motorway, highway, freeway - 'on the road' vocab

[nyota]

Could you please take a look if I think along the right lines?


motorway (BrE)
highway, clearway, speedway, freeway, expressway? (AmE)


semi-motorway?
expressway?

slip road (BrE?) = exit (apply to motorways and dual carriageways only?)



Which one's more commonly used:
petrol dispenser (neutral?)
petrol pump (BrE)


What do you call the 'handle'? Handle perhaps? ;)

[SoothingDave]

highway, clearway, speedway, freeway, expressway? (AmE)

We don't use that sign/symbol in the US.

I have never heard "clearway" used here.

A "speedway" would be a track for the racing of cars, not a road for traveling.

A "highway" need not be a "limited access, divided" road ( i.e. no traffic lights, entry and exit only via exit ramps, maximum speed limits). Any "major" road, even if it has traffic lights can be a "highway."

Freeway and expressway would usually denote a limited access road. An "interstate" would be the same.

In some areas (like mine) the major interstates near the big city are called "parkways."

[luschen]

Also, in the US, the word petrol is rarely used, if at all. It would be called a gas pump. The object the man is holding is called a "nozzle". I don't know of a special word for the handle on the nozzle.

[nyota]

aahh nozzle! Great, thanks!