Asphaltic Meaning
/ˈaeˌsfɔlt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjResembling, containing, or relating to asphalt or bitumen.
adjOf or relating to the Dead Sea (salt lake between Jordan and Israel).
Sentence Examples
The asphaltic mixture was used for paving.
Asphaltic roads are common in urban areas.
The workers applied an asphaltic coating to seal the driveway.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The construction team used a special ____ mixture to waterproof the bridge deck.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ concrete used for the runway is designed to be very durable.
Word Origin & History
From asphalt + -ic.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The aggregated Soyle
Death with his Mace petrific, cold and dry,
As with a Trident smote, and fix’t as firm
As Delos floating once; the rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move,
And with Asphaltic slime,"
— 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 293-298:
"[…] the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,"
— 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 8:
"As Sodomes Apples, neere th’Asphalticke lake,
Of specious shew, yet touch’t, to ashes turning,
So are sinnes poysons sweete, yet bane to take;"
— 1619, Stephen Jerome, Origens Repentance, London: Roger Jackson, Section 2, p. 29:
"[…] who gather from the fragrant shrub
The aromatic balsam, and extract
Its milky juice along the lovely side
Of winding Jordan, till immers’d it sleep
Beneath the pitchy surface, which obscures
Th’ Asphaltic lake."
— 1737, Richard Glover, Leonidas, London: R. Dodsley, Book 3, lines 349-354, p. 93:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The construction team used a special ____ mixture to waterproof the bridge deck.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ concrete used for the runway is designed to be very durable.