Definitions for runways

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runways run·way

Spelling: [ruhn-wey]

IPA: /ˈrʌnˌweɪ/

Runways is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in runways (anrsuwy).

Definitions for runways

noun

1. a way along which something runs.
2. a paved or cleared strip on which planes land and take off.
3. a similar strip on which cars, trucks, or the like may park, load, or enter the stream of traffic.
4. the beaten track or habitual path of deer or other wild animals.
5. a fairly large enclosure in which domestic animals may range about:
6. the bed of a stream.
7. Bowling. approach (def 17b).
8. a narrow platform or ramp extending from a stage into the orchestra pit or into an aisle, as in a theater.

Origin of runways

An Americanism dating back to 1825-35; run + way¹

Examples for runways

Twice in the past two weeks, this has entailed meeting a plane on the runway to retriever sick passengers who may be infected.

As they passed the runway, bullets shot up from the tall grass, puncturing a fuel tank.

A dark form hurtled down the runway and lifted like a flash.

The runway was raised to successive horizontals as the work progressed.

As he laid over he saw the withering fire on the runway lift.

"Here's the runway and this here hazel bush is my station," he said.

"I'm afraid I forgot all about your cameras when I came in over the runway," Stan replied.

That was when I started getting couture, kind of from the other side of the runway.

I walked across the runway to the large hangar we were housed in.

Trying to do it in a reusable rocket, landing on a runway, that system has a very bad track record.