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# junction

noun (a junction, junctions)

«junction» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A place where two or more roads, railway lines or paths meet or cross. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#m1)
2. A place where things join, like wires or rivers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#m2)

### In the lessons

In road-safety lessons, junctions are dangerous places: cars may turn across your path, so stop, look both ways and listen, and cross away from the corner at a crossing if you can. On a map, junctions are where roads meet; motorways have numbered junctions in the UK. In science, a junction in a circuit is where wires branch. Phrases: «at the junction», «T-junction», «road junction», «railway junction».

### Examples

- Stop at the junction and look both ways. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x1)
- Turn left at the next junction. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x2)
- A T-junction is where one road meets another like the letter T. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x3)
- Cars slow down at a busy junction. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x4)
- Our train waited at the railway junction. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x5)
- Cyclists must be careful at junctions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x6)
- Leave the motorway at junction 5. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x7)
- The two rivers meet at a junction near the town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/#x8)

### Note

Countable. Similar: «intersection» (American English for a road junction), «crossroads» (where two roads cross). British drivers drive on the left, Americans on the right, so look the right way first at a junction.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «junction» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/junction/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«junction» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/junction.html) on Mova free.