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paved 音标拼音: [p'evd] paved adj 1: covered with a firm surface [ ant: { unpaved}] 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]. [ WordNet 1. 5]
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. [ 1913 Webster] With silver paved, and all divine with gold. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. -- Gay. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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