speedway
See also: Speedway
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspiːdweɪ/
Noun
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
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspiːdʋei̯/, [ˈs̠piːdʋe̞i̯]
Declension
| Inflection of speedway (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) | ||||
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| 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. | |||
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Further reading
- “speedway”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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