Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or containing asphalt; bituminous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.
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- adjective Resembling, containing, or relating to
asphalt ;bituminous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective containing asphalt
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lawmakers said they learned in a briefing today that instead of just light crude, as they were at first told, heavy asphaltic oil is headed for the state.
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"It never gets old coming into work and peeling back that little bit of asphaltic sand and finding a fossil behind it, and realizing that I'm the first human being in existence to ever see that fossil," she said.
Scientists Search Trove of Ice Age Fossils in Los Angeles 2011
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In an ominous note, lawmakers, according to USA Today, say they have been told that not only is light crude headed towards the coast, but so too is heavy asphaltic oil.
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In an ominous note, lawmakers, according to USA Today, say they have been told that not only is light crude headed towards the coast, but so too is heavy asphaltic oil.
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Heavy oil is an asphaltic, dense (low API gravity), and viscous oil that is chemically characterized by its content of asphaltenes (very large molecules incorporating most of the sulfur and perhaps 90 percent of the metals in the oil).
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It is, however, likely that this lake, which is fifty or sixty miles long, is not all asphaltic, and that while receiving the waters of the Jordan it also receives the fishes of that river; but perhaps the Jordan, too, is without fish, and they are to be found only in the upper lake of Tiberias.
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Some of the animals represented in the asphaltic deposits, such as the domestic dog and sheep, evidently accompanied humans into the region.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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Some of the animals represented in the asphaltic deposits, such as the domestic dog and sheep, evidently accompanied humans into the region.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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A large pile of asphaltic gravel filled a bunker on the right-of-way.
Clean Kill Alexander, Al 2000
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Engineering News said in a statement on Thursday the structure would be built using a pliable asphaltic concrete core that could resist shocks without cracking and would be one of about 60 such dams in earthquake zones worldwide.
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