Traffic jam

Definition

traffic /'træfÇk/ n [U] ၁။ ယာဥ္အသြားအလာ။ heavy/light traffic ❍ local/motorway traffic ❍ a traffic diversion ❍ There's usually a lot of traffic at this time of day. ❍ Traffic was brought to a standstill by the accident. ၂။ အသြားအလာ။ ကူးလူးသြား လာျခင္း။ cross-channel traffic (ie ships crossing the English Channel) ❍ commercial air traffic. ၃။ (လူ၊ ပစၥည္းသယ္ေဆာင္၍) ယာဥ္အသြားအလာ၊ လူအသြားအလာ။ an increase in commuter/freight/goods/passenger traffic. ၄။ ~ (in sth) တရားမဝင္ ကုန္ကူးျခင္း။ the traffic in drugs/arms/stolen goods. v (-ck-) ~ (in sth) ကုန္ကူးသည္။ drug trafficking ❍ illegal trafficking in works of art. ❏ traffic circle n ( US ) = ROUNDABOUT n ၁ ❏ traffic cop n ( US infml ) ယာဥ္ထိန္းရဲ။ ေမာ္ေတာ္ပီကယ္။ ❏ traffic island (also island, refuge, safety island, US safety zone ) n ယာဥ္သြားလမ္းမေပၚရိွ ကြၽန္း။ ❏ traffic jam n ယာဥ္ေၾကာပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ။ ❏ trafficker n …ကုန္ကူးသူ။ …ခ်သူ။ a drugs trafficker. ❏ traffic-light ( US stoplight ) n (usu pl ) ယာဥ္ေၾကာထိန္းေသာ အခ်က္ျပမီး။ ❏ traffic warden n ( Brit ) ယာဥ္ရပ္စခန္းႀကီးၾကပ္သူ။

Examples

1. At that time of night
2. there was no traffic on the roads.
3. The huge volume of traffic in the city centre
4. Rush-hour traffic
5. Traffic noise/fumes/congestion
6. A marked increase in air traffic
7. Passenger traffic through Britain’s airports has increased by 5 per cent.
8. Internet traffic