Word Finder - pavement

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(now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground.

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The paved part of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway.

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A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.

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The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar.

The cathedral pavement is almost unique.

The pavement of the nave, on the other hand, is of the 16th century.

Jennifer said nothing more for the remainder of the trip down the mountain until the Jeep finally rolled onto pavement and they entered the still busy town.

A group of Italic cremation tombs a pozzo of the Villanova period were found under the pavement of the medieval Vicolo del Campidoglio.

Do not use scooters on uneven pavement and gravel.

The marble mosaic pavement (11th century) is very effective.

They just went ahead and resurfaced the pavement before our work.

A coal seam with a soft pavement and a hard roof is the most subject to a " creep."

Spider web patterns stuck on the slippery, shining icy pavement.

Slip, Trip or Fall Claims You may have suffered the misfortune to trip or fall on a poorly maintained road or pavement.

Toward the middle of the basin a limestone outcrop has been smoothed by passing ice, forming pavement.

Plant supported himself with a stint at Woolworths and laying pavement for Wimpey's construction.

If he ever leapt off another building, he'd choose pavement, which might have some give to it.

At Nennig is a fine Roman mosaic pavement.

In 1893 the construction was completed in Budapest of an underground railway with a thin, flat roof, consisting of steel beams set close together, with small longitudinal jack arches between them, the street pavement .

The floors of both crypts have sunk considerably and are often under water; this settlement accounts for the inequalities of the pavement.

North of this gateway, but at a somewhat greater depth, traces of a pavement were found in the Altis.

Many fish inhabited the Carboniferous seas and most of these were Elasmobranchs, sharks with crushing pavement teeth (Psammodus), adapted for grinding the shells of brachiopods, crustaceans, &c. Other sharks had piercing teeth (Cladoselache and Cladodus); some, the petalodonts, had peculiar cycloid cutting teeth.

Opposite to this hall is the Sala de las dos Hermanas (Hall of the two Sisters), so-called from two very beautiful white marble slabs laid as part of the pavement.

Soon after, Sankhkere entirely rebuilt the temple, laying a stone pavement over the area, about 45 ft.

From its mouth to its extremity a pavement of broken pillars runs up one side.

The cathedral, constructed in 1074 at the summit of the hill, is externally plain; it has a fine Gothic interior, somewhat spoilt by restoration, with a good Cosmati pavement, and a canopy and paschal candlestick in the same style.

In the town itself there are remains of a theatre, of Roman baths (?), a mosaic pavement in the church of St Leoluca (patron saint of Monteleone), and some Latin inscriptions.

The interior has a mosaic pavement of the 12th-13th centuries.

Over all there was laid a layer of earth, a floor of logs or a pavement of flagstones.

Streets and avenues for the most part are paved with a smooth asphalt pavement, and many of them have two and occasionally four rows of overarching shade trees and private lawns on either side.

After further tentative explorations, he struck the actual pavement of the Artemision on the last day of 1869.

About half its pavement, parts of the cella walls and of three columns of the peristyle, and the foundations of nearly all the platform, are still in position.

For a long time no carts or carriages were permitted to enter the city for fear of polluting and injuring the pavement, and the transport of goods was carried on in hand-carts.

The pavement (of 1111) is as richly inlaid as that of St Mark's, and the mosaics of the tribune are remarkable.

It is full of huge glaciated blocks, and in different regions (Prieska chiefly) the underlying pavement is remarkably striated and shows that the ice was moving southward.

Similar examinations by means of the stop-valves on the mains are also made, and it often happens that the residual leakage (400 gallons an hour in the last case) recorded on the diagram, but not shut off by the house stop - cocks, is mentioned by the inspector as an " outside waste," and localized as having been heard at a stop-cock and traced by sounding the pavement to a particular position under a particular street.

The cathedral, ruined by earthquakes, was restored in 1743-1749, but has some remains of its mosaic pavement (1178).

It fronted on to the ancient forum, part of the pavement of which, with a base for the equestrian statues of Castor and Pollux (as the inscription upon it records) has been laid bare beneath the present Piazza Vittorio Emanuele.

From each end of the house a curved colonnade and a pavement lead westerly to a row of out-buildings which partially enclose a bowling green and spacious lawn with shaded drives and walks, and beautiful gardens (with trees planted by Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lafayette and others).

The church contains frescoes by Lorenzo da Viterbo (1469) and a fine majolica pavement.

He was liberal to the poor; it was his custom to comment severely in his preaching on the public characters of his times; and he introduced popular reforms in the order and manner of public worship. It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

Here also, not far from the shore, the remains of Roman baths, with a fine coloured mosaic pavement, representing deities riding on marine monsters, were found in 1907.

It is formed of pavement epithelial cells, mainly grouped in a concentric manner around the vascular papillae of the subcorneous integument, so that a section near the base of the hoof, cut transversely to the long axis of these papillae, shows a number of small circular or oval orifices, with cells arranged concentrically round them.

At the end of the pavement stand the band and bridge ascribed to the Roman emperor Valerian.

The plan of all is the same - an open court, with a tesselated pavement, and one or two marble fountains; orange and lemon trees, flowering shrubs, and climbing plants give freshness and fragrance.

Grasso dropped Molly on the pavement, causing a shudder to ripple across the room and a quick reaction from my wife.

Before they hit the pavement, they disappeared.

The jockeying crowd made it difficult for five-foot Cynthia Dean to catch more than a glimpse of the activity as bodies rolled and washed across the pavement and errant streams drenched the crowd.

The pavement came from the site of a 3rd-century Roman villa along with a mural displayed on the wall of the south quire aisle.

You can drink beer at a pavement cafe in the Roman forum or go shopping for designer clothes.

I was sitting at a pavement cafe in Holland Park, sipping a cappuccino in the bright spring sunshine.

Before they knew it there was an almighty crash, and the lot of them lay in a heap on the pavement.

The spangled firmament is but the outside and pavement of that house where Christ and the saints meet.

The field next to the Chapel had an overgrown hedge over the pavement which needed cutting back.