different between pavement vs ambulatory

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pavement, Middle French pavement, and their source, Latin pav?mentum (“paved surface or floor”), from pavire (“to beat, to ram, to tread down”).

Morphologically pave +? -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?vm?nt/

Noun

pavement (usually uncountable, plural pavements)

1. (now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. [from 13th c.]
2. (now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of a road or other thoroughfare; the roadway. [from 13th c.]
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 53:

     [H]e attempted to recover his importance, by haranguing upon the Roman highways, when Mr. Jolter desired the company to take notice of the fine pavement upon which they travelled from Paris into Flanders […] .

   • 1991, Airpower Journal 1911, page 45:

     The antirunway munitions are specifically designed to cause maximum destruction to airfield pavements.

3. (now chiefly Canada, US) The paved part of an area other than a road or sidewalk, such as a cobblestone plaza, asphalt schoolyard or playground, or parking lot.
4. A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road. [from 18th c.]
5. (architecture) The interior flooring of a church sanctuary, between the communion rail and the altar. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• (footpath): sidewalk (US), footpath, footway, platform
• (surface of road): roadway (US), road surface (US); paving

Derived terms

• hit the pavement
• pavement cafe
• pavement pizza
• pound the pavement

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See also

• footpath
• sidewalk
• pavement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French pavement, from the verb paver +? -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pav.m??/

Noun

pavement m (plural pavements)

1. paving
2. tiled floor

Further reading

• “pavement” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

paver +? -ment, based on Latin pavimentum (“a hard surface, a pounded surface”).

Noun

pavement m (oblique plural pavemenz or pavementz, nominative singular pavemenz or pavementz, nominative plural pavement)

1. a paved room

Descendants

• ? English: pavement
  • ? Welsh: palmant, paement
• French: pavement

English

Etymology

Latin ambulatorius

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.bj?.l??t?.?i/
• Hyphenation: am?bu?la?to?ry

Adjective

ambulatory (comparative more ambulatory, superlative most ambulatory)

1. Of, relating to, or adapted to walking

   ambulatory exercise

   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     The princess of whom his majesty […] had an ambulatory view in his travels.

2. (comparable, medicine) Able to walk about and not bedridden.

   an ambulatory patient

3. (medicine) Performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient.

   an ambulatory electrocardiogram

   ambulatory medical care

4. Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.

   an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places

   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, Clerus Domini, or, A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministerial together with the nature and manner of its power and operation

     The priesthood […] before, was very ambulatory, and dispensed into all families

5. (law) Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.

   The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Translations

Noun

ambulatory (plural ambulatories)

1. The round walkway encircling the altar in many cathedrals.
2. Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.

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