Crossword clues for paving
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pave \Pave\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paved; p. pr. & vb. n. Paving.] [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. ? to beat, strike.]
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To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.
With silver paved, and all divine with gold.
--Dryden.To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.
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Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.
--Bacon.
Paving \Pav"ing\, n.
The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
A pavement.
Wiktionary
Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself. n. 1 The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk. 2 Interior pavement, as in a cathedral. v
(present participle of pave English)
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Usage examples of "paving".
Spilled coals were scattered across the paving slabs and atop the rumpled velvet, burning holes in the rich pile, and the glass alembic was now a jagged splash of greenish shards.
The other trader flung himself sideways, cowering on the paving stones.
Festival Committee, the group who first had the idea of paving Saturn with hot-hydrogen balloons -- but over the course of a complete diurn, almost forty thousand seconds, a pattern begins to emerge.
Festival Committee, the group who first had the idea of paving Saturn with hot-hydrogen balloons but over the course of a complete diurn, almost forty thousand seconds, a pattern begins to emerge.
The paving stones are usually finished quite neatly and smoothly where their edges enframe the firepit.
It was a gutter, originally for shit and now for rainwater, a six-inch channel between the paving slabs that sluiced through grilles into the undercity at the furthest end.
His torch, held out over the gap in the paving stones, revealed what Jennet most dreaded.
It would be a sensible future: the Kewanee River under full development, with cattle grazing on grass that sprouted from the broken paving along the main street of Pomelo City.
It was spiderwebbed with rivulets and runlets, as when a bucket of water is spilt on ten square metres of worn brick paving.
In the new paving of the crown of the causey, some years before, the rise in the middle had been levelled to an equality with the side loans, and in disposing of the lamp-posts, it was thought advantageous to place them halfway from the houses and the syvers, between the loans and the crown of the causey, which had the effect at night, of making the people who were wont, in their travels and visitations, to keep the middle of the street, to diverge into the space and path between the lamp-posts and the houses.
When her unsandalled foot caught on an edge of the jagged paving she fled one-legged, each hop jarring a whimper out of her.
Statutes and ordinances providing for the paving and grading of streets, the cost thereof to be assessed on the front foot rule, do not, by their failure to provide for a hearing or review of assessments, generally deprive a complaining owner of property without due process of law.
The brooklet was still there and the old pillared portico, where the stone showed from under the crumbling stucco and the roses had pushed their way through the stone paving and entwined the columns.
Before his eyes, Harry saw sections of paving lifted out, pulverized, toted away by the sackload by lines of trudging, browbeaten little men.
The thronging constellations rush in crowds, Paving with fire the sky and the marmoreal floods.