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How to pronounce “traffic light”
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Pronunciation guide for traffic light
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of traffic light with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
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- Definition summary
- A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
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How to pronounce traffic light
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do

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Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “traffic light”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing indicating the moment it is safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal color code.
- A colour code using the three signals of a traffic light (green, yellow or amber, and red) as a metaphor.
- (philately) The colored dots on stamp sheet margins printed with offset printing or photogravure methods, used by the printers to check color accuracy.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
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