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voie de garage — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • rut noun A deep groove or track worn into the ground by repeated wheels or footsteps.
  • siding noun Material used to cover and protect the outer walls of a building.

Senses

voie de garage is used for these senses in English:

  • dead end (figurative) A position that offers no hope of change or progress.
  • rut (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling. [from 19th c.]
  • siding (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition).
  • stabling siding (rail, UK) A storage siding for rolling stock, in particular passenger trains not being used in service.

rut — full definition

  1. noun A deep groove or track worn into the ground by repeated wheels or footsteps.
  2. noun A fixed, boring routine that feels hard to escape.
  3. noun The mating season of certain male mammals, such as deer, marked by heightened sexual activity.

siding — full definition

  1. noun Material used to cover and protect the outer walls of a building.
  2. noun A short section of railway track next to the main line, used for parking or passing trains.

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