Roadside vs Pavement - What's the difference?
roadside | pavement |
Located next to (beside) a road.
:The roadside stand did a good business just selling products to people who merely wanted directions.
* 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles'' (in ''The Guardian , 1 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/afghanistan-bombs-look-vehicles]
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 roadside and pavement
is that roadside is the area on either side of a road while pavement is any paved floor.As an adjective roadside
is located next to (beside) a road.roadside
English
Adjective
(-)- David Cameron has said the government will "look carefully" at the use of heavily armoured vehicles after three British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb while travelling in a Mastiff troop carrier.
Derived terms
*roadside hawkpavement
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.}}