asphalt (noun)
1asphalt — ► NOUN ▪ a dark tar like substance used in surfacing roads or waterproofing buildings. DERIVATIVES asphaltic adjective. ORIGIN Greek asphalton …
2asphalt cement — noun : a refined asphalt free from water and coarse foreign material and containing less than one percent of ash * * * asphalt cement, a refined, semisolid asphalt used for paving …
3asphalt concrete — noun A material often used for road surfacing, composed of a hard, granular material such as crushed stone combined with asphalt as a binder. (Often abbreviated as asphalt.) …
4asphalt paper — noun : paper that is impregnated, coated, or laminated with asphalt * * * paper treated with asphalt, as to increase toughness or water resistance …
5asphalt emulsion — noun A mixture of asphalt particles and emulsifying agent, such as bentonite clay and water …
6asphalt shingle — noun A shingle manufactured by coating a reinforcing material (felt or fibrous glass mat) with asphalt and having mineral granules on the side exposed to the weather …
7asphalt jungle — noun A city or urban area, where the landscape is covered by pavement and the environment is alienating and unsafe. The sound track tingles with cool jazz, the dry atonal music of the asphalt jungle …
8asphalt — noun Asphalt is used before these nouns: ↑road …
9asphalt — noun (U) a black sticky substance that becomes hard when it dries, used for making the surface of roads asphalt verb (T) …
10asphalt lamination — noun : lamination (as of kraft papers) in which asphalt is used as the adhesive …
