Bitumen

Quick meaning: Bitumen is a noun meaning (Australia, colloquial) Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.

Meaning

(Australia, colloquial) Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.

More Meanings

1. (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
2. To cover or fill with bitumen.
3. (by extension) Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
4. A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.

Example Sentences

another star reflected itself in the glassy black of the bitumened road

The development of water reticulation occurred in parallel with street work — forming, kerbing, channelling and bitumening.

Work is already under way to complete the bitumening of Western Australia's last unsurfaced stretch of Highway One, between Fitzroy Crossing and Hall's Creek.

The Litlata community have now built a mandi set in a pleasant garden, and to ensure the cleanliness of their yardna have bricked and bitumened the pool into which the water flows

Word Forms

• bitumina
• bitumens
• bitumening
• bitumened

Synonyms for bitumen

Depending on context, synonyms include bitume, slime, bituminize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include asphalt, tar, bituminous, asphaltic, sands, pavement.

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