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PAVEMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The paved surface of a thoroughfare
Synonyms:
pavement; paving
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pavement" is a kind of...):
paved surface (a level horizontal surface covered with paving material)
Meronyms (substance of "pavement"):
paving stone (a stone used for paving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pavement"):
curbside (the side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb)
Holonyms ("pavement" is a substance of...):
road; route (an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation)
pavement; sidewalk (walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway)
street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)
Derivation:
pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway
Synonyms:
pavement; sidewalk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pavement" is a kind of...):
paseo; walk; walkway (a path set aside for walking)
Meronyms (substance of "pavement"):
pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)
Derivation:
pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Material used to pave an area
Synonyms:
pavement; paving; paving material
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pavement" is a kind of...):
artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pavement"):
asphalt (mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing)
concrete (a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water)
blacktop; blacktopping (a black bituminous material used for paving roads or other areas; usually spread over crushed rock)
macadam (broken stone used in macadamized roadways)
tarmac; tarmacadam (a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving)
Derivation:
pave (cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic)
Context examples:
These UGR researchers have produced more than five joint scientific publications in high-impact journals and have secured two patents—on mechano-mutable asphalt (PCT/ES2014/071002) and pavement safety systems (P201631096).
(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)
It was a gray scene, greasy gray, and the rain drizzled greasily on the pavement stones.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Poole, who had kept all the way a pace or two ahead, now pulled up in the middle of the pavement, and in spite of the biting weather, took off his hat and mopped his brow with a red pocket-handkerchief.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As I emerged from the hall I was conscious for a moment of a rush of laughing students—down the pavement, and of an arm wielding a heavy umbrella, which rose and fell in the midst of them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The long thong cracked between the ears of the leader, the groom sprang for the pavement, and Jermyn Street had changed for St. James’s, and that again for Whitehall with a swiftness which showed that the gallant mares were as impatient as their master.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All were struck with the stranger's air, all wondered who he could be; and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led the way across the street, under pretense of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the pavement when the two gentlemen, turning back, had reached the same spot.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which would rip up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
No need to listen for doors opening—to fancy steps on the pavement or the gravel-walk!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Finally he returned to the pawnbroker’s, and, having thumped vigorously upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up to the door and knocked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He touched it once more, wishing us a good journey; and we left him standing on the pavement, as respectable a mystery as any pyramid in Egypt.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
