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Pavement definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PA'VEMENT, n. [L. pavimentum.] A floor or covering consisting of stones or bricks, laid on the earth in such a manner as to make a hard and convenient passage; as a pavement of pebbles, of bricks, or of marble.
PA'VEMENT, v.t. To pave; to floor with stone or brick. [Unusual.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: pavement, paving]
2: material used to pave an area [syn: paving, pavement, paving material]
3: walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway [syn: sidewalk, pavement]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin pavimentum, from pavire Date: 13th century 1. a paved surface: as a. the artificially covered surface of a public thoroughfare b. chiefly British sidewalk 2. the material with which something is paved 3. something that suggests a pavement (as in flatness, hardness, and extent of surface)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 Brit. a paved path for pedestrians at the side of and a little higher than a road. 2 the covering of a street, floor, etc., made of tiles, wooden blocks, asphalt, and esp. of rectangular stones. 3 US a roadway. 4 Zool. a pavement-like formation of close-set teeth, scales, etc. Phrases and idioms: pavement artist 1 Brit. an artist who draws on paving-stones with coloured chalks, hoping to be given money by passers-by. 2 US an artist who displays paintings for sale on a pavement. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L pavimentum f. pavire beat, ram

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pavement Pave"ment, n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See Pave.] That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. --Milton. Pavement teeth (Zo["o]l.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pavement Pave"ment, v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] ``How richly pavemented!'' --Bp. Hall.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pavements) 1. A pavement is a path with a hard surface, usually by the side of a road. (BRIT; in AM, use sidewalk) He was hurrying along the pavement. N-COUNT: oft supp N 2. The pavement is the hard surface of a road. (AM) N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See GABBATHA.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pav'-ment: In the Old Testament, with the exception of 2Ki 16:17, the Hebrew word is ritspah (2Ch 7:3; Es 1:6; Eze 40:17, etc.); in Sirach 20:18 and Bel and the Dragon verse 19 the word is edaphos; in Joh 19:13, the name "The Pavement" (lithostrotos, "paved with stone") is given to the place outside the Pretorium on which Pilate sat to give judgment upon Jesus. Its Hebrew (Aramaic) equivalent is declared to be GABBATHA (which see). The identification of the place is uncertain.

Moby Thesaurus

Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, cover, covering materials, curb, curbing, curbstone, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards, earth, edgestone, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gravel, ground, ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, kerb, kerbstone, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mat, mortar, parquet, pave, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap, road metal, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat, siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing, tarmacadam, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, walling, washboard, welcome mat