gravel

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
2. A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
3. A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
4. Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
5. A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
6. Inability to see at night; night blindness.
7. Gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike.
8. (slang) The stimulant drug alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone.

Verb

1. To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
2. To puzzle or annoy.
3. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
4. To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
5. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
6. (slang) To prostrate; to beat to the ground.

Sinonieme

grit

pebbles

sand

pebble

irritate

rubble

vex

small stones

nettle

nark

bother

chafe

rile

rag

get

ballast

crushed rock

get at

annoy

devil

perplex

get to

shingle

coarse sand

stupefy

amaze

baffle

beat

bewilder

crushed stone

dumbfound

flummox

mystify

nonplus

pose

puzzle

slack

soil

stick

stone

🪨

exasperate

jar

🫙

laterite

miff

mind

mud

bug

🐛

exacerbate

earth

small stone

object to

particle

dust

disturb

peeve

dirt

volcanic rock

provoke

asphalt

detritus

confound

roadbed

rocks

cobble

coarse

sandy

channel

bank gravel

pit run

spite

aggregate

gruss

stony

strangury

aggravate

tease

trouble

gall

fret

foundation

goad

grail

flour

gut

irk

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɡɹævəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: gravel

Verwante met Bretons: groa

Verwante met Kornies: grow

Verwante met Wallies: gro

Verwante met Old English: græfa

In summary

From Middle English gravel, grauel, from Old French gravele, diminutive of grave (“gravel, seashore”), from Medieval Latin grava, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grāwā (“gravel, pebbles”) (compare Breton groa, Cornish grow, Welsh gro), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroh₁weh₂, from *gʰreh₁w- (“to grind”). Compare also Old English græfa (“coal”).

Sinne

The turf and gravel around it seemed charred as if by a sudden explosion .

And the sand and gravel had been flung violently in every direction .