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# traffic

«traffic» in Mova's school dictionary: **The cars, buses, lorries, bikes and other vehicles moving…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (traffic — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The cars, buses, lorries, bikes and other vehicles moving on roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#m1)

2) The amount of movement of people, ships, planes or data: air traffic, internet traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#m2)

3) Illegal buying and selling (traffic in drugs — adult use). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In road safety: stop, look and listen before crossing; cross at traffic lights, zebra crossings or with a lollipop person/crossing guard; traffic drives on the left in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and on the right in the USA and Canada, so look the right way first; never play near traffic. In everyday life: traffic jams make people late. Phrases: traffic lights, heavy traffic, traffic jam, busy traffic, traffic cone, traffic warden, oncoming traffic, rush-hour traffic.

### examples

- Wait for the green man at the traffic lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x1)
- The traffic was very heavy this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x2)
- We were stuck in a traffic jam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x3)
- Look out for traffic before you cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x4)
- In the UK traffic drives on the left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x5)
- In the USA traffic drives on the right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x6)
- Never play ball near traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x7)
- Air traffic controllers guide planes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x8)
- An old house stood there; it was in the large town with its busy traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «a lot of traffic», not «a traffic» or «traffics». Traffic lights: red = stop, amber/yellow = get ready or stop, green = go if safe. Which way to look first depends on the country: in the UK look right first; in the USA look left first.

### In the corpora

- [On a motorway, after a breakdown everyone gets out and waits behind the barrier, away from the traffic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/8/)
- [Map apps guess traffic from data sent by many phones and can suggest a faster route.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/15/)
- [Crows in Japan drop walnuts at traffic lights for cars to crack, and crows can remember a human face for years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/35-birds-of-every-kind/10/)
- [Some crows in Japan drop nuts at pedestrian crossings for cars to crack and pick them up safely when the lights stop the traffic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/5/)
- [With no hunting, farming or traffic, wolves, elk, boar, lynx and even brown bears came back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «traffic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/traffic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.