单词 | pavementing |
释义 | pavementingn. rare before late 19th cent. 1. The action of pavement v. Now chiefly: (Medicine) the adherence of leucocytes to the inside wall of a blood vessel in a layer resembling a pavement epithelium (cf. margination n. 3a). ΚΠ 1554–5 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 354 For paymenting of the south kirk dur. 1889 A. B. McKee tr. J. Cohnheim Lect. Gen. Pathol. I. v. 294 Lay bare the mesentery, or make a wound in the tongue; and you will find that, although inflammation sets in, a much longer time must elapse before the ‘pavementing’ [Ger. Randstellung] and the extravasation of the blood-corpuscles occurs. 1924 R. Muir Text-bk. Pathol. iii. 91 The leucocytes..may form an almost continuous layer of cells, a condition which Cohnheim called ‘pavementing’ of the epithelium. 1977 Lancet 20 Aug. 402/2 At 30 and 60 min, these showed an inflammatory reaction to both solutions with pavementing of polymorphs and a perivascular infiltrate. 1996 Forum News (Internat. Forum for Rural Transport & Devel.) (Electronic ed.) June The market upgrading includes the pavementing of walkways, raised permanent selling platforms, toilets, drainage, and market offices. 2. Stone or other material suitable for use in the construction of pavements; pavements collectively. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving pavement stone1382 paving stone1400 paving?1440 flagging1622 pavementing1966 1966 Fond du Lac (Wisconsin) Commonw. Reporter 3 Aug. 32/4 (advt.) Asphalt pavementing, free estimates, residential drives, also resurfacing of old asphalt. 2002 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 12 Sept. 57 She..had high hopes of a speed limit being put in place in addition to some sensible pavementing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1554 |
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