pavement : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pavement	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for pavement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pavement n the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: pavement, paving] material used to pave an area Synonym(s): paving, pavement, paving material walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway Synonym(s): sidewalk, pavement
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pavement \Pave"ment\, n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See {Pave}.] That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. --Milton. {Pavement teeth} (Zo[94]l.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pavement \Pave"ment\, v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] [bd]How richly pavemented![b8] --Bp. Hall.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pavement It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See {GABBATHA}.)