RE: FRIDAY FUN: Snow day!

["Kathy Bowman" <Kathy -dot- Bowman -at- saabsystems -dot- com -dot- au>]

Dori Green wrote:

   "Only guessing, but I think he meant:

   "I would pass vehicles stuck in the meridian."

   Many US 4-lane highways include barrier strips between the
directional lanes (N-S or E-W).  These strips are known as "meridians"."


Meridian seemed off the mark so I went straight to the Macquarie
Dictionary to check my understanding of the word and found these
meanings:

"noun 1.  Geography
    a. a great circle of the earth passing through the poles and any
given point on the earth's surface.
    b. the half of such a circle included between the poles.
2.  magnetic meridian. 
3.  Astronomy the great circle of the celestial sphere which passes
through its poles and the observer's zenith.
4.  a point or period of highest development, greatest prosperity, or
the like.
adjective 5. of or relating to a meridian.
6. of or relating to midday or noon: the meridian hour.
7. relating to a period of greatest elevation, prosperity, splendour,
etc.; culminating. [Latin meridianus of midday, of the south; replacing
Middle English meridian, from Old French"

In Australia, we call the barrier strips in the middle of roads 'median
strips'. 
cheers
Kath
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