blacktopとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈblæktɒp/

名詞

blacktop (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 blacktops)

1. (米国用法, uncountable) Asphalt concrete or similar bituminous black paving material used for the surface of roads (e.g., tarmacadam, tarmac). [from 20th c.]
   • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 284:

     Then I was around the hill on the blacktop and in another country.

2. (米国用法, countable) A road so paved.

動詞

blacktop (三人称単数 現在形 blacktops, 現在分詞 blacktopping, 過去形および過去分詞形 blacktopped)

1. (米国用法) To pave with blacktop. [from 20th c.]

   The county first blacktopped that road decades ago

名詞

black-top (複数形 black-tops)

1. Alternative form of blacktop
   • 2003, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan Greatest Hits, page 9:

     Using very simple language, it tries to raise awareness of how badly we are treating the earth and how many of the things I remember from when I was growing up have vanished or are covered with black-top.

   • 2008, Jade Cameron, ‎Bryony Wynne-Jones, Freedom Rider, page 1:

     The black-top felt rugged under his jaw and cheek, yet warm from the moisture.

   • 2012, Charles O. Maul, Can Do in Yottabytes, page 154:

     I assigned that area to him and drove my car further north on the black-top.