pave

[US]/peɪv/
[UK]/peɪv/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. lay down; arrange; for the purpose of laying down.
Word Forms
Past Tensepaved
Third Person Singularpaves
Present Participlepaving
Past Participlepaved
Pluralpaves

Phrases & Collocations

pave the way

paved road

pave with bricks

pavement repair

Example Sentences

These bircks are to pave the courtyard.

the yard at the front was paved with flagstones.

The change of name will now pave the way for the demerger.

The street is paved with asphalt.

the streets of the big city are not paved with gold .

the proposals will pave the way for a speedy resolution to the problem.

experiments that paved the way for future research.

The mushroom development of technology will pave the way for improving our economy.

I do hope the treaty will pave the way to peace in the Middle East.

The town council decided to pave the square before the Hall.

They're trying to blast away the hill to pave the way for the new highway.

The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.

The dining-room opens onto a paved terrace.

a large paved double courtyard which was level, despite the steep gradient of the hill.

Babbage’s early work on calculating machines in the nineteenth century paved the way for the development of computers.

More and more people are moving to the big cities, where they believe the streets are paved with gold.

Actually it has more meaning than we thought, elephants pave way into the area, they step on the plants, new plants will grow again, gaur or banteng {Bos Javanicus} will follow the way to eat them.

Real-world Examples

656. By the navigation of microwave, the navy paved a pavement on the wavy sea.

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Today most roads are paved with asphalt.

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We say pavement, they say sidewalk.

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The key findings on chest CT include ground glass opacities, consolidations, and crazy paving.

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The appearance is similar to irregularly-shaped stones used to pave a street, hence the name " crazy paving."

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

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Humility is the realization that those who came before you paved the way.

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Meanwhile the mission will also pave the way for new life to arrive.

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This could pave the way for other space applications.

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There were paved roads. Never seen a paved road.

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