Приклади вживання Cul-de-sac Англійська мовою та їх переклад на Українською
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And in a cul-de-sac it remains.
His bus stop was in a cul-de-sac.
A cul-de-sac sign in Dublin, Ireland.
Isn't that like soccer mom talk for"do me in the cul-de-sac"?
A cul-de-sac in Sacramento, California.
Both of these phenomena occur naturally on a cul-de-sac street as does social networking.
The terms'cul-de-sac' and'dead end' have the same senses as in Australia.
He reprised his role in the 1997 TV mini-series, Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac.
Cul-de-sac streets increase spontaneous outdoor activity by children.
Back in the summer of 1914 humankind was speeding on the liberal highway,when it took a wrong turn and entered a cul-de-sac.
Cul-de-sac and loop streets can reduce the size of any given neighbourhood to a single street.
In the 1920s, the garden city movement gained ground in the United States and, with it,came its design elements, such as the cul-de-sac.
It found that 82% of cul-de-sac residents preferred their own street type, 18% preferred a loop, and 0% the grid.
The second, focused on trails and greenbelts,found that other amenities including cul-de-sac streets add significantly to the home value.
It showed that the cul-de-sac street with the lowest traffic of the three streets had the highest level of social interaction.
A study, reported in 1990,[33] compared the traffic performance in a 700-acre(2.8 km2; 280 ha) development that was laid out using two approaches,one with and the other without hierarchy or cul-de-sac streets.
In Quebec and Newfoundland,"Cul-de-Sac" is in far more common use, though Quebec is increasingly using"Impasse" instead.
Since the end of World War II,[10] new subdivisions in the United States and Canada, as well as New Towns in England andother countries have made extensive use of the cul-de-sac and crescent(loops) street types.
The expression cul-de-sac comes from French, where it originally meant"bottom of the sack".[44] It was first used in English in anatomy(since 1738).
In this pattern, there are only a few roads(relative to the number of cul-de-sac streets) leading out of the subdivision and into other subdivisions or onto major roads.
In Canada,"cul-de-sac" is commonly used in speech but"no exit" or"no through road" is more common in road signs, especially in western Canada.
Suffixes for these types of streets include"court","close" or"place".[47] The term"cul-de-sac" generally only refers to a reasonably short street with a bulbous end, or even only to the end portion.
The decrease in traffic, in turn, is thought to lower the incidence of crime and increase desirability,because in most cases the people who traverse the cul-de-sac either live there or are guests of those who do.
Because of the complicated legal process and the sheer number of existing cul-de-sac streets, however, such efforts would be slow to produce results and may have little impact in changing the landscape of existing districts.
The word"cul-de-sac" and its synonyms or near synonyms"dead end" and"no exit" have inspired metaphorical uses in literature and in culture, often with the result that a word or phrase seeming to have a negative connotation is replaced in street signs with a new coinage.
In 1954,the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation published its own guidelines[7] in which the cul-de-sac was strongly recommended for local streets and, as the FHA in the US, used its lending power to see its inclusion in development plans.
In military parlance, a"cul-de-sac" refers to a situation where an army is"hemmed in on all sides but behind".[49]"Cul-de-sac" is also used metaphorically to mean a line of thought or action that leads nowhere.
Only 13% of grid street residents preferred their own type and 54% would choose a cul-de-sac.[2] Two other studies,[21][22] reported in 1990 and 2009 respectively, confirmed the upward trend and determined the premium that cul-de-sac streets command.
Typically, there is one or several central roads in the subdivision with many cul-de-sac streets of varying length, branching out from the main roads, to fill the land in the subdivision, a dendrite or hierarchical pattern.[11] Since the 1960s, the pattern has been the dominant road network structure of suburbs and exurbs in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Loss of orientation and sense of direction isalso a common experience in older cities with cul-de-sac streets(Medina of Arab cities or Mediterranean hill towns) as well as in cities with highly irregular block geometries and sizes and corresponding street alignments that produce a labyrinthine effect.