different between pavement vs parking

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

Translations

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

park +? -ing

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??k??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k??
• Hyphenation: park?ing

Verb

parking

1. present participle of park

   Parking a car in a tight spot gave him some satisfaction. (as gerund)

   His parking skills needed improvement. (as participial adjective)

   They will be parking the aircraft in the desert for the next few months. (as progressive)

   Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment. (as gerundial noun)

Noun

parking (usually uncountable, plural parkings)

1. The action of the verb to park.

   Parking in central London can be very difficult.

   • 1948, Report of the Charlotte Parking Survey: Downtown Business District

     Table 6 represents an analysis of the parking usage in the Downtown Business District, in terms of the number of parkings, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., according to Type of Facility used, and the Purposes of the Trips […]

2. Space in which to park a car or other vehicle.

   It can be difficult to find parking in central London.

Usage notes

• Often used attributively, as an adjective.

Hyponyms

• angle parking
• parallel parking

Derived terms

Translations

Cebuano

Etymology

From English parking, from park (“to park”), from Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“enclosure, fence”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: par?king

Verb

parking

1. to park; to bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:parking.

Derived terms

• parkinganan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English parking or from French parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?r.k??/
• Hyphenation: par?king

Noun

parking f (plural parkings)

1. (Belgium) car park, parking lot

   Synonyms: parkeerplaats, parkeerterrein

Derived terms

• stadsparking

French

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• (France) IPA^(key): /pa?ki?(?)/

Noun

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park, parking lot

   Synonym: stationnement

Further reading

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??ki?/

Noun

parking

1. area where cars or other vehicles are parked; car park

   Synonym: stasionnman

Polish

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?par.k?ink/ [?park???k]

Noun

parking m inan

1. car park

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) parkowa?, zaparkowa?
• (noun) parkingowy
• (adjective) parkingowy

Further reading

• parking in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• parking in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

From English parking.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?kin/, [?pa?.k?n]

Noun

parking m (plural parkings)

1. car park (UK), parking lot (North America) (an area where cars may be parked)

   Synonyms: aparcamiento, estacionamiento

2. parking garage

Further reading

• “parking” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.