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- Margo asked as I turned on the lights and, driving forward now, began to navigate the suburban labyrinth back toward the interstate.†
p. 43.5standard prefix: When a word begins with the prefix, "inter-", the prefix often means between. In this case, interstate means between different states. Interstate is often used as an abbreviation for interstate highway, a highway that runs between states. It has also come to mean freeway in a place like Hawaii where no major highway connects to another state.
- And then I turned on the car and started to make my way back toward the interstate.†
p. 60.6
- I turned onto the interstate entrance ramp and floored it.†
p. 60.9
- By the time Mr. (or possibly Mrs., I couldn't really see) Parson pulled open the living room curtains and looked outside, we were driving in reverse back toward Princeton Street and the interstate.†
p. 67.3
- I laughed, relieved, and exited the interstate.†
p. 71.3
- I took my time going home, avoiding interstates in favor of back roads.†
p. 80.5
- As I drove down the interstate, she said, "There's something to be said for trying hard, you know?†
p. 188.5standard prefix: When a word begins with the prefix, "inter-", the prefix often means between. In this case, interstate means between different states. Interstate is often used as an abbreviation for interstate highway, a highway that runs between states. It has also come to mean freeway in a place like Hawaii where no major highway connects to another state.
- Ben rolls down the window, and I watch out the side-view mirror as the beer floats past the car and splashes onto the interstate.†
p. 249.1
- Radar turns left onto the highway at a somewhat unsafe speed, and then merges back onto the interstate.†
p. 254.4 *
- The road has emptied out now; there is only me and the semitrucks, and I feel like my brain is processing information at eleven thousand times its usual pace, and it occurs to me that what I'm doing is very easy, that driving on the interstate is the easiest and most pleasant thing in the world: all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving.†
p. 262.3
- Lacey is turning onto the road that will take us back to the interstate.†
p. 265.1
- Radar guides us up a slow-sloping embankment and back onto the interstate.†
p. 272.5
- Big interstates like this one make the country into a single place: McDonald's, BP, Wendy's.†
p. 274.1
- I know I should probably hate that about interstates and yearn for the halcyon days of yore, back when you could be drenched in local color at every turn—but whatever.†
p. 274.2
- After more than 1,100 miles on interstates, it's finally time to exit.†
p. 278.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(interstate as in: interstate commerce) freeway, or highway that runs between states
or:
relating to the mutual relations between states -- especially of the United StatesNote that interstate is often contrasted with intrastate. An intrastate highway is used to move from one location in a state to another, rather than to move between states. Similarly, interstate commerce is business between states; whereas intrastate commerce affects a state without affecting other states. Under the U.S. Constitution, the interstate/intrastate distinction is important when determining when the federal government has authority to override state government. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)