pavement · Contextualize

Etymology

From Middle English pament, from Anglo-Norman pavement and reinforced by Middle French pavement; both from Latin pavīmentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavīre (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”). Morphologically pave + -ment.

derived from pavīmentum
derived from pavement
derived from pavement
inherited from pament

Definitions

1
A paved surface
A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.
- The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
A paved path, for the use of pedestrians, located at the side of a road.
3
A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare
A paving (paved part) of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway or road surface.
- [H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […].
- The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.
- 89.2 million tons of RAP are used annually in new asphalt pavement construction in the United States.
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1. The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza,…
  The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
2. 5
  Interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings.
  - ...that took them to a brief rise of marble stairs that should've put them on the third-and-a-halfth floor if it'd been anywhere but Hogwarts, and then it was back to tiled stone pavement again, and...

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Derived

bumpy pavement, burn pavement, desert pavement, hit the pavement, limestone pavement, moving pavement, nymph of the pavement, pavemental, pavement ant, pavement ape, pavement artist, pavement café, pavement cafe, pavement cell, pavement chalk, pavemented, pavement epithelium, pavementing, pavementless, pavementlike, pavement pizza, pavement princess, pavement special, Portuguese pavement, poultice pavement, pound the pavement

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pavement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at pavement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at pavement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.