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pavement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International 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.
Pavement \Pave"ment\, v. t.
To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] ``How richly
pavemented!''
--Bp. Hall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French pavement "roadway, pathway; paving stone" (12c.) and directly from Latin pavimentum "hard floor, level surface beaten firm," from pavire (see pave).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any paved floor. 2 (context chiefly British English) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pavement may refer to:
- Pavement (architecture), a floor-like stone or tile structure
- Road surface, the durable surfacing of roads and walkways
- Sidewalk, a walkway along the side of a road
- Portuguese pavement, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal ("Calçada Portuguesa" in Portuguese)
- Limestone pavement, a naturally occurring landform that resembles an artificial pavement
- Desert pavement, a desert ground surface covered with closely packed rock fragments of pebble and cobble size
- Tessellated pavement, a rare sedimentary rock formation that occurs on some ocean shores
- Glacial pavement, a rock surface scoured and polished by glacial action
Pavement was an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. The group mainly consisted of Stephen Malkmus (vocals and guitar), Scott Kannberg (guitar and vocals), Mark Ibold (bass), Steve West (drums) and Bob Nastanovich (percussion and vocals). Initially conceived as a recording project, the band at first avoided press or live performances, while attracting considerable underground attention with their early releases. Gradually evolving into a more polished band, Pavement recorded five full-length albums and nine EPs over the course of their decade-long career, though they disbanded with some acrimony in 1999 as the members moved on to other projects. In 2010, they undertook a well-received reunion tour.
Though only briefly brushing the mainstream with the single " Cut Your Hair" in 1994, Pavement was a successful indie rock band. Rather than signing with a major label as many of their 1980s forebears had done, they remained signed to independent labels throughout their career and have often been described as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the American underground in the '90s. Some prominent music critics, such as Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine, went so far as to call them the best band of the 1990s. In their career, they also achieved a significant cult following.
Pavement in construction is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering. Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stone such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles, and sometimes wood. In landscape architecture pavements are part of the hardscape and are used on sidewalks, road surfaces, patios, courtyards, etc.
Pavement comes from Latin pavimentum meaning a floor beaten or rammed down, through Old French pavement. The meaning of a beaten down floor was obsolete before the word became English.
Pavement laid in patterns such as mosaics were commonly used by the Romans.
Pavement was a New Zealand youth culture magazine published bimonthly, and then quarterly, by Bernard McDonald and Glenn Hunt from 1993 to 2006.
Usage examples of "pavement".
For Juanita Mott became the sixth young woman in the space of just two years to be sexually abused, tortured, decapitated and finally dismembered in the cellar beneath the pavement of number 25 Cromwell Street.
Nichols - the names written in the wet cement when the pavement was new long ago, the great ailanthus tree in the schoolyard, the weatherbeaten gargoyles over the doorway of the building across the street.
His grave in the north aisle of the nave was opened when the present pavement was laid down in 1736, and a chalice and paten taken from it.
Graciela watched the visitors as they sat at the pavement cafes drinking aperitives or shopping at the pescaderia - the fish market, or thefarmacia.
Langeron and Yekaterininskaya streets, directly opposite the huge Fankoni Cafe where stockbrokers and grain merchants in Panama hats sat at marble-topped tables set out right on the pavement, Paris-style, under awnings and surrounded by potted laurel trees, the cab in which Auntie and Pavlik were travelling was all but overturned by a bright-red automobile driven by the heir to the famous Ptashnikov Bros, firm, a grotesquely bloated young man in a tiny yachting cap, who looked amazingly like a prize Yorkshire pig.
Tremaine followed Giliead across the littered pavement to the doorway, Ilias hauling Balin along after her.
I was through the back door with my foot on the pavement when I saw Beyers turn the key and step on the accelerator.
The sidekick, or whoever she is, tugs a briefcase out of the limo and allows her armful of bumph to brim over on to the pavement.
The pavement to his left became invitingly bare, and young Caddles went slowly on his way.
The buildings, the canyon, seemed so steep and dark and faraway Then I heard Chucky hit the pavement.
My head struck the hard pavement with a resounding whack, and to that alone I owe my life, for it cleared my brain and the pain roused my temper, so that I was equal for the moment to tearing my enemy to pieces with my bare hands, and I verily believe that I should have attempted it had not my right hand, in the act of raising my body from the ground, come in contact with a bit of cold metal.
They fell through the yards and yards of air, their ends coiling slightly on the pavement.
Boulevard de la Croisette, other eaters and drinkers had left their restaurants and cafes and were beginning to pack the pavements again.
Next day a great number of citizens represented, in another petition, that the pavement of the city and liberties was often damaged, by being broken up for the purposes of amending or new-laying water-pipes belonging to the proprietors of water-works, and praying that provision might be made in the bill then depending, to compel those proprietors to make good any damage that should be done to the pavement by the leaking or bursting of the water-pipes, or opening the pavement for alterations.
The tires gritted on the dusty pavement but the chains and derailleurs were silky, silent except for the delicate whir of the bearings.