Paving
['peɪvɪŋ] or ['pevɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of applying paving materials to an area.
(noun.) material used to pave an area.
Checker: Sondra--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pave
(n.) The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.
(n.) A pavement.
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Examples
- He becomes proprietor of this portion of the mine, and can work it without paving any acknowledgment to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Railroad ties and street paving blocks are ordinarily protected by oil rather than paint. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He filled the canteens and some of the wine ran out on the stone paving of the courtyard. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- After some time I drew a bill for paving the city and brought it into the Assembly. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They had not been graded, but the paving had been done on the natural surface. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Justly thought; rightly said, Miss Eyre; and, at this moment, I am paving hell with energy. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I tell you, said Jerry, that you buried paving-stones and earth in that there coffin. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It ended at the paving of asphalt which led up to the gates of the Mapleton stables. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- But they will build no more barricades, they will break no more soldiers' heads with paving-stones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- People like you, ma'am, accustomed from infancy to lie on Down feathers, have no idea _how_ hard a paving-stone is, without trying it. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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