Asphalt
noun
A black substance used to build roads.
They are repaving the street with fresh asphalt.
Often appears as...
- asphalt road
- asphalt paving
verb
To cover something, typically a road, with asphalt.
They asphalted the new highway.
Often appears as...
- asphalt a road
- asphalt a driveway
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Technical
noun
A black substance used to build roads.
They are repaving the street with fresh asphalt.
Often appears as...
- asphalt road
- asphalt paving
verb
To cover something, typically a road, with asphalt.
They asphalted the new highway.
Often appears as...
- asphalt a road
- asphalt a driveway
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Color Descriptor
Asphalt is commonly described as black or dark grey, emphasizing its typical appearance.
The newly laid asphalt was a rich, dark black under the sun.
Pro Tip 2/3Temperature Sensitive
Asphalt can get very hot in the sun, often used to describe scorching summer surfaces.
Walking barefoot on the asphalt in July is unbearable.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Asphalt can metaphorically signify a beginning or path to progress, as roads often do.
The newly constructed asphalt to the village paved the way to their development.
Pro Tip 1/3Color Descriptor
Asphalt is commonly described as black or dark grey, emphasizing its typical appearance.
The newly laid asphalt was a rich, dark black under the sun.
Pro Tip 2/3Temperature Sensitive
Asphalt can get very hot in the sun, often used to describe scorching summer surfaces.
Walking barefoot on the asphalt in July is unbearable.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Asphalt can metaphorically signify a beginning or path to progress, as roads often do.
The newly constructed asphalt to the village paved the way to their development.
Pro Tip 1/3Color Descriptor
Asphalt is commonly described as black or dark grey, emphasizing its typical appearance.
The newly laid asphalt was a rich, dark black under the sun.
Pro Tip 2/3Temperature Sensitive
Asphalt can get very hot in the sun, often used to describe scorching summer surfaces.
Walking barefoot on the asphalt in July is unbearable.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Asphalt can metaphorically signify a beginning or path to progress, as roads often do.
The newly constructed asphalt to the village paved the way to their development.
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Video examples
Erik Schlangen: A...
but we have a solution. Here you see actually how the damage appears in this material. It's a porous asphalt, like I said, so you have only a small amount of binder between the stones. Due to weathering, due to U.V. light, due to oxidation, this binder, this bitumen, the glue between the aggregates is going to shrink,
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6 ways mushrooms can...
How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. We were involved with several experiments.
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A Smarter Path PIPE Chasing...
and said can you make roads out of solar panels you know that you know if I can figure out a way to protect the solar cells it just might work it's got I've had the same traction as asphalt has to be strong enough to support a fully loaded semi truck shatterproof fireproof the roads are
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Water Technology in...
where technology is helping to significantly reduce residents' water footprint. - The one thing about this project, what makes it real unique, is that we had the opportunity to have critical mass. You know, to take three acres of asphalt and bring on a million square feet
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What I learned when I...
I was struggling, tired and dehydrated, as I could feel the heat emanating from the asphalt, measuring almost 98 degrees. I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.
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3 stories of local...
asphalt to surround the schools themselves and by presenting a really strong economic case they convinced the LA government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they
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My journey to thank all...
But he couldn't have done his job without the road. So I would thank the people who paved the road. And then I would thank the people who made the asphalt for the pavement. And I came to realize that my coffee, like so much else in the world,
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Climate 101: Glaciers PIPE...
Glacial till provides fertile soil for growing crops. And, deposits of sand and gravel are used to make concrete and asphalt. Many rivers are fed by the melting ice of glaciers. The most important resource provided
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How we can design...
Those have such a wide turning radius, that we have to deploy an enormous amount of pavement, of asphalt, to accommodate them. Or take the critically important wheelchair.
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Creating a public school...
forward three short years to today and I want you to come and visit our school so walk past the cracked asphalt parking lot and into our old barrel factory
Video examples
Erik Schlangen: A...
but we have a solution. Here you see actually how the damage appears in this material. It's a porous asphalt, like I said, so you have only a small amount of binder between the stones. Due to weathering, due to U.V. light, due to oxidation, this binder, this bitumen, the glue between the aggregates is going to shrink,
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
How is it that this organism can be so large, and yet be one cell wall thick, whereas we have five or six skin layers that protect us? The mycelium, in the right conditions, produces a mushroom -- it bursts through with such ferocity that it can break asphalt. We were involved with several experiments.
Video examples
A Smarter Path PIPE Chasing...
and said can you make roads out of solar panels you know that you know if I can figure out a way to protect the solar cells it just might work it's got I've had the same traction as asphalt has to be strong enough to support a fully loaded semi truck shatterproof fireproof the roads are
Video examples
Water Technology in...
where technology is helping to significantly reduce residents' water footprint. - The one thing about this project, what makes it real unique, is that we had the opportunity to have critical mass. You know, to take three acres of asphalt and bring on a million square feet
Video examples
What I learned when I...
I was struggling, tired and dehydrated, as I could feel the heat emanating from the asphalt, measuring almost 98 degrees. I was near the halfway point of the bike portion of one of the most prestigious, longest, single-day endurance race events in the world.
Video examples
3 stories of local...
asphalt to surround the schools themselves and by presenting a really strong economic case they convinced the LA government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they
Video examples
My journey to thank all...
But he couldn't have done his job without the road. So I would thank the people who paved the road. And then I would thank the people who made the asphalt for the pavement. And I came to realize that my coffee, like so much else in the world,
Video examples
Climate 101: Glaciers PIPE...
Glacial till provides fertile soil for growing crops. And, deposits of sand and gravel are used to make concrete and asphalt. Many rivers are fed by the melting ice of glaciers. The most important resource provided
Video examples
How we can design...
Those have such a wide turning radius, that we have to deploy an enormous amount of pavement, of asphalt, to accommodate them. Or take the critically important wheelchair.
Video examples
Creating a public school...
forward three short years to today and I want you to come and visit our school so walk past the cracked asphalt parking lot and into our old barrel factory
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most distinct memory, from more years ago than I'll confess to, is waiting for a table at the Olde World, which occupied a wedge of territory at Sunset and Holloway Drive, where the daiquiris became more vicious the longer you sat in the sun.
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Charles Lindbergh
American Aviator
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
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Julian Edelman
American Athlete
It's been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly... it's a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, 'I'm Tom Brady,' on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.
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Evel Knievel
American Entertainer
Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.
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Cale Yarborough
American Celebrity
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Ukrainian Writer
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Forrest Griffin
American Athlete
I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
For half a century, the Sunset Strip was the asphalt timeline of American popular music. My most distinct memory, from more years ago than I'll confess to, is waiting for a table at the Olde World, which occupied a wedge of territory at Sunset and Holloway Drive, where the daiquiris became more vicious the longer you sat in the sun.
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Charles Lindbergh
American Aviator
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
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Julian Edelman
American Athlete
It's been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly... it's a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, 'I'm Tom Brady,' on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.
Quote examples
Steve Erickson
American Novelist
A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.
Quote examples
Evel Knievel
American Entertainer
Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it.
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Cale Yarborough
American Celebrity
If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.
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Ilya Ehrenburg
Ukrainian Writer
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Forrest Griffin
American Athlete
I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.
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