Pave vs Lave - What's the difference?
pave | lave |
(British) To cover something with paving slabs.
(Canada, US) To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
(obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
To draw, as water; drink in.
To give bountifully; lavish.
To run down or gutter, as a candle.
(dialectal) To hang or flap down.
(ambitransitive, archaic) To wash.
* Alexander Pope
* 1789 , William Lisle Bowles, 'Sonnet I' from Fourteen Sonnets , 1789.
* 2006 , Cormac McCarthy, The Road , London: Picador, 2007, p. 38.
(archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 12.
* 1896 (posthumously), Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel and other verses .[https://archive.org/details/songsoftraveloth00stevrich]
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As verbs the difference between pave and lave
is that pave is to cover something with paving slabs while lave is to pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.As nouns the difference between pave and lave
is that pave is a paved surface, a pavement (now only in French contexts) while lave is archaic or dialectal The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.pave
English
Verb
- pave over paradise, put up a parking lot
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)lave
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(lav)- (Dryden)
- In her chaste current oft the goddess laves .
- the tranquil tide, / That laves the pebbled shore.
- The boy walked out and squatted and laved up the dark water.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(-)- Then they set upon us and slew some of my slaves and put the lave to flight.
- Give to me the life I love,/Let the lave go by me...