"one-way street" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: one-way streets [plural]
Etymology: From one-way + street. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|one-way|street}} one-way + street Head templates: {{en-noun}} one-way street (plural one-way streets)
  1. A road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction. Categories (topical): One, Roads Translations (road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction): еднопосо́чна у́лица (ednoposóčna úlica) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 單程路 (Chinese Cantonese), 单程路 (daan¹ cing⁴ lou⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 單向街 (Chinese Mandarin), 单向街 (dānxiàngjiē) (Chinese Mandarin), 單向道 (Chinese Mandarin), 单向道 (dānxiàngdào) (Chinese Mandarin), 單行道 (Chinese Mandarin), 单行道 (dānxíngdào) (Chinese Mandarin), 單行街 (Chinese Mandarin), 单行街 (dānxíngjiē) (Chinese Mandarin), jednosměrka [feminine] (Czech), ensrettet vej [common-gender] (Danish), ensrettet gade (note: in a town) [common-gender] (Danish), eenrichtingsstraat [feminine] (Dutch), yksisuuntainen katu (Finnish), rue à sens unique [feminine] (French), Einbahnstraße [feminine] (German), μονόδρομος (monódromos) [masculine] (Greek), wanwê [feminine] (Hausa), egyirányú utca (Hungarian), einstefnugata [feminine] (Icelandic), sráid aontreo [feminine] (Irish), 一方通行 (ippōtsūkō) (alt: いっぽうつうこう) (Japanese), 일방통행 (ilbangtonghaeng) (alt: 一方通行) (Korean), 일방통행로 (ilbangtonghaengno) (alt: 一方通行路) (Korean), еднонасочна улица (ednonasočna ulica) [feminine] (Macedonian), jalan sehala (Malay), jednokierunkowa (ulica) [feminine] (Polish), rua de mão única [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), sens unic [neuter] (Romanian), у́лица с односторо́нним движе́нием (úlica s odnostorónnim dvižénijem) [feminine] (Russian), calle de un solo sentido [feminine] (Spanish), calle de mano única [Argentina, feminine] (Spanish), flecha [Venezuela, colloquial, feminine] (Spanish), enkelriktad gata [common-gender] (Swedish), enkelriktad väg [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-one-way_street-en-noun-vrQPOpHA Disambiguation of One: 54 40 6 Disambiguation of Roads: 53 29 18 Disambiguation of 'road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction': 98 1 0
  2. (figurative) A course of action that cannot be undone. Tags: figuratively
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  3. (figurative) Something that lacks reciprocity. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-one-way_street-en-noun-qVW9QGI6

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2006 April 27, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):",
          "text": "Judaism is not about reading your personal experiences into Jewish ritual, waving a wand, and declaring the result \"Judaism\". Vietnam has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on Torah values. Torah values can, obviously, have a bearing on Vietnam, or on anything else, but it's a one-way street.",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "one-way",
        "3": "street"
      },
      "expansion": "one-way + street",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From one-way + street.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "one-way streets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "one-way street (plural one-way streets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "traffic",
          "traffic"
        ],
        [
          "proceed",
          "proceed"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A course of action that cannot be undone."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A course of action that cannot be undone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006 April 27, Lisa, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):",
          "text": "Judaism is not about reading your personal experiences into Jewish ritual, waving a wand, and declaring the result \"Judaism\". Vietnam has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on Torah values. Torah values can, obviously, have a bearing on Vietnam, or on anything else, but it's a one-way street.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Handbook of Managerial Behavior and Occupational Health, page 186:",
          "text": "Romantic love is not selfless but selfish. Although real love is not altruistic, nor is it narcissistic – a 'me-only', one-way street relationship.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that lacks reciprocity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "reciprocity",
          "reciprocity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Something that lacks reciprocity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ednoposóčna úlica",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "еднопосо́чна у́лица"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "單程路"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "daan¹ cing⁴ lou⁶",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "单程路"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "單向街"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dānxiàngjiē",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "单向街"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "單向道"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dānxiàngdào",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "单向道"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "單行道"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dānxíngdào",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "单行道"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "單行街"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dānxíngjiē",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "单行街"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jednosměrka"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ensrettet vej"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "note": "in a town",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ensrettet gade"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "eenrichtingsstraat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "yksisuuntainen katu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rue à sens unique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Einbahnstraße"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "monódromos",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "μονόδρομος"
    },
    {
      "code": "ha",
      "lang": "Hausa",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wanwê"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "egyirányú utca"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "einstefnugata"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sráid aontreo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いっぽうつうこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ippōtsūkō",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "一方通行"
    },
    {
      "alt": "一方通行",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ilbangtonghaeng",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "일방통행"
    },
    {
      "alt": "一方通行路",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ilbangtonghaengno",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "일방통행로"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "ednonasočna ulica",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "еднонасочна улица"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "word": "jalan sehala"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jednokierunkowa (ulica)"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rua de mão única"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sens unic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "úlica s odnostorónnim dvižénijem",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "у́лица с односторо́нним движе́нием"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calle de un solo sentido"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "Argentina",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "calle de mano única"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "Venezuela",
        "colloquial",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "flecha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "enkelriktad gata"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "road in which traffic is only allowed to proceed in one direction",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "enkelriktad väg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "one-way street"
}

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