat (without camber) oval dirt tracks using motorcycles with neither brakes nor gears.
- Synonym: motorcycle speedway
- (uncountable) A form of bicycle racing on flat (non-banked) oval dirt tracks.
- Synonyms: cycle speedway, bicycle speedway
- A racetrack venue designated especially for the sport of auto racing.
- Synonyms: motor speedway, motospeedway, motorway
- A positive-camber banked oval racing circuit, designed for high speed cornering, racing anywhere on the length of the track.
- A size of paved banked oval racetrack, smaller than superspeedways, but larger than a mile.
- (chiefly US) A road for high speed traffic; an expressway.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]motorcycle racing
racetrack
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]speedway
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of speedway (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | speedway | speedwayt | |
| genitive | speedwayn | speedwayiden speedwayitten | |
| partitive | speedwaytä | speedwayitä | |
| illative | speedwayhin speedwayhyn |
speedwayihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | speedway | speedwayt | |
| accusative | nom. | speedway | speedwayt |
| gen. | speedwayn | ||
| genitive | speedwayn | speedwayiden speedwayitten | |
| partitive | speedwaytä | speedwayitä | |
| inessive | speedwayssä | speedwayissä | |
| elative | speedwaystä | speedwayistä | |
| illative | speedwayhin speedwayhyn |
speedwayihin | |
| adessive | speedwayllä | speedwayillä | |
| ablative | speedwayltä | speedwayiltä | |
| allative | speedwaylle | speedwayille | |
| essive | speedwaynä | speedwayinä | |
| translative | speedwayksi | speedwayiksi | |
| abessive | speedwayttä | speedwayittä | |
| instructive | — | speedwayin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “speedway”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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