pavement

Definition of pavement in English English dictionary: A paved footpath at the side of a road; Paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk; The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral; The material with which a surface is paved
rotesters hurled Molotov cocktails and chunks of pavement into the faces of Czech police officers.; Any paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk; {n} a paved way, a stone or brick floor; To furnish with a pavement; to pave; the paved surface of a thoroughfare; A pavement is a path with a hard surface, usually by the side of a road. He was hurrying along the pavement; Road structure - includes road surface and underlying structural layers; The Personal Annotation Viewer and Editor, for viewing DAS annotations, as well as creating them and saving them via canape [ not yet implemented ]; {i} paving, asphalt covering; sidewalk (British); walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway; 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; rock exposed at the Earth's surface in the form of a more or less horizontal surface, usually with crevices or joints; means the portion of a street surfaced for vehicular or pedestrian movement; material used to pave an area; The pavement is the hard surface of a road. Durable surfacing of a road, path, court, patio, plaza, airstrip, or other such area. The Romans, the greatest road builders of the ancient world, built their roads of stone and concrete. By AD 75 several methods of road construction were known in India, including brick and stone slab pavements, and street paving was common in towns. Smaller cobblestones began to be used for European paving in the late Middle Ages. The 18th-19th century saw the development of pavement systems (e.g., macadam) that used light road surfaces of broken or crushed stone. Modern flexible pavements contain sand and gravel or crushed stone compacted with a bituminous binder (e.g., asphalt or tar); such a pavement has enough plasticity to absorb shock. Rigid pavements are made of concrete, composed of coarse and fine aggregate and portland cement, and usually reinforced with steel rod or mesh; A rock surface, often eroded or striated, which underlies glacial till and is exposed in sufficient quantity to resemble a sidewalk or open plaza
pavement artist: a specialist in outdoor surveillance as a pedestrian
pavement cell: Brachycystidia in the gills of some species of Coprinus
pavement cells: plural form of pavement cell
pavement pizza: vomit
pavement-pizza: Attributive form of pavement pizza, noun
pavement artist: someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money)
hit the pavement: To travel or begin to move in an automobile or other road vehicle
And when we hit the pavement, we found we had covered the last 54 miles in an hour and twenty minutes..
hit the pavement: To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk
But getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern. . . . unicipalities are looking to combat inner-city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians.
hitting the pavement: Present participle of hit the pavement
limestone pavement: A natural karst landform consisting of a flat limestone slabs (clints) separated by fissures (grikes)
pound the pavement: To campaign diligently; to seek something, such as business, employment, or answers
After a brief and unsuccessful search, he decided it was time to start pounding the pavement.
pound the pavement: To travel on foot; to walk or run
The joggers pounded the pavement for several miles each day.
A pavement: paving
A pavement: pament
pavements: plural of pavement
pound the pavement: walk from place to place in order to accomplish a goal (esp. to find a job or campaign for an election)
prestressed concrete pavement: concrete reinforced with metal rods that is exposed to stress while hardening (which makes the concrete much stronger)

pavement

Hyphenation

pave·ment

Turkish pronunciation

peyvmınt

Synonyms

sidewalk, roadway, road, surface, paving, asphalt, concrete, flagstone, tar

Pronunciation

/ˈpāvmənt/ /ˈpeɪvmənt/

Etymology

[ 'pAv-m&nt ] (noun.) 13th century. Middle English, from Old French pavemant, from Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”), from pavere (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”)

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