verb
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To cover something with paving slabs.
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To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
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To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
noun
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The hard durable surface placed directly atop the ground, as on a street or sidewalk.
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Interior pavement, as in a cathedral.
adjective
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Pertaining to the material used for pavement, or to the surface itself.
Examples of paving in a Sentence
In many modern gardens pathways made of old paving stones lead from the house to different parts.
Pietra forte of the Cretaceous period is quarried north and south of the city, and has been used for centuries as paving stone and for the buildings.
As the countess was frequently absent these boni homines gave judgment without her, thus paving the way for a free commune.
Beyond paving the streets the French have made no alteration in the suks, which retain their original character unimpaired.
Slabs are also manufactured, and, being readily cut, planed, dressed and enamelled, are used for chimney pieces, billiard tables, wall linings, cisterns, paving, tomb-stones, ridge rolls, electrical switch-boards and various other architectural and industrial purposes.
The Concord granite is a medium bluish-grey coloured muscovitebiotite granite, with mica plates so abundant as to effect the durability of the polish of the stone; it is used for building-the outer walls of the Library of Congress at Washington, D.C., are made of this stone-to a less degree for monuments, for which the output of one quarry is used exclusively, and for paving blocks.
The value of granite quarried in the state increased from $195,000 in 1887 to $1,147,097 in 1902, when building stone was valued at $619,916, monumental stone at $346,735 and paving stone at $101,548.
Zanesville is an important centre for tha manufacture of art and domestic pottery, plain and ornamental tile, building and paving bricks, and other clay products.
In 1900 Nebraska City ranked third among the manufacturing cities of the state, the manufactures including canned fruits and vegetables, packed pork, flour, oatmeal, hominy, grits, meal, starch, cider-vinegar, agricultural implements, windmills, paving bricks, concrete, sewer pipe, beer, over-ails and shirts.
The tufa, sperone and peperino were easy to quarry, and could be employed by those who possessed comparatively elementary tools, while travertine, which came into use later, was an excellent building stone, and the lava (selce) served for paving stones and as material for concrete.
Valla by one vigorous effort destroyed the False Decretals and exposed the Donation of Constantine to ridicule, paving the way for the polemic carried on against the dubious pretensions of the papal throne by scholars of the Reformation.
In 1833 an act was passed for paving, watching, cleansing and improving the streets; as well as for the regulation of police, and the establishment of a market.
On the other hand, the national party abandoned the candidature to the throne of Prince Casimir of Poland, thus paving the way to the eventual succession of Albert's heir.
The stone is of superior quality, and the largest part of it is used for building purposes; much of it is used as paving blocks and some for monuments.
Through his reviews he trained the middle-class to read and to take an active interest in literary problems. Through his Curier de ambe sexe (1837-41) he disseminated translations from political and other works, thus paving the way for the political change of 1848.
Plastic fireclays, paving and brick clays are available in seemingly limitless quantities.
Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts," kerb and building stones, and monumental 'and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.
The quarries of granite near Long Island Sound, those of sandstone at Portland, and of feldspar at Branchville and South Glastonbury, however, have furnished building and paving materials for other states; the stone product of the state was valued at $1,386,540 in 1906.
It is a shipping point; the Standard Oil Company has a large refinery here, and among its manufactures are asphaltum for street paving, linoleum and men's garments.
A double row of overturned coaches made a capital barricade, with a few paving stones.
York stone paving was selected to match with the existing footway along the King's Road thus providing visual continuity of pedestrian surfaces.
All dropped curb crossings that have been constructed since 1999 have tactile paving installed in order to help partially sighted people.
The hi-tech paving slabs have a top layer containing titanium dioxide which helps to break down pollutant nitrogen dioxide gas from car fumes.
Inspired ideas in paving, decking, fencing and walling plus a host of garden accessories from ornaments to wonderful pond ideas.
Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis var. japonica) - creeping rhizomes spread through flowerbeds, they can penetrate cracks in paving and walls.
These are the people who are paving the way to a more technologically literate society.
We used a heavy paving mallet to put a vibration impulse into the floor with simultaneous measurements being made in both buildings.
For paths they have laid permanent hard paving instead of using wood.
The gateway may also include paving, grass, pillars, planters, w all s, trees, rails or fences.
Similar tactile paving is also used at many ramped crossing points.
Main SUDS used permeable paving has been used in the Phase 3 parking areas with a total site area of approximately 1.2 Ha.
The ' water feature ' side of the crazy paving remained fairly tidy... .
The porous paving can be materials such as gravel, grasscrete, porous (no fines) concrete blocks or porous asphalt.
The College site has some cobbles and uneven paving, gravel and grass.
Much of the external lighting was also cast into the concrete paving.
Surrounding the fountain, inlaid into the granite paving, is a specially written poem, a gift to the city by Roger McGough.
With the majority of the block paving options, you can choose from six colors.
There is evidence of limestone paving, still in-situ, 5cm below the surface.
The noise of metal wheel on stone paving would have been a problem, even at the end of the 1930s.
Drying her hands, she watches the bird peck at the cracks in the paving, seeking whatever it is that starlings seek.
Paving was laid from the middle outwards, leaving the edges ragged and uneven to keep in with the setting.
Rows of paving slabs, treated timber struts or a solid concrete base are good base choices.
Also imagine a badly fitted paving slab in the pavement immediately outside its front door.
Rather than paving a smooth path to the court, it was causing an escalating spiral of partisan warfare and personal attack.
The paving stones are designed to show where the Market Hall would have originally stood.
Floor finishes consist mainly of pre-cast terrazzo paving with areas of ceramic tiles, vinyl and carpets.
The most unusual find this year was the carving of a Pictish bear, found on a paving stone in the largest wheelhouse.
A peculiar burden laid on the quaestors, not as an official duty, but rather as a sort of fee exacted from all who entered on the political career, was the paving of the high roads, for which Claudius substitiited the exhibition of gladiatorial games.
Our sandstone paving stone can be delivered anywhere in the UK.
It has a dado and terrazzo paving similar to the water-closet turret, and is warmed by a radiator.