6.5.4 Infrastructure

Use this domain for words related to infrastructure--the big things people make that many people use, such as roads, electric power lines, and water supply systems.

OMC Codes: 
364 Refuse Disposal and Sanitary Facilities
365 Public Utilities
366 Commercial Facilities
367 Parks
368 Miscellaneous Facilities
  • What words refer to the things the government builds to provide for the needs of the public?
    infrastructure, public works, park

    • 6.5.4.1 Road

    Use this domain for words related to a road.

    OMC Codes: 
    363 Streets and Traffic
    Louw Nida Codes: 
    1P Thoroughfares: Roads, Streets, Paths, etc.
  • What types of roads are there?
    road, street, lane, path, footpath, way, avenue, boulevard, highway, freeway, thoroughfare, divided highway, paved road, dirt road, improved road, unimproved road
  • What words are used to describe when two roads come together?
    corner, cross street, fork, intersection, juncture, pedestrian crossing, interchange, overpass, underpass, exit
  • What words refer to a bridge?
    bridge,
  • What words refer to a tunnel?
    tunnel
  • What are the parts of a road?
    center line, shoulder, edge, median, lane, passing lane, bed, roadbed, surface, pavement, sidewalk, curb
  • What words are used for the signs and markers on a road?
    sign, signpost, marker, line, speed bump, reflector
  • What words are used for making a road?
    build a road, lay a new road, build up the bed, pave
  • What words are used to describe a bad road?
    pothole, road gone to pot, rutted, washboard, dusty, rough, broken pavement, cracked pavement, worn pavement, full of holes, in need of repair
  • What words are used of fixing a road?
    road repairs, repaving, repairing, fixing, detour, fill holes, patching holes
  • What words refer to people and vehicles traveling on a road?
    traffic

    • 6.5.4.2 Boundary

    Use this domain for words related to the boundary of an area.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    80B Limits, Boundaries of Space
  • What words refer to the boundary of an area?
    boundary, border,