Pave

n.	1.	The pavement. Nymphe du pavé a prostitute who solicits in the street; a streetwalker.
v. t.	1.	To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. [imp. & p. p. Paved (pāvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paving.] With silver paved, and all divine with gold. - Dryden. To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. - Gay.
	2.	Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. - Bacon.

Noun	1.	pave - a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows
Verb	1.	pave - cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village"

asphalt, blacktop, carpet, causeway, cement, cobblestone, concrete, cover, ease, facilitate, flag, floor, metal, pebble, surface, tar, tarmac, tile