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pave·ment

(pāv′mənt)

a. A hard smooth surface, especially of a public area or thoroughfare, that will bear travel.

b. The material with which such a surface is made.

2. Chiefly British A sidewalk.

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pavement

(ˈpeɪvmənt)

1. (Civil Engineering) a hard-surfaced path for pedestrians alongside and a little higher than a road. US and Canadian word: sidewalk

2. (Civil Engineering) a paved surface, esp one that is a thoroughfare

3. (Civil Engineering) the material used in paving

4. (Civil Engineering) civil engineering the hard layered structure that forms a road carriageway, airfield runway, vehicle park, or other paved areas

5. (Geological Science) geology a level area of exposed rock resembling a paved road. See limestone pavement

[C13: from Latin pavīmentum a hard floor, from pavīre to beat hard]

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pave•ment

(ˈpeɪv mənt)

n.

1. a paved road, highway, etc.

2. a paved surface, ground covering, or floor.

3. a material used for paving.

4. Atlantic States and Brit. sidewalk.

[1250–1300]

pavement

sidewalk

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Noun	1.	pavement - the paved surface of a thoroughfare paving curbside - the side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb; "policemen stood at intervals along the curbside" paved surface - a level horizontal surface covered with paving material paving stone - a stone used for paving road, route - an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation sidewalk, pavement - 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; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"
	2.	pavement - material used to pave an area paving, paving material artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole 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
	3.	pavement - walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway sidewalk pavement, paving - the paved surface of a thoroughfare paseo, walkway, walk - a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk"

pavement

noun sidewalk (U.S. & Canad.), footpath (Austral. & N.Z.) He was hurrying along the pavement.

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Translations

رَصِّيفٌرَصيف

chodníkdlažbavozovka

fortov

Bürgersteig Gehsteig Gehweg Pflaster Trottoir

πεζοδρόμιο

pavimento acera

jalkakäytävä

trottoir chaussée pavement

pločnik

gangstétt

marciapiede pavimento selciato lastricato

歩道

인도

bestrating stoep wegdek

fortau veidekke brulegging

chodnik

calçada passeio pavimento

тротуар мостовая

pločnik

trottoar

ทางเดินเท้า

kaldırım

vỉa hè

人行道铺过路面的道路

pavement

[ˈpeɪvmənt]

A. N (Brit) → acera f, vereda f (LAm), andén m (CAm, Col), banqueta f (Mex) (US) → calzada f, pavimento m
brick pavement → enladrillado m
stone pavement → empedrado m, adoquinado m
to leave the pavement (US) (Aut) → salir de la calzada

B. CPD pavement artist N → pintor(a) m/f callejero/a
pavement café N → café m con terraza, café m al aire libre

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pavement

[ˈpeɪvmənt] n

(British) → trottoir m

(US) → chaussée fpavement artist n (British) → artiste mf de ruepavement café n (British) → café m avec terrasse (sur le trottoir)

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pavement

n (Brit) → Gehsteig m, → Bürgersteig m, → Trottoir nt; (US: = paved road) → Straße f; (= material) → Bodenbelag m; to leave the pavement (US Aut) → von der Straße abkommen; pavement artist → Pflastermaler(in) m(f)

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pavement

[ˈpeɪvmənt] n (Brit) → marciapiede m (Am) → pavimentazione f stradale

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pave

(peiv) verb

to cover (a street, path etc) with (usually large) flat stones, concrete etc to make a flat surface for walking on etc. He wants to pave the garden.

ˈpavement noun

(American ˈsidewalk) a paved surface, especially a paved footpath along the sides of a road for people to walk on.

ˈpaving-stone noun

a large flat stone or piece of concrete used for paving.

pavement

→ رَصِّيفٌ chodník fortov Bürgersteig πεζοδρόμιο pavimento jalkakäytävä trottoir pločnik marciapiede 歩道 인도 bestrating fortau chodnik calçada, passeio тротуар trottoar ทางเดินเท้า kaldırım vỉa hè 人行道

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Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired that, finding himself in a quiet street where the pavement was sprinkled with rose water, and a cool breeze was blowing, he set his burden upon the ground, and sat down to rest in the shade of a grand house.

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It must be admitted that a permanent gibbet and a pillory, "a justice and a ladder," as they were called in that day, erected side by side in the centre of the pavement, contributed not a little to cause eyes to be turned away from that fatal place, where so many beings full of life and health have agonized; where, fifty years later, that fever of Saint Vallier was destined to have its birth, that terror of the scaffold, the most monstrous of all maladies because it comes not from God, but from man.

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AN Author saw a Labourer hammering stones into the pavement of a street, and approaching him said:

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As he said it, he rose, shook himself, scratched himself, tied his brown coat loosely round his neck by the sleeves (he had previously used it as a coverlet), and sat down upon the pavement yawning, with his back against the wall opposite to the grating.

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At the corner of the pavement, in a short, stylish overcoat and a low-crowned fashionable hat, jauntily askew, with a smile that showed a gleam of white teeth and red lips, stood Stepan Arkadyevitch, radiant, young, and beaming.

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In the thoroughfares where shops abound, the sordid struggle with poverty shows itself unreservedly on the filthy pavement; gathers its forces through the week; and, strengthening to a tumult on Saturday night, sees the Sunday morning dawn in murky gaslight.

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They talk much of the Russ pavement in New York, and call it a new invention--yet here they have been using it in this remote little isle of the sea for two hundred years!

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From pavement to pavement, and covering the sidewalks, it lay there, spread out quite evenly, with only here and there a lump or mound of bodies to break the surface.

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Slowly, silently we wandered From the open cottage door, Underneath the elm's long branches To the pavement bending o'er; Underneath the mossy willow And the dying sycamore.

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I well remember one morning, as we were on the stand waiting for a fare, that a young man, carrying a heavy portmanteau, trod on a piece of orange peel which lay on the pavement, and fell down with great force.

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The carriage had scarcely stopped when she sprang out and crossed the pavement in a few hasty steps.

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He is down upon the pavement; and the crowd eagerly gather round him: each new comer, jostling and struggling with the others to catch a glimpse.