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What is the difference between exterior and pavement?

exterior | pavement |

As nouns the difference between exterior and pavement

is that exterior is the outside part, parts or surface of something while pavement is any paved floor.

As a adjective exterior

is relating to the outside parts or surface of something.

exterior

English

Alternative forms

* exteriour (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
  • the exterior part of a sphere
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man / Resemble that it was.
  • Being from outside a country; foreign.
  • the exterior relations of a state or kingdom
  • Outdoors.
  • Antonyms

    * interior

    See also

    * external

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The outside part, parts or surface of something.
  • The sticker was attached to the exterior of the package
  • * '>citation
  • Foreign lands.
  • She is our new minister of the exterior

    Antonyms

    * interior

    pavement

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any paved floor.
  • * Milton
  • The riches of heaven's pavement , trodden gold.
  • (chiefly, British) A paved footpath, especially at the side of a road.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
  • (US, uncountable) Paved exterior surface, as with a road or sidewalk.
  • The interior flooring, especially when of stone, of large buildings such as a cathedral.
  • Synonyms

    * (footpath) sidewalk (US), footpath, footway, platform * (surface of road) roadway (UK), road surface (UK); paving

    Derived terms

    * hit the pavement * pavement pizza * pound the pavement

    See also

    * footpath * sidewalk * (wikipedia) English words with different meanings in different locations ----