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单词 paved
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pavedadj.

Brit. /peɪvd/, U.S. /peɪvd/
Forms: see pave v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pave v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < pave v. (although this is first attested slightly later) + -ed suffix1. Compare similar uses in French of pavé , use as adjective of past participle of paver pave v. (attested from the second half of the 12th cent.).For a place name probably implying slightly earlier currency see note s.v. pave v.
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a. Laid with or as with paving or a pavement; having a pavement.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [adjective] > paved
paved1330
well-pavedc1400
paven1637
pavimented1717
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > [adjective] > paved > laid together as a pavement
paved1611
1330–1 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 363 (MED) [A solar called] pavedeloft [with a shop under it].
1422 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 16 The glasse wyndows, the bynkes, the paved flore.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 82 He..fond two othere ladys sete, and she, Withinne a paved parlour.
1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 29 He made a paued Calsey, being a broad high waye that lasted two leagues and halfe.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. L8v The ioyous people..with their garments strowes the paued street.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xxiv. 10 There was vnder his feet, as it were a paued worke of a Saphire stone. View more context for this quotation
1687 London Gaz. No. 2298/4 In a paved Alley near St. Sepulchres Church in London.
1726 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 5 Aug. 4 Several paved Courts, wherein are made a Thousand Seams of Dung every Year.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 125 Surrounded with a paved area.
1822 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. iii. 71 In front of each house, and of the same length, is a paved platform.
1864 Lady Duff-Gordon in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1862–3 157 There is no water but what runs down the streets in the sloot, a paved channel.
1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 5 A horse the feet of which struck sparks from the paved ground as they stressed painfully on edge to get weigh on the great waggon.
1954 C. Armstrong Better to eat You iii. 24 Opposite a three-car garage there was a wide paved apron.
1989 Japan Times 20 May 3/4 The number of paved roads and water usage have [sic] reduced the amount of water moving under the ground and through urban rivers.
b. With modifying word: laid with paving of a particular kind or in a particular manner.For more established compounds see the first element.
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1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late Canzone i. 41 Her pace was like to Iunoes pompous straines, When as she sweeps through heuens brasse paued way.
1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux cxcix. f. 34 Thys thin-leau'd Gold vpon a Copper linke, This Venice ceres on an Ethiops face, This Di'mond set in Lead, this faire-pau'd sinke, Cheats the whole world.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 328 Of all that trod The well-pau'd Ilion.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. L6 What's the cause That they thus stagger in the plain-pav'd skie?
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 976 Though Heavens King Ride on thy wings, and thou..draw'st his triumphant wheels In progress through the rode of Heav'n Star-pav'd. View more context for this quotation
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 157 From the full Cistern lead the ductile Streams, To wash thy Court well-pav'd.
1840 R. Bremner Excursions Denmark II. 350 The rough-paved flagless thoroughfare.
1883 Proc. Assoc. Municipal Engineers 10 53 The tar macadam roadways and tar paved footways..I found in good..order.
1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester xii We crossed the cobble-paved courtyard.
1987 Pace (Johannesburg) July 26 She was ready to..make for the fabled city of gold-paved streets.
2. Of the teeth of certain sharks and other fishes: close-set so as to form a pavement (pavement n. 3d).
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1774 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 64 315 The mouth of the Wolf-fish is almost paved with teeth.]
1848 L. Agassiz & A. Gould Princ. Zoöl. xiii. 171 In the seas of that continent [sc. New Holland]..we find the curious shark, with paved teeth and spines on the back, (Cestracion Philippii), the only living representative of a family so numerous in former zoölogical ages.
1851 S. F. Baird tr. J. G. Heck Iconogr. Encycl. II. Zool. 234 The genus Amia, with the general characters already referred to, has..conical teeth in the jaw, within which are smaller paved teeth.
1989 Biol. Abstr. 88 Abstr. No. 128253 The diagnostic characteristics of the genus Phacodus are discussed, as well as the probable interrelationship with Polygyrodus and Gyrodus, considering the similarities between their paved teeth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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