Definition of "pave" []

• To cover with a pavement. (verb-transitive)
• To cover uniformly, as if with pavement. (verb-transitive)
• To be or compose the pavement of. (verb-transitive)
• Pave the way To make progress or development easier: experiments that paved the way for future research. (idiom)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Often the pave is a spatter of the fallen mangos, its slippery condition of no import to the barefooted Tahitian, but to the shod a cause of sudden, strange gyrations and gestures, and of irreverence toward the Deity."
• "An irresistible bass line intertwined with a somewhat jazzy guitar phrase pave the way for the song's gorgeously arranged vocals."
• "And I knew that in order for me to succeed with music, I would have to really do something different and almost kind of pave my own path."