Jetty vs Pavement - What's the difference?
jetty | pavement |
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(obsolete) To jut out; to project.
(archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.75:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
Any paved floor.
* Milton
(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 (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.
As nouns the difference between jetty and pavement
is that jetty is a structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach while pavement is any paved floor.As a verb jetty
is (obsolete|intransitive) to jut out; to project.As an adjective jetty
is (archaic) made of jet, or like jet in color.jetty
English
(wikipedia jetty)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.Noun
(jetties)Synonyms
* (protective structure) mole, breakwater * pierCoordinate terms
* (pier) quay, leveeHypernyms
* (pier) wharf, dockVerb
(en-verb)- (Florio)
Etymology 2
Adjective
(er)- those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
- She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].
Derived terms
* jettinessReferences
*pavement
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The riches of heaven's pavement , trodden gold.
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.}}