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pavement
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)
- (now chiefly in technical contexts) A paved surface; a hard covering on the ground. [from 13th c.]
- (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.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 53:
- (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.
- A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road. [from 18th c.]
- (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)
- paving
- 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)
- a paved room
Descendants
- ? English: pavement
- ? Welsh: palmant, paement
- French: pavement
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way
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /we?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophones: weigh, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English way, wey, from Old English we? (“way; path”), from Proto-West Germanic *weg, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Doublet of voe.
Alternative forms
- waye, waie (both obsolete)
Noun
way (plural ways)
- (heading) To do with a place or places.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- the season and ways very improper for his Majesty's forces to march so great a distance
- "It's a long way to Tipperary, / it's a long way to go." [It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, a marching and music hall song by Jack Judge and Henry "Harry" James Williams, popularized especially by British troops in World War One]
- "Do you know the way to San Jose?" [song title and lyrics, Bacharach and David]
- A means to enter or leave a place.
- A roughly-defined geographical area.
- A road, a direction, a (physical or conceptual) path from one place to another.
- A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
- A state or condition
- When I returned home, I found my house and belongings in a most terrible way.
- (heading) Personal interaction.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct.
- Possibility (usually in the phrases 'any way' and 'no way').
- (Germanic paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft, Way of wyrd, Way of runes, Way of Thor etc.
- To walk the Way of the Runes, you must experience the runes as they manifest both in the part of Midgard that lies outside yourself and the worlds within. (Diana Paxson)
- (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- Ten minutes into the run Tang slowed, Welch calling out her speed as she lost way.
- 1977, Richard O'Kane, Clear the Bridge: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang, Ballantine Books (2003), p.343:
- A degree, an amount, a sense.
- (US, As the head of an interjectory clause, followed by an infinitive starting with “to”) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions of sarcastic congratulation.
- (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large boat is launched.
- (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table or carriage moves.
Hyponyms
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:way
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
way
- (only in reply to no way) yes; it is true; it is possible
- Synonym: yes way
Verb
way (third-person singular simple present ways, present participle waying, simple past and past participle wayed)
- (obsolete) To travel.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- on a time as they together way'd, / He made him open chalenge […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
Etymology 2
Apheresis of away.
Alternative forms
- 'way, ’way (dated)
Adverb
way (not comparable)
- (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
- I'm way too tired to do that.
- I'm a way better singer than Emma.
- 2006, Keyboard, Volume 32, Issues 1-6, page 132,
- It turns out that's way more gain than you need for a keyboard, but you don't have to use all of it to benefit from the sonic characteristics.
- (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
- I'm way tired.
- String theory is way cool, except for the math.
- 2005, Erika V. Shearin Karres, Crushes, Flirts, & Friends: A Real Girl's Guide to Boy Smarts, page 16,
- With all the way cool boys out there, what if you don't recognize them because you don't know what to look for? Or, what if you have a chance to pick a perfect Prince and you end up with a yucky Frog instead?
- (informal) Far.
Synonyms
- (much): far, much, loads
- (very): so, very, so much
Derived terms
- way too
- way too many
- way too much
Translations
Etymology 3
From the sound it represents, by analogy with other (velar) letters such as kay and gay.
Noun
way (plural ways)
- The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- double-u
Anagrams
- Yaw, wya, yaw
Bobot
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water
References
- "Bobot" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Highland Popoluca
Noun
way
- hair
References
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[4] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 115
Lampung Api
Etymology
From Proto-Lampungic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.
Noun
way
- water (clear liquid H?O)
Ojibwe
Particle
way
- exclamation
References
- The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/way-pc-disc
Tz'utujil
Noun
way
- tortilla
Synonyms
- away
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