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Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
Keith Haring

Meaning of "traffic lights" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS

traffic lights  [ˈtræfɪk laɪts] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS

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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Traffic lights is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRAFFIC LIGHTS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

traffic lights

Traffic light

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, signal lights, stop lights and robots, and also known technically as traffic control signals are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings and other locations to control competing flows of traffic. Traffic lights were first installed in 1868 in London and are now used all over the world. Traffic lights alternate the right of way accorded to road users by displaying lights of a standard color following a universal color code. In the typical sequence of color phases: ▪ the green light allows traffic to proceed in the direction denoted, if it is safe to do so ▪ the yellow light denoting prepare to stop short of the intersection, if it is safe to do so ▪ the red signal prohibits any traffic from proceeding...

Definition of traffic lights in the English dictionary

The definition of traffic lights in the dictionary is a set of coloured lights placed at crossroads, junctions, etc, to control the flow of traffic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRAFFIC LIGHTS


brights
braɪts
daylights
ˈdeɪˌlaɪts
Dolomites
ˈdɒləˌmaɪts
footlights
ˈfʊtˌlaɪts
heights
ˈhaɪts
highlights
ˈhaɪlaɪts
knights
naɪts
lights
laɪts
lowlights
ˈləʊlaɪts
nights
naɪts
rights
raɪts
sights
saɪts
tights
taɪts
whites
waɪts

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRAFFIC LIGHTS

traffic controller
traffic cop
traffic court
traffic diversion
traffic duty
traffic engineering
traffic holdup
traffic island
traffic jam
traffic light
traffic offence
traffic pattern
traffic police
traffic policeman
traffic policemen
traffic regulations
traffic sign
traffic signal
traffic signals
traffic violation

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRAFFIC LIGHTS

animal rights
Arabian Nights
Bill of Rights
bragging rights
bright lights
by rights
Christmas lights
civil rights
hazard lights
hazard warning lights
human rights
northern lights
polar lights
proprietary rights
State rights
the bright lights
thoughts
Thousand and One Nights
to rights
voting rights
Wuthering Heights

Synonyms and antonyms of traffic lights in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «traffic lights» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRAFFIC LIGHTS

Find out the translation of traffic lights to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of traffic lights from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «traffic lights» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交通灯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

semáforo
570 millions of speakers

English

traffic lights
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ट्रैफिक लाइट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إِشَارَاتُ الـمُرُور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

светофор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

semáforo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্রাফিক বাতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

feux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

lampu isyarat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verkehrsampel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

交通信号
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교통 신호등
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

bangjo
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đèn giao thông
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போக்குவரத்து விளக்குகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वाहतूक दिवे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

trafik ışıkları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

semaforo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

światła drogowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

світлофор
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

semafor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φωτεινοί σηματοδότες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkeersligte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

trafikljus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trafikklys
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of traffic lights

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAFFIC LIGHTS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRAFFIC LIGHTS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about traffic lights

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6 QUOTES WITH «TRAFFIC LIGHTS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word traffic lights.
1
Jonathan Carroll
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
2
Michael Frayn
A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
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Keith Haring
Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.
4
Sadie Jones
Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
5
Robert Kiyosaki
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
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Nick Vujicic
When kids run up to me and ask, 'What happened?' I just lean over and whisper, 'Cigarettes.' And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, 'Whoa, what is going on?' She sped off really quickly.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRAFFIC LIGHTS»

Discover the use of traffic lights in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to traffic lights and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Carrots, Kites and Traffic Lights: Upper primary technology
Upper primary technology Susan Harriman. Model making Next, get the students to create a group representation of the site, showing existing structures and features. 3-D modelling has the advantage of providing a concrete way of assisting ...
Susan Harriman, 1996
2
Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights
Windows. on. the. World. High above a passing bird, I sank a Gibson cocktail. I was Bloodless from a perforated heart and wanted something To replace the squandered fluid;felt the lure of mental illness;just The other side of that too-solid  ...
Patrick Chapman, 2007
3
Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd Edition
Traffic Lights Language CONTENT EXPRESSION mean1ng meaning words \i sounds Figure 1.2 Content and expression in traffic lights and language Just as with the traffic light system, so with the lexical systems we find that the relationship ...
Suzanne Eggins, 2004
4
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
estimated cost of installing traffic lights at 22 intersections within the Nairobi CBD that would warrant asking for assistance from the World Bank, rather than just getting it from the budget of Nairobi City Council? Mr. Kiangoi: Mr. Deputy Speaker, ...
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A Textbook of Graph Theory
Phasing of Traffic Lights at a Road Junction We present here an application of interval graphs to the problem of phasing of traffic lights at a road junction. The problem is to install traffic lights at a road junction in such a way that traffic flows ...
R. Balakrishnan, K. Ranganathan, 2000
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Artificial Intelligence Applications to Traffic Engineering
The changes of the state of the system of traffic lights are described by means of a mechanism made up of rules. These rules ensure the management of the interdependences of the objects described above : interdependences of traffic lights, ...
Maurizio Bielli, Giorgio Ambrosino, Marco Boero, 1994
7
A Field Guide to Roadside Technology
The dark lines are patched strips in the road where workers sawed up the original roadway to install an induction vehicle detector (see page 19), which consists of loops, or coils, of wire that detect cars and change traffic lights accordingly.
Ed Sobey, 2006
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Advances in Image and Video Technology: First Pacific Rim ...
2.2 Traffic Lights Verification The detected candidates of traffic lights are processed through the verification process (see algorithm shown in Fig.1). The verification process is executed in two steps described below; finding center of the lights ...
Long-Wen Chang, Wen-Nung Lie, 2006
9
Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems III. Adaptation and ...
Table 1. Average Travel Time Last 5 Trips (attl5t) for 400 drivers, under different conditions Greedy or Probabilistic Drivers; Fixed Traffic Lights. In the case of probabilistic drivers, the attl5t is 149 time units, while this is 100 if drivers act greedily.
Karl Tuyls, Ann Nowe, Zahia Guessoum, 2008
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Advanced Technology in Teaching: Selected papers from the ...
(3) 2) Traffic light verification based on position relationship In a complex scene, there are often many vehicle lamps which may be judged as traffic lights because they can meet the condition of the traffic lights. According to the CCD camera ...
Wei Zhang, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRAFFIC LIGHTS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term traffic lights is used in the context of the following news items.
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Cyclists Can Ignore Some Traffic Lights, Paris Announces
Announcing a new policy for cyclists who ride in Paris, the city says it will allow people on bikes to ride through red lights or turn right at intersections that are ... «NPR, Jul 15»
2
London tests traffic lights that stay green for cyclists
Cycling is one of the quickest ways to get across London, and soon adaptive traffic lights could make pedal-power even faster. Transport for London (TfL) is ... «Engadget, Jun 15»
3
Vienna officials won't pull plug on gay-themed traffic lights
VIENNA -- Vienna's gay-themed pedestrian traffic lights are here to stay. Instead of the usual stick man, the lights show couples - a man and a woman, two ... «CBS News, May 15»
4
Austrian Freedom Party Launches Legal Challenge Against 'Gay …
A traditionalist conservative party has protested against the installation of special gay traffic lights in Vienna by lodging a criminal complaint against a member of ... «Breitbart News, May 15»
5
Vienna's traffic lights are now gay-themed
City officials said they hoped the new traffic lights would improve road safety by attracting "the attention of drivers and pedestrians," Reuters quoted a city ... «Washington Post, May 15»
6
Gadget which turns all traffic lights green trialled in UK
A device which switches all red traffic lights to green has been launched in ... which would be linked to traffic lights so that fully-automated convoys could pass ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
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Stopping at traffic lights is not just frustrating - it's REALLY bad for …
Drivers breathe in 29 times more toxic pollutants sitting at traffic lights than when in free-flowing traffic. Just 2% of an average commuter's 1½-hour journey is at ... «Mirror.co.uk, Feb 15»
8
Traffic lights on your windshield could get you home faster
Virtual traffic lights appear on the driver's dashboard and explain with green and red arrows which direction they can safely travel in, just like with normal traffic ... «CNN, Jan 15»
9
Bus chaos: Road closures, broken traffic lights cause Sydney …
Roads Minister Duncan Gay attributed the delays to preparatory work on George Street for a planned light rail line; a broken traffic light cable; and breakdowns ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
10
German traffic lights fitted with actual Pong games for pedestrians to …
Known in its development phase as “StreetPong”, the ActiWait promises to hail “a new generation of traffic light buttons”. Instead of the normal display simply ... «The Independent, Dec 14»

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