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Overpass   /ˈoʊvərpˌæs/   Listen
Overpass

noun
1.
Bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels.  Synonym: flyover.






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"Overpass" Quotes from Famous Books



... with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line—that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen—that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, ...
— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... inhospitable hearth, and remembering that four miles distant lay my delightful home, containing the only people I loved on earth; and there might as well be the Atlantic to part us, instead of those four miles: I could not overpass them! I questioned with myself—where must I turn for comfort? and—mind you don't tell Edgar, or Catherine—above every sorrow beside, this rose pre- eminent: despair at finding nobody who could or would be ...
— Wuthering Heights • Emily Bronte



Words linked to "Overpass" :   span, bridge



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