Paved

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pave \Pave\ (p[=a]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paved} (p[=a]vd); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Paving}.] [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from
     L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. pai`ein to
     beat, strike.]
     1. To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so
        as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for


        vehicles, 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.
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              With silver paved, and all divine with gold.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways.
                                                    --Gay.
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     2. 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.
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              It might open and pave a prepared way to his own
              title.                                --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  paved \paved\ adj.
     1. covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.
        [Narrower terms: {asphalt, macadam, macadamized, tarmac,
        tarmacadam}; {blacktopped}, {brick}, {cobblestone,
        cobblestoned}] [Ant: {unpaved}]
  
     Syn: hard-surfaced, surfaced, made-up [British], sealed
          [Australian].
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  paved
       adj : covered with a firm surface [ant: {unpaved}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "paved":
     armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered,
     covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled,
     encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed,
     loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted,
     packaged, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled,
     shielded, shrouded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled,
     walled-in, wrapped