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asphalt

[as-fawlt or, especially Brit., -falt]

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noun

any of various dark-colored, solid, bituminous substances, native in various areas of the earth and composed mainly of hydrocarbon mixtures.

a similar substance that is the by-product of petroleum-cracking operations.

a mixture of such substances with gravel, crushed rock, or the like, used for paving.

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verb (used with object)

to cover or pave with asphalt.

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or containing asphalt: asphalt tile.

Origin:
1275–1325; earlier asphaltos, -um < Latin < Greek ásphaltos, -on, akin to asphalízein to make firm, to secure; replacing Middle English aspaltoun ≪ Greek ásphalton

Related forms

as·phal·tic, adjective

as·phalt·like, adjective

un·as·phalt·ed, adjective

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Asphalt is a brownish-black liquid petroleum material that hardens when it cools.

For his part, the mayor says asphalt pavements are more expensive to maintain than brick.

Take a ride on a rocket bike that uses asphalt as fuel.

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Asphalt is a brownish-black liquid petroleum material that hardens when it cools.

For his part, the mayor says asphalt pavements are more expensive to maintain than brick.

Take a ride on a rocket bike that uses asphalt as fuel.

With an eye to recycling, circuit boards are being used in asphalt.

With the concave shape of the asphalt lanes, the path of the ball can be unpredictable.

Also use roofing nails to attach asphalt shingles, working up from the roof's bottom end.

Others would rather present their fragile melon to the asphalt in its raw, naked form.

Asphalt cement poisoning occurs when someone swallows asphalt.

Roads have the same asphalt and gully covers as decades ago.

Copy the lines in the paper square onto the asphalt square with the chalk.

Because traditional black asphalt roofs heat up in summer and strain the air conditioners.

There are only a few paved roads, but asphalt crews are laying down new ones every day.

Pavers are a great alternative to traditional hardscape materials such as concrete or asphalt.

First, the truck was on asphalt and it was pulling some concrete barriers on asphalt.

Asphalt roofing tile and asphalt paving material come from the same place: the bottom of the oil barrel.

Bike roads can be narrower, and use less asphalt and have lower maintenance requirements.

No one has ever filmed the inside of a tornado-where wind can chew asphalt off a road and drive wooden splinters into tree trunks.

Nearly one-third of the land around the creek is buried under urban concrete, asphalt and buildings.

Or perhaps not, if they were recessed far enough that they only touch asphalt when the tire is bald and needs replacing anyway.

There is no evidence that asphalt rubber can be recycled, as asphalt can.

Asphalt is warm and soft before the steam roller gets to it and the fumes make you sleep extra deep.

Solar roof tiles can blend in with standard asphalt shingles.

Soil is covered with black asphalt and loaded with automobiles.

The mob follows her a couple of blocks uptown, looking for another vacant patch of asphalt where she can make a scene.

It is paved in black asphalt and hemmed in by a wooden split-rail fence.

Numerous corners and smooth asphalt make the road a favorite of drivers and cyclists alike.

Heat build-up in cities have far more to do with black asphalt than with the direction of the jet stream.

The woman hit her head on the asphalt road and died of a serious cranial injury.

We think that asphalt can be modified to include materials so that a machine could uniformly heat an asphalt road.

Parachutes are necessary to help slow cars on the slippery salt, which has only about half the grip of asphalt.

What replaces clunky, dangerous automobiles and toxic, sprawling asphalt roads is the exciting stuff.

My feet got tougher, but were still happier with the rubber covering, especially on rocky ground and asphalt.

They are full of craters, and the asphalt has a slope.

Most of the ride is on doubletrack forest roads, with rare technical bits and a smattering of asphalt.

We have been geo-engineering by using black asphalt for roads, on the roof of buildings.

The last thing you need is to have the skid-lid flip off your head when you face-plant into the asphalt.

The city's finest basketball players leave their asphalt playgrounds and.

Deposits of sand and gravel are used to make concrete and asphalt.

Build more shopping malls with huge asphalt parking lots.

He knows that with enough speed through a turn, centrifugal force will whip road tar and tire rubber into an asphalt tsunami.

Everyone crowded onto the fresh black asphalt and stood looking up at the gods.

The caustic vapors of oil, diesel, and asphalt burned their lungs.

We should err on the side of protecting our future rather than on the aesthetics of a solar panel installed over an asphalt roof.

We shot up the slope, bounced onto the asphalt, and as soon as the rear wheels hit the asphalt they started burning rubber.

The workday begins on a patch of black asphalt ringed by razor-wire fence.

The tumor was really a chunk of asphalt the dog was carrying in its mouth.

But today it has grown beyond its modest asphalt roots to become.

There was a brand-new paved road right up the valley with fresh white and yellow painted lines on the newly laid asphalt.

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World English Dictionary

asphalt (ˈæsfælt, ˈæʃ-, -fɔːlt)

—n
1.	any of several black semisolid substances composed of bitumen and inert mineral matter. They occur naturally in parts of America and as a residue from petroleum distillation: used as a waterproofing material and in paints, dielectrics, and fungicides
2.	a mixture of this substance with gravel, used in road-surfacing and roofing materials
3.	(modifier) containing or surfaced with asphalt

—vb
4.	(tr) to cover with asphalt

[C14: from Late Latin aspaltus, from Greek asphaltos, probably from a-¹ + sphallein to cause to fall; referring to its use as a binding agent]

as'phaltic

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

asphalt

early 14c., "resinous mineral pitch found in Biblical lands," from L.L. asphaltum, from Gk. asphaltos, probably from a non-Gk. source, possibly Semitic. Meaning "paving composition" dates from 1847.

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Science Dictionary

asphalt

(ās'fôlt') Pronunciation Key
A thick, sticky, dark-brown mixture of petroleum tars used in paving, roofing, and waterproofing. Asphalt is produced as a byproduct in refining petroleum or is found in natural beds.

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