asphalt asphalt (sense 2 ) for road surfacing FromLate Latin asphaltum Ancient Greek ἄσφαλτος ( ásphaltos ,“ asphalt, bitumen ” ) .[ 1] Old English eorþteoru
( Canada ) IPA (key ) : /ˈæʃfɑlt/ ,/ˈæsfɑlt/ ( General Australian , New Zealand ) IPA (key ) : /ˈæʃfɔlt/ ,/ˈæsfɔlt/ ,/ˈæʃfɛlt/ ( UK ) IPA (key ) : /ˈæsfælt/ ,/ˈæsfəlt/ ,/ˈæsfɔːlt/ ,/ˈæsfɒlt/ ,/ˈæʃ-/ ( US ) IPA (key ) : /ˈæsfɔlt/ ,/ˈæʃfɔlt/ ,/ˈæsfɑlt/ asphalt (countable anduncountable plural asphalts
Asticky , black to brown and highlyviscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely ofbitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crudepetroleums and in some natural deposits.Synonym: bitumen The mining ofasphalt was big business in this area in the early twentieth century.
1914 Asphalts, their sources and utilizations ,→OCLC page 9 :Felltham wrote in the beginning of the 17th century of the “Bitumated walls of Babylon;” the source of its supply, the fountains of Is, on a tributary of the Euphrates, still yieldsasphalt .
Ellipsis ofasphalt concrete Near-synonyms: tarmac tarmacadam blacktop bitumen Please hose off theasphalt near the top of the driveway if the trucks get lots of mud on it.
1936 F.J. Thwaites , chapter XXII, inThe Redemption 1940 , page214 :Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wetasphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
sticky, black and highly viscous liquid
Albanian:asfalt (sq) Arabic:أَسْفَلْت m ( ʔasfalt ) ,زِفْت m ( zift ) Armenian:ասֆալտ (hy) ( asfalt ) Basque:asfalto Belarusian:асфа́льт m ( asfálʹt ) ,асва́льт m ( asválʹt ) Bulgarian:асфа́лт (bg) m ( asfált ) Catalan:asfalt (ca) m Chinese:Cantonese:蠟青 / 蜡青 ( laap6 ceng1 ) Mandarin:瀝青 / 沥青 (zh) ( lìqīng ) Czech:asfalt (cs) m Danish:asfalt (da) c Dutch:asfalt (nl) n Esperanto:asfalto (eo) Estonian:asfalt (et) Finnish:bitumi (fi) French:asphalte (fr) m Georgian:ასფალტი (ka) ( aspalṭi ) German:Asphalt (de) m Greek:άσφαλτος (el) f ( ásfaltos ) Ancient:ἄσφαλτος f ( ásphaltos ) Hebrew:אַסְפַלְט (he) m ( asfált ) Hindi:डामर (hi) ( ḍāmar ) Hungarian:aszfalt (hu) Ido:asfalto (io) Indonesian:aspal (id) Irish:asfalt m Italian:asfalto (it) m bitume (it) m Japanese:アスファルト (ja) ( asufaruto ) ,瀝青 (ja) ( れきせい, rekisei ) Kannada:ಕಲ್ಲರಗು (kn) ( kallaragu ) Korean:아스팔트 (ko) ( aseupalteu ) ,역청(瀝靑) ( yeokcheong ) ,력청(瀝靑) ( ryeokcheong ) ( North Korea ) Latin:bitūmen n asphaltum n ( late ) Latvian:asfalts m Lithuanian:asfaltas m Macedonian:асфалт m ( asfalt ) Nahuatl:chiapopotl Norwegian:Bokmål:asfalt (no) m Nynorsk:asfalt m Old English:eorþtyrewa m Ottoman Turkish:آسفالت ( asfalt ) ,قطران ( katran ) Polish:asfalt (pl) m Portuguese:asfalto (pt) m Romanian:asfalt (ro) n Russian:асфа́льт (ru) m ( asfálʹt ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:а̀сфалт m Roman:àsfalt (sh) m Slovak:asfalt m Slovene:asfalt (sl) m Spanish:asfalto (es) m chapopote m chapapote m pisasfalto m neme (es) m Swedish:asfalt (sv) c Tagalog:aspalto Thai:แอสฟัลต์ Turkish:asfalt (tr) Ukrainian:асфа́льт (uk) m ( asfálʹt ) Vietnamese:nhựa đường (vi)
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asphalt (third-person singular simple present asphalts present participle asphalting simple past and past participle asphalted
( transitive ) pave with asphalt.
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