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pavé
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pavé has 1 sense
- pave(n = noun.artifact) Array - a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows; Array is a kind of mount, setting
Verb pavé has 1 sense
- pave(v = verb.contact) Array - cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village" is one way to coat, surface
Derived forms noun pavage1, noun pavement1, noun pavement3, noun pavement2, noun paving3, noun paving2, noun paving1
Sample sentence:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
pavé, v. t. [F. paver to pave, LL. pavare, from L. pavire to beat, ram, or tread down; cf. Gr. pai`ein to beat, strike.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]"With silver paved, and all divine with gold." [1913 Webster]"To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways." [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]"It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pavé, v.tr.
1 a cover (a street, floor, etc.) with paving etc. b cover or strew (a floor etc.) with anything (paved with flowers).
2 prepare (paved the way for her arrival).
1 a cover (a street, floor, etc.) with paving etc. b cover or strew (a floor etc.) with anything (paved with flowers).
2 prepare (paved the way for her arrival).
Idiom
paving-stone a large flat usu. rectangular piece of stone etc. for paving.
Derivative
paver n. paving n. pavior n. (also paviour).
Etymology
ME f. OF paver, back-form. (as PAVEMENT)
THESAURUS
pavé
asphalt, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement, cobblestone, concrete, cover, ease, facilitate, flag, floor, metal, pebble, surface, tar, tarmac, tileROGET THESAURUS
pavé
Covering
VB cover, superpose, superimpose, overlay, overspread, wrap, encase, incase, face, case, veneer, pave, paper, tip, cap, bind, bulkhead, bulkhead in, clapboard, coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar, wash, besmear, bedaub, anoint, do over, gild, plate, japan, lacquer, lacker, enamel, whitewash, parget, lay it on thick, overlie, overarch, endome, conceal, anodize, galvanize.
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