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pave
1[ peyv ]
verb (used with object)
- to cover or lay (a road, walk, etc.) with concrete, stones, bricks, tiles, wood, or the like, so as to make a firm, level surface.
noun
- Southern Louisiana. a paved road.
pavé
2[ puh-vey, pav-ey; French pa-vey ]
noun
- a pavement.
- Jewelry. a setting of stones placed close together so as to show no metal between them.
adverb
- Jewelry. in the manner of a pavé; as a pavé:
diamonds set pavé.
adjective
- Also pa·véd, pa·véed. being set pavé:
pavé rubies.
pave
1/ peɪv /
verb
- to cover (a road, path, etc) with a firm surface suitable for travel, as with paving stones or concrete
- to serve as the material for a pavement or other hard layer
bricks paved the causeway
- often foll by with to cover with a hard layer (of)
shelves paved with marble
- to prepare or make easier (esp in the phrase pave the way )
to pave the way for future development
pavé
2/ ˈpæveɪ /
noun
- a paved surface, esp an uneven one
- a style of setting gems so closely that no metal shows
Derived Forms
- ˈpaver, noun
Other Words From
- un·paved adjective
- well-paved adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pave1
Word History and Origins
Origin of pave1
Idioms and Phrases
- pave the way to / for, to prepare for and facilitate the entrance of; lead up to:
His analysis of the college market paved the way for their entry into textbook publishing.
Example Sentences
Finally, he said that one of the most practical education PAVE did was around the best practices that its members and advisors have developed in early AV deployments.
This is a time of transition, but I am excited to work with our team—both new and old alike—as we pave a new way forward.
Taylor Swift just used a calculated business decision, cloaked in artistic integrity, to pave the way for a digital music war.
In contrast, a successful outcome on the nuclear issue could pave the way for progress on other issues of concern with Iran.
In elections last May, however, the Flemish separatists won big, which could eventually pave the way to a partitioned nation.
Maybe the boys in France and Wales will pave the way for this change.
Our gunners had put more than they could afford into the bombardment and had very little wherewith to pave the way.
That can do no harm, and may even help to pave the way for bringing about a better state of things some day.
I've broke enough in my time to pave Cheapside—jugs and cups and basins.
First, as a form in repose, she will tone down savage life, and pave the way from feeling to thought.
The chief Quisara was slain, who used to pave the way to his dwelling with the skulls of those be had overcome.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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