paved
part of speech
adjective (paved); verb (pave, paves, paved, paving)
meaning for a pupil
1) Paved means covered with a hard flat surface such as stones, bricks or asphalt, so people can walk or drive on it. tree →
2) To pave the way for something is to make it easier for it to happen later. tree →
sense in the lessons
a road, path or yard that is covered; problems give how much has been paved and how much is left, or the area to pave; in everyday life: paved paths in the park, a paved playground; in history: the Romans built long paved roads; phrases: «paved road», «pave the way», «paving stones»
examples
- Workers paved 3 kilometres of road on Monday. tree →
- The path is 50 metres long and 20 metres are paved. tree →
- How many tiles are needed to pave the yard? tree →
- They pave 4 metres each hour. tree →
- The Romans built paved roads across their empire. tree →
- We rode our bikes on the paved path. tree →
- The old track was muddy, but now it is paved. tree →
- Her hard work paved the way for her success. tree →
- At that time the streets were not paved, and there were no sidewalks. tree →
note
Marks the part of a length or area that is done; the unpaved part = total minus paved. Trap: paving an area (length × width) is not the same as paving a length. Opposite: unpaved (a dirt road). «Pavement» (UK) is the path beside a road; in the USA it is the «sidewalk».
In the corpora
- Rome held this empire together with a professional army, the legions, and with straight paved roads.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «paved» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.