PELICAN CROSSING

Meaning of PELICAN CROSSING in English

■ noun (in the UK) a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights operated by pedestrians.

Origin

1960s: pelican from pe(destrian) li(ght) con(trolled) , altered to conform with the bird's name.

Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004

PELICAN CROSSING — noun (in Britain) a place on a road where you can stop the traffic and cross by operating a set …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PELICAN CROSSING — ˌpelican ˈcrossing BrE AmE noun [countable] a place on some roads in Britain where someone who wants to cross the …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PELICAN CROSSING — ( pelican crossings) A pelican crossing is a place where people who are walking can cross a busy road. They …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PELICAN CROSSING — (~s) A ~ is a place where people who are walking can cross a busy road. They press a button …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PELICAN CROSSING — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He pressed the button at the pelican crossing and waited. ▪ Overtaking on the inside …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PELICAN CROSSING — (переход) "пеликан" (пешеходный, через улицу; регулируется автоматическим светофором)
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход 'пеликан' (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом) (дорожностроительное) пешеходный переход "пеликан" (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PELICAN CROSSING — дор. пешеходный переход «пеликан» ( со светофором, включаемым пешеходом )
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход "пеликан" (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом)
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PELICAN CROSSING — дор. пешеходный переход «пеликан» ( со светофором, включаемым пешеходом )
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PELICAN CROSSING — дор. пешеходный переход «пеликан» ( со светофором, включаемым пешеходом )
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход "пеликан" ( со светофором, включаемым пешеходом )
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход "пеликан" (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом)
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
PELICAN CROSSING — _n. пешеходный переход 'пеликан' (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
PELICAN CROSSING — n. пешеходный переход 'пеликан' (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом)
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
PELICAN CROSSING — (uk.) пешеходный переход
Англо-Русский словарь английских идиом
PELICAN CROSSING — (переход) "пеликан" (пешеходный, через улицу; регулируется автоматическим светофором)
Великобритания - Лингвострановедческий словарь
PELICAN CROSSING — (брит.) пешеходный переход
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
PELICAN CROSSING — пешеходный переход 'пеликан' (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом) (дорожностроительное) пешеходный переход "пеликан" (со светофором, включаемым пешеходом)
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PELICAN — ~
English interlingue dictionary
PELICAN — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelecanus, from Greek pelekan Date: before 12th century any …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PELICAN — Any of about eight species constituting the genus Pelecanus (family Pelecanidae), white or brown birds distinguished by a large, elastic …
Английский словарь Британика
PELICAN — ˈpelə̇kən, -lēk- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English pelican, pellican, from Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelicanus, pelecanus, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CROSSING — noun ( -s ) 1. : the act or action of crossing: as a. archaic : the making of the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PELICAN — (n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for …
Английский словарь Webster
PELICAN — (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an …
Английский словарь Webster
PELICAN — ( n. ) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PELICAN — ( n. ) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PELICAN — /pel"i keuhn/ , n. 1. any of several large, totipalmate, fish-eating birds of the family Pelecanidae, having a large bill …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PELICAN — n. large web-footed water bird
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PELICAN — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English pellican, from Late Latin pelecanus, from Greek pelekan Date: before 12th century : …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PELICAN — noun a retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for …
Webster English vocab
CROSSING — vt contradiction; thwarting; obstruction. 2. crossing ·vt intersection, as of two paths or roads. 3. crossing ·vt the act of …
Webster English vocab
PELICAN — ■ noun a large gregarious waterbird with a long bill and an extensible throat pouch for scooping up fish. [Genus …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PELICAN — [pel.i.can] n [ME, fr. OE pellican, fr. LL pelecanus, fr. Gk pelekan] (bef. 12c): any of a genus (Pelecanus) of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PELICAN — (genus Pelecanus), any of seven or eight species of water birds constituting the family Pelecanidae (order Pelecaniformes), distinguished by their …
Britannica English vocabulary
PELICAN — pelican, P\~ BrE AmE ˈpel ɪk ə n ▷ pelican|s z ▶ ˌ pelican ˈ crossing BrE AmE
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CROSSING — crossing BrE AmE ˈkrɒs ɪŋ ˈkrɔːs- AmE \ ˈkrɔːs ɪŋ ˈkrɑːs- ▷ crossing|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CROSSING — / ˈkrɒsɪŋ; NAmE ˈkrɔːs-/ noun 1. a place where you can safely cross a road, a river, etc., or from …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CROSSING — cross ‧ ing /ˈkrɒsɪŋ $ ˈkrɒː-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] 1 . a place where you can safely cross a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PELICAN — n. any large gregarious waterfowl of the family Pelecanidae with a large bill and a pouch in the throat for …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CROSSING — n. 1 a place where things (esp. roads) cross. 2 a place at which one may cross a street etc. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PELICAN — n. any large gregarious waterfowl of the family Pelecanidae with a large bill and a pouch in the throat for …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CROSSING — n. 1 a place where things (esp. roads) cross. 2 a place at which one may cross a street etc. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PELICAN — n. any large gregarious waterfowl of the family Pelecanidae with a large bill and a pouch in the throat for …
Oxford English vocab
CROSSING — n.1 a place where things (esp. roads) cross. 2 a place at which one may cross a street etc. (pedestrian …
Oxford English vocab
PELICAN — ( pelicans) A pelican is a type of large water bird. It catches fish and keeps them in the bottom …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CROSSING — ( crossings) 1. A crossing is a journey by boat or ship to a place on the other side of …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PELICAN — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pelican crossing COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN crossing ▪ Providing more pelican crossings , cycle …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CROSSING — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a border crossing (= a place where you cross a border ) ▪ There are …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PELICAN — [noun] [C] - a large bird which catches fish and carries them in the lower part of its beak, which …
Cambridge English vocab
CROSSING — [noun] [C]A crossing is a place where something such as a road can be crossed safely, or a place where …
Cambridge English vocab
PELICAN — n. Any of about eight species constituting the genus Pelecanus (family Pelecanidae), white or brown birds distinguished by a large, …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
CROSSING — Synonyms and related words : abjuration, abjurement, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, approach, asymptote, bottleneck, bucking, carrefour, challenge, cloverleaf, collision course, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PELICAN — noun Pelican is used before these nouns: ↑ crossing
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CROSSING — noun 1 trip across a stretch of water ADJECTIVE ▪ rough ▪ smooth ▪ ferry ( esp. BrE ) ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CROSSING — n. 25B6; noun a busy road crossing : JUNCTION, crossroads, intersection, interchange; level crossing. a short ferry crossing : JOURNEY, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PELICAN — (Heb. kaath, sometimes translated "cormorant," as (Isaiah 34:11; Zephaniah 2:14) though in the margin correctly rendered "pelican"), a voracious waterbird, …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
PELICAN — List of members : American-White Pelican Brown Pelican Frigate Pelican Peruvian Pelican Dalmation Pelican Australian Pelican Spot Billed Pelican Pink …
The Bird English vocab
PELICAN — сущ.; зоол. 1) пеликан pelican State ≈ прозвище штата Луизиана pelican crossing ≈ перекресток с кнопочным управлением 2) сл. мужеподобная …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CROSSING — сущ. 1) пересечение; скрещивание; скрещение 2) перекресток; переход (через улицу) 3) переезд по воде, переправа 4) зачеркивание, перечеркивание 5) ж.-д. …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CROSSING — n 1. перечёркивание, зачёркивание 2. пересечение; скрещивание; перекрещивание 3. перекрёсток; переход ( через улицу ) 4. переезд по воде; переправа …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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