Asphalt

Definition: Asphalt

Asphalt

Adjective

1. Covered with paving material.

Noun

1. Mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing.

2. A dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons.

Verb

1. Cover with tar or asphalt, of roads.

Date "asphalt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)

Specialty Definition: Asphalt

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A viscous liquid, semi-solid or solid, consisting essentially of hydrocarbons and their derivatives, which is soluble in carbon disulphide. Source: European Union. (references)
	Black mineral hydrocarbons containing bituminous substances, which are decomposition products of petroleum, found at the surface of the ground near petroleum deposits. Asphalt can also be made by distilling petroleum. It is a waterproof surface applied in two main ways, first as mastic asphalt in tanking or roofing, secondly as rolled asphalt. The distinction between asphalt and bitumen is mainly chemical. To the layman they are similar except that asphalt is reserved for solid surfacings, the term bitumen being used for liquids suitable for coating aggregates. Source: European Union. (references)
	A natural or artificial mixture in which bitumen is intimately associated with a substantial proportion of fine solid mineral matter. Source: European Union. (references)
Chemistry	Liquid or low-melting solid bitumen consisting almost entirely of carbon and hydrogen and soluble in carbon disulfide, of either natural or artificial origin. Source: European Union. (references)
Weather	A dark-brown-to-black cement-like material containing bitumen as the predominant constituent. It is obtained by petroleum processing. The definition includes crude asphalt as well as the following finished products: cements, fluxes, the asphalt content of emulsions (exclusive of water) , and petroleum distillates blended with asphalt to make cutback asphalt. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Asphalt

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Asphalt is a highly viscous liquid that occurs naturally in most crude petroleums. Asphalt is separated from the other components in crude (such as naptha, gasoline and diesel) by the process of fractional distillation. It is sometimes confused with tar, which is an artificial material produced by the destructive distillation of organic matter. Both tars and asphalts are classified as bitumens, a classification that includes all materials entirely soluble in carbon disulphide.

Asphalt is commonly used in roofing shingles, and combined with mineral aggregate to make Asphalt concrete.

External links

Black Stuff

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asphalt."

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Synonyms: Asphalt

Synonyms: macadam (adj), macadamised (adj), macadamized (adj), tarmac (adj), tarmacadam (adj), mineral pitch (n), tar (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Asphalt

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Resin	Noun: resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber, ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan.
Smoothness	Slide; bowling green; (level); asphalt, wood pavement, flagstone, flags.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Asphalt

English words defined with "asphalt": Asphalte, asphaltic, Asphaltum, Asphaltus ♦ bitumastic ♦ coumarone resin, coumarone-indene resin ♦ hard surface ♦ maltha, Mineral patch, mineral pitch, mineral tar ♦ Pissasphalt ♦ tar. (references)

Specialty definitions using "asphalt": buried asphalt membrane lining ♦ native asphalt, natural asphalt ♦ paving-machine operator, asphalt or bituminous ♦ SUPERVISOR, ASPHALT PAVING ♦ upside-down asphalt roof. (references)

Etymologies containing "asphalt": Asphalte. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Asphalt" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (asphalt, metal, tarmac).

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Modern Usage: Asphalt

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Asphalt (1964)

The Asphalt Jungle (1961)

Nasser Asphalt (1958)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Flowers of Asphalt (1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Asphalt

Domain	Title
References	Tipco Asphalt Public Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) The World Market for Natural Bitumen and Asphalt, Asphaltites, and Asphaltic Rocks: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	An Orange Motorcycle, White Lines and Black Asphalt (reference) Asphalt Justice: A Critique of the Criminal Justice System in America (Praeger Series in Criminology and Crime Control Policy) (reference) Down the Asphalt Path (reference) Natural Asphalt Mining in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Playing in the Asphalt Garden (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Asphalt (reference) Asphalt : The Magazine Of The Asphalt Institute (reference) Asphalt Market Intelligence Service (reference) Asphalt Review (reference) Asphalt Technology News (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Raw Asphalt (reference) The Asphalt Jungle (reference) World of Hockey: Ice & Asphalt (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Asphalt Jungle [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) Kickin' Asphalt (reference) NASCAR: Hotter than Asphalt (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Asphalt

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Photo Album: Asphalt

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Two girls (full-length portrait, facing front) holding bags walking down an asphalt (?) road] Esther Bubley. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Digging asphalt, Pitch Lake, Trinidad, W.I. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Loading cars with asphalt, Pitch Lake, Trinidad, W.I. Credit: Library of Congress.		Queens Asphalt Plant. General view. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Asphalt

Author	Quotation
Ilya Ehrenburg.	You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Asphalt

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		They may be added to asphalt and may also be used in the production of flagstones. (references)
Economic History	Uae	An asphalt highway network links all major cities. (references)
	Ethiopia	Of the 23,812 kilometers of Ethiopia's all-weather roads, 15% are asphalt. (references)
	Syria	Natural resources: Crude oil and natural gas, phosphates, asphalt, rock salt, marble, gypsum. (references)
Human Rights	Dominican Republic	Prison officials use a punishment called "the toaster," where prisoners are laid, shackled hand and foot, on a bed of hot asphalt for the entire day and are beaten with a club if they scream. (references)
Trade	Saudi Arabia	In addition, importing the following products requires special approval by Saudi authorities: agricultural seeds; live animals and fresh and frozen meat; books, periodicals, movies, and tapes; religious books and tapes; chemicals and harmful materials; pharmaceutical products; wireless equipment; horses; products containing alcohol (e.g., perfume); natural asphalt; and archaeological artifacts. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Asphalt

"Asphalt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.06% of the time. "Asphalt" is used about 81 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.06%	77	37,929
Noun (proper)	3.7%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	1.23%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	81	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Asphalt

Country	Name
Thailand	Tipco Asphalt Public Co., Ltd.
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Asphalt

Expressions using "asphalt": asphalt binder ♦ asphalt concrete ♦ asphalt paper ♦ asphalt paver ♦ asphalt paving ♦ asphalt road ♦ asphalt rock ♦ asphalt roofing ♦ asphalt stone ♦ buried asphalt membrane lining ♦ cracked asphalt ♦ lack asphalt ♦ native asphalt ♦ natural asphalt ♦ natural rock asphalt ♦ penetration grade asphalt ♦ pound the asphalt ♦ sand asphalt ♦ sand asphalt mixture ♦ sheet asphalt ♦ thermal asphalt ♦ Trinidad lake asphalt. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "asphalt": asphalt-surfaced.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Asphalt

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
asphalt	572	asphalt shingle	21
asphalt shingles	154	asphalt driveway repair	21
driveway asphalt	114	asphalt company	21
asphalt paving	107	asphalt heater	21
blue asphalt	55	asphalt saw	19
asphalt sealer	54	asphalt roller	19
asphalt plant	53	asphalt indiana	18
asphalt institute	48	asphalt driveway sealer	18
asphalt roofing	45	asphalt chart control	18
asphalt green	43	asphalt cost driveway	17
asphalt equipment	42	asphalt contact tile	17
asphalt repair	35	asphalt cost	16
asphalt sealing	30	stamped asphalt	16
asphalt pavers	29	american asphalt	16
red asphalt	27	asphalt control process statistical	16
asphalt roofing shingles	26	asphalt patch	16
asphalt tank	26	asphalt product	15
asphalt odor	26	asphalt maintenance	15
asphalt roof shingles	23	asphalt paving equipment	15
asphalt sealers	21	asphalt picture	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Asphalt

Language		Translations for "asphalt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		bergpik, asfalteer, asfalt. (various references)

Albanian		asfalt, serë (bitumen). (various references)

Arabic		‏مسفلت, ‏قير زفت, ‏سفلت, ‏أسفلت. (various references)

Bulgarian		асфалтирам (seal), асфалт (bitumen, jew's pitch). (various references)

Chinese		瀝�' (bituminous), 沥�' (Bituminous, Pitch, tar). (various references)

Czech		asfaltovat (tarmac), asfalt (tar). (various references)

Danish		asfalt,tjære og tjærede produkter (tar and tarred products), asfalt, naturasfalt (earth pitch, glance pitch, mineral pitch, native asphalt, natural asphalt, petroleum pitch), bitumen (asphaltic bitumen, asphaltic cement, bitumen, road bitumen). (various references)

Dutch		asfalt (bitumen). (various references)

Esperanto		asfalto, asfalti, terpeko (bitumen). (various references)

Farsi		قیرمعدنی , قیرخیابان , زفت معدنی , اسفالت . (various references)

Finnish		vuoripiki (earth pitch, glance pitch, mineral pitch, petroleum pitch), luonnonasfaltti (earth pitch, glance pitch, mineral pitch, native asphalt, natural asphalt, petroleum pitch). (various references)

French		asphalte (ASPH, Trinidad lake asphalt), asphalter. (various references)

German		Asphalt (metal, tarmac), Erdpech (earth pitch, glance pitch, mineral pitch, petroleum pitch). (various references)

Greek		άσφαλτος (tarmac). (various references)

Hebrew		לזפת (tar), לזפף (bituminize, pitch, tar), חמר (bitumen, clay), זפת (gizzard, pitch, tar), אספלט. (various references)

Hungarian		aszfalt (bitumen, blacktop), bitumen (bitumen, blacktop, maltha, mineral pitch). (various references)

Icelandic		asfalt, malbik. (various references)

Indonesian		aspal (bitumen), mengaspal, belangkin (black shoe polish). (various references)

Irish		asfalt. (various references)

Italian		asfalto (macadam). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		瀝�' (bitumen), アスパラギン酸 (aspartame, aspartic acid, asphalt jungle, aspic, Aspirin, aspirin snow, Aspite). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		れきせい (bitumen), アスファルト , ちゃ�" (bitumen). (various references)

Korean		아스�"트. (various references)

Manx		pick (pitch), cur asfalt er, asfalt. (various references)

Papiamen		asfaltá, asfalt. (various references)

Pig Latin		asphaltay

Portuguese		asfalto (macadam), betume (mastic, putty), asfaltar (macadamize). (various references)

Romanian		asfalta (bituminize, pitch, surface), asfalt (bitumen, pitch). (various references)

Russian		асфальт (bitumen). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		asfalt. (various references)

Spanish		asfalto (tarmac). (various references)

Swedish		asfalt (bitumen, jew's pitch). (various references)

Thai		แอสฟัลต์. (various references)

Turkish		asfalt (blacktop, motorway, pavement, tarmac). (various references)

Turkmen		asfalt (r). (various references)

Ukrainian		асфальтувати, асфальт (bitumen), бітум (pitch). (various references)

Vietnamese		nhựa đường (jew's pitch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Asphalt

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bitumen, bitumine. (various references)
Persian	800-Modern	mumiya. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Asphalt

Derivations
	Words beginning with "asphalt": asphalted, asphaltic, asphalting, asphaltite, asphaltites, asphalts, asphaltum, asphaltums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Asphalt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acephale, Aisholt, ashphalt, Aspal, asphault, asphoalt, sanhailt, Sapha. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Asphalt"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "asphalt" (pronounced a"sfô'lt)
3	-ô' l t	Cobalt, somersault, thunderbolt.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Asphalt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: spathal.
	Words within the letters "a-a-h-l-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: alphas.
	-2 letters: alpha, ataps, atlas, halts, laths, pasha, pasta, paths, plash, plats, salpa, shalt, splat, staph, talas, tapas.
	-3 letters: aahs, aals, alas, alps, alts, atap, halt, haps, hasp, hast, hats, laps, lash, last, lath, lats, pals, pash, past, path, pats, phat, plat, salp, salt, shat, slap, slat, spat, tala, tapa, taps.
	-4 letters: aah, aal.
	-5 letters: aa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-h-l-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: ashplant, asphalts.
	+2 letters: allopaths, alphabets, apholates, ashplants, asphalted, asphaltic, asphaltum.
	+3 letters: asphalting, asphaltite, asphaltums, caliphates, phantasmal, polyanthas, spathulate, ultrasharp.
	+4 letters: analphabets, antechapels, antiphonals, asphaltites, ophthalmias, phalanstery, plainchants.
	+5 letters: alphabetizes, hypothalamus, laureateship, metaphysical, naphthalenes, phragmoplast, slaphappiest, trophallaxes, trophallaxis.
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